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Sandy (log canoe)

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Architectural style
  
Tilghman

Added to NRHP
  
18 September 1985

NRHP Reference #
  
85002253

Sandy (log canoe)

Location
  
Sherwood Rd., Sherwood, Maryland

MPS
  
Chesapeake Bay Sailing Log Canoe Fleet TR

The Sandy is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe. She measures is a 28'-114" long sailing log canoe with two masts and a racing rig. Log-built, with carvel-fitted rising planks, the boat has a beam of 6'-814". She one of the last 22 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay racing log canoes that carry on a tradition of racing on the Eastern Shore of Maryland that has existed since the 1840s. She is located at Sherwood, Talbot County, Maryland.

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

References

Sandy (log canoe) Wikipedia