This paper is written with the hope that it may inspire younger generations to preserve for posterity something of the history and development of traditional Chesapeake Bay rowing and sailing craft. My first awareness of these vessels, 1920, came during my grammar school days, while researching the history of my birth­place, Bladensburg, the first sizeable tobacco seaport in Maryland.

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