Resources

Sneakboxes

“Sneakbox” at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakbox

Sneakbox collections at the Independence Seaport Museum J. Welles Henderson Archive and Library

John Brady, “Restoring a 15′ Sneakbox,” http://www.woodboatbuilder.com/pages/sneakbox-restoration.html.

F.M. Paulson, “Barnegat Bay Sneakbox,” Field & Stream (October 1971), 143, 148-49.

Mary Stewart Hammond, “Portrait of My Husband Reading Henry James,” Ploughshares (2009), http://marystewarthammond.com/portrait-of-my-husband-reading-henry-james/.

Robert B. White to editor, Forest and Stream (April 3, 1874), http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nhb/GIF/B3D.GIF.

Boat Model, New Jersey Sneakbox, National Museum of American History, http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_844024.

Nathaniel H. Bishop, Four Months in a Sneak-Box: A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf of Mexico (Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1879), http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nhb/SB.HTM

Photographs from F. Slade Dale’s 1925 sneakbox voyage from New York to Florida, http://johnvanhornphoto.com/dalephoto/sheldrake/Sheldrake1.html.

Jim Bolland, “Gunning Sneak to Race Boat: Barnegat Bay Sneak Boxes,” http://abrushwithsail.blogspot.com/2013/05/from-gunning-sneak-to-race-boat.html.

Regarding F. Slade Dale’s 1925 sneakbox voyage, see http://www.tomsriverseaport.org/sheldrake.shtml.

Oral histories compiled by Pinelands Folklife Project (1983-84) including:

  • Discussion of construction, design, and use of Barnegat Bay sneakboxes. (Three minutes)
  • Discussion of restoration and use of a Van Zant sneakbox and use of pondboxes. (Seven minutes)
  • Description of design and use of Barnegat sneakboxes and garveys, and discussion of a local boatbuilder. (Six minutes)
  • Description of garveys and sneakboxes, and discussion of family boatbuilding tradition. (Five minutes)
  • Discussion of sneakbox construction and the difficulty of passing on the tradition. (One minute)
  • Discussion of family boatbuilding tradition, sneakbox construction, and problems with
  • fiberglass sneakboxes. (Three minutes)
  • Description of steps in building a sneakbox and discussion of decline of Jersey white cedar. (One minute)
  • Description of sneakbox-building process with mention of materials and tools. (Four minutes)
  • Discussion of sneakboxes built for sail. (One minute)

For details, see Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture Finding Aid: https://www.loc.gov/folklife/guides/Boatbuilding.html

Barnegat Bay and Environs

Town of Barnegat, U.S. Highway 9 at County Road 554, Barnegat, Ocean County, NJ, Historic American Buildings Survey Landscapes Survey (1991), http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/nj1311/.

Maritime Americana

Forest and Stream (Field and Stream) Online: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000046163

Maritime Field Documentation

David A. Taylor, Documenting Maritime Folklife: An Introductory Guide (Washington: Library of Congress, 1992), https://www.loc.gov/folklife/maritime/