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Anonymous ID: 8bad74 Dec. 25, 2019, 9:26 p.m. No.7622461   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>7622445

I havent filtered once the entire length of our journey and dont intend to because it is still valuable to learn their tactics.

Lurking moar is truly a birds eye view.

Anonymous ID: 8bad74 Dec. 25, 2019, 10:03 p.m. No.7622637   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2664 >>2681 >>2772 >>2896 >>2899

>>7622577

Dubs checked!!

 

The Durham boat “…was the sole means of moving commodities in both directions on the river between Philadelphia and points above tide. This boat was well known on the Delaware for more than a century.. even after the building of the canals, it was used on them as well as on the river to a considerable extent.” [2] They are also noted for their use in Washington's crossing of the Delaware River during the American Revolution. [3]

 

"They were used as early as 1758, by John Van Campen, for the transportation of flour to Philadelphia, manufactured from wheat grown in the Minisink." [4]

 

The sides of the Delaware River Durhams were vertical with a slight curvature to meet a similar curvature of the bottom which was otherwise flat. The sides were straight and parallel until they began to curve to the stem and stern posts, about twelve or fourteen feet from the ends, where the decks began, the rest of the boat being open.

 

The usual length was 60 feet although shorter boats were built and in some cases, the length was extended to 66 feet with sometimes a foot or two added to the normal eight foot width. The usual depth was 42 inches with an additional 10 inches of height at the ends. The boats were shallow draft, three and a half to five inches empty and twenty-eight inches loaded. They normally carried from 15 to 18 tons downstream and 2 tons upstream.

 

On the Delaware, the usual crew was three men. Movement downstream was by the current with occasional use of two 18-foot oars. The boat was propelled upstream by the use of 12 to 18 foot iron-shod setting poles. Twelve inch wide “walking-boards” ran the length of the boat on either side. Crew members set their poles on the bottom of the river and walked from the forward end of the boat to the stern, driving the boat forward. The captain, who steered, held the boat from going back with the current with a pole while the crew returned to repeat the process. [5]

 

At one time, there were reportedly several hundred Durham boats on the Delaware River. They sometimes traveled in groups as large as twenty-five so that the crews could aid each other. One observer recalled sitting on the river bank watching a number of Durham boats waiting for a favorable wind, and when a breeze came up, “…off they would go like a flock of sheep.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham_boat