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WBM july 2017
“WHEN I WAS
about 13
years old,
my daddy
bought me
an Allendale well boat, which back then
was the thing,” Corbett says. “He said,
‘No more allowance. There’s two gill nets
on there and there’s an oyster knocker
and a clam rake. Take your fish to Mr.
Hines and that’s your allowance.’ In the
seventh or eighth grade, I’d come home
from school and not do my homework
and go fishing.”
Mr. Hines was L.T. Hines, who ran
Hines Seafood on Wrightsville Beach. He
not only would buy whatever Corbett
caught, but also employed the young man.
“We lived on Seacrest behind where
the market was,” Corbett says. “I worked
there many a day. Stinky Williamson
was the chief of police. Stinky wrote me
a note. Mr. Hines had an ugly green
Datsun truck. We set minnow traps
beside Wrightsville Beach School for our
live bait. At 13 years old, I could get
in that little Datsun truck and I could
drive it from his market to Wrightsville
Beach school and pick up those min-now
traps and come back. I could drive
on Wrightsville Beach as long as I was
just going to pick up minnow traps. Of
course, there weren’t many people on
Wrightsville Beach back then.”
In high school, he started fishing with
Robbie Wolf and his brother, Ed.
“Robbie’s dad bought the Whipsaw
and all of a sudden we were fishing every
weekend and learning all about it,” he
says. “Probably the best times I had
fishing ever were back in the late ’70s
when Robbie and Ed and I were fishing
together. They were family, and we just
had a ball.”
After high school the Wolfs decided
to go into the charter business. Corbett
wanted to go solo as a commercial fisher-man.
Atlantic Marine owner Mike Merritt,
the Corbetts’ next-door neighbor on Pelican
Drive, helped him get his first boat.
“He basically got me started by help-ing
me get a boat to start with,” Corbett
says. “A lot of good people at Wrightsville
Beach helped me to get going.”
CVW06.2017wbm.indd 1 5/3/17 9:38 AM
RECENTLY SOLD BY SAM R. CRITTENDEN
LOCAL EXPERTISE. GLOBAL EXPOSURE.
SOLD
311 SUMMER REST RD
$2,695,000
202 FOREST HILLS DR
$499,000
520 SOUTH LUMINA AVE
533 DUNGANNON BLVD - IN AUTUMN HALL
$879,000
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SAM R. CRITTENDEN
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c. 910.228.1885
sam.crittenden@landmarksir.com
$950,000
219 BEECH ST - UNDER CONTRACT
$400,000
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/Sam R Crittenden - Landmark
Sotheby’s International Realty
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