Dam, am I old! I went to the site and found the America and Chief going back to the fifties. I rode both of those boats out of Sheepshead Bay. I remember seeing a steel plate on the forecastle of the Chief. They told me it was where a 3" gun had been mounted. She was a converted WWII sub chaser. I went to high school with a kid whose father captained the White Eagle out of Carnise. He told me that during the winter, they would cut up galvanized garbage cans and attached them to the bow's cut water so the skim ice would not chew up their wooden hull. I thought those memories were lost forever; a very nice site for me to reminisce.
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