The Crosby boatbuilders have built, restored and maintained wooden boats for eight generations. This photo from the early 1900s shows a two masted schooner on the dock between Charles and Herbert F. Crosby’s shop.
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The Crosby boatbuilders have built, restored and maintained wooden boats for eight generations. This photo from the early 1900s shows a two masted schooner on the dock between Charles and Herbert F. Crosby’s shop.

The Crosby boatbuilders have built, restored and maintained wooden boats for eight generations. This photo from the early 1900s shows a two masted schooner on the dock between Charles and Herbert F. Crosby’s shop.

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With the invention of the marine engine in the late 1800s, the Crosby expanded their knowledge and interests to building and maintaining powerboats. A line of powerboats is seen off H. Manley’s shop in North Bay.
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With the invention of the marine engine in the late 1800s, the Crosby expanded their knowledge and interests to building and maintaining powerboats. A line of powerboats is seen off H. Manley’s shop in North Bay.

With the invention of the marine engine in the late 1800s, the Crosby expanded their knowledge and interests to building and maintaining powerboats. A line of powerboats is seen off H. Manley’s shop in North Bay.

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The summer season could be quiet in the shops; the Crosbys would shift their work to ferrying summer visitors to local beaches and Martha’s Vineyard as well as captaining catboats on sails around Nantucket Sound.
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The summer season could be quiet in the shops; the Crosbys would shift their work to ferrying summer visitors to local beaches and Martha’s Vineyard as well as captaining catboats on sails around Nantucket Sound.

The summer season could be quiet in the shops; the Crosbys would shift their work to ferrying summer visitors to local beaches and Martha’s Vineyard as well as captaining catboats on sails around Nantucket Sound.

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Shop workers ready for a day’s work with H. Manley on the far right, dressed for business. He always was dressed up as opposed to being in work clothes.
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Shop workers ready for a day’s work with H. Manley on the far right, dressed for business. He always was dressed up as opposed to being in work clothes.

Shop workers ready for a day’s work with H. Manley on the far right, dressed for business. He always was dressed up as opposed to being in work clothes.

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E.M.Crosby Boatworks is very grateful to the Osterville Historical Society for their sharing of the photo collections.

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