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In Memory
of Our
Friend & Neighbor

Capt. Joe Terzuoli

Rachel & Stephen November 22, 2008

March 2007

01/13/07

09/27/06

We talked to Matt who is a V-Twin racer, Buell frame, S&S engine.
Very friendly, relaxed.
Got his autograph on a couple of pictures and then he went out
and won Pro Stock at the 2006 SUpernationals
7.111 at 185.38 mph ahead of Stoffer's 7.234 at 186.12 mph

New Dive boat in our river

01/22/2005

Middlesex county honors firefighters

09/26/04

Fishing vessel Michelle K, 110' Clam Boat, Manasquan Inlet, New Jersey.

Crew escapes injury when boat hits jetty

Published in the Asbury Park Press 9/26/04

By NICHOLAS CLUNN
STAFF WRITER

POINT PLEASANT BEACH -- Four commercial fishermen made an emergency stop in the Manasquan Inlet last night after their boat struck a jetty and took on water.

No one was injured when the Michelle K hit the north jetty off Manasquan, said borough police Patrolman Joe Michigan.

Realizing that the water coming on board would prevent them from making it to the boat's regular dock, the crew steered for the inlet wall on the Point Pleasant Beach side and moored there, near the northern end of Ocean Avenue at Inlet Drive.

The men were probably able to climb off the boat without assistance, Michigan said.

The vessel may have sustained heavy damage. Pumps brought in by firefighters were useless in stopping water from coming onboard. By 10 p.m., the boat had stopped sinking, but its deck was covered with water. It was unclear why the boat hit the jetty.

Michigan did not have details about the crew, who were likely heading back from a fishing trip when they got into trouble. Borough police, the Coast Guard and the Marine Division of the State Police were alerted to a boat in distress around 8 p.m.

The Coast Guard is leading the investigation into the accident. The fishermen were being interviewed last night at the Coast Guard station, here.

Divers from the Point Pleasant Beach First Aid and Emergency Squad were assessing the boat's damage and working with a towing company to prepare for moving it. It was not clear how long the boat would stay moored next to the wall.

The accident attracted many on-lookers on both sides of the inlet, which serves as a border between Monmouth and Ocean counties. The clearest view was on the Manasquan side. Police tape kept civilians away from the boat.

Nicholas Clunn: (609) 978-4597 or nclunn@app.com

09-13-04

Ground zero cam

09-02-04

Today we saw something special, too bad no camera!
Got stuck in traffic while the bridge contractors picked up a beam using two cranes from a truck parked on the bridge. They swung it over and set it in place. Only the beam, end for end was the wrong way. So, stop traffic again, put the beam back on the truck, who had to return to the loading zone, have the truck go through town and make a u-turn, stop traffic again and pick the beam again.

Makes you wonder.

08-23-04

A good day of fluke'in

08/13/04

Boat Race

05/31/04

Budget's latest boat

05/16/04

Carrie gets her own page

05/01/04

Added pictures of Misty & Carrie

Updated the Edison Fire page

01/23/04

Big fire in Edison

Contractor doing the windows missed this when the garage was closed.

Removed the old one piece stereo and replaced it with a DVD player, new VCR, and surround sound system.

Also had to cut out a piece of the cabinet to get the new TV in

2003

11/25/03

Porthole II was hauled out today, so we are done with our lackluster season.
The exceptional high tide today allowed the marina to haul our boat, power wash and block and then haul another 42 Post before we lost the water. This was a first.

11/12/03

Misty's Home Page updated

11/02/03
updated

What did you do this summer?

also known as, way I didn't dive much this summer.......

09/14/03

Rachel is off to school!

09/07/03

Couple a new pictures of Misty

Rachel is congratulated by her High School teacher at her induction to Drexel's ROTC program as a Navy Midshipman

New Jersey State Record of fish - lobsters

06/11/03

We finally got the Eisen glass on.........................

