Floyd built our docks
Around 1958-59 Endicott Estates started selling shorefront on the south side of Welch Island. My father and two friends each bought two lots and Floyd Miller built three breakwaters/dock systems in 1959-60 for them. As I recall, Floyd live in the cove just north of the Governor's Island bridge and stored the barge in front of the house in the winter. Wentworth Cove? I don't have a chart handy. Am I right that Floyd was an aircraft mechanic for Bob Fogg at the Weirs seaplane base? My father was an airline pilot (Colonial, now American) until 1935. There weren't many aviators in those days, so they all knew each other, if only by reputation.
Back to Steelcraft. I recall once Floyd hit something; the barge was at our house. He brought the boat over, picked it up by the transom with the crane and proceeded to whack away at the shaft and strut with a sledge hammer. Back in the water and off he went. Tough boats.
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