Sallie Bramble

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=50 BGCOLOR="#666666" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Sallie Bramble on the Chesapeake Bay</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=165 BGCOLOR="#336666" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="132" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 35 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id79.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Skipjacks at Sunrise"><U><B><IMG SRC="007151d0.gif" border=0 width="21" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id126.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hilda M. Willing and E.C. Collier at Kna"><U><B><IMG SRC="008151d0.gif" border=0 width="21" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="35" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="20" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id137.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Oil Paintings Printed on Canvas 15 x 30 "><U><B><IMG SRC="00d0d1d0.gif" border=0 width="13" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="27"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> <A HREF="id137.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Oil Paintings Printed on Canvas 15 x 30 "><U><B>Return to Water Color & Oil page</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=430 BGCOLOR="#A6CAF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div>   <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT>           </div> <div> <B>Skipjacks dredging oysters on the Chesapeake Bay remain a common sight in the winter months and are easily recognizable from their raked masts and wide triangular main sail.  Because all skipjacks were rigged in this manner all with this rig have come to be generally referred to as skipjacks.  The defining characteristic of the skipjack, however, was in the construction of the hull, not the sail plan.  The traditional skipjack hull is a shallow draft deadrise design that has a rather flat “V” bottom that is cross planked (as opposed to lengthwise).  The “V” hull is more pronounced at the bow becoming almost flat at the stern and is equipped with a centerboard.  On this basis the 50 foot Sallie Bramble was technically not a skipjack; she was a one masted round stern log hulled  bugeye built in Whitehaven, Maryland on the Wicomico river in 1890.  While most bugeyes were equipped with two masts, some, such as the Sallie Bramble had only adopted the easier to handle single mast rig of the skipjacks.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In this scene the brisk breeze has required that sail be shortened, or reefed.  The Sallie Bramble ceased oystering over ten years ago and was sold to a New England owner to convert into a yacht.  These efforts were not successful and suffering some damage she was bought back to Cambridge in hopes of finding support for restoring her.  These efforts were not successful and she was scrapped.</B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>