Vintage Adirondack Guideboat
Supports: Penobscot Marine Museum (Searsport, ME)
Item Number: 114
- Time Remaining:
- CLOSED
- Online Close:
- Jul 26, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
- Bid History:
- 4 Bids
Description:
Built by Henry Kilbourne Martin, Saranac Lake, New York in the 1920s. (born in 1878 and son of Willie Allen Martin, also a guideboat builder) in Saranac, . A pine boat with a Philippine mahogany or lauan top strake and outwales. Cherry seats and stripped cherry and pine decks. Center seat has a removable backrest. Includes the original soft maple oars. Repaired and refinished in the 1970s.
Henry Kilbourne Martin was born in 1878, the son of guideboat builder Willie Allen Martin. He took over running the hotel at Saranac Lake when his parents moved up the hill away from the lake c. 1900. Henry ran the hotel until it burned in 1920. During this period, ho had several incarnations in the boat manufacturing realm, the Adirondack Guideboat Co, being one. He was partnered with a man named Krumholtz. Martin may have continued to build boats after the hotel fire. He died in 1935 after which his shop was dismantled.