An Old Wooden Party Boat Bites The Dust

[Soundbounder]

I just read this week that the Port Jeff Ace was demolished and trucked away. Built in 1962, she fished out of Port Jefferson for quite a few years.

http://www.northshoreoflongisland.com/Articles-i-2009-12-03-82337.112114-sub18235.112114_Nautical_nostalgia_takes_a_licking_at_boat_ramp_in_PJ.html

[Soundbounder]

here are a couple of photos of her from last summer:

PORT JEFF ACE PHOTOS

[v70cat]

Just seems like a waste:

1) Why couldn't the boat be used a floating barge or the sort?

2) Why couldn't the wood be used for fire wood?

[Soundbounder]

Just seems like a waste:

1) Why couldn't the boat be used a floating barge or the sort?

2) Why couldn't the wood be used for fire wood?

Most of the wood is going to have paint or varnish on it.

As for using it as a floating barge; I think it needed a lot of work. The hull was in really rough shape

[snakebite13]

checked out the history on this boat on another website & didn't realize i fished on her in the early 80's when she was the ''lenny'' out of belmar

[Soundbounder]

checked out the history on this boat on another website & didn't realize i fished on her in the early 80's when she was the ''lenny'' out of belmar

Yeah, she worked out of Keyport for some years also.

And I think somewhere south near AC too.

[yottyboy]

The only reason the boat had to be demolished was the owners were stingy with repair and upkeep. There is no reason a wooden hull can't last for a long long time, unless it is left to rot.

Here in the Bay, there are many wooden work boats built in the early part of the last century still out there tonging "arsters" and clamming.

[M.E.K.]

It says the boat was destroyed at the boat ramp in brookhaven, from the looks of the ferry in the background it looks like Port Jeff.

[Fubar512]

checked out the history on this boat on another website & didn't realize i fished on her in the early 80's when she was the ''lenny'' out of belmar

Speaking of Belmar, the Lenny, the Optimist Queen, the Spray III, and the first Captain Cal were all sisterships (built by Deebold, IIRC) sporting a 65' LOA , with a 17' foot beam, and powered by twin Detroit 6-71Ns. I worked deck on Friday & Saturday nights on the Spray III, during the Summer of 1981, and made many an offshore Cod trip on her during the following Winter and Spring.

Edited December 26, 2009 by fubar512