Now in Maryland as the Driftwood
For many decades, Deltaville was Virginia’s wooden deadrise/cross-planked boatbuilding capital with boatbuilders and boatbuilding sheds scattered along the shores of Broad and Jackson creeks.
Wooden boat buyers came from up and down the Chesapeake Bay to purchase a Deltaville deadrise from a builder of their choice. With the last Deltaville commercial wooden boatbuilder gone today, owners of those boats still around take pride in that their boat came from Deltaville.
Recently, Rich Bowen of Annapolis, Md., emailed the Sentinel about his Deltaville deadrise, named Driftwood…
[SC name=”readmore’]
