26’ Hartge Quadrant Pilothouse Sloop (1956)

Oyster is a Quadrant Sloop hull #9 designed by Lawrence Hartge and built at the Hartge Yard on Chesapeake Bay. Her hard-chined plank-on-frame construction is unusual, with transverse planking on the bottom and longitudinal planking above the waterline, similar to Chesapeake Oyster boats. Her accommodation is enormous for a 26’ boat, with a raised deck and a small Pilothouse giving standing headroom in the galley.
She has been described as “the love child of a T-bird and a Stone Horse.