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The General Butler was a schooner-rigged sailing canal boat that plied the waters of Lake Champlain and the Champlain Canal in the United States states of Vermont and New York. Built in 1862 and named for American Civil War General Benjamin Franklin Butler, she sank after striking the Burlington Breakwater in 1876, while carrying a load of marble.
The O.J. Walker was a sailing schooner that was built to sail both on Lake Champlain and on the waters of the Champlain Canal after it was widened. She was 85.8 feet (26.2 m) long, with a beam of about 14.5 feet (4.4 m) and a hold depth of about 6.5 feet (2.0 m).
The museum's primary vessel is the canal schooner Lois McClure, launched in 2004, built by a partnership between the museum and the Lake Champlain Transportation Company. Its design is based on the General Butler, a schooner wrecked in Burlington Harbor on December 9, 1876, and the O.J. Walker, another sailing canal boat which sank in 1895. [6]
Owen Milne, executive director of the Community Sailing Center, as seen on Feb. 9, 2024, in the nonprofit's offices on the Lake Champlain waterfront with Emily Ridgeway, the Sailing Center's ...
Much of her interior was restored to its original grandeur. The dining room and stateroom halls retain their butternut and cherry paneling and ceilings their gold stenciling. The barbershop, captain's quarters, dining room, and promenade deck contain furniture and accessories used in the Ticonderoga and other Lake Champlain steamboats. [4]
Lake Champlain Sea Grant, University of Vermont and the Lake Champlain Basin Program presented information about the lake's health, discussing stormwater runoff, microplastics and bacteria and how ...
Lake Champlain is home to many rare and endangered species of plants and animals, including 318 species of birds in Vermont that live on, near, or depend on the lake, and over 90 species of fish.
Water Witch was constructed originally as a steamboat in Otter Creek, Vermont in 1832. In 1835, the Lake Champlain Transportation Company bought her and converted her into a schooner . Piloted by Captain Thomas Mock, who had on board his wife and three children and overloaded with iron ore , Water Witch sank in Lake Champlain during a storm on ...