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29285	Chapelle, Howard Irving	The Migrations of an American Boat Type			.txt	text/plain	7223	399	78	[Illustration: FIGURE 1.--Scale model of a New Haven sharpie of 1885, _The New Haven sharpie, a flat-bottomed sailing skiff, was flat-bottomed sailing skiff known as the "sharpie." skiffs first appeared in some boats that were built at New Haven, invention of the New Haven sharpie to a boat carpenter named Taylor, a The first New Haven sharpies were 28 to 30 feet long--about the same The New Haven sharpie was built in two sizes for the oyster fishery. The smaller sharpie was usually rigged with a single mast and sail, [Illustration: FIGURE 3.--Plan of typical New Haven sharpie showing the Bay sharpies had any real relation to the New Haven boats. [Illustration: FIGURE 16.--Stern of a North Carolina sharpie schooner Schooner-rigged sharpies developed on Long Island Sound as early as large V-bottomed sailing craft on Chesapeake Bay. The sharpie schooner seems to have been more popular on the Chesapeake	./cache/29285.txt	./txt/29285.txt