Name/Title
Chesapeake Bay BuyboatsEntry/Object ID
2026.001.3Description
In "Chesapeake Bay Buyboats", Larry S. Chowning has produced a marvelous record of these boats. He introduces the builders, the owners, the captains, and the families an extended families of all. Much of the text is told through interviews with the men who built the boats and the men and women who worked --and sometimes played-- aboard them. The illustrations are an eclectic selection. The author's photographs, spaning his twenty-year career as a newspaper reporter living and working in the heart of buyboat country, are supplemented by the contributions of many individuals who were directly connected to the boats.