Skipjack Style:Complete Kit

Skipjack Style:Complete KitSkipjack A wooden sailboat usually 40' 60' long built in the early 1900's that was used to dredge oysters from the Chesapeake Bay. A handful of these boats still exist and are still working the bay. Model is plank on frame. A coping saw or other saw is needed as there are no precut parts. Kit Contains: Wood Hardware Mounting Base Sail Cloth Blueprint Set 64 page full color instruction manual written by Steve and Patricia Rogers Dimensions: 34in Long

There are only a handful of these graceful boats left

"Virginia" Round Stern Workboat The round-stern design was a popular choice for the Lower Bay waterman from the late 1940's to the early 1970's

Maryland known as "Pot Pie"

9 inches wide

the full name was shortened and now most people only know them by the name "ducktail"

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A few years later

MD in 1949 by Andrew J

This practice enabled the other working boats to stay out on the waters longer

but is captained by its present owner Tilghman Hemsley

but they also carry seed oysters out and plant them for the state

please read one of author Larry Chownings' books