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The Shaw & Tenney Whitehall
Built with the same uncompromising quality and best available materials, she is truly a work of art, like all of our products!
Carefully designed and lofted at our shop in Orono, Maine, she combines the beautiful lines and attributes of the traditional Whitehall design with modern construction techniques.
Designed for exceptional rowing performance at 17' – 9" LOA, the fancy edition (pictured) weighs 160 pounds and the basic edition 140 pounds. Construction is glued – lap strake Sapele mahogany plywood with ribbon Sipo mahogany bright work. She is 100 percent watertight and easily trailered and launched single-handed.
Both versions provide stations for single and tandem rowing and there is also a removable traditional wooden sliding seat option.
She rows even better than she looks!
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Please call 800-240-4867 to place your order.
Please call 800-240-4867 to place your order.
Our History
While technically founded in 1858, this hand painted sign dug up from the archives shows that the company was actually doing business two years before that. Either way, we're still the second oldest manufacturer of marine products in the United States today.
From our simple workshop on the banks of the Penobscot River, we still employ time-honored manufacturing traditions. Here, a long time Shaw & Tenney craftsman sculpts an oar on a drum sander that’s more than 100 years old.
Our oars and paddles are all made to order right here, in our Orono, Maine workshop. Meticulously hand sewing oar leathers takes years (and years) of practice.
We’ve been dipping our paddles the same way for over 100 years. Of course there are probably easier ways to do it, but we’re convinced there’s no better.
