Workboats races are back… and they’re back where they belong.
LaGrange Creek and Remlik Marina were alive with the howl of diesel engines on Saturday, Oct. 7. Seven deadrise workboats had made their way to the creek off the Rappahannock River to test each other at the LaGrange Creek Workboat Races.
LaGrange Creek, a few miles west of Urbanna, was a fitting setting for contests between deadrise workboats, the type of boat used for decades to harvest the bounty of local waters. In fact, the deadrise workboat is the official boat of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
