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Photos of Chesapeake Bay Oyster Buyboats by the following individuals
M.K.Miles Photos from the Ward Brothers Family Album (working on web page) ,
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Motor Vessel PropWash
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PropWash started her previous life in 1925 as the "Agnes Sterling" a Chesapeake Bay Oyster Buy Boat. Built by Linwood P. Price of Amburg, Virginia at his shipyard on fishing bay now called Deagle's for John E. Sterling and named after his daughter Agnes Sterling.
PropWash has had three name changes, Agnes Sterling >>1925/1966, Wayne Christy >>1966/1990, Old Squaw >>1990/2006 and PropWash>> 2006/.
PropWash was rebuilt and renovation in 1995 by Ralph W. Stanley Boats and Hinckley Yachts in Southwest Harbor, Maine to convert her from the oyster buyboat configuration to a Cruising Motor Yacht. 1997/98 completed a 9,000+ mile journey.
Current layout now has staterooms port and starboard in the after section of forward hole, salon with galley seating for eight just forward of the after state rooms, another state room is located just forward of salon on the starboard side, with the shower and head just aft of the chain locker. Juke box is located starboard in salon.
The forward part of the pilot house was kept traditional with the standard five windows, four of which slide down behind the helm station. Original helm with large original wooden wheel. Everything aft of the wheel in the pilot house was upgraded during the conversion in Southwest Harbor, Maine.
1925 Chesapeake Bay Oyster Buyboat #225056
PropWash's new documented home port is Dumfries, Virginia. PropWash is currently docked at Tim's Rivershore Restaurant & Crabhouse, 1510 Cherry Hill Road, Dumfries Virginia and will be making trips to Tim's II at Fairview Beach, King George, Virginia on some weekends.
During the winter PropWash is berthed at Hampton's Landing Marina on Neabsco Creek or at Prince William Marina in Woodbridge, Virginia when the Potomac River freezes. PropWash is owned by David Wright & Brenda Caricofe. Home Port Photos taken in Dumfries Virginia.
PropWash is one of the few remaining oyster buyboats or sometime called deckboats still underway on the Chesapeake Bay. It is estimated that 40+ oyster buyboats/deckboats remain afloat. Larry Chowning book on Chesapeake Bay Buyboats tells about the builders, original owners and life aboard while working on the Chesapeake Bay and Rivers.
The Chesapeake Bay Buyboat Association is a group of individuals comprised of owners and non owners who strive to keep a part of history alive by promoting and showing the remaining oyster buyboats to the public. Use the link above to find out more about the association and see the accomplishments and port of calls planned for the future. The 2010 Reunion tour will start in Reedville, Virginia and follow with a tour up the Potomac River to DC.
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Letter from Captain Paul Vrooman
Greetings Capt. Dave,
In talking with David Nieburh he has stated that the Watersmen's Museum would like to host the Buyboat in Yorktown 2013 I did not know if we had any plans yet for 2013. As long as we arrive and depart at slack water we would be fine. There is one hell of a current which runs in there.
Thank you for fowarding this information:
Dear Friends,
As a supporter of the Watermen' Museum I have been asked to give you all this information in hopes that those who may wish or know someone who is willing to help with donations for these projects please give me a call or David Nieburh. Dave Nieburh is the executive director of the Watermen's Museum. I have included two papers for you all. One is a full color fact sheet the on the entire project, the other is the text sent to donors for the gunboat, HENRY project.
Thank you All. Any support during these difficult times is much appreciated.
Overview:
1. This is a unique opportunity in time and history where Yorktown's waterfront is clean, stable, and poised to become a premier attraction as an 18thcentury seaport.
2.The watermen's Museum has access to up to 1,500,000 annual visitors,250,000 of whom already pay to viist the Colonial National Battlefield Park.
3. When we complete construction of 3 armed, historic, vessels ( cold-molded, 45-65' ) the yorktown waterfront shall be home to 5 traditional vessels, acting as a mimi tall ship festival everyday
duing the summer. Tall Ships America estimates that over 10,000,000 visits tall ships every year.
4. When finished, this project will be a self-funded open air, living museum.
5. The Watersmen's Museum also has high-visibility naming opportunities for as little as $20000.00 ( Gunboat Henry, has been invited to participate in OpSail 2012 ).
Also, the Watermen's is inviting donors to be either Board members, or members of the Colonial Seaport Project Commission, which which will serve to guide this project.
Contact: David Niebuhr, Ph.D. Cell (941)-704-6030
Executive Director PH (757)- 887-2641
FX (757) - 888--2089 Watermen's Musem
309 Water Street POB 519
Yorktown, VA. 23690
dniebuhr@watermens.org
Paul Vrooman Friend of the Watermen's Friend of the Watermen's
pvrooman@va.metrocast.net
PH(804)380-0924
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Ask David about Strategic Plan III
