One used on the great lakes.
1841. A mackinaw-boat, capable of carrying fifty or a hundred casks.—Catlin, ‘North American Indians’ (1844), i. 73. (N.E.D.)
1846. The boats were constructed of light plank, and were what are called “Mackinaw boats.”—Edwin Bryant, ‘What I saw in California,’ p. 81 (N.Y.).
