Description

1946 Mobjack. Built in Deltaville Virginia.

An oyster buy-boat, also known as deck boat, is an approximately 40–90 foot long wooden boat with a large open deck which serviced oyster tongers and dredgers. Similar in function to sardine carriers, buy boats circulated among the harvesters collecting their catches, then delivered their loads to a wholesaler or oyster processing house. This spared the fishermen the task and its downtime, allowing them to catch more oysters. Buy-boats also bought seed oysters, or spat, for planting in oyster beds.

Here are some pictures of the museum and the park from an August 2025 visit. You can scroll through the pictures in this window or click on an image and view the pictures in Flickr.



Here are pictures of the park from an August 2025 visit. You can scroll through the pictures in this window or click on an image and view the pictures in Flickr.

Click here for the Deltaville page in the Day Tripper section of Flymall.org

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