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In the 1920's and 1930's many such boats were converted to yachts They were fast under sail and very stiff, and with auxiliary engines they were equally as fast and required a relatively se Carolina sharpie schooners often es, such as between New York and the West Indies

[Illustration: FIGURE 18--Deck of a North Carolina sharpie schooner under sail showing pump box near rail and portion of afterhouse]

Sharpies in Other Areas

The Carolina Sounds area was the last place in which the sharpie was extensively employed However, in 1876 the sharpie was introduced into Florida by the late R M Munroe when he took to Biscayne Bay a sharpie yacht that had been built for him by Brown of Tottenville, Staten Island Afterwards various types of modified sharpies were introduced in Florida On the Gulf Coast at Tampa two-masted sharpies and sharpie schooners were used to carry fish to inal New Haven boat

[Illustration: FIGURE 19--Sharpie yacht _Pelican_ built in 1885 for Florida waters She was a successful shoal-draft sailing cruiser (Photo courtesy Wirth Munroe)]

The sharpie also appeared in the Great Lakes area, but here its development seems to have been entirely independent of the New Haven type It is possible that the Great Lakes sharpie devolved from the common flatiron skiff

The sharpie yacht was introduced on Lake Champlain in the late 1870's by Rev W H H Murray, rote for _Forest and Stream_ under the pen name of ”Adirondack Murray” The hull of the Champlain sharpie retained most of the characteristics of the New Haven hull, but the Chahly experiton, Ver produce on the lake, but most of the sharpies built there were yachts

Double-Ended Sharpies

The use of the principles of flatiron skiff design in sharp-stern, or ”double-ended,” boats has been common On the Chesapeake Bay a nu skiffs, usually fitted with a centerboard and a single leg-of-mutton sail, were in use in the 1880's It is doubtful, however, that these skiffs had any real relationshi+p to the New Haven sharpie They may have developed from the ”three-plank”

canoe[11] used on the Bay in colonial times

[11] A primitive craft made of three wide planks, one of which formed the entire bottom