Bowsprit of the Skipjack Kathryn
The Skipjack Kathryn lies alongside a Tilghman Island pier in Knapps Narrows. Skipjacks are the last working boats under sail in the United States. In winter, fleets of skipjacks used to dredge oysters from the floor of Chesapeake Bay. "Drudgin," as watermen called this process, was hard, cold, dirty, sometimes dangerous work. The name, skipjack, is taken from fish (such as skipjack herring, skipjack mackerel, skipjack tuna) that leap in and out of water, and play on the water's surface. With a reputation for speed, skipjacks sometimes can resemble the fish as they come about quickly making continuous passes or "licks" over oyster beds. On Maryland's Eastern Shore, the skipjack originated in the 1890s
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Location: Knapps Narrows, Tilghman Island, Talbot County, Maryland, USA
Photo credit: © Jim Kidd / Alamy / Afripics
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