Ida May (skipjack)

Ida May
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Ida May in 2013
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Location	Upper thorofare, Chance, Maryland
Coordinates	38°10′10″N 75°56′49″W / 38.16944°N 75.94694°W / 38.16944; -75.94694Coordinates: 38°10′10″N 75°56′49″W / 38.16944°N 75.94694°W / 38.16944; -75.94694
Built	1906
Architectural style	Skipjack
MPS	Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Fleet TR
NRHP Reference #	85001077
Added to NRHP	May 16, 1985

The Ida May is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1906 at Urbanna or Deep Creek, Virginia. She is a 42.2-foot-long (12.9 m) two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 14.4 feet (4.4 m), a depth of 3.3 feet (1.0 m), and a net register tonnage of 7. 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 Chance, Somerset County, Maryland.

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.