Category: Two-Sail Crabbing Skiff Replica “Cinnamon Girl”

Mar 18, 2025 | Primer and finish paint for the 1920 skiff. Cinnamon Girl rehab is under way.

Lots of paint work today on the 1920 Smith Island skiff. Willem and Jim primed the of the interior. We usually count on Jenn to climb into the tight spaces under foredecks with heat gun, scrapers, and paint. But she’s on vacation this week. Don did the gymnastics in Jenn’s place.

After priming the interior, Jim and Willem applied the first coat of finish paint. This skiff is looking fine.

The project to rehab Cinnamon Girl is under way. Don sponged out her interior and scraped a few square inches of peeling paint – to make it official.

Mar 11, 2025 | New projects, new floor frames

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.