From the Spring 1997 issue of the Crisfield & Smith Island
Newsletter
In October, a 17 foot scale model of a Jenkins Creek scrape boat was
competed and installed in the Center by Larry Marsh. Larry and his father built her at their L.
Marsh Boatyard in Rhodes Point. She immediately became a favorite of the Island and was
pronounced "pretty as a piece of candy" by Terry Laird and others. When Larry asked us what
name he should put on her, we had to come up with a plan for choosing a name and homeport.
The Board of Directors chose Smith Island as the homeport and decided to have a contest to
name the boat with a prize of $100 to the winner and one year free Alliance membership for
honorable mentions. Contest forms were placed in stores and post offices on the Island and, in
January, Dana Evans presented the Board of Directors with 64 entries. After several votes, the
Board chose Island Jewel, submitted by Heather Whealton, as the winner. Honorable mentions
were awarded to: Kathleen Marshall for Pride of the Island, Gladstone Tyler, Jr. for Island
Pride, Debbie Evans for Island Pride and Missy Evans for Barcat. Thank you to all the Islanders
who participated in the contest.
![[photograph of
the scrape boat, the Island Jewel]](si_jewel.gif)