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Any skip jack 15 owners?

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Just picked up a skip jack 15, anyone else have one?  

I just bought a Skipjack 15 last week. Looking forward to getting it on the water.  

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Here Is my boat. Been sailing mostly keelboats and have not sailed a cb in years. Looking forward to getting back into the water with one.  

upslims said: Congrats! I'm refinishing one right now and hope to have it ready in a week or so. I think mine is a 73'. Painted to hull, ready to move to the deck. Click to expand

Mine was missing the centerboard and I had to fabricate a new one. Can someone take some closeups to show my how it is rigged to allow it to be pulled up? Thanks so much! Jeff  

Hello All. Just bought a well-used Skipjack 15. Probably could figure it out, but bought the boat out of the water and with all rigging removed, so sure could use a manual or photos to help getting it set up properly. In particular, how the main and jib sheets are set up, and also the centerboard lift and hold-down. Also, also advice or photos of any mast crutch folks have devised -- the trailer has none so it looks like i will need to build my own. Thanks!  

Here’s a Skipjack15 my uncle gave to my cousin who then gave it to me. I spent a couple of years refurbishing her. She was in bad shape. The mainsail, some of the hardware, and rudder are new otherwise most everything is original. My father, uncles, and half my cousins were in the USCG hence the new colors. I’ve taken detailed pics of the rigging if anyone wants it.  

I've had a Skipjack 15 (Hull #232) sitting in my pasture here on the Chesapeake for years. Bought it with a friend who jumped ship before we could begin the restoration. The hull looks grungy but is solid. The mast, boom, and sails (original Dabbler) are okay. Some standing rigging needs to be replaced. Centerboard looks to be original. Rudder has some damage but hardware is solid. The trailer has too much rust to ever go on the road. I've been thinking about donating to the local NPR station but haven't yet. Any suggestions from this group regarding disposition or value would be appreciated. I have pictures, but they are too large to upload to the server.  

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Skipjack 14 foot Sailboat - Need Advice on How to Rig

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I have been given a 14 ft Skipjack Sailboat that I am hoping to get back on the water so my son and I can learn to sail together. The sailboat had been on the track to being restored when the previous owner passed away. When I got the boat it had been repainted, but the hardware was all in a box. The mainsail, jib, mast and boom are in fine condition, and I have figured out how to remount all the hardware..... what I do not know is how to replace and rig all the lines. I have scoured the internet and have only come up with a couple of pictures of one other Skipjack sailboat... and I was unable to get any close up pictures to see how the lines are run.... Does anybody out there know anybody with close up pictures of a Skipjacks rigging .... or how I can get a rigging diagram for it... The boats were made by the Newport Boat Company... But I cannot even locate that company anymore... My email address is [email protected] if anybody can help. Thanks.... Clark in Mount Plymouth, FL  

http://www.glen-l.com/free-book/rigging-small-sailboats.html Try this link to Glen L "rigging small boats" it's actually free. if the link is messed up just go to glenL.com good luck!  

The skipjack was manufactured by Cardinal Yachts. Harry R. Sindle: Address: 7519 Ware Neck Rd., Gloucester, VA 23061 Phone: 804-693-5928 There was a fleet at the Ware River Yacht Club, Gloucester, VA. Somebody there must remember how to rig them.  

For what it's worth, I too have a Skipjack. I picked it up early this summer to teach the grand kids to sail but didn't get finished patching and painting until after they went back home. It's ready for next summer though. Cardinal Yachts, by the way, is but half an hour from me. Also see Sherwood's "Field Guide to Sailboats," page 46.  

Older post but I currently have a project skip jack and am looking for info/photos on rigging and what not. Any help would be much appreciated! Bryan  

I was recently fortunate enough to be given my first sailboat. It is a Skipjack 15. I have done some research and discovered this forum in hopes that you might be able to assist with getting this boat back on the water. I have everything with the exception of the center board. Anyway, I was hoping that someone might be able to assist me in locating one or perhaps provide the dimensions on it. I am pretty sure that it is around 1/4" thick. Any photos that you could send or share would be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff  

jeffroyal said: I have everything with the exception of the center board. Anyway, I was hoping that someone might be able to assist me in locating one or perhaps provide the dimensions on it. I am pretty sure that it is around 1/4" thick. Any photos that you could send or share would be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff Click to expand...

The centerboard was indeed made of aluminum. I went to school with the guy that owned Skipjack #1. It was originally made by Mobjack Manufacturing near Gloucester VA, which was acquired by Newport Boats. I think the boat was originally to be named "Crackerjack" until patent protection probably forced the change. Anyway, there is one in our neighborhood, but I've never seen it launched, and never seen the owner. I was always impressed with these boats. Completely self bailing, contrasted to the 420 and FJ used by junior programs. Perhaps it was too much boat for juniors, but at one time I understand it was used at the Naval Academy. Full battened mail, which was unusual for a monohull.  

