Log canoe

Based on the dugout, it was the principal traditional fishing boat of the bay until superseded by the bugeye and the skipjack.

The history of the log canoe is closely tied to the development of the oystering industry on the bay.

Additional height is obtained with smaller pieces fitted together and joined to the outermost (or "wing") logs.

The resulting hull is sharp-sterned and shallow, and a centerboard is added which pierces the center (keel) log.

[clarification needed] Typical later log canoes were two-masted, vaguely resembling a modern ketch rig.

Working sailors were less worried about the spinnaker effect than the fact that a properly trimmed balanced jib doesn't need any quick sheeting when tacking: hence the term "self-tending."

These were long, flat boards which hooked at one end under the cockpit and stuck sideways over the opposite gunwale.

These were particularly important to racing canoes, whose sail area and lack of ballast made them hopelessly tender without such counterbalancing.