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Jenny Norman is a US Coast Guard Inspected Vessel
carrying a maximum of 23 passengers. With her
generous beam and chair-height cabin tops for seating,
even with a full boat, our guests enjoy a roominess difficult
to find on many charter boats.
carrying a maximum of 23 passengers. With her
generous beam and chair-height cabin tops for seating,
even with a full boat, our guests enjoy a roominess difficult
to find on many charter boats.
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Jenny Norman is a round stern Bugeye, a type of vessel indigenous to the Chesapeake
Bay. Bugeyes reached their height of popularity in the 1800's as oyster dredgers and
agricultural cargo haulers between the eastern and western shores of the Chesapeake.
Their most notable features are their raked masts, leg o' mutton sails and shallow draft
which allowed them to navigate freely in the muddy shallows of the Chesapeake.
Launched in 1982, Jenny Norman was built by Jim Richardson of Lloyds, Maryland in his
retirement. He had built and repaired boats of the Chesapeake's fishing fleets for years
and felt it was finally time to build a boat for himself. He chose the bugeye because it was
a simple rig to sail and the number of specimens still afloat was dwindling. Needless to
say, after his death and only a few years of sailing the boat, Jenny Norman was sold out
of the family and sat neglected for ten years. We found her in 2000 thanks to a lady
named Lila Line who has written many articles and even a book about Jim Richardson
and Jenny Norman (Granddaddy Builds a Bugeye, now out of print). We bought her that
year and directly trucked her to Maine to complete the rebuild.
Three years later after replacing the stem, nearly half of the planks and frames, a new
deck and deck cabins, casting new lead ballast, rebuilding a husky old Sabb diesel, and
obtaining the vessel's initial US Coast Guard Certificate of Inspection, we put Jenny
Norman into service as a charter boat in July of 2003 in Rockland, Maine.
Bay. Bugeyes reached their height of popularity in the 1800's as oyster dredgers and
agricultural cargo haulers between the eastern and western shores of the Chesapeake.
Their most notable features are their raked masts, leg o' mutton sails and shallow draft
which allowed them to navigate freely in the muddy shallows of the Chesapeake.
Launched in 1982, Jenny Norman was built by Jim Richardson of Lloyds, Maryland in his
retirement. He had built and repaired boats of the Chesapeake's fishing fleets for years
and felt it was finally time to build a boat for himself. He chose the bugeye because it was
a simple rig to sail and the number of specimens still afloat was dwindling. Needless to
say, after his death and only a few years of sailing the boat, Jenny Norman was sold out
of the family and sat neglected for ten years. We found her in 2000 thanks to a lady
named Lila Line who has written many articles and even a book about Jim Richardson
and Jenny Norman (Granddaddy Builds a Bugeye, now out of print). We bought her that
year and directly trucked her to Maine to complete the rebuild.
Three years later after replacing the stem, nearly half of the planks and frames, a new
deck and deck cabins, casting new lead ballast, rebuilding a husky old Sabb diesel, and
obtaining the vessel's initial US Coast Guard Certificate of Inspection, we put Jenny
Norman into service as a charter boat in July of 2003 in Rockland, Maine.