Tool Box

Tool box used by worker at Arnie Gay's yacht yard at the foot of Shipwright Street.

With the state of the city's waterfront, Arnie knew the only chance he would have of attracting boaters to Annapolis was to offer quality services. In order to upgrade the quality of the services, Arnie needed to emply skilled laborers who could make his boatyard shine. But the men typiclly empoyed on the waterfront were not always easily-won. Arnie recalls, "Quite often a lot of disputes in the boat yard were settled with a pair of hands. It was a different era (1940s and 1950s), these were rough guys…..Once you had their respect there was no problem, but you had to get that respect somewhere along the line."

Donated in memory of Edward S. Holt