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2. Bugeye - Wikipedia

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   The bugeye is a type of sailboat developed in the Chesapeake Bay for oyster dredging. The predecessor of the skipjack , it was superseded by the latter as oyster harvests dropped. Origins

3. 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.

4. Ida May (skipjack) - Wikipedia

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   Elbert Gladden was a prominent figure in the skipjack community, owning a total of twelve skipjacks, as well as a bugeye and other workboats. His fleet operated out of various locations, including Annapolis, Kent Island, Cambridge, and Deal Island, with Ida May primarily associated with Deal Island.

5. Edna E. Lockwood - Wikipedia

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   The Edna E. Lockwood is a Chesapeake Bay bugeye, the last working oyster boat of her kind. She is located at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in Saint Michaels, Maryland . [ 3 ] She was built in 1889 at Tilghman Island, Maryland by John B. Harrison and is of nine-log construction, similar to the smaller log canoe , and was launched on October ...

6. Chesapeake Bay deadrise - Wikipedia

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   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 as stability was not needed to carry a sail and a narrow hull made best use of the ...

7. William B. Tennison (bugeye) - Wikipedia

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   The William B. Tennison is a Chesapeake Bay bugeye built in 1899 and converted to an oyster buy-boat in 1906–07. With the conversion her sail rig was removed and an engine inserted, and is the only surviving example of this conversion. Her construction marks a transition between log construction and plank construction.