Fenwick Float-ors Offers More Than Most Realize
OCEAN CITY – Fenwick Float-ors founders Hugh and Tina McBride and their son Jason shared their story this week on how their famous product changed the Eastern Shore’s language when it comes to buoys.
The family has been specializing in buoys, or float-ors, since 1989.
“In those days when you went out in the bay, all you saw was Clorox bottles and milk bottles marking the crab pots and it looked like the city dump,” Hugh said. “So the idea originally was to clean up the bay.”
Hugh went out and bought buoys and took them home and painted them green, white and orange. On Good Friday that year, they attended a craft show in Fenwick where their booth of buoys ended up with a line of customers.
“At that point, Tina was painting art work on them, and from there it just took off, and we got to the point where we had to get into it or get out of it,” Hugh said.
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