The Piscataqua, a gundalow, 13 feet wide and 65 feet long, will be coming to the Newburyport waterfront next month.
The craft was built in 2011 by the Gundalow Company, a non-profit company in Portsmouth, and is used primarily as a teaching tool to focus on environmental science, maritime history, and local history. It has a large single sail and a diesel engine and is flat-bottomed, so it rides high in the water.
Andy Goodell, operations manager of the Gundalow Company, said that one of the company’s goals is to have the gundalow visit new ports, so as to be able to share its history in which it was an important part of the Merrimack and other rivers during the 18th and 19th centuries.
When the boat comes to Newburyport, the company will be offering rides to adults and students and discuss how they were essential to the farmers of the lower Merrimack Valley.
Marketing services can be used by the companies such as this to promote such special and unique events, encouraging those in the local communities to make a concerted effort to visit them.
The Piscataqua is scheduled to be in Newburyport from September 5 through September 13, with a two-day stop in Amesbury on September 11 and 12.
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