. Bulletin. Science. â 'â ^'TsLeor^-J'^S^' Figure 19.âSharpie yacht Pelican built in 1885 for Florida waters. She was a successful shoal-draft sailing cruiser. (Photo courtesy Wirth Munroe.) sharpies and sharpie schooners were used to carry fish to market, but they had only very faint resemblance to the original New Haven boat. The sharpie also appeared in the Great Lakes area, but here its development seems to have been entirely independent of the New Haven type. It is possible that the Great Lakes sharpie devolved from the common flatiron skiff". The sharpie yacht was introduced on Lake
. Bulletin. Science. â 'â ^'TsLeor^-J'^S^' Figure 19.âSharpie yacht Pelican built in 1885 for Florida waters. She was a successful shoal-draft sailing cruiser. (Photo courtesy Wirth Munroe.) sharpies and sharpie schooners were used to carry fish to market, but they had only very faint resemblance to the original New Haven boat. The sharpie also appeared in the Great Lakes area, but here its development seems to have been entirely independent of the New Haven type. It is possible that the Great Lakes sharpie devolved from the common flatiron skiff". The sharpie yacht was introduced on Lake Cham- plain in the late 1870's by Rev. W. H. H. Murray, who wrote for Forest and Stream under the pen name of "Adirondack ; The hull of the Champlain sharpie retained most of the characteristics of the New Haven hull, but the Champlain boats were fitted with a wide variety of rigs, some highly experimental. A few commercial sharpies were built at Burlington, Vermont, for hauling produce on the lake, but most of the sharpies built there were yachts. Double-Ended Sharpies The use of the principles of flatiron skiff design in sharp-stern, or "double-ended," boats has been com- mon. On the Chesapeake Bay a number of small, double-ended sailing skiffs, usually fitted with a cen- terboard and a single leg-of-mutton sail, were in use in the 1880's. It is doubtful, however, that these skifTs had any real relationship to the New Haven sharpie. They may have developed from the "three-plank" canoe ^^ used on the Bay in colonial times. The "cabin skiff," a double-ended, half-decked, trunk-cabin boat with a long head and a cuddy forward, was also in use on the Bay in the 1880's. This boat, which was rigged like a bugeye, had a bottom of planks that were over 3 inches thick, " A primitive craft made of three wide planks, one of which formed the entire bottom. 152 BULLETIN 228: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY. Ple
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