Chesapeake Bay Deadrises: Larry Chowning Speaker Event

The deadrise and cross-planked bottom style of boatbuilding started on Chesapeake Bay in the 1880s, when builders of wooden boats began to shift away from constructing vessels out of logs and into using planks to create hulls with a V-shaped bottom. In a Speaker Event at CBMM's Van Lennep Auditorium on Oct. 10, 2024, maritime journalist and historian Larry Chowning shared a look at the history and culture of the Chesapeake deadrise.