ST. MICHAELS, Md. (AP) — An old-fashioned working man's boat design is marking its sesquicentennial as a racing vessel, and it hasn't been an easy 150 years.Log canoe racing is a homegrown sport, ...

ST. MICHAELS — The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is offering the opportunity to view Chesapeake Bay sailing log canoe races along the Miles River while aboard its 1920 buy boat, Winnie Estelle, at ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This model of a Chesapeake Bay log ...

JAMES CITY – Lyles Forbes, chief curator at The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, will speak at Jamestown Settlement on Tuesday, May 5, about the topic of the ongoing special exhibition “Working and ...

ST. MICHAELS — Opening Friday, June 16, in conjunction with the 30th annual Antique & Classic Boat Festival, “Log Canoe Racing: Photographs by Morris Ellison” will feature photos of the Chesapeake Bay ...

Log Canoe Racing Thrills on Chesapeake Bay Every summer, sailing crews gather on Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay tributaries to race vintage log canoes. One wrong move and these tippy 19th-century sailboats ...

When the English settlers at Jamestown encountered their first Chesapeake Bay log canoe in the early 1600s, they knew a good thing when they saw it. Though they soon discovered that the narrow, ...

Mike Gorman walked into a clearing of loblolly pines in Centre­ville, Maryland, on a warm October morning in 2014. With his 18-month-old daughter, Hazel, perched on his shoulders, he gazed into the ...

Retired astronaut and the U.S. Naval Academy’s Distinguished Chair in Space Science Capt. Kenneth Reightler Jr. has been named skipper of the historic sailing log canoe Flying Cloud, now under major ...