"His assault boat landing craft was constantly being repaired in Yokohama," his wife said, "so he started to study Japanese".
The Coast Guard also deployed 40 aircraft to assess the damage, as well as 30 small boats, patrol craft and cutters, officials said.
For them he created the so-called instant boats, plywood craft that an amateur could build in a matter of hours.
Its marinas have played host to commercial fishing boats, pleasure craft and Prohibition-era rumrunners, all of which are documented in the book by paintings, photographs and artifacts of East Hampton's maritime heritage.
In 1940 hundreds of fishing boats, pleasure craft and tugs braved German fire for 10 days to ferry soldiers pinned down by the Nazi advance to navy ships in deeper waters.
Mare Liberum then became the go-to group for local artists in need of boats, lending craft to people like artist Jeff Stark for his play at an abandoned power plant on the Hudson, the Queens-based Flux Factory collective for their Going Places Doing Stuff field trips, and Marie Lorenz to bulk up her fleet for a 40-person tour of Staten Island's tugboat graveyard.
The boats Grand-Craft builds today incorporate many replica pieces of the old Chris-Crafts, especially in the cockpit hardware, but go the old beauties one actually, more than one better: They are low-maintenance, thanks to new varnishes and sealants, and their updated hull-bottom designs provide a softer ride.
On to the Museum of Ethnology, every city should have one, tribal houses, boats and crafts.
Many of the boats Grand-Craft builds are based on production models, such as the zippy 24- to 26-foot Luxury Sport or the 32- to 40-foot Commuter, but more and more of the company's commissions are custom from the blueprints up.
The Portuguese Navy also made extensive use of patrol boats, landing crafts, and inflatable Zodiacs.
