Motor Boating, March 1959 SAIL vs MOTOR
Beth Ann and I were always sailboat people,
She now supports the Skiff part of my life.
Fire damages both Verity and Nostrand, boats September 1939
Freeport Historic Photographs, Freeport Historical Society, Freeport Historic Photographs,
Freeport Historical Society & Museum, 2008-08-20. “Verity & Van Nostrand Sea Food Shack”
https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15281coll12/id/2471/rec/29
Bay Patrol gets custom 21' - 7' beam Verity Skiff. It draws 16" and could run at 16 knots. The two Bay Patrolmen cover 20 miles and "many thousands of clam-diggers to supervise". Fines of $1,500 a year for non residents. $1 in 1937 is equivalent to about $21.99 today.
Oddly when doing my research a William Verity was cited as clamming out side the boundaries, early 1930s'
Power, T. C. (1937, July 28). Bay patrol gets new skiff to enforce clam ordinance. Nassau Daily Review - Star, p. 13. Retrieved January 1, 2024, from https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org.
Magazine Articles
Motor Boating July 1926
(pages 31 and 77)
30’ Mary “Gusta” built by S. Verity, Baldwin. Powered by a 6-cylinder Kermath engine. “drives along at speeds of from 23 to 24 m.p.h. quite easily. While wide open, the boat runs very steadily and smoothly.”
Boat in Listing Motor Boating
March 1927
"Mary Gusta" built May 1926
(1950, March 1). Sail or Motor. Motor Boating, (March 1950), 31.
(1931, June 1). Notice. Motor Boating, (March 1931), 31.
