COASTAL QUEEN, originally launched in 1928 as a Chesapeake Bay buy boat, was converted to pleasure use in the 1950s and underwent a thorough restoration and modernization completed in 2024 at McMillen Yachts in Rhode Island.
In 1928, a Chesapeake Bay workboat, 65′ LOA with a beam of 21′ and draft of 5′6″, was launched near Cambridge, Maryland. Named A.G. PRICE, she was a typical boat of the Bay, hard-chined with a cross-planked bottom, and she immediately set to work as a buy boat, gathering oysters from all manner of dredging and tonging boats for delivery to packing houses.