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Charley Webb Outdoors: Ol’ Hank – A classy gentleman
Charley Webb Outdoors
Ol’ Hank –
A classy gentleman
Been a long time since I’ve tickled the keyboard. I’ve had a few yarns on my mind. But somehow they just never made up. Now I’ve got some extra time as I’ve been branded with the “R” word. Retired that is. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb Outdoors: How hot is it?
Charley Webb Outdoors
- “Hotter than a burning stump”
- “Hotter than a boiler room in hell”
- “Hot enough to fry an egg on a Bay Street side walk”
- “Nothing is as hot as Backfield on Carolina Causeway” [ read article ... ]
Local high-tech firm XRDI in partnership for unmanned military air vehicles
Local high-tech firm
XRDI in partnership for unmanned military air vehicles
Local high-tech firm XRDI is in a partnership to design and build heavy-fuel engines for unmanned military air vehicles (UAVs). The new two-stroke engine will be branded Wolverine. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb Outdoors: Lowcountry Friendships
Charley Webb Outdoors
Lowcountry Friendships
“You know Cholly I didn’t grow up in a place like this where I had friends like yours. When ya’ll decide on a project, excursion or cause, things just seem to fall into place. Ya’ll pull it off.” That’s a quote from one who has joined (not without proper induction, hazing and doubt) my growing circle of true Friends. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb Outdoors: De Konah Sto
Charley Webb Outdoors
Corner store at Seabrook, copyright © 2010 by Claude McLeod Jr.
Translating local lingo into plain English, the title is The Corner Store. Unfortunately it’s a disappearing landmark in our Lowcountry. My usual column would lead you to expect a hunting and fishing story. But often my adventures launched or ended at a local “Konah Sto”, and recollections of them is where we’re headed today. [ read article ... ]
Beaufort Construction Inc. features Bob Woodman Tires
Beaufort Construction, Inc.
features
Founded in 1996 and owned by Beaufort natives Merritt Patterson and Leith Webb, Beaufort Construction Inc. is northern Beaufort County’s premier commercial construction company. Over the years, the company has built more than 102 commercial structures ranging from the Hilton Head Airplane Hanger complex to the Port Royal Center and the Lady’s Island BB&T bank. [ read article ... ]
Beaufort Construction Inc. features Millennium Real Estate Group
Beaufort Construction, Inc.
features
Founded in 1996 and owned by Beaufort natives Merritt Patterson and Leith Webb, Beaufort Construction Inc. is northern Beaufort County’s premier commercial construction company. Over the years, the company has built more than 102 commercial structures ranging from the Hilton Head Airplane Hanger complex to the Port Royal Center and the Lady’s Island BB&T bank. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb Outdoors: How hot is it?
Charley Webb Outdoors
- “Hotter than a burning stump”
- “Hotter than a boiler room in hell”
- “Hot enough to fry an egg on a Bay Street side walk”
- “Nothing is as hot as Backfield on Carolina Causeway” [ read article ... ]
Beaufort Construction Inc. features Kazoobie Kazoos, maker of plastic kazoos that are safe for kids
Beaufort Construction, Inc.
features
Kazoobie Kazoos
maker of plastic kazoos that are safe for kids
A kazoo is a musical wonder. It plays any tune and anyone can play it. It imitates fowls, animals, bagpipes and many other sounds. It is very popular with children and with singing clubs and affords a variety of amusement and entertainment for one or a crowd. If you want one or a thousand, Kazoobie Kazoos, located in Beaufort, SC, is the place to get it. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: Passing the torch to the Bob-Q
Cookin' at the Bob-Q
Passing the torch to the Bob-Q
It was a clean spring afternoon, March 1960. Word spread out over the Beaufort grapevine (composed of Ma Miller’s, Koth’s Grocery, The Jarvista, and The Yacht Club downtown) that Buddy and Zoo would be barbequeing at the Pritchard Camp. [ read article ... ]
Beaufort Construction Inc. features XRDI, maker of engines for KillerBee, Shadow, Mark 4.7, Golden Eye and Fury unmanned aerial vehicles
Beaufort Construction, Inc.
