MarylandHoward Chapelle published plans and discussed the history of small crabbing flatties with a "stick-up" or "jigger" headsail and a single mast in American Small Sailing Craft (ASSC, Figure. 113) and Chesapeake Bay Crabbing Skiffs (Figure 2). He drew and described the two-masted stick-up rig on a Pocomoke (or Nanticoke) log canoe (ASSC, Figure 108.)
This is the only historic photo I've seen of a two-masted stick-up rig on a log canoe. It originated at the Mariner's Museum in Newport News VA. I found it in the Chapelle Collection of photos at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM).
The CBMM database description below incorrectly identifies this as a skiff. The notation on the back of the photos, probably written by Chapelle, calls this a log canoe.
Large-format images of the front and back of this photo are here.
CBMM Catalog No. : 0000.0901.0399.00
SKIFF WITH STICK-UP RIG UNDER SAIL
Unknown Photographer and Location
More About the Eastern Shore Stick-up Rig
Two-masted stick-up skiff on the Little Choptank - Photos by George Barrie
Two-masted stick-up flattie plans at CBMM
Two-masted stick-up flattie model by Edward R. Thieler III
A unique stickup skiff on Cambridge Creek, 1899
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