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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;aaroncab, post: 262968, member: 3974&quot;]This is something I picked up recently - large (15 x 20) black and white photograph of the Chesapeake Bay skipjack Ralph T Webster in action. Signed by the photographer Lynn Johnson (published in National Geographic et al).</p><p><br /></p><p>Not an antique but I thought I&#039;d post because it&#039;s a beautiful photo - and the history of the skipjack boats are interesting to me. The skipjacks were originally built in the early 1900&#039;s as dredging / oyster harvesting boats in the Chesapeake Bay. What&#039;s more interesting is some of them are still in use today, and are the &quot;last working boats under sail in the United States&quot;. The last commercial fleet of sailboats in the U.S. Pretty cool.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some links:</p><p>About the skipjack fleet:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/symbols/boat.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/symbols/boat.html" rel="nofollow">http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/symbols/boat.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>More from wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipjack_(boat)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipjack_(boat)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipjack_(boat)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The current resting place of the skipjack in my photo:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://lastskipjacks.com/boats/ralphtwebster.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://lastskipjacks.com/boats/ralphtwebster.html" rel="nofollow">http://lastskipjacks.com/boats/ralphtwebster.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>~</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]82423[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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