06/10/03

Edison's Truck 2 assists the county

06/07/03

Added 2 new weather links
Added Change of Command Pics to the ROTC page
Rachel has now received 2 more scholarships

05/16/03

It is in the water and we didn't even take any pictures.

05/13/03

Launch is set for Thursday night at 7pm (05/15/03)

Dan Myers
4/1/1963 - 4/24/2003

04/23/03

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04/19/03

Low Tide in Shark River

Added pictures to Misty's, Rachel's and the Edison page

Engine 1 flows a 1000 Gallons Per Minute through the pre-piped deck gun while training the newest members

Jim the "Smoke eater"

04/15/03

Whoo Hoo! finally a nice day to work on the boat.

Updated Rachel's page

Rachel Receives the "Caring Award" from the Monmouth County Guidance Counselors Association.

NJ State Police Bomb Squad check suspicious package at a Mall in Edison Recently. The 1st picture the trooper is viewing an x-ray from a safe distance.

In the 2nd picture he has determined the package to not contain a bomb and is physically inspecting it.

04/08/03

Still cold enough to not work on the boat!

Rachel gets another scholarship!

03/26/03

Added Edison MDA link

02/15/03

Added Edison Fire pictures
Added Misty pictures
Added Military Ball 2003 pictures

02/11/03

Edison celebrates it's namesake's birthday, Thomas Alva Edison

01/23/03

Added Rachel's scholarship award

01/22/03

New pet pictures uploaded.
Additions to the Edison Fire page (pictures, awards, appointments)

01/14/03

Maintenance

01/06/03

Archived files, reset the index page, general cleanup

12/13/02

Added pictures to most of the "Pets" page

2002

Rachel's 2nd favorite pastime

12-08-02

Misty again makes the Welcome page on MSN's Golden Retriever Web site
http://groups.msn.com/GoldenRetriever/welcome1.msnw

or this saved paged Misty is famous again

Edison Fire Fighters were recognized for the efforts
during the 2002 & 2001 MDA Drive

Fire Fighters nationwide were once again the leaders
in the drive to support the annual MDA Drive

11/16/02

Moved and renamed some files to the archives, your previous bookmarks may not work now

11/15/02

Added more Bridge pictures, including a panoramic image.

11/12/02

updated the NJROTC page & photos
Added the page for Puddy & and updated the Gungy page
Posted more salvage pictures
Added info on Monmouth County's Medal of Honor recipient
and the recent awards to of our soldiers for actions in Somalia AKA "Blackhawk Down"

Take the time to read about our American Heroes!

11/06/02

Split Misty's page up

11/06/02

Haul out tomorrow around 9am, if interested in watching, be there at 8:30, and then after the haul we'll head to the Diner for breakfast.

10/28/02

Brian & superman

10/26/02

Rachel leads the way as Commanding Officer for the NJROTC Unit's participation in the Townships annual Homecoming Parade.

more parade pictures

10/26/02

Car fire pictures

10/25/02

Added Edison's 3 alarm Apartment fire Newspaper report

10/19/02

Cagney gets a buddy

10/18/02

Rachel donates her hair for "Locks of Love"

Jersey Tiger escapes from compound!

10/16/02

Added Pictures for the Bridge project, Inlet and Misty

10/13/02

Added appointment and promotion info to the Edison page
Streamlined the links on the side banner,
the balance of the links are on the site map

10/06/02

While "surfing" I found a really neat computer animation depicting the excavation and lifting of the Hunley
http://www.hunley.org/multimedia/hunley_raising_large.mov

10/02/02

Links for the NJROTC Booster Club added

The Bridge construction has been moving right along without any further mishaps. In fact, there hasn't even been any coverage of the work in the local papers!

