The Watertown Daily Times reports that the museum’s first boat show in 1965 featured 18 antique boats and a small exhibition. Approximately 125 antique boats took part in the weekend’s festivities at the museum in Clayton, in the Thousand Islands region along the Canadian border.
In the early 1970s, a permanent museum was constructed to host the annual boat show. It was called the 1000 Islands Shipyard Museum. But in 1990, its name was changed to the Antique Boat Museum.
It features more than 300 preserved boats and thousands of recreational boating artifacts.
The museum’s Raceboat Regatta will take place this coming weekend.
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