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Ida May (skipjack)

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Architectural style
  
Skipjack

Year built
  
1906

NRHP Reference #
  
85001077

Added to NRHP
  
16 May 1985

Ida May (skipjack)

Location
  
Upper thorofare, Chance, Maryland

MPS
  
Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR

The Ida May is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1906 at Urbanna or Deep Creek, Virginia. She is a 42.2-foot-long (12.9 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 14.4 feet (4.4 m), a depth of 3.3 feet (1.0 m), and a net register tonnage of 7. 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 Chance, Somerset County, Maryland.

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

References

Ida May (skipjack) Wikipedia