Post by vivazapata on Feb 11, 2024 21:56:48 GMT
In regard to his boat the "Denni Wade", this is a style used by watermen, it is known as a Chesepeake Deadrise. Here is a brief rundown:
"The Chesapeake Bay Deadrise, official boat of the Commonwealth of Virginia, is the modern wooden fishing boat used in the Chesapeake Bay. Watermen use these boats year round for everything from crabbing and oystering to catching fish or eels. Traditionally wooden hulled, the deadrise is characterized by a sharp V bow that quickly becomes a flat V shape moving aft along the bottom of the hull. A small cabin structure lies forward and a large open cockpit and work area aft. “Deadrise” refers to the line rising upward horizontally from the keel rabbet (the point where the top of the keel connects to the hull) to the chine (or siCinderellas). It rises on each side of the keel in a straight line, or “dead rise,” creating the flat V shape of the bottom of the hull. The bottom of the hull is planked in a herring bone pattern with planks running diagonally from keel to chine. The sides are planked longitudinally. As a result it is both useful in shallows and very forgiving when the Bay turns rough. Typically, the hull is 35-45 feet long. Originally equipped with extremely small marine motors, their propulsion systems were replaced with more powerful automobile engines and finally with large, high-torque producing diesel engines. Nowadays, you’d have a difficult time finding a deadrise commercially built the old way. Most of the boats are fiberglass, a few are cold-molded wood and fewer still are aluminum."
They state it was custom but they do not say if those were things he did or if the boat was custom when constructed. Adding to that in other reading it appears that sometimes other boats are modified for this work which would fall for me into the custom category although from the pic we have that seems least likely to me.
Here is a typical example, if you click the right arrow there is a second shot:
www.flickr.com/photos/chesbayprogram/46655815324/in/photostream/
Search images for this style of boat you will see the wide variety from smaller working boats to larger more luxury ones.
"The Chesapeake Bay Deadrise, official boat of the Commonwealth of Virginia, is the modern wooden fishing boat used in the Chesapeake Bay. Watermen use these boats year round for everything from crabbing and oystering to catching fish or eels. Traditionally wooden hulled, the deadrise is characterized by a sharp V bow that quickly becomes a flat V shape moving aft along the bottom of the hull. A small cabin structure lies forward and a large open cockpit and work area aft. “Deadrise” refers to the line rising upward horizontally from the keel rabbet (the point where the top of the keel connects to the hull) to the chine (or siCinderellas). It rises on each side of the keel in a straight line, or “dead rise,” creating the flat V shape of the bottom of the hull. The bottom of the hull is planked in a herring bone pattern with planks running diagonally from keel to chine. The sides are planked longitudinally. As a result it is both useful in shallows and very forgiving when the Bay turns rough. Typically, the hull is 35-45 feet long. Originally equipped with extremely small marine motors, their propulsion systems were replaced with more powerful automobile engines and finally with large, high-torque producing diesel engines. Nowadays, you’d have a difficult time finding a deadrise commercially built the old way. Most of the boats are fiberglass, a few are cold-molded wood and fewer still are aluminum."
They state it was custom but they do not say if those were things he did or if the boat was custom when constructed. Adding to that in other reading it appears that sometimes other boats are modified for this work which would fall for me into the custom category although from the pic we have that seems least likely to me.
Here is a typical example, if you click the right arrow there is a second shot:
www.flickr.com/photos/chesbayprogram/46655815324/in/photostream/
Search images for this style of boat you will see the wide variety from smaller working boats to larger more luxury ones.
