A 19th-century Speed Boat

With the discovery of a nineteenth-century row boat, preserved at almost 15 feet in length, archaeologists have found something that might just appeal to an Olympic athlete. Uncovered in the silty deposits beside a windmill near the head of Pudding Mill River, the boat was built to be light, slender, and swift, rather than strong. It was probably designed as a kind of water taxi, perhaps for ferrying crew and goods to a larger ship. It is of "clinker-built" construction, a method using overlappi