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■ ^ ‘♦V*. r* . — — ^ . .. ,. > . ., .. - .. 0 WAnmoNT l UBER Long Island^s Boating & Fishing Newspaper THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 PageTW Hook ^n Leader . by LC MtaMrs Tlus is really a very onseUled time of year...with many tMngs raJly . not as d w as i h ^ might appear on the snr&ce. Here it is, mid* September, and by ipost standards summer is over (after Labor pay}... bat anoffidaUy, and by .the calendsir, it is in &ci stlU sammeif. And, thb weather,...U'sbeeo more Fall-l&e the past several wMks, thodgh'we hiul real hot spells dathig comparable weeks the past few years. ■. Of coarse, we luiow that the spedes of fish'chinge with the season,, and with the cc^ditloh an d . . ' ' • temperatnre of the. which • arooiid Rockaway Beach: . in turn is effected by the tem p m - And even more recently, Pr. tare'of the atmosphere. So, where do we stand with' fish? Like always, we search and they keep conf^ing and avmding However, every once in a while we humans do get the upper hand on oar friends from the deep. . As an example, the NO FROB* LEM recently checked into Lou*s Fishing Station, at the foot of. Freeport's W o o d d ^ Avenue, when it returned from the area 4 G^arbuflt, Eunmde Set OcMD Record FREEPORT - A world record h is been set'by a Freeport boat builder, ! waterfront business man and racer. A1 Grover; 58, piloting his 26-foot Grovetbnill landed in Portugal on Septem ber .3, having come across the 'A tJan^^C ^ a n through severil ' storms and at least one honi- Grover, and h u older son,. Al. Jr., in the bcMl powered by', Eyinnide \outboards lefr Nova ScotU on August 1 and crossed the 1,650 miles withdat refueling to land in the Azores on August 18. . It was an achievement height ened by the battle with Hurricane Claudette and by the carrying of 542 gallons of.gasoHne, ‘-'like a bomb,'* Grover's wife, 'Artie, saidlater. Artie Grover also noted that i one the more difficult part of I such an ocean crossing was “ find- I ing the UUel islands\ while the GroyerbuUt. still had. enough fuel.; In the A z o r e s ,'^ t'm a te AI,' Town Seaford Festival Sept. 21-22 At Lido HEMPSTEAD - The weekend of September 21-22 has been pnxlahned by Hempstead Town Presiding So^rvisor Thomas GuloUa as the fifth Annual Hempstead Town Seafood Festival. This fifth annual salute to the town's nautical heritage wUl .be marked by a major celebn^on, sponsored by the Department of Industry and Commerce and held •J sauce and senngili. Also offered for tale at various. booths will be iiautical-themed wares and hkndmadc craffs and The festival wih also, feature competitions, indoding surf casting, multi-hull sailboard races, a running uid swimming biathelon and the selection of a Town Seafood Festival Queen and - at Lido Beach Toirii PaA. \W e in H e in p s t^ Town are proud of our nautical history as weQ as the successful m a r i n e industry we enjoy to ^ y on our shorelines,\ notes Supervisor Gnlptta. \Previoos Seafood Festi vals have proven to be excellent opportunities for merchants ib sea-relaied businesses to display the fine quality of their pro ducts.\ . . . ....................... . I^ngffeptpne. Last year, an estimated 50,000 •; ' ----- - ... people attended the fesUval held Exhibits;' entertunment and \under the mushrooms\ at the ‘demonstrations by the U.S. Town Park a l lido. Coast (hurd, the U.S. Navy,* During the festiva], spedali- the U.S. Power Squadron, the ties of leaifing seafood restanr- Junior Blue Jackets, the 4-H Co ants win again be offered to the operative Extension,., Explorer public In a \street hh\* atmos- - P o s t I, tiib New'Yodi 3 e a G n n j _ ____ ___ „„„„ pherebn the beM4h: Th0 v t n e l y - a n d 'a b i i ^ *Jr. was relieved by second son, of Items wfll range from d ibw d n organizations axe also 'planned. Dante,'who was able to enjoy and baked dams to garlic'crabs, A sand .scnlptnring exhibit win the e a ^ r crossing . from the shrimp pizza, linguini with d am alsobefeaU u ^ . islands to Portngal on the Euro pean mainland. The smaU Groveibuilt is the * first o u t b o ^ to cross Atlantic '^he Al Grover Story^ nlheast g C the .HA Bnc^. Joe ;and Victor MaleUo had on board - a Mako shark that weighed in at lbs., and. proved‘once again that even though (he shark sea- ‘son had s u p p o s^y ended, there are stiff some to b e found In local ^ -Soon after, Billy and Joe Krallna weighed in a mess .of Fluke that Upped - the scales to 3V^ tbs. The catch came off the FIRST LIGHT from the waters' Irwin .