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Article: Watermen patronize yard; buy boat gets recognition.(SOUTH)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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On the Rappahannock River, Remlik Marine and Mike's Marine Services of Remlik, Va., caters to Chesapeake Bay watermen by offering cut-rate prices and allowing watermen to do much of their own work.
Chat Chesson, the boatyard's operation manager, says his yard is full of commercial fishing .boats in the spring. This May, one of those boats was the Big Dog, a 1947 vintage, wooden 38-footer.
David Forbes of Center Cross, Va., uses the Big Dog to crab pot in the spring and summer and oyster in the winter. Forbes plans to do most of the work on his boat himself, but Chesson is always around to do what he can't.
"We do electrical, bearing and shaft ...