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An oyster buy-boat, also known as deck boat, is an approximately 40–90 foot long wooden boat with a large open deck which serviced oyster tongers and dredgers. Similar in function to sardine carriers , buy boats circulated among the harvesters collecting their catches, then delivered their loads to a wholesaler or oyster processing house. [ 1 ]
James Ward operated Crockett as a buy-boat until his death in 1986. Family members continued to operate her until 1990. She was then bought by Theodore L. Parish of Georgetown. [3] She was still in Parish's hands and visiting Chesapeake Bay and North Carolina ports, such as Oriental, [4] and buy-boat reunions [5] as recently as 2016. [6]
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Elva C is a Chesapeake Bay deck boat, built in 1922 by Gilbert White, one of Virginia's best-known deck boat builders.She worked in fish trapping and in hauling. At one time, she hauled watermelons from North Carolina to Baltimore.
The William B. Tennison is a Chesapeake Bay bugeye built in 1899 and converted to an oyster buy-boat in 1906–07. With the conversion her sail rig was removed and an engine inserted, and is the only surviving example of this conversion. Her construction marks a transition between log construction and plank construction.
Some boats both dredged and acted as buy boats, in which case a bushel basket would be mounted on the fore mast to indicate the latter. With its low freeboard, the bugeye was not generally considered to be an ocean-going vessel; some boats were however sailed to the West Indies in the off season for the tropical trade.