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CHOPTANK

Todays WW story falls into the eye candy category and will spin the wheels of the workboat group.

The 62’ Choptank was brought to my attention by Australian woody – Andrew Christie, who spotted her on the WoodenBoat Forum.

Built in 1938 in Virginia, USA by O.W. Payne Palmer and named – Julian.

Later name changes were – Callis Brothers, then – Crow Bros II.

She has just had a complete rebuild at the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where her name was changed to – Choptank.

Choptank is what they call a ‘Chesapeake Bay Buy-Boat’.

Make sure you check in tomorrow (Sunday) – great story coming u 😉

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Cameron pollard on March 28, 2020 at 11:12 am said:

Hope it’s got some serious hydraulic rams on that rudder!
The blade area to leading edge area ratio is all to hell.
Save going to the gym I guess.

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Murray on March 28, 2020 at 9:03 am said:

Eastern shore perhaps

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johntwodogs on March 28, 2020 at 12:38 am said:

I think that’s “buy-boat”, not “buy-out”, and was probably used as such in her commercial days.

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