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Yard keeps Big John in shape; a different Iva W. comes home.

Publication: National Fisherman
Publication Date: 01-JAN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Yard keeps Big John in shape; a different Iva W. comes home.(SOUTH)

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Several wooden Florida-built fishing trawlers have been converted to scallopers and are now operating in the Mid-Atlantic scallop fishery. Smith Marine Railway in Dare, Va., is picking up some of the business of maintaining and repairing these boats.

The 60'x 18' Big John is one of the wooden boats now fishing for scallops that was recently hauled out at Smith Marine Karlway. Tim Smith, the boatyard's manager, says the Big John is a smaller version of boats built by St. Augustine Trawlers but wasn't built by that boatyard. (St. Augustine Trawlers in St. Augustine, Fla., built many wood, fiberglass and steel fishing boats before going out of the boatbuilding business in the...

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