@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt808pz.7, ISBN = {9780773511729}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt808pz.7}, abstract = {There is no record of the very first boats built at Tancook, but it is certain that the initial settlers needed some form of watercraft, if only for occasional fishing close to shore or for periodic visits to the nearby mainland. The late Howard I. Chapelle speculated that these early craft were probably open skiffs of a double-ended design and lapstrake construction that were taken out to the island from around Lunenburg and later copied by the islanders themselves.¹ Be that as it may, there is no doubt that some rudimentary boatbuilding skills had developed at Tancook by 1827, when}, bookauthor = {WAYNE M. O’LEARY}, booktitle = {Tancook Schooners: An Island and Its Boats}, pages = {17--110}, publisher = {McGill-Queen's University Press}, title = {The Boats}, year = {1994} }