Carmans River Maritime Center/The Newey Boat Shop Shed #3 Building Address: 22 Newey Lane Section / Block / Lot: Surveyor’s Name: Jayme Breschard Survey Date: December 3, 2004 Building Type: industrial/warehouse Owner’s Name: John Taylor currently leases this building from the Post-Morrow Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation that preserves and conserves the rural, cultural, and historical character of the hamlet […]
Carmans River Maritime Center/The Newey Boat Shop Shed #2 Building Address: 22 Newey Lane Section / Block / Lot: Surveyor’s Name: Jayme Breschard Survey Date: December 3, 2004 Building Type: industrial/warehouse Owner’s Name: Post-Morrow Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation that preserves and conserves the rural, cultural, and historical character of the hamlet of Brookhaven and surrounding areas in Suffolk County. […]
Carmans River Maritime Center/The Newey Boat Shop Shed #1 Building Address: 22 Newey Lane Section / Block / Lot: Surveyor’s Name: Jayme Breschard Survey Date: December 3, 2004 Building Type: industrial/warehouse Owner’s Name: Post-Morrow Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation that preserves and conserves the rural, cultural, and historical character of the hamlet of Brookhaven and surrounding areas in Suffolk County. […]
The Newey-Tooker-Starke Boatyard Building Address: 22 Newey Lane Section / Block / Lot: Surveyor’s Name: Jayme Breschard Survey Date: June 2, 2004 Building Type: recreation Owner’s Name: Post-Morrow Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation that preserves and conserves the rural, cultural, and historical character of the hamlet of Brookhaven and surrounding areas in Suffolk County Building Name: Newey-Tooker-Starke Boatyard Date of […]
The 1920s was an interesting time on Long Island, with the passage of the Volstead Act that prohibited the importing and consuming of alcoholic beverages, ushering in the prohibition era. Many residents turned to local baymen and other boat owners to help satisfy their demand for wine and liquor through illegal smuggling and homegrown moonshine. […]
John Remsen, Sr.: Boat builder John Remsen of Freeport was one of the few men on Long Island who built garveys, a traditional flat bottom boat used by baymen and recreational fishermen in the shallow south shore waters of Nassau and Suffolk County. During his lifetime he built over 100 garveys. Like the generations before […]
Howard Pickerell: Boat Builder and Bayman Howard Pickerell is a traditional commercial boat builder and bayman born in Huntington. His father Howard was a full time clammer, while his older relatives were carpenters. Growing up, he learned to harvest clams which were plentiful in Huntington during his youth. From the time he was old enough […]
Anders Langendal: Master Boat Builder and Restorer, Greenport, Long Island Anders Langendal was born in Sweden, arriving in Greenport in 1967, shortly after completing his boat building apprenticeship. “When I came here about 50 people were working here, 7 good carpenters, machinists, painters and roustabouts. In those days there were three classes of workers, and you […]
Paul Ketcham: Boat Builder and Restorer, Amityville, New York Paul Ketcham, Jr. was born in Amityville in 1935 to a local boat builder family. During the 1930s depression, Paul’s family settled in Florida, where his father worked in the Daytona Boat Works. In 1944, following the death of his grandfather, Paul’s family returned to Amityville […]
Throughout the 19th and 20th century Long Island has been the home of many boat builders, ranging from traditional boat builders such as Gil Smith of Patchogue, who constructed garveys and skiffs for local baymen, to the Scopinich & Maresca boat yards that outfitted coast guard vessels and commercial fishing boats. Numerous industries supported this […]
