Pot Pie Skiff

Pot Pie Skiff (HM2JYH)

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N 38° 47.312', W 76° 13.232'

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Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

Waterman Lock Brando used this little skiff to catch crabs with a trotline, and perhaps to tong for a few oysters. The boat is steered by a simple mechanism with a stick on the starboard or right side, connected by ropes to the rudder in the stern. Chesapeake watermen like this kind of steering because they can steer with one hand (or even a knee if they have to) and net crabs with the other hand.

The Pot Pie Skiff is named for the place it was built—a neighborhood called Pot Pie in the town of Wittman, Maryland. Some also refer to the boat type as a tuck stern skiff, because of the way the back of the boat is tucked up out of the water on each side.


Built: 1961, Wittman, MD by George Jackson
Length: 26 ft (7.92 m)
Beam: 7 ft, 11 in (2.17 m)
Draft: 1 ft, 10in (0.36 m)


[Caption:]
A waterman in a Pot Pie Skiff catches a crag in his dipnet after it comes to the surface on his trotline, c. 1979. Photograph by John Hurt Whitehead, III. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD. Gift of the Photographer.
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HM NumberHM2JYH
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Placed ByChesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
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Date Added Monday, August 26th, 2019 at 5:02pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 393996 N 4294017
Decimal Degrees38.78853333, -76.22053333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 47.312', W 76° 13.232'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 47' 18.72" N, 76° 13' 13.92" W
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