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The design and construction of deadrise workboats evolved from the sailing skipjacks. One of the first types of purpose-built small powered fishing boats to appear on the Chesapeake Bay were the Hooper Island draketails of the 1920s and 1930s. The Hooper Island draketails featured construction similar to the sailing skipjacks, but were narrower ...
The Reaper under full sail. The Fifie is a design of sailing boat developed on the east coast of Scotland. It was a traditional fishing boat used by Scottish fishermen from the 1850s until well into the 20th century. These boats were mainly used to fish for herring using drift nets, and along with other designs of boat were known as herring ...
Dublin Bay Sailing Club: 3 boats Dublin Bay: At least three boats still sailing regularly at local regattas. [4] (long keel plus centreboard) [5] 1896: GBR/IRL: Cork Harbour One Design: 29 ft 0 in (8.84 m) William Fife: No current builders: Royal Cork Yacht Club: At least one boat active. [6] 1897: IRL: Howth 17 Footer: 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) W ...
Good Old Boat magazine: Volume 4, Number 1, January/February 2001. Sail magazine, August 2004, pages 54–57. Heart of GLASS: Fiberglass Boats And The Men Who Made Them by Daniel Spurr, pages 244–250. The World's Best Sailboats Volume II, by Ferenc Máté. Albatross Publishing House, 2003. Best Boats to Build or Buy, by Ferenc Máté ...
Austronesians used distinctive sailing technologies, namely the catamaran, the outrigger ship, tanja sail and the crab claw sail. This allowed them to colonize a large part of the Indo-Pacific region during the Austronesian expansion starting at around 3000 to 1500 BC, and ending with the colonization of Easter Island and New Zealand in the ...
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National Historic Landmark former cargo boat; oldest surviving sailing vessel built in Maine 2 masted gaff [50] Lily: 1978 Stuart, Florida: Tourism/charter vessel. Schooner rig with a scow hull. May have been the last boat purpose built to haul cargo commercially under sail power in the United States. Originally known as Lily of Tisbury. 2 ...
The origins of the craft are not clear and remain a matter of conjecture. [3] A major spark in the revival of interest was the publication in 1983 of The Galway Hookers: Sailing work boats of Galway Bay (Richard J. Scott, d 24/01/08)—now in its fourth edition—in which for the first time detailed construction and sail plans were published.