features
XRDImaker of engines for military
KillerBee unmanned aerial vehicles
Founded in 1996 and owned by Beaufort natives Merritt Patterson and Leith Webb, Beaufort Construction Inc. is northern Beaufort County’s premier commercial construction company. Over the years, the company has built more than 102 commercial structures ranging from the Hilton Head Airplane Hanger complex to the Port Royal Center and the Lady’s Island BB&T bank. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: Winter cold and Momma’s steaming oyster stew
Charley Webb Outdoors: Winter cold and Momma’s steaming oyster stew
We all experience moments of déjà or in some cases vuja-de. I speak about those rare occasions when your mind’s eye tells you, “I’ve been here before or I’ll be here in the future.” Sometimes those experiences are terrifying. This one warms body and soul. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: “Christmas gift, Christmas gift”
Charley Webb outdoors: Christmas gift, Christmas gift
Families have their special Christmas traditions–caroling, eggnog, hanging the stockings, reading the Christmas story, watching the Grinch terrorize Whoville on TV, Bart Simpson’s Christmas special, the list is endless. To vary the tradition is a major family faux pas. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: The sky is falling, the sky is falling
Charley Webb: The sky is falling
This is a true story. Chicken Little wasn’t altogether wrong. The sky does sometimes fall, or I should say sometimes some things fall from the sky. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: Instructions for frying a turkey
Charley Webb Outdoors: Instructions for frying a turkey
Editor’s note: A fried turkey is one of the South’s finest Thanksgiving dishes. Charley Webb is sharing here one of his closest-held secrets, how to fry a turkey like the good-old boys do. Take heed and enjoy, but be careful to do this only outdoors in a clear area open to the sky, never indoors in your kitchen or outside under a shed or open roof. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: Charley Webb describes a Lowcountry duck hunt
Charley Webb describes a Lowcountry duck hunt
It’s that time of the year when I’m getting ready. “Ready for what?”, you might ask. Well, the fall season, if you can call what we have a season. We have no colorful leaves, geese flying south or first snows, all of which must only happen north of the Mason-Dixon. Lowcountry fall means surf fishing, dove shoots, oyster roasts, deer drives, flounder gigging, duck blind cleaning, shrimp casting and gnat slapping. Couple that with football bragging, whiskey sipping and trout fishing and there is just a lot to get ready for and enjoy. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: A northeast wind and a marsh hen tide
Charley Webb takes his bado into a northeast wind on a marsh hen tide
It was part of growing up in the Lowcountry in late October, when the northeast wind freshended and a moon tide was in flood, to hunt marsh hens and be hungry enough to eat them. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: Milledge Webb defends his daddy’s spelling of bado
Bado ain’t nothing but another name for a rowboat
We are an island people and we do things our way; always have. My first boat was a cypress bado. That’s how we say it here. B-A-D-OH, and we spell it like we say it. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: Thinking back
Charley Webb reflects on stormy seas in the old days
Last Friday evening my bride and I attended a 40th birthday celebration for a friend at a fish camp on a lowcountry barrier island. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: What’s good for the goose is good for the gander
A gaggle of geese
Having been reared by a good Southern momma and daddy, I have in my makeup a certain code of honor and integrity. Of course, telling a little white lie, stretching the truth or snitching an extra cookie out of the jar won’t count on my day of judgment, praise the Lord. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: Good times on Goat Island
Charley Webb’s Goat Island adventures
Summer days filled with swimming, crabbing, baseball on the green, mud fights, and sharkfishing often concluded with spending a night with the mosquitoes on Goat Island. It’s got a highfalutin name now–Shammy Landing. Seems the new name has something to do with French for mountain goat which if I recall correctly is chèvre chamoisée. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: Harold Fletcher, PT boats, mullet and boiled peanuts
A man after my own heart who breathes the spirit of the Lowcountry, Harold Fletcher is a gentleman. Up before daybreak to gig flounder, drive the hunt at Mackey Point deer drives, arrive just in time for the mid-afternoon dove shoot at Seaside, play nine holes [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: Regattas in Beaufort
The term regatta often brings thoughts of blue blazers, white pants, admirals caps, and cocktails at the yacht club. The America’s Cup spurs the idea that sailboat races are pastimes of the rich and famous. It ain’t never been so in Beaufort. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: Line crabbing is family fun, fits the budget, tastes great!
Summer is time for crabbing
Line crabbing with a baited hand line and dip net has always been one of my favorite pastimes. Last Christmas my wife asked for my Santa list. It included three crab lines and a new dip net. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors, by his son, Milledge: Fathers and fishes
Happy upcoming Father’s Day
My father never taught me to throw a baseball and I still don’t know how properly to tie a necktie.
But I don’t really care too much about baseball and I rarely see an occasion that requires a tight half-Windsor knot. What he did give me was blood mixed with salt water and eyes that always squint towards the sea. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: Frog gigging
Georgia Jumpers, Louisiana Leapers
American bull frog (Rana catesbeiana) in its natural habitat, the swamp
Beaufort, Monday, June 8, 2009. Stealing away into the nighttime swamp with the McIntosh boys (Wilson, Roland and the Great) was a unique adventure to say the least. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: “Fish, my fish, my mullet fish”
A Pritchards Island pacifier
Beaufort, Monday, June 1, 2009. Children are truly a blessing as much as are their mothers who give them birth and rear them. There are times, however thank goodness very seldom, that the blessing overflows and mom’s batteries run low. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: My Lowcountry adventures #4
A lesson in priorities
Beaufort, Monday, May 25, 2009. Simple things in life can be of great importance. I’m fortunate to have close friends who could choose, without a second thought, a covey rise at sunset or fresh creek bottom oysters on a campfire oven over fifty-yard-line box seats at the Super Bowl. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: My Lowcountry adventures #3
“Down the river”
What does it really mean?
A camp down the river
Beaufort, Sunday, May 17, 2009. I remember my excitement as a young boy hearing Daddy and the Aimar boys gathered at the soda fountain bar at Aimar’s drug store planning the next excursion. [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: My Lowcountry adventures #2
A walk with Wyatt
Beaufort, Sunday, May 10, 2009. How fortunate I am to have been mentored by Wyatt Pringle (photo right).
My watch at Kinghorn Insurance of Beaufort began a short 33 years ago under Wyatt’s command. Wyatt was above all a gentleman.
He was also a competitive businessman with high ethical standards. He was lots of fun outside the office.
I remember the first of many occasions when Wyatt made a side trip on a business call. I had only been employed a short time when he came into my office and said, [ read article ... ]
Charley Webb outdoors: My Lowcountry adventures #1:
“It’s raining mullet”
Beaufort, May 3, 2009. Tom and Huck may have mastered the Mississippi, but we had the Lowcountry and the Sea Islands. Many a summer campfire of my youth was laid on what is now a golf course or condo hot tub.
We had our run of all of them–Capers, Fripp, Bay Point, Eddings, Old House, Pritchards, Goat and the list of islands could go on. [ read article ... ]
Fear not, he is not abandoning Kinghorn Insurance
Charles Webb III joins our staff
Beaufort, May 1, 2009. The Beaufort Tribune is pleased to announce that Beaufort native Charles Webb III has joined our staff with the title of Outdoors Reporter and Outdoors Columnist. [ read article ... ]
