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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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The Chesapeake Bay skipjack fleet is the last commercial sailing powered fishing fleet in North America. Many of the remaining ships are in poor condition and the decline in oyster harvests has left their captains with little profit to maintain their vessels.

Soon after its introduction to the Chesapeake in the 1890s, the skipjack became the preferred oyster dredge boat. Some have estimated nearly two thousand skipjacks were built, all specifically designed for dredging oysters from the Chesapeake Bay. The peak building years were during the 1890s and the first decade of the 20th century.

Oystermen needed a light, inexpensive boat that was easy to construct and could navigate the shallower waters of the Bay. The skipjack’s wide beam, hard chine, and low freeboard provided a stable, large working and storage platform. The single-masted rig, with sharp-headed mainsail and large jib, was easy to handle, powerful in light winds, and capable of coming about quickly without losing way. All these traits made the skipjack ideally suited to performing continuous “licks” (passes) over the oyster beds. The skipjack was also so simple to build that even house carpenters could construct one.  As a result, hundreds of skipjacks were built when they first came on the scene in the 1890s and during their heyday there were as many as two thousand skipjacks on the Bay.

Significant decline in oyster prices in the early 1900s resulted in the abandonment and destruction of much of the skipjack fleet. Oyster prices increased somewhat after WWII, leading to the construction of a few new skipjacks. At that point the size of the fleet climbed into the 70s. The skipjack fleet, however, has declined slowly ever since then.

Today, there are only about 30 skipjacks left, and many of those are in such poor condition that it is unlikely that they can be rejuvenated.  A few of the originals, however, have been lovingly restored, and some of thee newer vessels that have been kept in good repair.

Some of the restored vessels are on display at museums, while others are used for educational purposes. And there are a few skipjacks left that still ply the trade they were originally built for, dredging for oysters on the Chesapeake Bay.

In the year 2000, the State of Maryland made a commitment to preserving and restoring the Chesapeake Bay skipjack fleet. The first step taken by the state was to designate the skipjack as the official state boat, because of its historic and economic importance and its symbolic value as a representation of the people of Maryland and their lifestyle. Second, the state formed a task force to address some of the obstacles that have led to the decline of the fleet. One recommendation which emerged was to provide subsidized repair services to the active dredge vessels to stabilize their condition while the oyster stocks were being replenished. The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum has provided the use of its boat shop facility, marine railway, and skilled staff for fleet repair.

With funding from The Maryland Historic Trust, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and numerous private businesses, the skipjack restoration project began in July of 2001. Under the direction of a the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s master shipwright, a crew of boat carpenter apprentices are providing the skilled labor needed to accomplish the task. Chesapeake Bay wood boatbuilding techniques are being handed down to the next generation and skipjacks are being preserved for generations to come. Since the program’s inception, nine skipjacks have received repair services from the restoration project.

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The name “skipjack” is said to have been derived from fish, such as the skipjack mackerel or skipjack tuna, that jump in and out of the water because these boats can sometimes resemble the fish as they come about quickly making continuous passes or “licks” over oyster beds.  Another possible origin of the name is an archaic English word meaning “inexpensive yet useful servant”.  The typical cost of a skipjack in 1905 was $3,000.

