A dozen young adventurers hopped a 17th-century workboat this weekend to retrace Captain John Smith’s 1608 exploration of the Chesapeake Bay.
The crew will row and sail 1,500 miles this summer in a shallop, a replica of a craft like the one Smith and 14 English explorers set out in on one of the most important voyages in American history.
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