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Shearline Boatworks is a Morehead City, North Carolina–based boat manufacturer. The computer designed boats are built around a wooden core using epoxy and cloth. The custom center-console boats are computer design and made by hand. The company is owned by Mason Cox III and Chip King. [1] [2] The boats style is referred to as Carolina. [3] [4]
The shad boat is a traditional fishing boat which was proclaimed the Official State Historic Boat of North Carolina by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1987. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] One hundred years earlier, George Washington Creef of Roanoke Island built the first shad boat in North Carolina in the early 1880s.
Sharpies were introduced to Florida in 1881, when Commodore Ralph Munroe brought the 33-foot New Haven style sharpie, of his own design, Kingfish to the Miami area of Florida. Perhaps the most famous of sharpies was the Commodore's Egret design, now immortalized in plans available from WoodenBoat magazine.
The company built over 8,000 boats of all types. [2] [4] Aside from the main manufacturing facility, Tanzer Industries LTD, in Dorion, Quebec, the company also had operations on the US east and west coasts at Edenton, North Carolina as Tanzer Yachts, Inc. and in Arlington, Washington as Tanzer Yachts. Which plant manufactured a particular boat ...
This boat was twenty-five feet (7.62 m) long by six feet (1.83 m) wide, and was managed by three negroes,—the "steersman", who guided the boat with a long and powerful oar; the headsman, who stood on the bow to direct the steersman by waving his arms; and an extra hand, who assisted with an oar in the eddies and smooth parts of the river.
A 120-year-old sailing boat of a design dating back to the Vikings is helping to preserve the future of traditional boatbuilding in Scotland. "Bee" is one of the very few remaining Stroma yoles ...
Using a new state law, the Town of Port Royal is pursuing tough new mooring rules to keep derelict boats at bay as it prepares to pour nearly $1 million into building a new shrimp dock.
State Ship Image Year designated Arizona: USS Arizona (BB-39) [citation needed]Two earlier iterations of USS Arizona [citation needed]California: Californian (state tall ship) ...