George Conk recently posted about Henry Hild, asking whether it was the last wooden workboat in the sixth boro. I know of at least one, R. Ian Fletcher, shown below. Fletcher has its own blog here.
What I recall from speaking with Captain John Lipscomb is that Fletcher began life on Delaware Bay as a patrol boat on commercial shellfish beds.
Anyone know of other wooden workboats?
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April 12, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Sam Greenfield
It looks like the Flectcher blog hasn’t been updated in a year. Do you know of a new location for the blog?
April 13, 2009 at 8:52 am
Mage Bailey
In San Diego, we have the Pilot at the Maritime Museum. I’ve ridden aboard.
April 16, 2009 at 8:15 pm
bonnie
Not in NYC, but there are some fine old wooden oyster boats still working out of Norwalk Harbor.
http://frogma.blogspot.com/2008/04/norwalk-harbor-sunday-32908.html
Scroll down past the Lasers for the oyster boats (oh and you might get a chuckle out of the last picture, that name made me laugh!)