The Remaining Skipjacks

• Ada Fears.  Ridge, MD.  Built in Oxford, Maryland in 1968.
• Caleb W. Jones.  Built in 1953.
• City of Crisfield.  Deal Island, Maryland.  Built in Reedville, Virginia in 1949.
• City of Norfolk. Norfolk, Virginia.  Built in Deale, Maryland in 1900.
• Claud M. Somers.  Reedville, VA.  Built in Accomack County, VA in 1911.
• Dee of St. Mary’s . Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons, MD.  Built in Piney Point, Maryland in 1979.
• E.C. Collier.  St. Michaels, MD.  Built in Deal Island in 1910.
• Elsworth.  Worton, MD.  Built in 1901.
• Fanny L. Daugherty.  Deal Island, MD.  Built in Crisfield, Maryland in 1904.
• F.C. Lewis, Jr.  West Denton, MD.
• Helen Virginia .  Built in Crisfield, Maryland in 1948.
• Hilda M. Willing .  Tilghman Island, Maryland.  Built in Oriole, Maryland in 1905.
• H.M. Krentz.  Tilghman Island, MD.  Built in Harryhogan, Virginia in 1955.
• Ida May. Deal Island, MD.  Built in Urbanna, Virginia in 1906.
• Joy Parks .  St. Mary’s County Piney Point Museum.  Built in 1936 in Parksley, Virginia.
• Kathryn .  Tilghman Island, Maryland.  Built in Crisfield, Maryland in 1901.
• Lady Katie.  Cambridge, MD.  Built in Wingate, Maryland in 1956.
• Mamie A. Mister.  Tilghman Island, MD.  Built in Deal Island, Maryland in 1911.
• Martha Lewis.  Havre de Grace, MD.  Built in Wingate, Maryland in 1955.
• Minnie V.  Baltimore, MD.  Built in Wenonah, Maryland in 1906.
• Nathan .  Cambridge, MD. Built Cambridge, Maryland in 1992.
• Nellie L. Byrd.  Tilghman Island, MD.  Built in Oriole, Maryland in 1911.
• Rebecca T. Ruark.   Tilghman Island, MD.  Built in Taylors Island, Maryland in 1886.
• Rosie Parks .  St. Michaels, MD.  Built in Wingate, Maryland in 1955.
• Sigsbee.  Baltimore, MD.  Built in Oriole, Maryland in 1901.
• Somerset.  Deal Island, MD.  Built in Reedville, Virginia in 1949.
• Stanley Norman .  Annapolis, MD.  Built in 1902.
• Thomas Clyde.  Tilghman Island, MD.  Built in Oriole, MD in 1911.
• Virginia W.  Port Kinsale, VA.  Built in Guilford, Virginia in 1904.
• Wilma Lee.  Kinsale, VA.  Built in Wingate, MD in 1940.

Go For a Sail

Several of the Chesapeake Bay skipjacks offer public cruises.  A trip on an authentic Chesapeake Bay skipjack offers a rare opportunity to experience first hand a piece of Chesapeake Bay history.

• Skipjack Claud M. Somers .  Owned and operated by the Reedville Fishermen’s Museum in Reedville, Virginia.  Offers regular sails for museum members.
• Skipjack Dee of St. Mary’s . The Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Maryland, offers public sails.
• Skipjack Herman Krantz , Capt. Ed Farley Skipjack Cruises out of St. Michaels, Maryland.  410-745-6080
• Skipjack Martha Lewis .  Owned and operated by the nonprofit organization, Chesapeake Heritage Conservancy.  Offers public sails out of Havre de Grace, Maryland.
• Skipjack Stanley Norman . A Chesapeake Bay Foundation skipjack that offers public sails out of Annapolis.
• Skipjack Nathan of Dorchester .  Skipjack built by volunteers in 1994.  Offers public sails out of Cambridge, Maryland.  Cruise on the scenic Choptank River, help raise her sails or take a turn at the helm, and hear stories of the working watermen.
• Skipjack Rebecca T. Ruark .  Hands-on sailing experience onboard the oldest working skipjack. Learn Chesapeake ecology, maritime history, and oyster-dredge demonstration. USCG certified 49 passengers. Walk-ons, buses, families, weddings, sunsets.   Capt. Wade H. Murphy. SkipJack Cruises out of Tilghman Island, Maryland.

Skipjack Resources

• Crockett’s Gallery – Screensaver size images of skipjacks in the Deal Island Skipjack Races.
• Skipjack Sunday – A collection on recently discovered photographs taken at Deal Island in 1967.
• Skipjacks dredge up nautical heritage for guests .  A Chesapeake Bay Journal article about Skipjacks and excursions.

