Help Captain Johnny Fix His Boat
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Captain Johnny Bennett is a local shrimper in the Golden Isles of Georgia. He is almost 71 years old and it’s all he’s ever known. He’s ran the same boat, the Dora F, since he was 15 years old. She is a 1955 DESCO wooden hull trawler that has been fiberglassed over through the years. She’s also the oldest working trawling boat in Georgia. He’s only two years older than the boat. The Dora F has needed some major repairs for a while, but shrimping hasn’t been very profitable in the last few years and the Dora F has just deteriorated. He has been patching her up and just barely keeping her going for years now. Last month while he was going out one morning the clutch went out and he had to be towed back to the dock. He got back to the dock and spent the next few days putting a new clutch in. When he was finally ready to go back out, the 65 year old Caterpillar engine blew out on him. It’s been one thing after another, and johnny is now considering scrapping the boat, but we don’t want him to do that. He always said when the Dora F gave out is when he would quit. We are trying to raise the money to get a new engine, clutch, and tear out all of the old wooden ribs and replace it and fiberglass it right. Pretty much completely restore the whole boat. It’s a piece of history. The boat is very sentimental to him and many people around this area, and we’d hate to see it go! Let’s get her going for another 70 years so Johnny can shrimp her for the rest of his life!
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BWK GA
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Brunswick, GA