Kevin Trainer is an independent board game designer who founded Ebb Tide Games to produce Gundalow and Gundalow Kids – historical board games set in southern Maine and New Hampshire.

Gundalow – the new board game where you get to be the captain of your own gundalow! Travel to the different towns of the Seacoast region of southern Maine and New Hampshire to buy and sell goods and transport passengers to earn money.

The last remaining gundalow is an iconic part of the Portsmouth, New Hampshire shoreline.  With its stump mast and tall lateen sail, the unique shape of the gundalow is instantly recognizable among the other ships in the harbor.  The current gundalow, Piscataqua, was recently constructed by the non-profit Gundalow Company and shares its name with the river on which it does much of its travels.

The triangular canvas sail of the gundalow was a familiar sight that we would point out to our two young children on walks across the Memorial Bridge from Kittery, Maine into Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  Their heads would turn in unison at our shout of “Look kids, the gundalow!”  We would watch the distinctive wooden boat sailing majestically on the fast currents below, transporting our imagination back to the days before airplanes, cars, and even railroads.  Gundalows were used up until the late 1800s as the delivery trucks and tractor trailers of history, transporting cargo and passengers to the towns around the Seacoast.  With a flat bottom and wide beam, gundalows were not as glamorous as the fancier schooners and clippers, but they could travel over the mud flats that were dangerous to the deep water sailing ships.

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