J. W. Van Sant and Bow Boat with log raft

Meredith, J. W.
Hartford, John

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J. W. Van Sant (Steamboat)
Lydia Van Sant (Steamboat)
Booms (Log transportation)
Steamboats

After 1893, many pilots of raft boats used bow boats. IN this way they could run longer rafts and make better time. The bow boat helped get through bridges and over rapids in shorter time, and in the lakes she would get back on the stern and help shove. Here we see the J. W. Van Sant and her bow boat taking a single decker raft through an open draw bridge. Shown in the foreground is her bow boat, the Lydia Van Sant made fast across the bow of the raft and by pushing ahead or back, as directed by the pilot of the raft boat \"J. W. Van Sant\", the bow boat moves the bow to the right or left giving the raft a different direction or \"point\". The J. W. Van Sant II, was built in 1890 and burned in 1907.

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