cindy_ellis

By cindy_ellis

"Dredgin"

The Caleb W. Jones # 266498.
She was built in 1953 in Reedville, Virginia, by the Rice brothers, Carl and Emmett (one record also says "Hubbard Rice"), at the Rice's railway for Caleb Wesley Jones, who lived on Smith Island and named the boat after himself. Jones put her to work dredging, working with his son Caleb W. Jones, Jr., and brother-in-law. The 1962 roster from a race at Solomons, Maryland, lists her owners as C. W. Jones, J. W. Brimer and Caleb Jones Jr. In 1966, when Jones was eighty years old, he sold her to David A. Williams from Colonial Heights, Virginia. Jones died in 1996, just a month and a half short of his hundredth birthday."
~The last Skipjack project~Read more here.
She was sold several more times and sank once planting seed oysters Update she was bought in 2008 by Michael J. Sullivan of Mount Victoria MD. Over a quarter of a million dollars have ben spent on repairs by him. The skipjack is the last working boats under sail in the US "dredgin" oysters in the Chesapeake Bay. In 1985 the skipjack was named Maryland's state boat.
Right now she is tied up in Drayden, MD having necessary  maintenance done.

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