Bug Eye Style:Plans and Instructions Only Smith Island Crabbing Boat The

Smith Island Crabbing Boat The Smith Island Crabbing Boat is actually known as a crab scraping boat

Kit Includes: Wood base for finished model All wood and hardware to complete model (except extra accessories) Full size drawings and photo enhanced instruction manual Select pre-cut partsDimensions: 24 inches long

The buy boats would then take the catch to the market

This practice enabled the other working boats to stay out on the waters longer

Bug Eye Style:Plans and Instructions Only Smith Island Crabbing Boat TheChesapeake Bay Bugeye A Bugeye is a two masted sailing vessel used for dredging oysters. They descended from the Log Canoe in a time when the need was for a larger boat. The schooners of the day were too large and the canoe was too small. Methods of construction were adopted from both. Bugeyes came into being around 1875, maybe even a few years earlier. There are only a handful of these graceful boats left. Some are on display at various museums. Kit