Beautiful Swimmers: Waterman, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay (Back Bay Books, 1994) by William W. Warner.

Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes and Bugeyes (Tidewater Publishers, 1963) by M. V. Brewington

Chesapeake Bay: Nature of the Estuary-A Field Guide (Tidewater Publishers, 1989) by Christopher P. White

Chesapeake Bay Schooners (Tidewater Publishers, 1992) by Quentin Snediker and Ann Jensen

Chesapeake Bay Sloops (Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 1982) by Thomas C. Gillmer

Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks (Tidewater Publishers, 1993) by Pat Vojtech

Chesapeake Sailing Craft, Part I (Tidewater Publishers, 1975) by Robert H. Burgess

Follow the Water (John F. Blair, 1961) by Varley Lang

Harvesting the Chesapeake (Tidewater Publishers, 1990) by Larry Chowning

An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake (Vintage, 1997) by Tom Horton

Notes on Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks (Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum) by Howard Chapelle

The Oyster (Tidewater Publishers, 1986) by Robert Hedeen

The Oystermen of the Chesapeake (International Marine Publishing, 1970) by Robert de Gast

The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay (Tidewater Publishers, 1981) by John Wennersten

Skipjacks of the Chesapeake Bay (unpublished manuscript, 1967) by Curtis Applegarth

They Live by the Wind (Knopf, 1969) by Wendell P. Bradley

Tom Young’s Skipjacks (Evans-Coates, 1995) by Effie Young Lewis