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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 for Sale: Nonprofit Appeals to Public to Bring Her Back to the Bay

The skipjack may be the perfect symbol of the Chesapeake Bay’s history. With graceful lines and a muddy deck, the sail-powered workboat is beautiful but raw. In the first half of the 20th century, 800 skipjacks sailed the region, and today the number has dwindled to 30. Only six are still used for oyster dredging.

In the last decade, one of these rare beauties found her way down to North Carolina’s Pamlico Sound, where she’s been used for charters and educational tours. Now, the owners are forced to sell, and they’re making a public appeal to the Chesapeake Bay community to bring this skipjack home to the Bay.

The Wilma Lee was built in 1940 by famed boatbuilder Bronza Parks. A Sandy Point, Virginia man named Herb Carden bought and restored her beginning in 2002, to the tune of $600,000. He modernized things a bit, adding an engine, stainless steel rails and a fiberglass deck. But her classic skipjack lines are intact. When Carden was finished, he felt that Wilma Lee was too important just to sit at his dock. He donated her to Ocracoke Alive, a nonprofit education and arts group on Ocracoke Island.

The nonprofit made a considerable investment to bring the skipjack up to Coast Guard regulations for carrying passengers, and today she can accommodate up to 42 guests. Since 2012, a commercial captain has partnered with Ocracoke Alive, and she’s been used for sunset cruises and weddings, as well as educational programs for kids.

When the captain, who is in his 70s, decided to retire, Ocracoke Alive just couldn’t find another qualified captain willing to take on the task. Tom Pahl, chairmain of the Wilma Lee Committee, tells me that’s when they made the difficult decision to sell her.

Pahl says Wilma Lee , which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, belongs back on the Chesapeake Bay, and he appealed to Bay Bulletin to help find a Bay buyer.

Among antique skipjacks, Pahl says Wilma Lee will probably outlast a lot of existing skipjacks. She’s one of the younger boats in the fleet, and her hull is made from pressure-treated lumber.

What’s the price tag, you ask? Well, there isn’t one. Pahl tells me the skipjack was assessed for tax purposes at nearly $ 1 million back in 2012. But, he says, Ocracoke Alive would probably take a lower offer. “I don’t really know what the market will bring,” he says.

What kind of buyer are the owners looking for? It could be an individual, a museum, or a city or town. But one thing is for sure: they’d really like Wilma Lee to return to her home on the Chesapeake.

Anyone who wants to inquire about the skipjack can contact [email protected] .

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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.

Read Skipjacks for the 21 st  Century , an issue of  Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's magazine, about the interaction between oyster reefs and skipjacks  and the decline and recovery of both. 

For a broad overview of the life and work of Chesapeake Bay watermen, check out the Maryland Sea Grant-published book  Working the Chesapeake: Watermen on the Bay.  Author Mark Jacoby spent time aboard ships with watermen who harvest Bay species in a variety of ways through all four seasons, hearing firsthand about their lives spent on the water.

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.

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• "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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It takes years of experience to know the different types of sailing vessels and how to determine which one is best for you. We are here to guide you to ensure you receive the best value on the type of boat you want.

We’re sailors. We are here to give you a sailing charter experience you will never forget. Start planning your sail today.

The possibilities are endless! Our beautiful Bali Catamarans are always based at ports during high season in the region. Our Concierge Service will help you plan your sailing adventure and build itineraries that are all about you.

A bareboat charter or demise charter is an arrangement for the chartering or hiring of a ship or boat, whereby no crew or provisions are included as part of the agreement; instead, the people who rent the vessel from the owner are responsible for taking care of such things. We are happy to arrange bareboat charters for qualified sailors who choose to go it alone. However, our specialty is to help you connect with knowledgeable captains and competent crew members to enhance your sailing experience by organizing your provisioning, planning your sailing itineraries, helping you manage meals and the galley and keeping you safe during your sailing adventure. Learn More .

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