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2. Skipjack (boat) - Wikipedia

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   Skipjack under sail. The skipjack is a traditional fishing boat used on the Chesapeake Bay for oyster dredging.It is a sailboat which succeeded the bugeye as the chief oystering boat on the bay, and it remains in service due to laws restricting the use of powerboats in the Maryland state oyster fishery.

3. Category:Skipjacks - Wikipedia

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   This page was last edited on 1 September 2020, at 17:01 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

4. Rebecca T. Ruark - Wikipedia

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   The Rebecca T. Ruark carries a standard skipjack rig of jib-headed mainsail and a large jib. The present mast is new from 2000 and is 12 inches (30 cm) in diameter and 69 feet (21 m) high. The Dacron mainsail is laced at the bottom and carried by hoops on the mast. The jib is clubbed along its foot.

5. Skipjack 15 - Wikipedia

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   The boat was used as a trainer by both the United States Coast Guard Academy and the United States Naval Academy. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] In a 1994 review Richard Sherwood wrote, "the Skipjack’s design combines ideas from the Finn hull, Mobjack (wide side decks, flat cockpit floor), and Flying Dutchman (single spreader, mid-boom sheeting).

6. Martha Lewis (skipjack) - Wikipedia

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   Martha Lewis is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack built in 1955. Her home port is Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland. [2] She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [1] She is assigned Maryland dredge number 8. [3]

7. Skipjack - Wikipedia

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   Skipjack 15, an American sailing dinghy design; HMS Skipjack, Royal Navy, Halcyon class minesweeper, sunk by bombs in 1940; Skipjack (boat), a type of fishing boat used on the Chesapeake Bay, USA; USS Skipjack, the name of three United States Navy submarines; Skipjack class submarine, a class of United States Navy nuclear submarines

8. Helen Virginia (Skipjack boat) - Wikipedia

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   The Helen Virginia is a 43.2 feet (13.2 m) Skipjack, built during the post-WWII revival of skipjack building on the Chesapeake Bay.Designed by Caroll Bozman and built by Gus Forbush of Crisfield, Maryland, [1] Helen Virginia sailed out of Deal Island, dredging oysters under Capt. Carroll Bozman and later, Capt. Jack Parkinson. [2]

9. Bugeye - Wikipedia

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   The first vessels used were the existing sloops, pungys and schooners on the Bay, but none of these types was well suited to the purpose; pungys and schooners were too deep in their draft to work the shallower waters of the Bay, the schooners and sloops had bulwarks too high to facilitate handling the dredges, the relatively complex rigs of all ...