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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.
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]
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). Upon seeing the ...
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.
Hilda M. Willing is a relatively small Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1905 at Oriole, Maryland, and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1994. [2] [3] The Willing is particularly noteworthy as an example of a small skipjack with good sailing qualities. [3] Her home port is Tilghman Island, Maryland. [4]
Kathryn otherwise follows the pattern of a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, with a clipper bow-style cutwater, a sharp convex bow, beamy middle, and a flat transom stern. Like all present-day skipjacks she has a stern-mounted push plate to allow operation with a pushboat.
The Ruby G. Ford was a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1891 at Fairmount, Maryland. She was a 45-foot-long (14 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She had a beam of 15.6 feet (4.8 m), a depth of 2.6 feet (0.79 m), and a net tonnage of 5 register tons.
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]
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