The Peggy off New Point Comfort

New print by John M. Barber

Limited Edition of 50

Created to celebrated 100 Years of the Chesapeake Bay buyboat Peggy, for the Mathews Maritime Foundation in Mathews, Virginia.

The Peggy was originally built as an open "trap" boat for the pound net fishery. She was decked over and had a pilothouse installed in 1950 to be worked in Virginia's winter crab dredge fishery.

Peggy was built by Harry A. Hudgins of Peary, VA., in Mathews County for pound net fisherman Captain Walter Burroughs. The Burroughs' family owned the Peggy for 36 years when she was sold in 1961 to 23 year old waterman Edward Grinnell. He sold her in 2001 to Kim and Gretchen Granberry who converted her into a cruiser.