Sentence examples for guide boats from inspiring English sources

"The best canoes and guide boats are the marriage of form and function that results in beauty, and they understand that," Mr. Taylor said.

While canoes remain common vessels on waterways around the world, Adirondack guide boats were unique to the region, according to Mr. Taylor, the contest judge.

In the winter you must get home by snowmobile across the frozen lake, as does Jim Cameron, a builder of Adirondack guide boats whose grandfather bought land here in 1921.

Another business serving people who use the lakes is the Woodward Boat Shop (9 Algonquin Avenue, 518-891-3961), which restolds old boats as well as building Adirondack guide boats, the region's distinctive rowboats that resemble canoes.

Most canoes of the period achieved that balance through canvas stretched over a wood frame, while guide boats were built from thinly planed cedar or pine reinforced by spruce ribs less than half an inch in diameter, cut from the tree's stump and roots along their natural grain and curved to maximize their strength.

Or water-based safaris in small guide boats that dip in close to the riverbank to observe dinosaur-like monitor lizards sunning themselves on logs, kingfisher eagles perched in trees, and elephants playfully spraying water on their young.

Last year, Mr. Parmington picked up a guide boat built about 1902 by Henry K. Martin.

I was working on a guide boat out of the Solomon Islands".

Ms. Davidson, who employed the same guide boat, did hers five days later.

In the Crystal Palace Lobby, the Vermont-based Adirondack Guide Boat craftsmen will demonstrate how its handbuilt wooden boats are fashioned.

The results are pricey: a guide boat built about 1892 by J. H. Rushton is listed at $18,000 on the Vintage Canoeworks site.