# @stauglighthouse on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CxoLLARuUuR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/9399963-stauglighthouse-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-09-25T20:11:02.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** St. Augustine Lighthouse & MM (@stauglighthouse) — https://gondola.cc/stauglighthouse

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🚤 ⚓️WIN A HANDCRAFTED BOAT! Each year, the nonprofit St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum has a drawing held on Luminary Night (December 6, 2023) for a wooden watercraft made on site by volunteers in the Heritage Boatworks Program! The Beach Peapod is on view in the gift shop area and drawing tickets are available. 

PEAPOD HISTORY
In the mid-19th century, Maine’s lobstering industry was in its infancy. Lobster, once common cuisine for the poor and even picked from the beach by prisoners for their meals, did not evolve into a delicacy until the early 1800s. By the 1840s, Maine had established its first commercial lobster fishery. With the birth of this new industry came the need for vessels capable of harvesting the crustaceans from Maine’s waters, as picking them from the shore could no longer meet the growing demand. Thus, the state’s iconic workboats were born. One of those boats was the peapod. Peapods were developed around 1870 as nearshore lobstering and fishing boats. One common theory is that the plank-on-frame rowboats first originated in Owls Head on Penobscot Bay, where they were called double-enders, with peapod becoming the more common name on the mainland.

Peapods were usually 13.5 to 15 feet overall (though some of the early workboats were built up to 20 feet), with cedar planks and oak frames. They were either clinker-built or carvel-planked, and they featured a shallow draft and symmetrical hull, making them well-suited for the early lobstering days, when lobstermen set their traps close to the rocks rather than out in the channels.

“The whole reason for the design is that when you’re lobstering, you’re rowing in and out of rocky crevices. There’s not enough room to rotate the boat 180 degrees to get back out,” says Cipperly Good, curator at the Penobscot Marine Museum. “With a double-ender, you can row as easily forward and backwards. You just turn yourself around and row the other direction.”

 — Excerpt from Soundings Article by Carly Sisson

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