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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.
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 Based on the dugout , it was the principal traditional fishing boat of the bay until superseded by the bugeye and the skipjack .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.
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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 Rebecca T. Ruark is the oldest skipjack in the Chesapeake Bay fleet. Her rounded chines went out of style in favor of simpler-to-build sharp chines, at the cost of favorable sailing qualities in the newer flat-bottomed boats. She was built by Moses Geoghegan in 1896 at Taylor's Island, Maryland for William T. Ruark, and named for Ruark's wife.