Photos of Chesapeake Bay Oyster Buyboats by the following individuals
Daniel,      Stacie,         Drum Bay Photo Co. ,        A. Bodine,         Ron Ingram,     Kip Brundage, 

M.K.Miles    Wood Brothers II Restoration    Ward Brothers Album      Patrick J. Hendrickson
Home Port
Woodbridge, Virginia
Hamptons Landing
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 granddaughter 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 renovated 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
                         Tims RiverShore in Dumfries is Closed
Potomac Shores increased our rent from over 10K a month to over 20K a month.
                 Propwash is now pierside on the "T" at end of  C Dock Covered Slips
                                           Hampton's Landing Marina, on Neasbso Creek
Tims 2 at Fairview Beach is OPEN, Tims at Lake Anna is OPEN, Tims at Coles Point is Open
1925 Chesapeake Bay Oyster Buyboat #225056

PropWash's new documented home port is Dumfries, Virginia. PropWash is currently docked at Hamptons Landing Marina , Woodbridge 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 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 ports of calls, planned for the future.
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