Calvert Marine Museum Hosts Unique Gathering Of Historic Buyboats

The Calvert Marine Museum is hosting a rare gathering of the only three surviving log-built Chesapeake Bay buyboats (or deckboats as they are more commonly known in Virginia) on Monday, August 6 in the boat basin from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. The boats will be open to the public.

Joining the museum's 1899-built passenger boat, Wm. B. Tennison, is the Old Point, built in Poquoson, Virginia of nine logs in 1909, and owned by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland, and the nine-log F.D. Crockett, built in 1924 in Dare, Virginia, and currently operated by the Deltaville Maritime Museum in Deltaville, Virginia.

These three survivors are unique to the Chesapeake Bay and represent the ultimate step in the evolution of multi-log boats that trace their ancestry back to the native-American dugout canoe. They will be joined by other buyboats, members of the Chesapeake Bay Buyboat Association (CBBA), as they stop over in Solomons during their annual reunion and cruise.

For more information please contact Richard Dodds, Curator of Maritime History at 410-326-2042, ext. 31 or email doddsrj@co.cal.md.us.

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Pictured from left to right is the Old Point, built in 1909, the Wm. B. Tennison, Calvert Marine Museum's 1899-built passenger boat, and the nine-log F.D. Crockett, built in 1924 in Dare Virginia

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The museum is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Museum members and children under 5 are always admitted free. Admission is $7.00 for adults, $6.00 for seniors and military with valid I.D., and $2.00 for children ages 5 - 12. For more information about the museum, upcoming events, or membership, visit the website at www.calvertmarinemuseum.com or call 410-326-2042. LIKE our page on Facebook.