''Ida May'' (skipjack)

Ida May
The Ida May in 2013
Location Upper thorofare, Chance, Maryland
Coordinates 38°10′10″N 75°56′49″W / 38.16944°N 75.94694°W / 38.16944; -75.94694Coordinates: 38°10′10″N 75°56′49″W / 38.16944°N 75.94694°W / 38.16944; -75.94694
Built 1906
Architectural style Skipjack
MPS Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP reference # 85001077 [1]
Added to NRHP May 16, 1985

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.[2]

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ M.E. Hayward and Anne Witty (May 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Ida May (skipjack)" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.


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