Buyboat

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Built in 1920 by Noah T. Evans, a native Smith Islander, Winnie Estelle was named for his two daughters. Evans was an occasional boatbuilder; his principal occupation was operating buyboats—buying fish and oysters directly from watermen, and taking them to the city markets or two big seafood packing houses for sale.

Winnie Estelle's last owners on the Chesapeake were Smith Islanders Watson Marie Marshall, known as "Shug," and his son Eugene "Gene" Marshall. They bought Winnie Estelle in 1960 and frequently took her across the Bay to pick up fish scraps for rendering, to sell oysters, or to travel to the waterfront fish market in Washington, DC. When the Marshalls sold her in 1975, Winnie was taken to the Caribbean as a cargo boat. Years later she was rebuilt for use as a charter boat in Belize. She returned to the Chesapeake in 2012.

Built: 1920, Crisfield or Smith Island, MD by Noah Evans
Length: 64 ft, 9 in (19.78 m)
Beam: 16 ft, 3 in (4.97 m)
Draft: 3 ft, 6 in (1.09 m)

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