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Log Canoe Edmee S. on a trailer at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum with the Point Lookout Tower in the background The log canoe is a type of sailboat developed in the Chesapeake Bay region. Based on the dugout , it was the principal traditional fishing boat of the bay until superseded by the bugeye and the skipjack .
Elva C is a Chesapeake Bay deck boat, built in 1922 by Gilbert White, one of Virginia's best-known deck boat builders.She worked in fish trapping and in hauling. At one time, she hauled watermelons from North Carolina to Baltimore.
Parks began building boats at the age of 16 and completed more than 400 vessels during his career. [1] He built his first skipjack, the Wilma Lee, in 1940. [3] The last three skipjacks that Parks completed were the Rosie Parks and the Martha Lewis in 1955 and the Lady Katie in 1956.
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is located in St. Michaels, Maryland, United States and is home to a collection of Chesapeake Bay artifacts, exhibitions, and vessels. This 18-acre (73,000 m 2 ) interactive museum was founded in 1965 on Navy Point, once a site of seafood packing houses, docks, and work boats.
Chesapeake Shipbuilding is a shipbuilding company, based in Salisbury, Maryland, United States, since 1980, on the site of the former Roberts Shipyard. [1] They are capable of constructing vessels up to 450 feet in length on the 13 acre yard. [2] The yard includes 2,000 feet (670 yd) of deepwater bulkhead along the Wicomico River.
Gilbert Clarence Klingel (1908–1983) was a naturalist, boatbuilder, adventurer, photographer, author, inventor, contributor to the Baltimore Sun, for a time affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in New York and a member of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, and a curator and charter member of the Natural History Society of Maryland.
The boat is supported by an active type club, the Hampton One-Design Class Racing Association, which regulates the design and organizes races. [4] By 1994 there was a fleet of 40 boats racing from the St. Mary's River Yacht Club on the St. Marys River, Maryland. [2] In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood wrote, "look for Hamptons in the Chesapeake Bay.
The Chesapeake Boathouse, built in 2006, was the first structure on the newly revitalized Oklahoma River. Today it anchors the Boathouse District and serves as the community boathouse on the river. The design is the vision of Oklahoma City architect Rand Elliott with primary funding for the project provided by Chesapeake Energy Corporation.