NY - Sag Harbor: Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum - Concordia Whaleboat

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This authentic 1860 wooden whaleboat, preserved on the grounds of the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum, was originally deployed from the Sag Harbor whaling ship Concordia. The double-ended, lightweight clinker-built craft is designed symmetrically with sharp bow and stern ends to enable rapid reversing during dangerous encounters with prey. Operated by a six-man crew consisting of four to five oarsmen, a boatheader steering from the stern, and a bow harpooner, the boat served as the frontline strike vessel for 19th-century pelagic whaling voyages.

The Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum, at 200 Main Street preserves the village's cultural and whaling heritage. Housed in lavish Greek Revival-style mansion designed by Minard LaFever for whaling magnate Benjamin Huntting II in 1845, the property passed through owners including philanthropist Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, who used it as a summer cottage, and the Masonic Lodge (Freemasons—Wamponamon Lodge No. 437 F.&A.M.) before being deeded to the museum in 1945. While the lower floors are open to the public as the museum, the second floor remains a private, operational meeting space reserved for the local Freemasons.