bateau

Thanks to Will Cash and Will Smith, James River Batteau Festival veterans, experiencing a bateau ride is available to everyone with the launch of their James River Batteau Company tour service next month.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2022

“I was suffering, with this heavy bateau of pressure in my head,” he says.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022

In the picture, Portman is wearing what looks like a Dior-inspired, cherry-red dress with bateau neckline and sizable buttons, complemented by a triple strand of pearls.

From Time ● Dec. 16, 2015

Several boat launches provide access to the East Branch of the Penobscot River, which Thoreau rode on a flat-bottomed bateau on his final visit here in 1857.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 11, 2015

The river was dark and a bateau mouche went by, all bright with lights, going fast and quiet up and out of sight under the bridge.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

And that rank “was because of bateaux transporting tobacco,” says Brian Coffield, a historic interpreter at Pleasant Grove Park and president of the Virginia Canals & Navigations Society.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2022

In the late 18th and 19th centuries, bateaux, flat-bottomed pole boats, navigated the tempestuous James, bringing cash crops such as tobacco, flour and later coal to the Eastern Seaboard.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2022

He traveled with two Penobscot Indian guides by canoe, in French bateaux, and on foot.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2018

“Anyone who’s got a bass boat or bateaux or a pirogue or any kind of water craft, they know what they’re doing.”

From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2016

They filed two deep along the road, while two large bateaux, each bearing a swivel on the bow, rowed up the river abreast of them.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman