This is made according to the Sharpie type, but the lines are changed to give the boat a more graceful appearance.
The finished Sharpie hull without its driving batteries or motor should weigh about 1 pound 3 ounces.
The hull is of the Sharpie type, and this offers very little trouble in cutting out and assembling.
This fact probably accounts for the various sharpie and modified sharpie forms used along the northern and Polar coasts of Greenland.
Thet sharpie ain't no more fittin' for thet slop sea 'n ever was.
Captain Joe shook his head, and the sharpie plunged on and rounded the point into the perfect calm of the protecting shore.
Indeed, he had followed the sharpie with his glass until it reached the Ledge, and had watched its return "with two fools instead of one," he said.
From this vantage point, he beheld a good-sized two-masted sharpie lying near the shore.
They waited until the beach-combers had entered the sharpie and set sail due north toward the hamlet of Portsmouth.
Probably the most interesting and exciting contests in the small-boat class will be the sharpie races of the Shelter Island Sharpie Club.
A shout from the sharpie had told that the spongers believed they meant to run off, and at the same time one of them was seen flourishing a gun.
The masts of the sharpie stood up plainly through the dim light, showing that apparently her anchorage had not been changed at all.
Jerry as the sharpiebegan to head straight for the anchored motor-boat.
As they came out from behind the key they discovered the sharpie far away to the west, careening over under a brisk morning breeze, and looking like a dun-colored frightened bird.
So they began preparations for breakfast, Frank keeping an eye on the sharpie meanwhile.
In this wise he approached the spot where he knew he would find the mysterioussharpie anchored.
Those on the sharpie could be heard talking loudly, as though endeavoring to get the truth of the affair, and doubtless making terrible threats as to what they would do to the audacious invader later on.
Some loud and vigorous language was carried back to the ears of the chums as the fleeing sharpie vanished once more in the fog wreaths.
Bay sharpie schooners often were fitted with wells and used as terrapin smacks (fig.
Stern of a North Carolina sharpie schooner showing planking, staving, molding, and balanced rudder.
Munroe when he took to Biscayne Bay a sharpie yacht that had been built for him by Brown of Tottenville, Staten Island.
After a time it was found that sharpie construction proved weak in boats much over 50 feet.
The entrance of a North Carolina sharpie schooner and details of her sharp lines and planking.
The smaller sharpie was usually rigged with a single mast and sail, though some small boats were fitted for two sails.
The large number of boat types suitable for oyster fishery on the Bay probably prevented the adoption of the New Haven sharpie in a recognizable form.
The sharpierepresented by the plan is somewhat narrower and has more flare in the sides than indicated by the dimensions given by Kunhardt.
It was work for men, and good sailormen too, going out in a sharpie to find a dark light-house on such a night.
Every few seconds the lightning flashed, and before many minutes they ran up safely to the lee side of the light-house and made the sharpie fast to a round of the perpendicular iron ladder that runs down into the water.
Several boats were drawn up on the beach, by a creel of nets and some lobster pots, while Olaf's sharpie was anchored in deep water a little way offshore.
In the afternoon, Olaf had the sharpie (which is a flat sharp-nosed boat with two masts) ready with a little dingey tied on behind, and when the tide rose the party went aboard.
Neither schooner nor sharpie showed a light; and if Benito had been captured on the way over his captors would have been astonished at the cargo he carried.
Then he put the sharpie about, and headed her for Ginger Key.
That was against the wind, and the sharpie could not compete with steam against the wind; but Benito was heading out seaward, off to the northeast, further and further away from the schooner.
She is a swift sharpie that he called Villa Clara, after his native town, and she was drawn up on the beach and turned over, and Benito was scraping her clean.
The southeast wind was just right for him, and thesharpie fairly flew through the water.
Benito was willing to risk his life on the sharpie being a faster boat than the Spanish cruiser on such a night.
He kept the sharpiebetween the spark of fuse and the cutter's lights as long as he could to hide the fire, and then stood out seaward to the northeast again.
The schooner and the sharpie had this great advantage; they could see the cruiser's lights, but she could not see them.
The sharpie was making a long run to the northeast then, seaward and away from the cruiser; but he kept an eye on her lights.
Benito handles his sharpie to perfection on the darkest nights and in all kinds of weather; and as to helping his countrymen, the Cuban insurgents, he feels about it just as the Boston boys felt about Bunker Hill.
The sharpie and the schooner kept well together till they were near the coast of Cuba, and they saw the lights of Sagua la Grande before ten o'clock.
He was still running out seaward and eastward, and the sharpie was bending down to her work, and cutting the waves like a knife, when suddenly he heard the throbbing of an engine and the splash of a propeller.
