Captain Ben Brown
Captain Ben Brown will be at the helm of the Miss Oregon Inlet II. Captain Ben holds a USCG 100-ton Master Captain license, has a FCC Radio license, and is CPR certified. He comes from a long line of local waterman. He grew up working the deck of his father's commercial long line boat F/V Jamie B docked in Wanchese and in no stranger to Oregon Inlet and it's constantly shifting shoals. Captain Ben's shad boat, the Miss Marsha, named after his grandmother was recently featured in National Fisherman Magazine as the shad boat is the state boat of North Carolina. The Miss Marsha was built in 1980 and Captain Ben skillfully restored her himself in 2020. He is an accomplished decoy carver. He won 1st place in Working Decoys and 2nd in Best in Geese and Swan Decoys at the IWCA 2024 Core Sound Decoy Festival held annually in Harkers Island, NC.