‘Klein .- a n d d a u g h te r Catherine, •'chewed into-Lou's ■ with' ia ‘mbss of Blnefish that the ' pair caught when they -went out - In D r .S a m K lein 's S I ^ T .‘ - . So you see, there are really m ^ y type c f fish out (here right nenr. The latest report we have - from Lou Stalker, d Lou's Fish ing Station, is that Bluefi^ and Bonita have settkd in very good on the Cholerai Banks...and- chumming has proven very sue-. . cessfiil in bringing them to the lines. A memorable catch this past - weekend, Sunday, S ^ t . 15, was an 875 .1b. Blue M a^n boated by Richie Koch, of the Freeport Tuna Qub, on b o a ^ hs LIBRA. Taken al the Hudson Canyon, the prize was still some 25 lbs. lighter than' the 901 I pounder he took last year from the same area. sun, the Hudson Canyon is- also providing anglers with a variety of fish, indoding Yellow- fin Tuna and Bigeye Tuna. •Knowledgeable fisherfolk are eageriy awalUog the arrival of Giant Bluefin Tuna in that area. The Party Boats out of Free port have switched their prime target to Flounder; although there are sUU nice Flake catches being reported. Oat at the Wrecks. Bhiefish and Sea Bass are providing a nice early run. So lake your pick, get out there and help provide us with copy for our next column. Ttll then...keep hauling. Ocean without leftiellng. The boat was-powered by twin 65fap Eyinrude outboards and a 9.9 amdUaiy. The auxiliaty was used fot 50% of the trip to conserve fuel. Arli and Ai, J r. flew to Usbon, hoping to welcome .the sailon when they again reached land.' But to their surprise, the Grover-^ built beat the jet plarc and Dante and Al were waiting at the Lisbon airport instead.- * Now, they're * bai± again in FfeeptM and the 'rillage Al Grover has lived in for 50 years will honor him; not just for this most recent accomplishment, bat for a HfeUme of accompIUh- FREEPORT -- Al Grover, a prominent. vifftge boat deaJer,. marina owner,' race driver' andi promoter of Freeport's, -water front, was bom in • Fluffing 58 years ago. As a toddler,- be came to Baldwin with fals fiunlly .but later, when be was eight years of age, (be fen^y moved to As a ^ u n g s ter, Al spent every spare rninute down on Freeport's waterfront and, by the time he was 10, he wo^ed at the Sooth Shore Yacht Qub washing boats. At the age of 13, be had bought himseif a leaky old Seabrite doty go out on . a cold wmter day to set cod fish lines. -'--Times'were' tough and lus fether was bedridden so \making ' a'budi\ was tmpbrtalit to y oung-' Al. He struggled through scbCKd, fishing half the time and < ^ n going to school only if the weather Young Grover's heart was on the waterfront and his cmly happy recollectkm of lugh school was the band concerts where he played and inarched as bead drummer and his ris^r, DoUy, was the drum majoreUe. With his usual flair, Al designed and made with .a, six-^linder. Bnda engine ' Dotty her first fire baton, and, often culling dasses to the On the day Graver tuned 18, dismay of his ( e a ters, he would THE FIRST \GROVERBUILT\? Al Grover la shown In his IS foot Thompson inboard he raced in the first Around-Long-Island Marathon in 1959. Clocking the fastest time, 7 hra., 39 min.. 4 seconds. Al was disqualified when officials ruled the^Vtat was \custom-built\ rather ihan a stock model. / v ' r v''-'.-. '■ '-Vf: ho' went directly to New Ytxk City to o b t ^ his captain license and then went to w o ^ for the Viking fishing fleet. He also drove the fire truck for Hose 3 in South Freeport. In 1946, Grover got what calls \a G.I. High School diplo ma.\* With little regard for his* nautical background, the Army put Al into the inf^tzy. Wanting to send home the extra pay he would get for jumping, Al trans ferred' to the paratroopers. He spent two years in Japan during the American excupation, living with various Japanese famffies. Following hi^ cmihary dis charge, Al bought a 38-foot surplus bouy boat for $1,000 and used it for commercial fishing un til 1950, hauling bonkers from New J e r ^ to Freeport for cold In 1950, with the help of a G.I. loan, Al bought the build ing at 195 Woodcleft Avenue and three >*ears later married \A rti\ (Rosemarie Terzi) his' (Cent.on Page'SVi) . '.I,w.'\' ■
