Baymen

On June 30, join Long Island Traditions for our 3rd annual “Boating with the Baymen” tour, this year exploring the Peconics, where fishermen and baymen whose family histories date to the 1600s continue to work on the water, despite increasing obstacles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nor is it a townie versus baymen thing, as much as the provincial government has tried to paint it that way. ❋ Ed Hollett (2007)

Whoever drained the pond robbed him and other part-time baymen of summer income, and likely some autumn earnings too. ❋ Shnayerson, Michael (2003)

Ahead rose other homes nearly as grand as her own, and one or two more so, around a brackish pond once the preserve of Long Island baymen, now one of the most prized and exclusive enclaves in the Hamptons, if not the world. ❋ Shnayerson, Michael (2003)

Ten cents apiece was the price paid, and so lucrative a business did the shooting of these birds become that many baymen gave up their usual occupation of sailing pleasure parties and became gunners. ❋ Thomas Gilbert Pearson (N/A)

The rector of the former, Dr. Wall, had a temperance lyceum for the young men of his parish; the pastor of the latter had a congregation made out of a bit of old native America suddenly overlapped by the growth of the city, and his wheelwrights, ship-carpenters, baymen, and coasting-sailors gave us the same good type of officer that we got from among the mechanics, motormen, and blacksmiths who came from Dr. Wall's lyceum. ❋ Unknown (1900)

Two baymen brought a stretcher and the lad was taken to a bunk. ❋ Unknown (1895)

He then descended to the sick bay, where the surgeon and four baymen were giving tender attention to the wounded men. ❋ Unknown (1895)

"First came the clammers, then the baymen, then the saloonists and the politicians," said his wife, Susan Hennings-Lowe. ❋ By COREY KILGANNON (2011)

We were all teaming up to do something new in this area, a sustainable seafood place with local wines and produce, and we promised the P.R. team that we could line up purveyors and farmers and baymen who would be happy to add to our chorus of self-promoting hosannas. ❋ By BRUCE BUSCHEL (2011)

Baltimore Sun: Cheasapeake baymen gather to discuss the future of the blue-crab fishery. ❋ By THE NEW YORK TIMES (2011)

"They all gave up on it" for the week, he said Thursday of his fellow baymen, whose tolerance for hours of tonging proved to last only as long as it took for the winds to kick up and the temperature to drop. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A plan to turn 110,000 underwater acres in Peconic and Gardiner bays into thousands of private shellfish farms is facing opposition from some baymen as well as a leading environmental group that is worried the bays might become industrialized. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 1873, the designation was changed from steward to "baymen." ❋ Unknown (2008)

" Man [im tired] of [being a pussy], [i wish] i was a Baymen" ❋ The Baymen (2010)

begist 1- [I love] being a begist its such a [holy] [thing]! begist 2- baymen. ❋ Begungandbegunjthelords (2019)