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Book Deadrise and Cross Planked

    Book Details:
  • Author : Larry S. Chowning
  • Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780870335884
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book Deadrise and Cross Planked written by Larry S. Chowning and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Deadrise and Cross-planked, author Larry S. Chowning takes readers on a journey into the history of wooden deadrise boat building, highlighting its role in Chesapeake Bay culture, and providing deeper insight into the builders who created these works of nautical ingenuity. More than 150 photographs complement this insiders view of the traditional watermens lifestyle and offer a glimpse of the history that spans the thousands of nautical miles of the Chesapeake Bay. Written by one of the most notable bay historians, Deadrise and Cross-planked is a must-have for all maritime and Chesapeake Bay enthusiasts.

Book Chesapeake Bay Deadrise Boats

Download or read book Chesapeake Bay Deadrise Boats written by Larry Shepherd Chowning and published by Images of America. This book was released on 2024-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deadrise and cross-planked bottom style of boatbuilding started on Chesapeake Bay in the 1880s, when builders of wooden boats began to shift away from constructing vessels out of logs and into using planks to create hulls with a V-shaped bottom. Marine historian Howard I. Chapelle says that the style started in the North and Deep South (on the Gulf of Mexico)--but was not popular in those areas--before coming to Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay's choppy, shoal water conditions were ideal for a shoal draft, V-bottom style of boat. The availability of good wood, a dynamic cottage industry that grew, and diverse inshore fisheries that supported a bay-wide fleet all encouraged demand for various sizes of wooden deadrise boats on the bay. Over time, the hull style became so popular that in 1985, the State of Maryland named the deadrise and cross-planked sailing skipjack as Maryland's state boat, and Virginia's legislature named the motor-powered classic deadrise style as the state boat of Virginia.

Book How to Build a Wooden Boat

Download or read book How to Build a Wooden Boat written by David C. McIntosh and published by WoodenBoat Books. This book was released on 1988-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David C. "Bud" McIntosh was a designer, builder, and sailor of large and small wooden cruising boats for more than 50 years, and wrote about it for over 10 of those years. He made his home on New Hampshire's Piscataqua River, where he was teacher and friend to both amateur and professional boatbuilders.

Book Boatbuilding

    Book Details:
  • Author : Howard Chappelle
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1994-04-05
  • ISBN : 9780393035544
  • Pages : 636 pages

Download or read book Boatbuilding written by Howard Chappelle and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994-04-05 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the Chapelle (Search for Speed Under Sail) original published by Norton in 1941. Now printed on acid-free paper and with a new foreword by Jonathan Wilson. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Deltaville

    Book Details:
  • Author : Larry S. Chowning
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2014-06-16
  • ISBN : 1439645728
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Deltaville written by Larry S. Chowning and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 20th century, the communities previously recognized as Sandy Bottom, Enoch, Stingray Point, Ruark, Amburg, Stove Point, Horse Shoe Bend, Paces Neck, and Grinels became part of what is known today as Deltaville. Strategically located between two major rivers and the Chesapeake Bay, Deltaville has been center stage to many events that have shaped the nation. During the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, friend and foe visited its shores. Six decades later, both Union and Confederate blood was spilled on its ground. Throughout the early 20th century, Deltavilles shores played a large part in local industry. Common occupations included wooden boatbuilding, freighting, oystering, crabbing, and fishing. By the end of the century, the community had grown into a waterfront resort and served as a playground for recreational boaters and visitors.

Book MotorBoating

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1932-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book MotorBoating written by and published by . This book was released on 1932-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chesapeake Bay Deck Boats

Download or read book Chesapeake Bay Deck Boats written by Larry S. Chowning and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1880s, Chesapeake Bay boatbuilders began constructing small wooden open boats, referred to as deadrise boats, out of planks with V-shaped bows. As boatbuilders created larger deadrise boats, decks were installed to provide more work and payload space; these deck boats also had a house/pilothouse near the stern and a mast closer to the bow of the boat. Deck boats were powered by gasoline engines but also utilized sails and wind. From the 1910s to the 1940s, auxiliary "steadying" sails were raised to help steady the boat when encountering adverse seas. More deck boats were built in the 1920s than in any other decade. Over the history of the boats, several thousand worked the bay in the freight business, were used to buy and plant oysters, worked in the bay's pound net fishery, and dredged for crabs and oysters. Approximately 40 boats are left on the bay. A few still work the water. Some have found new life as recreational yachts, and others are education boats owned by museums and nonprofits. In 2004, boat owners formed the Chesapeake Bay Buyboat Association, which holds an annual rendezvous at different ports as a way to educate the public about this unique aspect of Chesapeake Bay maritime history.

Book African Founders

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  • Author : David Hackett Fischer
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2022-05-31
  • ISBN : 1982145110
  • Pages : 960 pages

Download or read book African Founders written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States. African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of animal husbandry and farming, and generations-old ethical principles, among other attributes. This startling history reveals how much our country was shaped by these African influences in its early years, producing a new, distinctly American culture. Drawing on decades of research, some of it in western Africa, Fischer recreates the diverse regional life that shaped the early American republic. He shows that there were varieties of slavery in America and varieties of new American culture, from Puritan New England to Dutch New York, Quaker Pennsylvania, cavalier Virginia, coastal Carolina, and Louisiana and Texas. This landmark work of history will transform our understanding of America’s origins.

Book Maryland Workboats

    Book Details:
  • Author : Byshe Hicks
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780738568225
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Maryland Workboats written by Byshe Hicks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chesapeake Bay has been home to many unique craft designed to work the estuary. Beginning with the Native Americans and continuing to this day, these boats have been used for everything from fishing to transporting people and cargo.

