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If these sweethearts turn your crank a couple of places to put on your bucket list are clayton new york in the thousand islands great wooden boat museum, and gravenhurst ontario has a floating inboard boat museum this was the home of gravette, seabird, and several other boat builders, hunter mahogany boats were built in orillia ontario, as well as grey marine engines, not wood but dowty turbocraft jet boats were built in ajax ontario canada! I had a 17 foot dowty powered by a 292 ford intercepter v8 with a hamilton jet unit. I grew up with wooden boats, and always thought the starboard steerage was due to the navigation rule stating that a pilot must give right-of-way to all other vessels approaching “from dead ahead to 2 points abaft the starboard beam”, and it’s just easier to view that sector from the starboard side. Although the maritime rules were established during the era of sailing ships, which had their wheel or tiller in the center of the aft section of the vessel so the pilot could watch the sails, when boats began to use engines for power their controls could be moved forward for better visibility.