# @stauglighthouse on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CmbuxIGt64G
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/18332567-stauglighthouse-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-12-21T14:26:36.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** St. Augustine Lighthouse & MM (@stauglighthouse) — https://gondola.cc/stauglighthouse

## Caption

Each year, our talented boatbuilders handcraft wooden vessels in which tickets are sold for a drawing that takes place on Luminary Night — a fundraiser for the nonprofit St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum. This year, a Peapod rowboat and the Wee Lassie Featherlight canoe were created. 

PEAPOD ROWBOAT HISTORY
The Peapod rowboat has a long history of sea worthiness, being used as lobster boats and for rescue work with the Coast Guard as lifeboats or surf-boats in the 1800s. The double ender was designed to break waves approaching from the stern to avoid swamping. There is a story about two lobstermen riding out a gale in a peapod far from land. Nearby was a schooner, reefed down and pitching hard, which offered to take the men aboard. The men declined, they preferred to ride out the heavy seas in the safety of their “Pod." Some say the “Pod” originated about 1870 in the waters of Penopscot Bay in North Haven. Eventually Peapods were frequently used as lighthouse tender boats nationwide, including in Florida due to the ease with which they could enter the surf.

CANOE DETAILS
The Wee Lassie Featherlight canoe is a contemporary wood strip build of red and white cedar and some mahogany. The construction method is cove and bead.

The winners of the 2023 drawing boats are:

Mark Hoelscher of San Antonio Texas won the Wee Lassie Featherlight canoe.

The Knapp Family of Long Island won the Peapod Rowing Boat

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