Sloop Nellie
by George Moore
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Sloop Nellie
Artist
George Moore
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Photograph - Photographic Digital Art Print
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The sloop Nellie is used for oyster dredging under sail along the Connecticut shore and in the relatively shallow Great South Bay of Long Island. Sloops of this type were characterized by their shoal draft and centerboards. A large and powerful sail plan gave the oyster sloop a turn of speed comparable to that of many yachts.
When dredging, sloops like the Nellie let their sails luff (flutter) and used the tide to push them across the oyster beds, dragging as many as six dredges. At the end of the drift the oystermen pulled in the 80-pound dredges by hand, then sailed back to dredge again. After catching 100 or more bushels of oysters, the boats would either bring them in to the local oyster processors or deliver them to “buy boats” that sold them for seeding private oyster grounds.
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Luther Fine Art
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