Sign up to exhibit your vessel at the 48th Annual Wooden Boat Show, the longest-running boat show in the southeast! Boat registration is $30 for the first boat and $5 for each additional boat. Registration includes an event T-shirt and admission to the opening reception on...
Join Dr. Arnold Oliver in the museum auditorium for a free presentation on the First Peace Vessel, Golden Rule. The 37-foot wooden ketch built in 1958 in San Pedro, California, will be visiting Beaufort in early March. The program is open to the public, and...
This event has sold out and is wait-list only. To get on the wait list, call 252-504-7758. We also have tickets still available for the matinee performance the same day. Follow the clues and get to the bottom of an unsolved 'murder' at the museum. Museum...
Follow the clues and get to the bottom of an unsolved 'murder' at the museum. Museum staff and volunteers prepare an entertaining afternoon involving a murder plot, clues and, of course, a twist! Come help us solve the museum’s latest unfortunate “accident.” Refreshments will be...
Taste delicious crab cakes made by four volunteer guest chefs, and vote on your favorite at this museum fundraiser at the Harvey W. Smith Watercraft Center. The event also has a slaw taste-off. Space is limited at this ticketed event. For information or tickets, call (252) 728-1638...
Join the Friends of the Maritime Museum for an exciting, one-of-a-kind themed gala, Boat Shoes & Bow Ties! Members and guests will enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvres and libations, live music and dancing overlooking Taylors Creek. Come bid-ready for the live auction filled with treasures, both...
For generations, North Carolina’s oyster industry was underdeveloped. This changed in the late 19th century when North Carolina oyster beds attracted attention following overharvesting in the Chesapeake Bay and the nation’s insatiable appetite for oysters. By the late 1880s, North Carolina oystermen and fish dealers...
The menhaden industry of North Carolina, which began in 1865 and ended in 2005, is one of the State’s most thoroughly documented fisheries. Unfortunately, the industry’s origins have never been thoroughly explored. Due to a reliance on two primary sources, scholars have assumed that there...
North Carolina’s shrimp industry slowly emerged in the Lower Cape Fear region during the 19th century. However, it did not take-off until the years leading up to World War I when Scandinavian immigrants introduced the otter trawl to Brunswick County. Following the introduction of the...
Today we might imagine saltwater sport fishing in North Carolina as one where sport fishers pursue large sailfish and marlin offshore aboard fiberglass sport fishing boats. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, recreational fishermen could only dream of catching such fish. Instead, recreational fishermen...