Virginia W (skipjack)
The Virginia W is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1904 at Guilford, Virginia. She is a 37.5-foot-long (11.4 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. Her beam is 13.5 feet (4.1 m), and she draws 3.3 feet (1.0 m) with centerboard up, 6 feet (1.8 m) with centerboard down. She is one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. She is located at Cambridge, Maryland, Dorchester County.
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. She is assigned Maryland dredge number 12.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Maryland Historical Trust". VIRGINIA W (skipjack). Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-06-14.
- ^ Miller, Cyndy Carrington. "Skipjacks by dredge number". The Last Skipjacks Project. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
External links
- VIRGINIA W (skipjack), Talbot County, including photo in 1984, at Maryland Historical Trust
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