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SubTitle: They Float
Posted by: rs on 11/30/1997@01:34hrs:
One of the interesting, some would say essential, charactistics of Staten Island, back when I was growing up on it, was that it was completely surrounded by water (!). This meant they had to invent bridges and ferries or we would get wet feet trying to leave. Others of us resorted to small boats.
Did you ever go boating off SI?
Where did you go?
Were you docked at the Shoals, or Sorensons, or the Yacht club in Great Kills Harbor?
Or were you moored out in the Great Kills Yacht Basin?
Do you remember the P.T. boat moored out there? The sailboats? How about that sunken barge made out of concrete on the shoal just west of the outlet to the GK Yacht Basin, a couple hundred yards, at most, off shore. Probably still there, knowing SI.
Did you go crabbing off the bulkhead at Great Kills Beach, that is before the sand bar washed up against it and people went over there by boat to go picnicking and swimming and to let the kids run around.
What kind of boat did you mess with, sail or stink? Let's hear a few sea stories from Old SI.