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Related Links

Deal Island Labor Day Skipjack Race: September 6, 2021

Choptank Heritage Skipjack Race: September 25, 2021

Skipjack Heritage, Inc.

Books and Publications

Skipjacks:

Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks, by Pat Vojtech. 1993, Schiffer Publishing

Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen, by Christopher White. 2009, St. Martin's Press

No Time to Reef, by C. R. Webster

Working Skipjacks of Deal Island, by Brice N. Stump

Memoir of a Skipjack, by Randolph George

Oysters:

Chesapeake Oysters, by Kate Livie. 2015, The History Press

The Oyster Question, by Christine Keiner. 2009, University of Georgia Press

Stories and Press Releases

The story of one woman's efforts to save George W. Collier (September 2015)

Videos and Photos

YouTube overhead video taken of the 2015 Deal Island Skipjack Race.

Video of dredging on board Skipjack Kathryn, c.1989, with glimpses of a number of other skipjacks.

Walter Cronkite hosted "The Twentieth Century: The Sailing Oystermen" on CBS, February 7, 1965.

A collection of skipjack photos and listings of old skipjacks from Rosanne Schenck.

How You Can Help

The Last Skipjacks Project is privately funded. It was established solely to compile information about the surviving skipjacks in one place and make it available to the interested public. You can best help us by "liking" us on Facebook and spreading the word to people who have information about these boats.

However, many of the skipjacks listed accept and welcome your financial support to keep them alive. A list of some of the donation opportunities follows, without any endorsement of their solicitations implied. Please check the individual site for information on tax deductibility.

Donation Links

Claud W. Somers: Reedville Fisherman's Museum

Dee of St. Mary's: Calvert Marine Museum

Elsworth: Echo Hill Outdoor School

Joy Parks: Piney Point Lighthouse Museum

Lydia D: Annapolis Maritime Museum

Martha Lewis: Chesaepeake Heritage Conservancy

Sigsbee: Living Classrooms Foundation

Nathan of Dorchester: Dorchester Skipjack Committee

Rosie Parks: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

Wilma Lee: Annapolis Maritime Museum

Please help keep this information up to date by submitting news or corrected facts about any of these boats and letting us know of skipjacks not yet included on this site.