Well I finally made a centerboard for this boat out of 1/4" aluminum. I scaled the dimensions off of a drawing I found online. If anyone needs any direction or photos for rigging this boat, let me know. I had a hard time finding anyone with info so I will be glad to share. Sailed this boat twice and love it! Have a great 4th weekend! JEff  

jeffroyal said: Well I finally made a centerboard for this boat out of 1/4" aluminum. I scaled the dimensions off of a drawing I found online. If anyone needs any direction or photos for rigging this boat, let me know. ** snip } Click to expand...

Somewhere in the vaults of my boat literature I have a Mobjack Mfg. booklet w/ pictures and descriptions of all the boats they were building in the late 60s. They built at least nine different boats.  

And someday there might be a new owner who would jump for joy to see that on line... and/or a pdf  

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While many different ships roam the Bay’s waters, the most iconic is the skipjack, with its long lifting bowsprit, raked wooden mast and sweeping sheer lines. A reminder of the age of sail and symbolic of the Bay’s rich maritime history, it is the state boat of Maryland. First built in the 1890s for dredging oysters, they rose in popularity because they were cheap to build.

Watermen on the Eastern Shore who first built and sailed these ships gave them the early name of “two-sail bateau,” recalling a French connection to 17 th century Huguenot exiles in the region. In other parts of Maryland, they were called “skipjacks,” thought to be named after the fast-moving skipjack tuna.

For a century, fleets of these graceful boats could be seen hauling oysters all winter long, finally becoming the “last working sailing fleet” in the nation. With the decline of oysters in the latter half of the 20 th century, fewer and fewer of these old boats could be found. By the 1980s, there were only about two dozen skipjacks at work on the Chesapeake, all in Maryland. Today, there are only a handful still dredging for oysters.  Most of the skipjacks now sailing the Bay are used for education and tourist trips and tours to teach about the history of the region’s coastal communities.

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Maryland Sea Grant has produced a series of videos (below) about skipjacks, "Oystering on the Chesapeake Bay." The videos focus on the City of Crisfield , its captain, and the preservation work that saved the boat, allowing it to continue hauling oysters.

• “A Century of Skipjacks”: A short introduction to the history of skipjacks in the Chesapeake Bay.
• "The Art of Oystering":  Dredging oysters under sail with Captain Art Daniels Jr. of Deal Island, Maryland.
• "A Waterman and His Boat":  "As long as you don't get afraid and stick with the boat, she'll stand by you." (Art Daniels, Jr.)
• “The Boat Coming Alive”: A veteran oyster captain recalls his first sail on his father’s skipjack.
• “A Skipjack Goes Down”:  Captain Daniels tells of the day he found his skipjack,  City of Crisfield , drowned at a Cambridge, Maryland, harbor dock.
• “And Rises Again”:  Sail rigger Rich Schofield and boat builder Mike Vlahovich go to work rebuilding the  City of Crisfield.
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The origin of the skipjack is a little obscure - they seem to have been a development of the flat bottomed sharpie with many examples having a much wider beam than the sharpie, a deadrise to the bottom and great flare to the topsides. However, historians are divided and some see the hull type as nothing to do with the sharpie form at all and simply a development in North American working boat hull shape in it's own right. Whatever the origin, examples were to be seen in the Gulf of Mexico in the 1880's and they were later built at Martha's Vineyard (Massachusetts) and Chesapeake Bay.

Apart from their distinctive hulls, they usually sported a gaff main with single jib and were characterized by their sweeping sheer line. All in all, these features lead to a very seaworthy, easily built and very 'salty' looking craft.

Construction is ply plank over frame with the ply fore and aft girder combined with the centreboard case set up with the ply bulkheads and frames upside down. Stringers are added before everything is cleaned up and made ready for the ply planking. To make things simple and low cost, the ballast, as in the original boats is in the bilges in the form of scrap steel or lead.

The standard layout is for twin berths plus room for a galley and wc and a large cockpit but this can be easily altered to suit your own requirements.

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Nearly half of Russia’s North Korean missiles failed official claims

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Most didn’t make it to their targets

On January 4th, 2024, the United States accused North Korea of supplying Russia with ballistic missiles that Moscow then used in Ukraine. However, these weapons might not have been very effective according to reports. 

Some exploded in mid-air

Roughly half of the North Korean missiles given to Russia that were launched at targets in Ukraine either failed to reach their destination or exploded in mid-air according to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin. 

21 out of 50 missiles missed their marks

Kostin revealed to Reuters in previously unreported comments that 21 of the 50 ballistic missiles of North Korean origin that Russia fired at Ukraine between late December and late February didn’t make it to their targets. 

A high failure rate

The failure rate of North Korean ballistic missiles appeared to be quite high according to Kostin, who explained to Reuters that about half of the weapons “lost their programmed trajectories and exploded in the air.”

Recovering missile debris

Kostin added that Ukrainian officials were not able to recover the debris of North Korean missiles in such cases, something Kyiv has been doing to understand the effectiveness of the ballistic missiles Pyongyang has sent to Russia. 