Book Boating

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 630 pages

Download or read book Boating written by and published by . This book was released on 1966-07 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ancient Boats in North West Europe

Download or read book Ancient Boats in North West Europe written by Sean Mcgrail and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last a paperback edition of this standard work on marine archaeology. Séan McGrail's study received exceptional critical acclaim when it was first published in hardback in 1987 and it is now revised and published in paperback for the first time. Professor McGrail provides an authoritative survey of water transport across Northern Europe from the Late Palaeolithic to the later Middle Ages, using evidence of excavations, but also documentary sources, iconographic and ethnographic evidence. In the process he answers such key questions as How were these boats built? What sort of environment were they used in? What speeds could they achieve? and how were they navigated?

Book Chesapeake Legacy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Larry Chowning
  • Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
  • Release : 2010-06-09
  • ISBN : 9780764335952
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Chesapeake Legacy written by Larry Chowning and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since Larry Chowning's book, Harvesting the Chesapeake: Tools and Traditions, was published, the author has fielded many questions from readers about why he didn't include a particular fishery or tradition in his collection. Chowning answers these questions in this second volume relating to the fisheries in his continuing effort to document the heritage of the Chesapeake Bay. "The truth of the matter is," he confesses in his preface, "I like most watermen and I like what they stand for. I appreciate their tradition and their struggle to survive in an occupation that does not fit well in today's fast-paced urban society. Chesapeake Bay watermen are a carryover from earlier days when people had to be self-sufficient just to take care of their basic needs." It's easy to share this appreciation for those who make their living on or around the water when reading this volume. It is a treasure trove of little-known gems about life in the Chesapeake region: tales from the days of fishing under sail, reminiscences from women who survived in the waterman's world, recipes for salting herring and cooking muskrat, descriptions of distinctive fishing vessels from bygone eras and their modern equivalents, and even an account of a very special tradition--the harvesting of human souls through baptism by immersion!

Book Maritime Archaelogy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence E. Babits
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 1998-01-31
  • ISBN : 9780306453311
  • Pages : 626 pages

Download or read book Maritime Archaelogy written by Lawrence E. Babits and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-01-31 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings from lectures, academic papers, and journal articles on theory and practice of maritime archaeology, covering the period from the field's inception in the late 1940s to the present. Articles encompass different styles and methodologies of archaeological practice, and describe progress in the technology of diving and excavation over the decade. Some articles reflect the long- standing rivalry between commercial salvors and archaeologists, and some reveal contributions to the field from amateurs and treasure- hunters. For students, professionals, and hobbyists. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Chesapeake Bay Buyboats

    Book Details:
  • Author : Larry S. Chowning
  • Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Chesapeake Bay Buyboats written by Larry S. Chowning and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All but forgotten, buyboats served for nearly a century throughout the Bay region as floating middlemen buying fresh catch off smaller workboats and whisking it away to customers on the shore. Chowning preserves a fading way of life, the vessels that powered it, and the voices of those who worked it.

Book 100 Boat Designs Reviewed

Download or read book 100 Boat Designs Reviewed written by Peter H. Spectre and published by WoodenBoat Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-known as the editor of the best-selling annual Mariner's Book of Days, Peter Spectre lives in Spruce Head, Maine.

Book Chesapeake Bay Buyboats

    Book Details:
  • Author : Larry S. Chowning
  • Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
  • Release : 2007-05-01
  • ISBN : 9780870335921
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Chesapeake Bay Buyboats written by Larry S. Chowning and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buyboat is the most familiar term for a particular style of traditional Chesapeake workboat, but it suggests only one of many jobs done by these versatile craft. As buyboats, they bought seafood from watermen working small boats, then transported and sold the catch to packing houses or city merchants. As run boats or runners, they were the company-owned vessels that transferred the catch to the company docks. As freight boats or bay freighters, they hauled many things from here to therewatermelons, lumber, coal, canning suppliesoften doing the work that would later be taken over by trucks. As packet boats, they carried mail, supplies, and passengers between the mainland and the bays island communities. They served under the U.S. Coast Guard in World War II, at least one was officially a school boat, and an untold number of them may have run rum in the days of Prohibition. If those were not enough names, their builders called them deck boats, because the hulls were decked over to create cargo holds, allowing the boats to work in many bay fisheries. In Chesapeake Bay Buyboats, Larry S. Chowning has produced a marvelous record of these boats. He introduces the builders, the owners, the captains, and the families and extended families of all. Much of the text is told through interviews with the men who built the boats and the men and women who workedand sometimes playedaboard them. The illustrations are an eclectic selection. The authors photographs, spanning his twenty-year career as a newspaper reporter living and working in the heart of buyboat country, are supplemented by the contributions of many individuals who were directly connected to the boats.

Book Middlesex County

Download or read book Middlesex County written by Larry S. Chowning and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just 35 years after Jamestown was settled, Virginia colonists planted tobacco in nearby Middlesex County, an area strategically located between two major rivers and the Chesapeake Bay. Middlesex life has been closely tied to both land and water. From the commerce of the early steamboats to the modern oyster-farming industry, the waterways have provided an avenue for business and a bountiful harvest of crabs, fish, and oysters. The county's modern boating industry grew from a 19th-century wooden boatbuilding tradition. The center of that industry, Deltaville, is known today as the "Boating Capital of the Chesapeake Bay." From the county's oyster heritage came Virginia's most famous celebration, the Urbanna Oyster Festival, which annually draws 60,000 people to the small waterfront town. Stately homes and churches that predate the Revolutionary War include Colonial Christ Church, which annually attracts hundreds of marines to the gravesite of Lt. Gen. Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller, the most decorated marine in the history of the United States Marine Corps, who retired to the county in 1955.