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Model
Sailing
Club Of the
Chesapeake
Bay Maritime
Museum
In St Michaels
Membership Form
NAME
ADDRESS
CITY STATE ZIP
PHONE No.
Model Sailing Club Membership $10.00
Please make checks payable to:
“Model Sailing Club”
Call, or send completed form to:
Richard Clayton
P.O. Box 352
Bozman, MD 21612
410-745-2372
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Model Sailing Club of the
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Ever think about sailing a skipjack?
Join in the fun. A fleet of radio controlled
skipjacks built by club members races on
summer weekends at the Museum’s
waterfront, usually in front of the
Steamboat Gallery along Fogg’s Cove.
During the winter months, models are built.
The Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks, also
called two-sail bateaux by the watermen
who sailed them, were expected to yield a
return on investment. They are a simply
constructed vessel, sail powered, varying
from 38 feet to 48 feet in length.
Built for the oyster business at the
beginning of the twentieth century, they
were a cost effective working boat mainly
employed in the purpose of dredging of
oysters. This is the radio-controlled boat
raced by the Model Sailing Club of the
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in
St. Michaels, MD.
The appearance of the boat is easily
recognizable as a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack
with its low freeboard, steeply raked mast,
shallow draft and hard chine hull. The
model is scratch built from plans sold by
the club.
All dimensions shown on the “R/C Model
Skipjack, January 1980, Pepper Langley
Approved” plans are to be adhered to
unless specifically allowed by the rules of
the club.
The Saint Michaels Model Boat Club was
formed in January 1983 with Ray Stewart as
Commodore, Bob Roberts as Vice
Commodore and Lucretia Kranz as
Secretary/Treasurer. The name was later
changed to The Model Sailing Club of the
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in
St Michaels.
You are invited to come visit us. We look
forward to handing you a transmitter and
showing you what fun it is to sail a boat by
radio-control.
To become a member of the Model Sailing
Club one has to be a member of the
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and
sign up as a volunteer.
Club membership can be arranged
by contacting:
Richard Clayton, Commodore
P.O. Box 352
Bozman, MD 21612
Phone: 410-745-2372
Email: [email protected]
Contact the Chesapeake Bay Maritime
Museum at 410-745-2916 or visit the web
site at www.cbmm.org about Museum
membership..
Model Sailing Club Membership $10.00
The following can be obtained by
contacting Dick Clayton.
Plans and Instructions: $25.00
Lead Keel: $35.00
Sails: $50.00
A fleet of radio controlled skipjacks
built by club members races on
summer weekends at the Museum’s
waterfront, usually in front of the
Steamboat Gallery along Fogg’s
Cove. During the winter months,
models are built.