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Larry Chowning

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Larry Chowning is a writer for the Southside Sentinel in Urbanna, Va., a regular contributor to National Fisherman, and the author of numerous books.

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George Butler is building this rowing 12-foot skiff out of white cedar in Reedville, Va. Larry Chowning photo.

Southern fleets look north for supplies; a builder’s life is measured in skiffs

Who we are: Thomas & Lee Walton

This 27-foot garvey is going to be worked in Virginia’s gillnet fishery by Bill Harris. Larry Chowning photo.

Ala. yard converts oil supply ship for Va. oysterman; ample work lined up for wooden boat pros in the bay

Southwind was one of the last round-stern deadrise boats built by George P. Butler at Reedville Marine Railway in Virginia. When Butler died in 1976, his son took over. Larry Chowning photo.

Butler family sells railway after 106 years; Butler-built classic wooden boats still at work

The Calcasieu Pass is at Ampro Shipyard in Weems, Va., getting outfitted for the May start of Chesapeake Bay menhaden season. Larry Chowning photo.

Omega trims Atlantic steamer fleet with conversion; pound-net skiff gets overhaul at Virginia railway

The Lucy B was featured in the October 1981 issue of NF and is still working today in North Carolina’s Atlantic Ocean gillnet fishery. Rob and Susan West photo.

Offshore gillnetter comes home to Carolina; maintenance is part of a fisherman’s retirement plan

The Deltaville-built Nassawadox is on the rails at A.C. Fisher Jr. Marine Railway in Wicomico Church, Va., to receive a new horn timber. Larry Chowning photo.

Wooden deadrise gets a new horn timber; Chesapeake legend Willard Norris dies at 94

The Rose Marie was built to work in Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab and oyster fisheries. Evans Boat Repair photo.

First and last: Maryland builder Eugene Evans crafts the 40-foot fiberglass Rose Marie for himself

Wayne Goddard is refurbishing the Poppa Francis to work in the 2021 spring Maryland/Virginia oyster planting season. Larry Chowning photo.

Maryland team rebuilding oyster buyboat for spring 2021; pushboat for classic skipjack launches after covid delay

Sinepuxent Boatworks in Berlin, Md., delivered this 22-foot glass-over-wood skiff to a Chestertown, Md., waterman to trotline for blue crabs and to harvest catfish. Sinepuxent Boatworks photo.

Chicken grow-out house doubles as a boatshop; Cecil Robbins 29 in for repairs at Virginia yard