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A yacht built to look like a buyboat:
In the years of enormous oyster harvests, hundreds of oyster buyers would take their buyboats out to the oyster grounds, buy the catch and take it to market to sell. Beginning in the 1950s, these unique vessels became to disappear as oyster boats docked and offloaded to trucks which carried the oysters to market.
The museum now uses Mister Jim to take groups out onto the Bay for educational programs. |