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2. Chesapeake Bay deadrise - Wikipedia

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   The Chesapeake Bay deadrise or deadrise workboat is a type of traditional fishing boat used in the Chesapeake Bay. Watermen use these boats year round for everything from crabbing and oystering to catching fish or eels. Traditionally wooden hulled, the deadrise is characterised by a sharp bow that quickly becomes a flat V shape moving aft along ...

3. Skipjack (boat) - Wikipedia

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   Skipjack under sail. The skipjack is a traditional fishing boat used on the Chesapeake Bay for oyster dredging.It is a sailboat which succeeded the bugeye as the chief oystering boat on the bay, and it remains in service due to laws restricting the use of powerboats in the Maryland state oyster fishery.

4. Oyster buy-boat - Wikipedia

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   F.D. Crockett is a log-built Chesapeake Bay deck boat built in 1924. An oyster buy-boat, also known as deck boat, is an approximately 40–90 foot long wooden boat with a large open deck which serviced oyster tongers and dredgers. Similar in function to sardine carriers, buy boats circulated among the harvesters collecting their catches, then ...

5. Bay Hen 21 - Wikipedia

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   The Bay Hen 21 is a recreational sharpie, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It is a gaff rigged catboat with a single mainsail; a plumb stem; an angled transom; a shallow-draft, transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and twin, retractable centerboards, mounted side by side in separate trunks.

6. Baltimore Steam Packet Company - Wikipedia

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   The Old Bay Line's District of Columbia in 1949. The Baltimore Steam Packet Company, nicknamed the Old Bay Line, was an American steamship line from 1840 to 1962 that provided overnight steamboat service on Chesapeake Bay, primarily between Baltimore, Maryland, and Norfolk, Virginia. Called a "packet" for the mail packets carried on government ...

7. Ferries of San Francisco Bay - Wikipedia

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   The Creek Route ferries (1851–1937) Contra Costa, in the foreground, was one of the earliest ferries built expressly for trans-bay service. Capital, in the background, formerly a Sacramento River steamboat, served the route from 1876 to 1896. Both were built by John Gunder North. One of the earliest ferry routes ran between San Francisco and ...