Re: [Paddlewise] Boat Graveyard at Staten Islandj

From: Gary J. MacDonald <garyj_at_rogers.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:39:25 -0500
Go to google maps and switch to sat. photos.
You can follow around Staten I. and see the large number of wrecks, hulks and 
derelicts.

GaryJ

Craig Jungers wrote:
> Many years ago I was sailing with Sun Oil's tanker fleet on the east coast
> and we had to go in to deliver asphalt to a site in New Jersey. The route
> took us around Staten Island and into the waterway between the island and
> the New Jersey shore (Arthur Kill). I wasn't on watch at the time and I
> don't remember were we ended up, but I do remember seeing abandoned boats,
> ships, ferries, tugboats, tankers, floating drydocks, and more at several
> places along the way. More abandoned vessels than I ever had seen anywhere
> else before.
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