Back in the late 70’s early 80’s I lived in Edison and our family had a house in South Belmar. In the late 70’s I was going to Middlesex County College and was about 21 at this time. After MCC I went to DeVry Technical Institute. Between college and working at a boat yard I would spend as much time as I could in South Belmar. What was there? The beach, ocean, nice weather, the marina in Shark River, and boats! On the map our house was at the yellow arrow. I would ride my bike along the lake, down to the beach along Ocean Avenue then along the road leading inland to the marina. Our family kept our boat at the Belmar Marina about where the orange arrow is. The SS Miss Belmar was docked about where the white arrow is. Hanging out at the marina I somehow became friends with Bob Nash, the guy smiling in the next picture. He was usually the day captain of the Miss Belmar. By this time I had scratch built a sailboat, the Bismarck and the Carrier. I wanted to build the SS Miss Belmar as my next project! Talking to Bob he had the builders plans of the boat. How convenient. The boat was built by Gulf Craft in Louisiana.