4 Hour Charter sail on Chesapeake Skipjack Sigsbee, with 30 Guests
Originally built in 1901, the Sigsbee served in the oystering fleet for 88 years. She is named for Charles Sigsbee, the commanding officer aboard the Battleship MAINE, which was sunk in Havana harbor at the beginning of the Spanish-American War. SIGSBEE is notable for the fact that in the early 1980s, it became the first skipjack captained by a woman, Leigh Hunteman, of St. Michaels, MD
In 1990, the Sigsbee became disabled near the Key Bridge during the
annual Chesapeake Appreciation Days Skipjack Race. Douglas West, the
owner of Sigsbee at that time, then sold the boat to the Living
Classrooms Foundation. Students and shipwrights in the Save Our
Skipjacks Program spent 10 months reconstructing the vessel in order to
carry passengers and offer school programs. The vessel was completely
rebuilt and the only original parts of the boat remaining are the mast
step, steering wheel, and some hardware. Today, Sigsbee sails as part of
the Living Classrooms Foundation's educational fleet serving thousands
of students per year. She runs from April through November and travels
the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays from Virginia to Philadelphia, PA.
Charters can be used for an educational program or for a leisure sale around Baltimore harbor. for which you are allowed to bring food and drink!
Available evenings and weekends from April 18th 2017 to June 10, 2017 and August 2017 to November 2017. The boat will be running a Chesapeake Bay Ecology summer camp during which time the boat is unavailable, however, some July dates may become available. the boat has a sunset curfew as per the Coast Guard.
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