Antique Boat Museum, Clayton, New York

Antique Boat Museum - Clayton Sign

 

By Andy Adams

The Antique Boat Museum bills itself as North America’s premier freshwater nautical museum. It enjoys a spectacular location in the Thousand Islands on the St Lawrence River and the museum has a 4.5 acre campus with 1500 feet of shoreline for their enormous collection of boats. More than 100 boats are on display every day of the year and through the summer, you can go out for a speedboat ride on the St. Lawrence, row a wooden St. Lawrence, skiff, take boatbuilding classes or sailing lessons.

It’s a fabulous facility!

 

Antique Boat Museum, Clayton, NY. Museum, Annual Boat Show and Auction with flea market. 

http://abm.org

Show, July 31 to August 2, 2015. Museum open year round. Check website for hours.

 

 

 

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More Photo Tours:

ACBS Toronto, Summer Boat Show, Gravenhurst, Ontario

Canadian Canoe Museum, Peterborough, Ontario

Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston, Ontario

Pumphouse Steam Museum, Kingston, Ontario

Gananoque, Ontario, Thousand Islands – Boldt Castle Yacht House

Vancouver Wooden Boat Festival, Granville Island, Vancouver, B.C.

Victoria Classic Boat Festival, Victoria, B.C.

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