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F. C. Lewis Jr.

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The F. C. Lewis Jr. is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1907 at Hopkins, Virginia. She is a two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of and a register depth of ; her register tonnage is 6. Likewise, 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 Wenona, Somerset County, Maryland. Read more on Wikipedia

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