Upper thorofare, Chance, Maryland. County/parish: Somerset.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 16, 1985. NRIS 85001077.
1 contributing structure.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 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. She is assigned Maryland dredge number 41.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106775788