April 18, 2016

Two-Masted Skipjack

In the Chesapeake Bay a shallow draft, cross planked, hard chine hull with a Bugeye rig is called a “Three-sail Bateau” or a “Two-masted Skipjack“. We prefer the former because the oystering skipjack evolved from two masted log canoe work boats and the single masted Skipjack came later.

Maintenance
Both fore- and main-mast get cleaned and coated with a petroleum jelly and pine tar mixture two or three times a year.
2016

2016

In 2012 the re-stepped cedar masts had been saturated with linseed oil and turpentine.
In 2016 the black organic layer came off.