The Skipjack E. C. Collier

The Skipjack E. C. Collier

Description

E.C. Collier is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1910 at Deal Island, Maryland. She is a 52-foot-long two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 17.9 feet, a depth of 4.5 feet, and a registered net tonnage of 14 tons. She is one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. At the time of her documentation on the National Register of Historic Places she was located at Tilghman, Talbot County, Maryland. She is now a permanent exhibit at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in Saint Michaels, Maryland.


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Equipment Specifications
Year1910
ModelSkipjack
LocationChesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
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E.C. Collier
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