Last summer we pulled into the Yorktown River Walk marina and Mobjack and other buy boats were on display. They were traveling together showcasing the Chesapeake Buyboats. It was really neat to see them all. We will be back in the Chesapeake next summer. Hope to see them again.
In the 90's my family and some others co-owned the Mobjack and we restored it and used it as kind of a party boat. It was purchased in poor condition from Miles oyster company over in Norfolk where it sat and rotted for a while before we got to it. We were always at Harborfest docked at waterside, also the lighted boat parades were alot of fun with it. Sometimes we would just cruise with friends. I had a great time working on it with my father and the other families cutting out rot and replacing it and rebuilding the boat. When we owned it the engine was a huge Cat that had pneumatic start and turned a real low RPM. The transmission was a pneumatic transmission that was very slow changing direction also. I'm very happy to see it being used and still afloat.
Huge thankyou to the guys who rebuilt the Mobjack to work everyday. I live close to deal island and the skipjack fleet. Its pretty amazing seeing the boats sail for the laborday race.
As one of five prior Portsmouth VA owners of Mobjack, great to see her back to work. Built 1946 from surplus lumber for cancelled minesweeper after close of WWII.
@daledrum That is SO COOL! Thanks for watching Dale, it was a pleasure to work with these guys...learned so much about the process...and hope the audience did too!
Awesome to see this about the Mobjack. I have seen this boat in the bay below Tangier Island and wondered what work it does. Oyster replenishment is paramount to maintaining the bay which my family enjoys so much at our summer bayside retreat on the VA eastern shore .
Thank you Sam for the wonderful compliment! That is the world I came from! I produced shows like Storm Chasers, Coast Guard Alaska...and others. Thanks for watching
@@peterslackfilms Thanks for getting back to me. That is excellent work. I am in the early stages of restoring/rebuilding a very old sharpie ketch that my wife thinks isn’t fit to be a planter. My issues from the old videos are more theoretical. I don’t quite see the advantage of covering the end grain of the cross planks when they had been exposed successfully for decades . The oak rub strakes down low for lifting armor makes sense. By double planking the bottom and gluing everything together, the hull has been made effectively cold molded. The grain direction is largely irrelevant. It’s a fiberous epoxy hull, albeit a very strong one. The advantages and disadvantages of tradional planking are gone. The next crew that has to work on that bottom will have more to do than unscrewing a few planks. I get the need for all the extra strength that hull needs for the stabilization equipment. I hope it doesn’t rip the old girl apart. The technique of traditional cross planking is disappearing. The whys and whens of straight across or tappers, how to work around a centerboard trunk, that’s the kind of stuff I am looking for.
@@Pocketfarmer1 Agree on a lot of your thoughts...I think a lot of the older "Traditional" boats are getting some fiberglass help...especially those still working every day as the cost of living...the cost of maintaining wood on a yearly basis is not cost effective for the working waterman who's trying to put food on the table. In the old days depending on resin rich long leaf yellow pine was the answer...as modern materials didn't exist. So I think it's a battle between the two...and only the ones with deep pockets can afford to rebuild / build traditionally... Thanks for watching PF!! Please share the link!
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Last summer we pulled into the Yorktown River Walk marina and Mobjack and other buy boats were on display. They were traveling together showcasing the Chesapeake Buyboats. It was really neat to see them all. We will be back in the Chesapeake next summer. Hope to see them again.
In the 90's my family and some others co-owned the Mobjack and we restored it and used it as kind of a party boat. It was purchased in poor condition from Miles oyster company over in Norfolk where it sat and rotted for a while before we got to it. We were always at Harborfest docked at waterside, also the lighted boat parades were alot of fun with it. Sometimes we would just cruise with friends. I had a great time working on it with my father and the other families cutting out rot and replacing it and rebuilding the boat. When we owned it the engine was a huge Cat that had pneumatic start and turned a real low RPM. The transmission was a pneumatic transmission that was very slow changing direction also. I'm very happy to see it being used and still afloat.
Huge thankyou to the guys who rebuilt the Mobjack to work everyday. I live close to deal island and the skipjack fleet. Its pretty amazing seeing the boats sail for the laborday race.
Absolutely!!! Great bunch of hard working guys...thanks for watching!
What a fascinating story, so well captured... I am amazed at how tough the actual oysters are
Pete, I really enjoy watching this series. Well done!
Thanks for the good words Patrick...it's a lot of fun to shoot and edit! I'm learning so much...
As one of five prior Portsmouth VA owners of Mobjack, great to see her back to work. Built 1946 from surplus lumber for cancelled minesweeper after close of WWII.
@daledrum That is SO COOL! Thanks for watching Dale, it was a pleasure to work with these guys...learned so much about the process...and hope the audience did too!
Amazing!! Thank you so much for these wonderful insights! :-)
Awesome to see this about the Mobjack. I have seen this boat in the bay below Tangier Island and wondered what work it does. Oyster replenishment is paramount to maintaining the bay which my family enjoys so much at our summer bayside retreat on the VA eastern shore .
Beautiful big boat...and yes...I learned so much working with the crew! thanks for watching!
Your documentaries are so beautifully made and informational they should be on the history channel or discovery channel.
Thank you Sam for the wonderful compliment! That is the world I came from! I produced shows like Storm Chasers, Coast Guard Alaska...and others. Thanks for watching
Nice video of good honest work. Great boat. I just wish we could have had a look at her hull. I’m looking for info on cross planking.
If you look at some earlier episodes of the series...it deals specifically on cross planking!
@@peterslackfilms Thanks for getting back to me. That is excellent work. I am in the early stages of restoring/rebuilding a very old sharpie ketch that my wife thinks isn’t fit to be a planter.
My issues from the old videos are more theoretical. I don’t quite see the advantage of covering the end grain of the cross planks when they had been exposed successfully for decades . The oak rub strakes down low for lifting armor makes sense. By double planking the bottom and gluing everything together, the hull has been made effectively cold molded. The grain direction is largely irrelevant. It’s a fiberous epoxy hull, albeit a very strong one. The advantages and disadvantages of tradional planking are gone. The next crew that has to work on that bottom will have more to do than unscrewing a few planks.
I get the need for all the extra strength that hull needs for the stabilization equipment. I hope it doesn’t rip the old girl apart.
The technique of traditional cross planking is disappearing. The whys and whens of straight across or tappers, how to work around a centerboard trunk, that’s the kind of stuff I am looking for.
@@Pocketfarmer1 Agree on a lot of your thoughts...I think a lot of the older "Traditional" boats are getting some fiberglass help...especially those still working every day as the cost of living...the cost of maintaining wood on a yearly basis is not cost effective for the working waterman who's trying to put food on the table. In the old days depending on resin rich long leaf yellow pine was the answer...as modern materials didn't exist. So I think it's a battle between the two...and only the ones with deep pockets can afford to rebuild / build traditionally... Thanks for watching PF!! Please share the link!