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The Chesapeake sailing symbol is the Skipjack. In their heyday
about 1,000 Skipjacks dredged for oysters around the bay.
Today less than a dozen remain in the commercial fleet.

Lester Crockett's website gives an inventory of the
Surviving Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks. The National
Trust for Historic Preservation listed the Chesapeake
Skipjack Fleet as one of 11 Most Endangered Historic
Places in 2002.

The Blue Crab Site is creating small photo galleries of surviving
Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks. Below are the current Skipjack photo galleries.


Skipjack Tours

Several Chesapeake skipjacks offer public tour opportunities to sail for education and pleasure:


Herman M. Krentz
public tours in warmer months
out of St. Michaels, MD


Rebecaa T. Ruark
charters year round
out of Tilghman Island, MD


Nathan of Dorchester
late May-early October
out of Cambridge, MD


Martha Lewis
June to mid-October
out of Havre de Grace, MD