The Ida May is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1906 at Urbanna or Deep Creek, Virginia. She is a 42.2-foot-long (12.9 m), two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 14.4 feet (4.4 m), a depth of 3.3 feet (1 m), and a net register tonnage of 7. She is one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. She is located at Chance, Somerset County, Maryland.[2]
Ida May | |
Location | Upper thorofare, Chance, Maryland |
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Coordinates | 38°10′10″N 75°56′49″W / 38.16944°N 75.94694°W |
Built | 1906 |
Architectural style | Skipjack |
MPS | Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR |
NRHP reference No. | 85001077[1] |
Added to NRHP | May 16, 1985 |
She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1] She is assigned Maryland dredge number 41.[3]