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r- ..s. PAGE TEN .HE LEADER THURSDAY. APRIL 8, 1965 WATERFRONT Q WWM Kim AL mwm escorts -\OMIEia-OF THE SHOW' k - - \ This 98-lool Chrfs-Crtfft ChaUen^er was ih® \Queen of Iho Show\ at the 1965 ’Greater Lon^ Island Bo.nt Show at Roosevelt Haco' way. The Chr]s>Craft was transported 10 miles from Freeport to Westbury on a 16*foot travel lift from Grover's Marine Bate. A1 Grover, shown on the lift, took 6 hours to navlcfate the roads from Fieeport to Westbury. You may win this CORSAIR 15 JOLLY BOAT/ / coming in! just on©* of over SOO Prizes) This 1965 Chris-Craft Corsair 15\ Jolly Boat with 40-hp Evinrude Motor, complete with .a trailer (ovev $2100 value), plus hundreds of other prizes will be given away during Chrjs-Craft’s Valjje Sweep- stakes. Other prizes include Stereo Tape Cartridge Play ers for boat or car, Airgulde Clock-Barometcr sets,. Air- guide Desk Humidity-Temperature Indicators. CLOSES MIDNIGHT APRIL 30., Come in and register now at Just for KING OF BOATING ‘pN THE NAUTICAL WIlljE” 195 WOODCLEFT a v e n u e PReeport' 8-0510 Candidates Night At Roosevelt PTA The Roosevelt PTA Council will sponsor a “Meal the Candt- datfj Nisht” on Monday. April- 2Clh. In the Roosevelt Junior- Senior Higll School Auditorium ai 3 p.m. Thi.5 meeting will'acquaint the yatew “with tJ»e School Bool'd candidates..'Tlicre will.be a ques tion and answer period and all school diotrict residents are in-i vited to parlicipC'tc. The Council also announced that during the month of April, 15)65, PTA Scholarship forms will be available in the High School Guidance Office. Interer.ted students arc urged to fill out the required applica tions as won as possible. SUMMER DOCKAGE RESERVE NOW I Largest B o a t Hoint In The Area JOHNSON MOTORS Gales - Service New Orady-W hite Boatn- Q'Day Sail Beats Townend Marine 2976 Whsleneck Dv- Morrick. N.Y. MA 9-4327 COVER THE WATERFRONT, —by Pat Paran Thing.s are looking up. The smell of varnish is in the air. The first sounds of spring must compete with the buzz from many sand ing machines at work all along the waterfront and in many hundred.-? c£ backyards all over our Island. A feeling of anticipation hangs heavy over all the boatyards. The captain, first mate and the crew pile out of their station wagons H . ALTENGARTEN’S & s u . Co. Deelgncrn and Manufaettirar# of Custom Made Canvas Products For BaaU, Home A Bueineaa 925 SO. MAIN STREET FReeport 6-068S Wh re Friends Meet SHERRE'S LOUNGE Your Hoata: SHERRE & AL BEDARD 233 WOODCLEFT AVE. FReopori 8-5690 . Open All Veaf Roi\\* Samuel \Kapp/^ Kaplan , Marine V' Soryeyor; 6c CdoBuItant Oenditlon and Valuation Survey 2()2 Juanlte .Ayeau«i FReoporf 8-6447 . 24 HOyR PHONE SERVICE . Form e rly of . . Kappy’a- M arine Aepair© . BOATING FiSH/NG decked out in last year’s paint spattered dungarees and sneak ers. They bring a multitude of goodies such as paint buckets and bru.«!hes, scrapers and caulking guns, steel wool and sandpaper and a basket of lunch to get them through the day. It's fitting out time and those long winter months are behind us. The boatman and his family set to with gusto; an eye on the fu ture and a summer of fun on the water. The long travail is not yet over and there will still be much wringing of hands and tearing of hair before that day comes, at long last, when the boat goes overboard. But we are on our way. The skies are blue, the birds are singing, the smell of the sea is all around us • All’s right with twe worio. ''iicyJ who spilled this blankety blank paint all over the deck?” Well, Ufe can’t be beau tiful every moment of