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[[File:Ella View Historic Shad Boat- port bow.jpg|thumb|A shad boat]]
The '''shad boat''' is a [[traditional fishing boat]] which was proclaimed the Official State Historic Boat of [[North Carolina]] by the [[North Carolina General Assembly]] in 1987.<ref name="NC_leg">{{cite web|url=http://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_145/GS_145-11.html|title=GS_145-11|accessdate=2010-11-16}}</ref>
<ref name="ncpedia">{{cite web|url=http://ncpedia.org/symbols/boat|title=Boat, Shad Boat - NCpedia|accessdate=2010-11-16}}</ref> One hundred years earlier, George Washington Creef of [[Roanoke Island]] built the first shad boat in North Carolina in the early 1880s. Creef shaped his boat hull from the root ball of [[Atlantic white cedar]], also known as [[juniper]], trees that grew along the shoreline of the [[pocosin]] wetland region of southeast [[Virginia]] and northeast North Carolina.  The [[List of boat types|boat type]] is named after the [[shad]] which was the type of fish caught from the boats.
[[File:EllaView.webm|thumb|The Ella View was built in 1883 by George Washington Creef. ]]
[[File:AlvirahWright.webm|thumb|Shad boat built by Alvirah Wright in 1904. Located in the Museum of the Albemarle.]]
Initially, the shad boat had a round-bottomed hull and single mast rigged with a [[Spritsail|sprit sail]]. Oddly, the sprit rigged mainsail was often accompanied by a [[jib]] and a [[topsail]].<ref name="harrison">{{Cite web|last=Harrison|first=Tom|url=http://www.gowildnc.org/history-shad-boats.aspx|title=The Albemarle Sound Shad Boat... North Carolina's State Boat|accessdate=2010-12-02}}</ref>  Later, in the early 1900s, the hull shape was altered into a hard chine "v" bottom to support an engine block. Once the "[[pickup truck]]" of the waters of eastern North Carolina, there are only a handful of relic shad boats left on Roanoke Island.<ref name="albermarle"/> One is on view at the George Washington Creef Boathouse in [[Manteo, North Carolina|Manteo]], where the curator, Scott Whitesides and volunteers replicated the Creef shad boat in 2002.<ref name="manteo">{{Cite web|url=http://www.townofmanteo.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7BBEDD7390-B451-40A4-AEEC-DF0D6CF31927%7D|title=Town of Manteo -- George Washington Creef Boathouse|accessdate=2010-11-16}}</ref>  Another shad boat, originally built by Alvira Wright in 1904, is undergoing restoration for eventual display at the [[Museum of the Albemarle]] in [[Elizabeth City, North Carolina|Elizabeth City]].<ref name="albermarle">{{Cite web|url=http://www.northeast-nc.com/moa/shadboat.cfm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001002002605/http://www.northeast-nc.com/moa/shadboat.cfm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=October 2, 2000|title=Museum of the Albemarle - The Shad Boat|accessdate=2010-12-02|publisher=[[Museum of the Albemarle]]}}</ref>  A shad boat is also on display at the Roanoke River Maritime Museum across the street from the replica [[Roanoke River Light]] in [[Plymouth, North Carolina|Plymouth]].<ref name="roanoke">{{Cite web|url=http://www.roanokeriverlighthouse.org/Museum/RoanokeMartimeMuseum.htm|title=Roanoke River Lighthouse & Maritime Museum|accessdate=2010-12-02}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of U.S. state ships]] The shad boat became North Carolina's state historic boat in 1987
*[[Shad fishing]]

==References==
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[[Category:Sailboat types]]
[[Category:Types of fishing vessels]]
[[Category:Symbols of North Carolina]]
[[Category:History of North Carolina]]
[[Category:Roanoke Island]]


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