(Editor’s note: The Deltaville Maritime Museum’s [DMM] restored and nationally historic registered log buyboat F.D. Crockett is one of eight restored buyboats and other historic craft that are this summer visiting visiting Onancock, Horn Harbor in Mathews, Smithfield Station, Smithfield and White House Cove Marina in Poquoson during their annual Chesapeake Bay cruise, which continues through Sunday, Aug. 7. The mission of these annual trips is to bring an understanding of these historic vessels to ports where they were once numerous, but now are often forgotten. The boats are being hosted by Smithfield Station, Smithfield, up until the morning of Friday, Aug. 5. The final weekend of the cruise will be at White House Cove Marina in Poquoson Friday-Sunday, Aug. 5-7. The boats will welcome the visiting public for limited hours during their time in port. To mark the special occasion, DMM Events Coordinator Bill Powell of Deltaville requested the Sentinel re-run his column from several years back explaining what a buyboat is. An updated version of it appears below.).
by Bill Powell –
At the Deltaville Maritime Museum, folks come by to see the buyboat F.D. Crockett, and the buyboat exhibits, and models in the museum — and they all ask, “What the heck is a buyboat?”
