Canoes and keel boats

[steve2wdw]

Are the canoes or keel boats ever in operation at the MK, or are they gone for good?

 

[KevinPage]

What exactly is the difference between a canoe and a keel boat?

I know DisneyLAND still has the canoe ride, but did they ever have a keel boat?

 

[steve2wdw]

The canoes are the long boats that are guest powered, while the keel boats are the small motorized two level boats. Frontierlands answer to the Omnibus on Main St.

 

[Irrawaddy Erik]

Basicly the Keel Boats and the Canoes are under indefinate "rehab" the last time I saw the canoes out was for the CM canoe races a while back.

 

[KevinPage]

Steve,

Thanks. Do you have a photo, as I can't imagine Tow Sawyer raft, Riverboat, canoes AND Keel boats all in the same area.

 

[Irrawaddy Erik]

Kevin,
The Rivers of America used to very busy with all of the traffic on it. I'll have to find a picture of it.

 

[KevinPage]

Did WDW have BOTH the canoes & Keel boats going years back?

 

[mrtoad]

Originally posted by KevinPage
Did WDW have BOTH the canoes & Keel boats going years back?

Yes.

 

[Irrawaddy Erik]

Originally posted by KevinPage
Did WDW have BOTH the canoes & Keel boats going years back?

Yeppers

 

[steve2wdw]

They also had TWO riverboats at one time. The Admiral Joe Fowler and the Richard F. Irvine. (is my spelling right?). That river was downright crowded at times.

 

[steve2wdw]

Almost forgot, the keel boats used to land next to the HM in Liberty Square, next to where the HM fastpass location is.

 

[Irrawaddy Erik]

Originally posted by steve2wdw
They also had TWO riverboats at one time. The Admiral Joe Fowler and the Richard F. Irvine. (is my spelling right?). That river was downright crowded at times.

Correct, The Richard F was renamed the Liberty Belle and the Admiral Joe met an unfortunate end durring a rehab of Rivers of America.

*Edit Mixed up DL and WDW

 

[mrtoad]

Originally posted by steve2wdw
They also had TWO riverboats at one time. The Admiral Joe Fowler and the Richard F. Irvine. (is my spelling right?). That river was downright crowded at times.

Are the riverboats gone? Were there 3 boats? I have read one once with a woman's name (not the Empress Lilly).

 

[steve2wdw]

I thought that the Richard F. was renamed the Liberty Belle. How unfortunate for the Admiral Joe. I read that it slipped off it's carriage during the river rehab and the hull was totalled.

 

[Irrawaddy Erik]

Originally posted by steve2wdw
I thought that the Richard F. was renamed the Liberty Belle. How unfortunate for the Admiral Joe. I read that it slipped off it's carriage during the river rehab and the hull was totalled.

Sorry mixed up DL and WDW

Yea basicly that is what happened

 

[Disneyland/DCA]

When I went in 2000, the keel boat landing was near Big Thunder.

 

[sackngs3120]

The Keel Boat landing is near Big Thunder. Where is the Canoe Dock?