In 2005, Sultana Projects constructed a full-scale replica of the small open boat or “shallop” used by Captain John Smith to make his 1608 exploration of the Chesapeake Bay. This shallop went on to make a full retracing of John Smith’s 1608 voyages as part of Sultana Projects Captain John Smith Four Hundred Project. The John Smith shallop is now regularly exhibited at maritime festivals and educational events around the Chesapeake.

Please contact the Sultana Projects offices if your organization is interested in arranging an exhibit of the John Smith Shallop.

The John Smith Shallop Will Be On Exhibit at the National Sailing Hall of Fame in Annapolis in 2010

SHALLOP SPECIFICATIONS

Length Overall: 28 feet, 7 inches

Beam: 7 feet, 8 inches

Framing: Osage Orange

Planking: White Oak

Fastenings: Wooden Nails and Iron Fastenings

Oars: 6 “single banked” oars

Sails: 2 sailed “sprit” rig

Builders:

John E. Swain, Master Shipwright

Nicholas Biles, Shipwright

The Volunteers of the Sultana Shipyard - Chestertown, Maryland

Rigging: Matthew Otto, Rigger - Mystic Seaport Museum

Ironwork: Kelly Smyth, Shipsmith

Research & Design:

Sultana Projects, Inc.

John E. Swain, Master Shipwright

Kees de Mooy - C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College

The papers of William A. Baker

Eric Speth - Maritime Program Manager, Jamestown Yorktown Foundation

Research funded by a grant from the National Geographic Society Expeditions Council