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The Menger Oysterman 23 is an American trailerable skipjack that was designed by Bill Menger as a daysailer and cruiser and first built in 1977. [1] [2]The Oysterman 23 is based upon the general lines of the Howard Chappelle-designed Blue Crab skipjack and intended to resemble traditional 19th century oyster fishing boats of the Chesapeake Bay area.
Skipjack H.M. Krentz and pushboat. The skipjack arose near the end of the 19th century. Dredging for oysters, prohibited in 1820, was again made legal in 1865. Boats of the time were unsuitable, and the bugeye developed out of the log canoe in order to provide a boat with more power adapted to the shallow waters of the oyster beds.
The Skipjack 15 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars. The mainsail is a full roach design, which is fully battened and there is a bar-style mainsheet traveler .
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.
Skipjack left UNITAS, re-transited the canal and headed to Groton, where she entered dry-dock for repairs. Skipjack's authorization to dive expired in March 1989 since it was not cost efficient to inspect the hull in 1987 for a ship scheduled to be decommissioned. She had just been to St. Croix and some of the return trip was conducted on the ...
Claud W. Somers is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1911 in Young's Creek, Virginia, by W. Thomas Young of Parksley, who also built Bernice J.. She is ported at the Reedville Fisherman's Museum in Reedville, Virginia. In 1977 Claude W. Somers was struck by a squall near Hooper Strait Light, leaving six drowned, including her owner-captain ...
The Permit-class submarine (known as the Thresher class until the lead boat USS Thresher was lost) was a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines (hull classification symbol SSN) in service with the United States Navy from the early 1960s until 1996.
Skipjack 15, an American sailing dinghy design; HMS Skipjack, Royal Navy, Halcyon class minesweeper, sunk by bombs in 1940; Skipjack (boat), a type of fishing boat used on the Chesapeake Bay, USA; USS Skipjack, the name of three United States Navy submarines; Skipjack class submarine, a class of United States Navy nuclear submarines