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Following is a list of Finger Lakes builders who were engaged in boatbuilding on commercial basis during the the wooden boat era (pre-1967). Anyone having more information on this subject is invited to contact us and share your knowledge.
Names in RED indicate builders of Boats in the Museum's collection.
Airships, Inc. - Built runabouts in Hammondsport in the 1920's
Angler Boat Company (1951 - 1962) - MORE - contract builder of outboard runabouts for Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co.
Mish Bauter (1883-1964) - MORE - An early employee of Glenn Curtiss, he built rowboats in Hammondsport from 1920-1947.
Spencer Bailey - Was blind, built lapstrake rowboats in Hammondsport.
Bowdish Manufacturing Company (1876 - 1893) -MORE -Skaneateles builder of launches, canoes and rowboats. Became Skaneateles Boat & Canoe Co. in 1893.
Brainard-Bilt Boats - Trumansburg
Alma Burroughs - Built skiffs in Seneca Falls-Waterloo.
Vince Campbell (Campbell Boats) - Built boats in Trumansburg.
Glenn Curtiss - Yes, the man of aviation fame. Built racing outboards in Hammondsport
Charles Ericson - A builder of canoes in Branchport.
Dundee Boat Co. (1926 - 1962) - MORE - Founded by Charles Wixom (1875 - ?), a classmate and employee of Glenn Curtiss'. Built rowboats and outboard runabouts.
Charles Ernst (1906-1968) - MORE - Built trout boats and sailboats including Stars in Keuka Park circa 1930's.
Elderlee, Inc. - More - Oaks Corners
Fairbanks-Grant - Ithaca
Fay & Bowen (1904-1928) - MORE - established a boat building business on the Seneca Lake waterfront in Geneva. Built marine engines, rowboats and launches.
Fay Bow (1928-1937) - A successor to Fay & Bowen, built inboard and outboard
runabouts.
Furerr - A rowboat builder in Canandaigua in about 1930.
Pete Griswald - Built rowboats in Dresden on Seneca Lake.
George Hall (1864-1939) - Built rowboats and ran a boat livery in Branchport on Keuka Lake in the 1920s and 1930s.
Harley Hill - Built rowboats at his cottage on Cayuga Lake during the 1940s & 1950s.
V.J. Hemmert - Built sail boats in Penn Yan about 1907.
George Houck (1856-1939) - Built rowboats and steam yachts in Grove Springs and Himrod.
Fred Lacy (1880-1952) - MORE - Built Rowboats in Penn Yan in the early 1900s. He borrowed building forms from Henry Sutherland.
Edwin Long - Designed and built outboard runabouts, sailboats and cruisers on Irondequoit Bay from 1900 to 1930.
Mitchell - A builder of rowboats in Canandaigua from 1890 to 1910.
Morehouse Boats - MORE - A builder of runabouts and sailboats on Cayuga Lake from 1918 to 1962.
Mulray Products, Inc. - Built sailing dinghys, catamarans and iceboats in Lakemont in the 1950s and 1960s.
Penn Yan Boat Company (1921-1935) - MORE - Founded by Charles A. Herrmann in Penn Yan, 1921. Became Penn Yan Boats in 1936. Built full line of wooden boats until 1966 when production was converted to fiberglass. The largest of the Finger Lakes Builders, in Penn Yan.
Penn Yan Boats - MORE - Successor to Penn Yan Boat Company (listed above)
Pierce Marine - Built outboard motor boats in Penn Yan
Charles Pilgrim & Sons - MORE - built troutboats and motor boats in shop on east side of Keuka Lake near Hammondsport (ca. 1910 - 1940).
Rochester Boat Works - built large cruisers, tug boats, military craft, runabouts, and sailboats at Charlotte Station.
Ben Reno (1855 - 1951) - MORE - built fine troutboats and motor boats in his shop at Keuka Village from 1910 - 1940.
Fred Ribble - Built rowboats in Penn Yan.
H. Seymour Smith (1878 - 1947) - MORE - built fine troutboats and outboard motor boats in his shop at Dresden ca. 1920 - 1940. In later life, carved duck decoys that are highly sought after today by collectors.
Skaneateles Boat & Canoe Co. (1893 - 1932)
- Skaneateles builder of canoes, rowboats and sailboats. A successor to Bowdish
& Company, it became Skaneateles Boats Co. in 1932.
Click here for history of Bowdish Manufacturing
Co.
Skaneateles Boats Co. (1932 - ?) - Built the first
Lightning sailboat in 1938. Click here for the
origin of Skaneateles Boats Co.
Alonzo Springstead (1844-1939) - Builder of several large steamboats used on
Keuka and Seneca Lakes.
Syracuse Launch - Syracuse, NY
Henry Sutherland - Built rowboats in Branchport
Fred Tillman (1919-1985) - Built rowboats and outboard motor boats in Branchport
Thompson Brothers Boat Manufacturing Co. - MORE
- founded in Prestigo, Wisconsin in 1904. Opened plant in Cortland, NY in 1924.
and built full line of boats there until 1962.
Adelbert Todd - MORE - Built rowboats (and violins) in Penn Yan from 1909 until the 1930s.
Wright Built Boat Co. (1932 - 1975)
-MORE
- Founded by Murray Wright (1906 - 1990), who designed and built the K series
of sailboats.
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