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Gilligan

Gilligan

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For the last 40 years of so, I've repaired and fabricated stuff for a large swath of local watermen....crab boats, oyster rigs, net haulers, and charter fishermen. They all worked their arses off and some were more successful than others, but they all became friends and practically family over those years.

Lost another one today...happened to live right next door. I took good care of his boat engines and launched and recovered his work boat twice every year with one of my "big 4x4" rigs. He paid me in soft crabs most of the time...some of the best I've ever had.

He was one of the very last of a generation....the generation of watermen that characterized St. George's Island and Tall Timbers/Piney Point. It's a different place now. And not for the better.
 
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ontheriver

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Gilligan said:
For the last 40 years of so, I've repaired and fabricated stuff for a large swath of local watermen....crab boats, oyster rigs, net haulers, and charter fishermen. They all worked their arses off and some were more successful than others, but they all became friends and practically family over those years.

Lost another one today...happened to live right next door. I took good care of his boat engines and launched and recovered his work boat twice every year with one of my "big 4x4" rigs. He paid me in soft crabs most of the time...some of the best I've ever had.

He was one of the very last of a generation....the generation of watermen that characterized St. George's Island and Tall Timbers/Piney Point. It's a different place now. And not for the better.
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Sorry Gilligan.
 
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LostInSOMD

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Gilligan said:
For the last 40 years of so, I've repaired and fabricated stuff for a large swath of local watermen....crab boats, oyster rigs, net haulers, and charter fishermen. They all worked their arses off and some were more successful than others, but they all became friends and practically family over those years.

Lost another one today...happened to live right next door. I took good care of his boat engines and launched and recovered his work boat twice every year with one of my "big 4x4" rigs. He paid me in soft crabs most of the time...some of the best I've ever had.

He was one of the very last of a generation....the generation of watermen that characterized St. George's Island and Tall Timbers/Piney Point. It's a different place now. And not for the better.
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Do you think Capt. Pat is part of that generation? I could say the same thing for Kent Island. Not the Kent Island of the 70's.
 
Gilligan

Gilligan

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LostInSOMD said:
Do you think Capt. Pat is part of that generation? I could say the same thing for Kent Island. Not the Kent Island of the 70's.
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No, I consider Pat to be a proud member of the "current" generation of watermen around here. 20+ years younger than the old timers I'm referring to.

Back in the mid 90s, quite a group of the old guys would gather at Swann's bar on any Sunday morning to drink beer and swap stories. I tended bar those mornings...a real treat that was. Every one of those men is gone now.
 
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