3 girders are in place in this picture

09/11/02

Added 343 Firefighters names to the site

Updated the August dive to the Tolten, about the remaining Anchor
Changed the Index around a bit

09/09/02

Added 2 bridge pictures
Added more salvage pictures
Added an ocean surface temp link from Rutgers

09/02/02

Misty made the newspaper

08/28/02

Posted pictures of Budget's latest salvage
Lot of pictures throughout site

Cagney gets his own page and Misty gets more picture posted

You get what you pay for!
The "low bid" bridge builders building the span
over the Shark River dropped the concrete and
crane into the water!. River is closed right now. See the story here

08/02/02

Posted pictures of Budget's latest salvage

07/29/02

We added a bunch of pictures to Lacey's page for our golden friends to see.

07/25/02

Boarding Pass and Assumption of Risk form is back on the site.
Added a copy of our Diver log in log out sheet.

Since we added a broadband connection to our system and because I have almost always used a minimum screen resolution of 1024 - 768, I have begun increasing the resolution - size of any new pictures I add.

Added pictures from around Montauk
Added pictures of Misty

I found the new "Porthole" while in Montauk (not). Unfortunately it will probably be some time and several more "Portholes" before we could afford this one.
Look for it with "Porthole IX"

Henriques 50

07/23/02

Oh boy, I finally started to update the site. Being on vacation for 3 1/2 weeks didn't give me any time to work on the web page J
Most of the dives are up and I started adding pictures. There will be more to follow.

07/13/02

We installed a pair of S&S Katapault Series four bladed propellers today. The test ride proved good. The boat is notably smoother (in fact very smooth) and a little bit faster. Cruising at 2000 rpm saw an increase of about 2 knots, lightly loaded.
While on the way back, the Porthole II assumed a Budget Boat Towing identity and responded to an overturned vessel. We stayed on scene until the appropriate tow boat arrived.

06/12/02

Updated the Edison Fire page to include a picture and link of our newest engine, Engine 4.
Added a picture of the "Porthole II" print on the party page.
Fixed the recent dive links, thanks John

05/28/02

Added pictures of our most recent fire
Added pictures form the life raft annual service (hopefully this is the only way you will ever see the raft inflated)
Added pictures of hull repairs
Added machinery space pictures to the boat page

05/23/02

At the annual "Change of Command" ceremony Rachel is appointed Commanding Officer of her High School's NJROTC* program for the balance of this school year and next school year! She is now in charge of 120 cadets, freshman to seniors. BRAVO ZULU Rachel, way to go!!!!!

* NJROTC = Naval Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps

05/24/02

It's in and floating (at least it still was when I left tonight).
Still plenty of work to be done if anyone is so inclined to work as slaves with typical slave wages.

05/24/02

Ready or not the boat splashes tonight at 7:30 pm.
De-laminating repairs finished

Last years launch damage was also finished today

Exhaust elbow repair finished. These pics of the elbow show the condition after two years of use. Exhaust gas temperatures exceed 750 degrees on a normal basis. After two years the elbows look almost new!

It is tight on the outboard side of the engines.

05/23/02

05/22/02

05/21/02

Brian graduates college!

Engines were running last night, rudders and related parts are finished. After waiting over 3 weeks for drip less rudder seals we find out they are not adaptable to our boat.................
Hull repairs 3/4's done.

05/20/02

Bottom is almost finished being painted. Only the transom has had polish and wax so far, really far behind this year.

05/19/02

New Misty pictures

05/17/02

Working with Budget Towing today. We removed 8 sunken vessels from the old "Anchor Reef Marina".

Blister!

Actually not blisters or de-laminating This section of the hull was never bonded together.

05/16/02

What a joy, I found a small crack in the gel coat on the stern and guess what? (pictures tomorrow)

05/15/02

Added pictures of Misty

05/15/02

Added Route 35 Bridge pictures

05/13/02

"Drip less" seals installed on the new shafts. But after waiting two weeks and spending the bucks, there is not enough room to install drip less seals on the new rudders and rudder posts.

05/05/02

The Lectrasan has been completed eliminated now.
Of course, now I find out there is a bill before Congress and the Senate to allow this type of system in "No Discharge" zones!

05/03/02

New surprise, the generator Hour meter wire was touching a ground, so the meters have been running for the past 2 months. Now I have hour meters with an extra 600 hours on them. How do you fix that? You can't. You buy new ones and hook them up to a battery and let them run to you get the right hours, in this case approximately 2300 hours.

