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Sharpies
Record #:
29956
Author(s):
Gray, Bryan
Abstract:
For easy-to-handle and stable boats for oystering, North Carolinians 1880s chose the sharpie. From the 1880s to the 1930s, sharpies provided oystermen with high decks and rounded sterns to maneuver in the reefs and sounds.
Source:
Sea Chest
(NoCar F 262 D2 S42),
Vol. 1 Issue 2, Spring/Summer 1981
,
p
31, por
Subject(s):
Boats and boating