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Article: Dredge on wings: Ronnie Bevans' new oyster boat can fly.(Boats & Gear: Boatbuilding)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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The Bevans Oyster Co. in Kinsale, Va., is one of the largest oyster growers and planters on Chesapeake Bay. The company harvests thousands of acres of oyster beds and requires several good boats to work the oyster grounds.
So, when Ronnie Bevans, president of Bevans Oyster Co. needed a small, fast, sturdy boat to work oyster grounds from Virginia's James River to Maryland's Potomac River, a distance of about 60 miles, he went to Ronnie Carman of Carman Boats of Marion Station, Md., to build him a boat.
Bevans leases oyster beds from the state of Virginia on the York, Great Wicomico, James and Rappahannock rivers, and in Mobjack Bay and Chesapeake Bay's ...
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