Not out of line with previous comments

The rather high failure rate of North Korean ballistic missiles from Kostin isn’t out of line with other estimates. For example, Business Insider reported Kostin's figures were consistent with an assessment from another top official in his office provided in March. 

20% of North Korean missiles failed

Yuriy Belousov is the Head of the War Crimes Department in the Prosecutor General's Office and he explained in March that roughly 20% of Moscow’s North Korean ballistic missiles were accurate according to Kyodo News. 

Pyongyang's missiles were low quality

Belousov noted that Russia’s North Korean missiles were “very low” quality according to the analysis of their debris but also explained that the 50 missiles fired at the time of his comments had resulted in 24 deaths and more than 100 injuries. 

"In my opinion, they definitely use it”

One of the issues that worried Belousov about the situation was the likelihood that North Korea was using Ukraine as a testing ground in order to understand the effectiveness of their weapons better. "In my opinion, they definitely use it,” he said. 

80% of missiles didn’t hit their targets

Belousov revealed that around 80% of North Korean ballistic missiles fired by Russia at Ukraine failed to hit their targets and added that half of them blew up in mid-air. Officials were still gauging their ability to evade air defense at the time of Belousov’s comments. 

The KN-23 and KN-24

Kyodo News reported that Moscow had fired North Korean KN-23 short-range ballistic missiles as well as Pyongyang’s KN-24 ballistic missiles at Ukraine, but Belousov noted that these weapons were not as effective as Russian-made missiles.

North Korean weapons helped Russia

On May 8th, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said during a Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee that North Korean weapons assistance along with help from Iran helped turn the tide of the conflict for Russia according to Air & Space Magazine. 

“Turning the tide there for Russia for a bit”

“We saw Russia engage North Korea, who provided quite a bit of munitions and missiles, and the drones provided by Iran really helped to begin turning the tide there for Russia a bit, and allowed them to get back up on their feet,” Austin said. 

The 2023 Summit

In September 2023, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit that saw the two men discuss military matters and deeper cooperation according to Reuters, but the meeting worried officials and experts. 

Worries about more weapons

“The concern was that Putin would get more ammo for his war in Ukraine, and North Korea would get field testing of its weapons to improve the quality of the country's munitions,” Business Insider noted, a worry that appeared turned out to be real. 

10,000 containers of assistance

In February 2024, the US State Department claimed that North Korea had supplied Moscow with at least 10,000 shipping containers of “munitions and munitions-related materials” since September 2023.

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Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III committed Monday to keeping U.S. weapons moving to Ukraine as Kyiv faces one of its toughest moments against a renewed assault by Russia.

Austin and as many as 50 defense leaders from Europe and around the world were meeting Monday to coordinate more military aid to Ukraine, as Kyiv tries to hold off a Russian offensive in the northeast while launching its own massive assault on the Russia-occupied Crimean peninsula.

“We’re meeting in a moment of challenge,” Austin said, noting that Russia’s new onslaught of Kharkiv showed why the continued commitment by the countries was vital to keep coming. Austin vowed to keep U.S. weapons moving “week after week.”

The U.S. announced no new aid packages Monday, even as Ukrainian forces continue to complain that weapons are just trickling into the country after being stalled for months due to congressional gridlock over funding. Pentagon officials have said that weapons pre-positioned in Europe began moving into Ukraine soon after the aid funding was approved.

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It’s unclear how much of that has reached some of the front lines, where Russian troops have intensified their assault.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday during a visit to China that Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region aims to create a buffer zone but that there are no plans to capture the city.

Ukrainian troops have been fighting to halt Russian advances in the Kharkiv region, while also increasing their offensive attacks in Crimea, including on military infrastructure sites on the Black Sea coast and in the Russian-occupied city of Sevastopol.

Ukraine has also struggled to get enough troops to the front lines, as the war drags on into its third year and fighting takes its toll. In an effort to increase troop numbers, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed two laws, allowing prisoners to join the army and increasing fines for draft dodgers fivefold.

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In the three weeks since President Biden signed the $95-billion foreign aid package, the U.S. has sent $1.4 billion in weapons pulled from Pentagon stockpiles and announced it was providing $6 billion in funding through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. USAI pays for longer-term contracts with the defense industry and means that the weapons could take many months or years to arrive.

In recent packages the U.S. has agreed to send High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and rockets for them, as well as munitions for Patriot and National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems, artillery, anti-aircraft and anti-tank munitions, and an array of armored vehicles, such as Bradley and Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles.

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The U.S. is also providing additional coastal and riverine patrol boats, trailers, demolition munitions, high-speed anti-radiation missiles, protective gear, spare parts and other weapons and equipment.

The State Department has also approved a proposed emergency sale of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Ukraine for an estimated $30 million. The State Department said Ukraine has asked to buy three of the rocket systems, which would be funded by the government of Germany.

The U.S. has now provided about $50.6 billion in military assistance to Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022.

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A funeral service for Ella Adler was held Monday morning at Temple Beth Sholom in Miami Beach. Adler was a freshman at Ransom Everglades School in Coconut Grove and a ballerina with the Miami City Ballet.

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