The log canoe is a type of sailboat developed in the Chesapeake Bay region.
The history of the log canoe is closely tied to the development of the oystering industry on the bay.
Many of the existing log canoes have suffered some conversion of this sort during their lifetimes.
Surviving log canoes range in length from 27 to 60 ft. on-deck.
The log canoes had none of these disadvantages, but were too small to successfully haul dredges.
The result was the development during the 1870s and 1880s of the brogan, an enlarged log canoe.
The bed is hollowed out like a log canoe.
Next Christmas Belbenoît again attempted escape with nine others who had stolen a log canoe.
I lay as helpless as if newbom, hollowed out like a log canoe.
He came here a-fishing, and used an old log canoe which he found on the shore.