Name/Title"Sea Foam" - Fishing Boat

About this object"Sea Foam"- Fishing Boat owned by the Davis family and built in 1910 at Tea Gardens.
George Joseph Davis first came to settle in Swan Bay in 1885 on land purchased form the original resident John Golby. The family farmed the soil, fished and chipped the oysters which grew on the rocky shoreline. It was not until George Joseph's son George Stanley (Stan) returned from WWI that G.S. Davis and Sons was established moving from chipping oysters to 'stuck' sticks, to racks of black mangroves and finally into sawn sticks. Stan's sons, Vic and Ron travelled yearly to Maclean, on the Clarence River, to cut truck loads of black mangroves that would be used on their leases to catch and grow oysters. Later the boys began cutting their own timer from their 1000 acre property at Swan Bay. A sawmill was established and the timber was used for building oyster leases, boats and oyster punts.
Stan was an exceptional boat builder however the Davis family had only one working launch throughout their entire time in the oyster industry - "Seafoam"" built by the Moutoms in Tea Gardens in 1910.

Place MadeOceania, Australia, New South Wales, Tea Gardens

MakerBert Moutom and Courtney Smith

Maker RoleShipwright

Date Made1910

PeriodEarly 20th century

Formatjpeg

Object TypeFishing Vessel

Subject and Association KeywordsBoat building

Subject and Association KeywordsBoats

Subject and Association KeywordsFishing - commercial

Subject and Association KeywordsOyster Industry

Object numberTMA2021.00110

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