Skipjack

"In this portrait of a vanishing American tradition, Christopher White paints a picture of the life on a "skipjack"--A vintage wooden sailboat employed for dredging oysters since the nineteenth century - as seen through the eyes of North America's last sailing fishermen. With the boats now sequestered on a mere two islands in the Chesapeake Bay and the nation's greatest estuary - once renowned for its oysters, crabs, and striped bass - diminishing, both seafood and fishing boats are in dangerous decline. Spanning a year in the life of the skipjack fleet, this epic tale follows three…