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Darryl

Darryl

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Hello everyone, I am new to this site and am curious if anyone has built a Chesapeake Bay Deadrise crab/oyster boat? I purchased a "Tuck Stern" model kit last year produced by Wye River Models and finished the boat 6 months later. This was my first attempt at a wooden boat model, unfortunately the kit instruction booklet I received was poorly written and the photos in B+W were of little help. There were no plans, only a single page with paper cut out templates, most of which were not to scale, requiring lots of fitting, cutting, hand sanding, & carving by trial & error. The kit had no laser pre-cut laser pieces. Having been a model railroader for many years working in 1/87 scale, I find wooden boat modeling to be a new and exciting challenge.
I am currently budling my second work boat, its a planked hull lobster boat from Bluejacket Ship Kits. Glad to be a member of the this forum and look forwards to reading all the post. Darryl

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Thanks to all for the warm welcome to the site and compliments on my Chesapeake Deadrise, I must admit receiving any compliments from members of the community is very flattering , based on what I’ve seen posted from others in their projects, very inspiring to say the least. Darryl
 
Hello Darryl
Chesapeake Bat work boats are what I build 90% of the time. Wye River kits are a pain due to everything
you listed and then some after my first one I went to scratch building them. You will find a great number of styles for these boats. I live on the lower bay and use the local museums basically there are no plans for these boats, but they can be found. I attached two pics of my current build an open deadrise with a pile driver used here in the pound net fishery. She was the Maid King built here in Mathews Va. in the mid 1920s and died on a burn pile in the late 1980s. She is displayed to show the trash on the bottom of the bay. I am happy to help you with any questions.

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Wow, a great model scenery with intersting background story! Shows how they managed to drive Piles into the River/Lake floor without high tech machinery.
 
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Don Good said:
Hello Darryl
Chesapeake Bat work boats are what I build 90% of the time. Wye River kits are a pain due to everything
you listed and then some after my first one I went to scratch building them. You will find a great number of styles for these boats. I live on the lower bay and use the local museums basically there are no plans for these boats, but they can be found. I attached two pics of my current build an open deadrise with a pile driver used here in the pound net fishery. She was the Maid King built here in Mathews Va. in the mid 1920s and died on a burn pile in the late 1980s. She is displayed to show the trash on the bottom of the bay. I am happy to help you with any questions.

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Great to hear Don that you mostly build work boats of the Chesapeake Bay, when get finished with the Maine Lobster boat I'm currently building I may be interested in seeing some of your plans. From the late 50's through the mid 70's I spent my summers on the Eastern Shore of Virginia,10 miles East of Exmore on the bay side. It was nice to see crab boats on the water early in the morning, I think the deadrise is one of the most appealing power boats anywhere. I really like the pile driver you scratch built, in particular the weathering & diorama display. From the limited research I did prior to building the Kent Island Tuck Stern there may only be one or two wood deadrise builders left on the entire Chesapeake, (if any). I'm told most all watermen now own fiberglass boats. Best of luck, Darryl
 
Your model looks great based on what little you had to go by, some of the old kits were like that, and I stay away from most of them for that reason.

Like I tell my friends, I am a good cook, if you give me a proper recipe to follow, but other than oatmeal, I can't cook much without good directions.
 
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