05/02/02

A/C discharge lines re-routed and new through hulls added.

1 bad 8D (168 pounds) battery replaced, from an almost impossible mounting location.

Found the water leak that was flooding the master stateroom cabinets, now I have to do the starboard side window upgrade.

04/25/02

Added some pictures to the electronics page.
1 new picture of Misty

04/24/02

Well, so far many of the parts are still wrong, or have not been cast yet. Prop Shafts, rudders, rudder ports are all being cast or machined. In the meantime though we have totally rebuilt the steering shelf and rudder supports. All of the wood that had been in the lazerette (compartment in the rear under the deck) has been removed. The wiring and bilge pumps have also been updated.

The pictures (thumbnails)

New steering shelf which is now solid fiberglass, the normal aft bilge pump (under the steering gear) and emergency pump can be seen here.

Shelf and new fiberglass deck supports.
The normal bilge pump is a Rule 2000 GPH pump. This is the pump that will come on while we are underway up on plane (amber indicator light that comes on occasionally at the helm). Water leaks into the bilge through the shafts, rudder ports, deck hatches etc. This is how the water is removed.
The emergency pump is a Rule 8000 GPH dual pump (2 - 4000 GPH pumps plumbed in series). This pump has its own safety feature, the twin pumps. Should one pump burn out there is still a 4000 GPH pump to work. If you have ever seen the big 2.5" discharge under the swim platform, this is what is connected to it. This pump has never come on except for testing, which is a good thing! If this pumps activates while at sea, we are in trouble!
Note, that there are 3 additional bilge pumps in the bow, one Rule automatic 500 GPH pump, one Rule 2000 GPH and one Lovett 1500 GPH. These pumps only come on while the boat is at rest, or not under plane. Water will still leak in through the shafts, rudders, etc. The 500 GPH pump is plumbed to keep the absolute minimum of water in the bilge, keeping it almost dry. The 2000 GPH is the "normal" forward bilge pump. This would come on if the 500 can't keep up. This only happens when we come down off of plane. Any water that the aft pump doesn't remove runs forward and floods (I know, bad choice of words) the forward bilge compartment. On a Post (Porthole II) water travels throughout the boat through the stringers, so it does build up at times.
The 1500 GPH is a backup, emergency pump.

Starboard side view of shelf, supports and emergency pump. Also seen in this picture is a transducer for the cockpit mounted video depth sounder.

The is the new rudder shelf, without the rudder or rudder port!

04/18/02

We removed the "Lectrasan" system and re-plumbed the "head" system to comply with local "no-discharge" laws. Although the discharge of a properly working* "Lectrasan" is much lower then any municipality, new "no-discharge" laws mean just that. So there will be new "toilet" procedures this year (minimal).
The new "no-discharge" laws have been around for several years, the Porthole II has always been in compliance, When the Shark River, Manasquan River and Barnegat Bay law was passed we installed a 20 gallon holding tank to meet requirements.

*Over the years I have seen very few Lectrasans' that were properly maintained or even serviceable. It is one of those nasty "out of site, out of mind" situations.

04/17/02

Very slow going, about half the parts we have ordered so far have come in wrong!

Were off to a late start working on the boat, so far mostly just ordering parts.

03/11/02

Christopher was sworn in as a Princeton Township Police Officer today

02/05/02

Added some changes to the Edison Fire page

02/05/02

Today we did something a little different.

With Budget Towing, we went over to the Aquarium on the Beach and helped move 4 sharks and 1 manta ray from the big shark tank upstairs to the basement holding tanks. "Shark wrestling" can be wet and fun, not to mention a little wild when 250 pounds plus of sand tiger gets upset and starts thrashing around!

01/31/02

We have a new addition to our family!
For now Misty is sharing the page with our Lacey girl.
As she grows though she will get her own page.

01/08/02

Minor changes through out the site.

Too Cold!