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RUBY G. FORD

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The Ruby G. Ford was a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1891 at Fairmount, Maryland. She was a two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She had a beam of , a depth of , and a net tonnage of 5 register tons. She was one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

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