37th ANNUAL – JUNE 18-25, 2022
The Batteau “Grace of the James” departs Percival’s Island in Lynchburg on Saturday, June 16, 2012. Katy Basten in the white dress! The Lynchburg Launch of the 2012 James River Batteau Festival was a huge success! The weather was beautiful. Jeff Taylor announced the boats departing and the crowd on the beach was pretty big…
A nice article about the batteau Maple Run being donated to the Amherst Museum was published online. Click here to view the article. Thanks to Ricky Brightwell for sending in this link.
The photos above were sent in by Susan Huffman, wife of the batteau Maple Run’s Captain Roger Huffman. This is the third Maple Run. Thanks for sharing Susan!
The boat flipping for the Rockfish Runner on Saturday, June 2, 2012 didn’t go exactly as planned but with the help of several batteau engineers such as Ralph Smith, the job eventually got done. The batteau was on the trailer and the idea was to scoot the boat off onto bales of hay and then…
Click here to download a PDF file of the above Poster. The following was sent in by Pat Calvert from the James River Association: To briefly explain the Lynchburg Launch: James River Association staff have been working for many months with a dedicated committee comprised of Ralph Smith (JRBF Chairman), Jeff Taylor, Mason Basten and…
Ned Nelson sent the following letter and photos tonight. Congratulations to Ned and his associates for finishing the new batteau named “Fine Creek Mill”. ____________________________________________________________ The batteau “Fine Creek Mill” is complete. We put it in the water today at my friends, the Shortridge’s. It took on about 3″ of water and to our surprise…
From Randy Waycaster, Capt. of the batteau “Slate River”. The boat has been in the pond for almost a month and a half, but we pulled it out last week to complete the cap-boards and front/rear decks. Sweep brackets and canopy arches are being made this week. We poled it around the pond this evening, a…
A note from Randy Waycaster regarding the new batteau “Slate River”: Figured we’d give you a photo update on our boat, made a good bit of progress. We took a little different approach by cutting the flats on the ribs when making them. (All miter saw and skilsaw cuts) Also we are planking the hull…
To all : I would like to take a brief moment to thank everyone who participated in helping make my boat flipping a success. I WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE. To have such a turnout deminstrates how close our batteau family really is. The pictures of the event speak for themselves. Byrne and myself…