We looked over two new projects that will get under way in the next few weeks.
Cinnamon Girl – a replica of the two-sail crabbing skiff that appears as Figure 4 in Chesapeake Bay Crabbing Skiffs (Chapelle). The original was built at Cambridge in 1910. Read more here.
Push boats of the skipjack Rosie Parks and the bugeye Edna Lockwood.
After Sam briefed us on these projects, he offered guidance to Willem and Mike on how to fit and install the floor frames into the 1920 Smith Island skiff.
Don prepared the exhibit cradles for both Smith Island Skiffs by attaching two layers of foam (open-cell block and smooth skin) onto the cross bunks and longitudinal keel support.
