Some scows are rigged as sailing scows. Hutton says that they were habitually known as "scows". They are most often found on racing scows. Ship contracts included trawlers, tugboats, landing craft, life boats, scows and high speed work boats. These characteristics make the two chine hull popular for punts, barges, and scows. Working in the same inland waters as the sailing scows was the later river steamboat. Three scows en route to New Brunswick were also capsized in that area. Howard I. Chapelle documented a number of scows in his book "American Small Sailing Craft". Although sailing scows were once numerous around the Bay, they are poorly documented. The scows were intentionally designed to capsize in a controlled manner. By 1903, some excavation debris was being dumped onto scows for disposal in the lake. Hampton Scows paid property taxes every year but did not develop the island. To speed their travel, the company floated down the Richelieu River on scows. The scows then took the debris out into the lake for dumping in deep water.