| Title: | SAILING |
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| Moderator: | UNIFIX::BERENS |
| Created: | Wed Jul 01 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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Has anyone had experience with a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack?
I looked at one for sale. It's 34 foot, wood, Ketch rigged and mighty
pretty. How would it sail in Buzzards Bay or Cape area?
Bob
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 691.1 | Check back issues of Sail | STAR::KENNEY | Thu Nov 12 1987 18:23 | 9 | |
I have never sailed one but a recent SAIL magazine had an extensive
write up on them. If I remember correctly it was AUGUST or september.
I Also seem to remember seeing something in wooden boat recently. If I
remember I will look it up in wooden boat, sorry I do not keep back
issues of Sail.
Forrest
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| 691.2 | VLNVAX::FRENIERE | Fri Nov 13 1987 08:59 | 22 | ||
I don't know if you are talking of a modern one of fiberglass with
different hull design, or an original one. As a kid I worked on
these boats and remember them as being flatbottomed. Some had some
V to them but were mostly hard chined. There is a large one moored
in Newport at Brenton Cove, and I can remember one other.
The design of the Skipjack was to manage the shallow waters of
Chesapeake Bay, and was never far from a river to duck into
in case of a blow. I can remember seeing them powered with large
sweeps useing thole pins for oarlocks.
Again, I dont have enough details of your particular boat in mind,
but of the top of my head, it is not a boat I'd want to take out
to Block Island if it looked like a Bermuda high was on the wane.
The boat developed up here was the Cape Cod Cat. Shallow with near
flat bottom but soft chine and centerboard. It was developed for
those mischevious sand flats.
don
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