Urbanna’s William C. (Bill) Hight, left, is interviewed by New York documentary filmmaker Peter Slack for a film series on the Chesapeake Bay buyboat Coastal Queen that was converted into a yacht in 1959. The stern and a portion of its bottom were rebuilt in 1996 at Deltaville’s Deagle and Son Marine Railway. The Sentinel ran a front-page story on the rebuild in the Aug. 15, 1996 issue of the paper. Slack interviewed Hight, John England and Larry Chowning for the documentary at the Deltaville Maritime Museum on Thursday, Feb. 24. (Photo by Larry Chowning)
by Larry Chowning –
New York filmmaker Peter Slack came to Deltaville last week to interview three local bay historians for a documentary he is creating on the Coastal Queen, a traditional Chesapeake Bay buyboat built in 1928 at Hudson, Md., and converted to a yacht in 1959.
Over the years, the boat made numerous trips for maintenance services into Deltaville and in August 1996 the Southside Sentinel did a feature front page story on the boat receiving a new stern and a portion of a new bottom at Deagle and Son Marine Railway on Fishing Bay.
