Challenging progress on the rails today, yet I think it will hold together (knock on wood). I decided to add an interior rail because I wanted to give evidence of the maker's hand which disappears with industrial technology. It is a sign of hope. I am also reminded of when boats were built by fishermen and the trickle-down effect as a result of the 1992 cod moratorium in Canada. Fishermen did not only lose their jobs, the demand for boats (this is old school now) diminished, the fish plants began to close and so on. With the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the US, the health of the oyster population is directly linked to the health of the water, primarily because oysters are natural filters. They can not, however, keep up with growing human populations and with the resultant pollution which ends up creating dead zones in the bay, areas where oxygen is depleted to the point that fish, crab, and other species die. At one point in history, there were about 9, 000 Watermen on the bay. Watermen is what the fishermen were called and they are still called today though there are less than 3,000. Also particular to the Chesapeake Bay is the Skipjack, a kind of sloop-like fishing sail boat used for harvesting oysters. The boat currently in production is an Eastport Pram.
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