every day. Charlie Pagadis is really put ting up a good front these days, on the front of his new Lake Boat Yard property - all new docks and bulk heading' and by the time he's finished he’s going to have a ival show place on Woodcleft Avenue, another improvement for Fi’ceport's Fabulous WaUrfront. Charlie also has his other marinu at the foot! of Sportsmen's Ave nue and is (he dealer for the Post boats. . . . Nice chat with A1 Smith, Smith’s Marihe, and; got to thinking that A1 is one of; the originar retail dealers that made Freeport's waterfront fabulous . . These pttst .few spring days, have beeli bringing the boat buying public to :, the waterfront in ■hbrdes. active- season is in the making.-, • Spring babies ' ate ajso making an appearanect. Congratulations, to Fa*'nni4 twin diesel, spovtfisherman around to the new Freeport Ma rine Center ■ . . Tlie Eosird of Directors of the Around L. I. Marathon will meet tonight at, the home of Ralph Milne, Bate.s Boat Sales, in Amityville . There will also, be a meeting of the Freeport Tuna Club tonight at the Freeport Yacht Club. Some top notch sportfishiug pictures will be shown. Flounder fishing has been good in all the local waters. Capt; Frank, of the Kiddo, has been, bringing in good catches daily, he landed over 50 the other day at the Greenhouse in Merrick . . • Tried and true flounder man, Harold Johnson reports good catches in Randall Bay fishing with Jack MacQuire on Monday - good sized ones.* By the way Har old's son, Billy is in Doctor’s Hos pital, drop him a card . . . Buddy Reeves and Bobby Moore pulled in some very fine sized flatties (and they are not so flat t\iis year, they are good and fat) in Fundy where fishing has been very steady . . . Mussels and worms, ’ worms and mussels - that's what gets ’em. Frank; head mijcologlst at the Doiph-Ihu, celebrated his buih- day last week and' was the re cipient of a number of unusual' and varied gifu. Fran Weishahn,' of the same waterfront spot; flew to Fountain City, Tennessee, for a . short visit with her daughter, a nurse in Knoxville Hospital, her s.on-;in-law and her pride and • joy, Frankie, boy grandchild . . . There were sure a bunch of tigers (literally) at the Midship last week when Joe and Jrving Gray,, of the Cadillac Grays, held their annual sa)es and service meeting ........................ ... More reports on good flounder Ed and'.Ina; Scl\n£ider’,(Bayview I from Bonnie Pouring, Sea Isle, Marine) find C«m i and Carol jr-1 and George Hubsehmidt, they ,wm.'(Hartig Marmc). A boy and fished the Hole in the Bay in Ri,rl respectively' to the' Very' happy parents') ; Regis Schultis had ' Andy; Dibson*,- -of ‘Bellmore., as-his guest'''lit''lunch last week. Andy handles ull'thd large marine equipment' used in, uniditding the big ships in New ^ork harbor . . Ai-tie Beldteri Sqch b'rlnai^^ the 44’ “Pehn, Serfalpr” . Pacemaker / Ed Kotti's ‘: ^ i n n ^ o a t C.orp. importers of the Finest Family Boats S m the Boats Afloa*. Boats w ith Unbeat- R ^ r d « / ^ lhe_ gru«^^ ''Around Long fished the Hole in the Middle Bay for a couple of hours Monday and landed 26 sizable ones . . . It was mighty gay and lively at Hartig Marine on the weekend at their spring boat show. They drew crowds way up in the hundreds . . . Many thanks to pretty little Peggy Hones for the fishing news. C '^ p i t o l o f t h e EAST COA.ST .■’V.' 'i j ; soio necorew ^ . m e g Is^iid Maralbon,\ 17‘ • 20' - 23' Outboard^, Inboard ptildrives, African Mahogany, Riveted Con^rticlton, Teak pecks. Gunnels and Rubrails. . 36 i Vf 6 «» 4 e|eft'A renue , , FReehort 8 - 455 f ------------ life-- -