Home Port
Dumfries, Virginia
at
Tims Rivershore
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 for John E. Sterling and named after his daughter Agnes Sterling at his shipyard on fishing bay now called Deagle's.
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 staterooms, another stateroom is located just forward of salon on the starboard side, with the shower and head just aft of the chain locker.
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 station layout was kept intact with large 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 in Woodbridge, Virginia. 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, owners and life aboard while working on the Chesapeake Bay and Rivers.
PropWash will be joining the other well known buyboats ( MURIEL EILEEN # 226086, NELLIE CROCKETT #225369, P. E. PRUITT #233637, ELLEN MARIE #225302, EAST HAMPTON #225288, THOMAS J. #256561, ELLA K. #217505, CAPTAIN LATANE #246784, ELVA - C. #222481, MUNDY POINT #228217, BESSIE L. #222836, MILDRED BELLE #256515, HALF SHELL #,) on the Chesapeake Bay.
