Snug Harbor

Snug Harbor reef
Type:
artificial reef, trawler
Built:
1954, N.R. Norton Welding Co, Bayou La Batre, AL USA
Specs:
( 65 ft ) 50 GT
Sponsor:
Manasquan River Marlin & Tuna Club, Ann E Clark Foundation
Sunk:
Saturday January 28, 2006 - Axel Carlson Artificial Reef
GPS:
40°03.452' -73°59.985'
Depth:
80 ft
The buy boat Snug Harbor docked at Greenwich Cove, circa 1996. The boat was retired in 2006 and sent to New Jersey to be sunk as part of a reef for divers. (Photo by Tom and Louise Kane, NOAA Restoration Center).

The Snug Harbor was a "buy boat" in the quahog fishery in Naragansett Bay Rhode Island. The clam fishery there is much different than here. The clams are raked up by hand from small boats in shallow water, and then sold to a "buy boat", which takes the accumulated catch to port. At least that's how it was - see the article linked below.

"The Snug Harbor. Successor to the Beacon. You sold your catch and got a free Budweiser and sometimes good advice."

From Bullrakes to Clambakes

The folklife of the Narragansett Bay quahogging industry.
by Michael E. Bell

...

One of the rare occasions when diggers gather outside of work contexts is at the annual, word-of-mouth clambake on Prudence Island. Bill Hollenbeck, Captain of the Snug Harbor, spoke about the event, concluding his narrative with a description of the traditional Rhode Island clambake. "The quahogs, lobsters, corn-on-the-cob, and so forth are cooked in a hole with rockweed. You get the rocks hot and then you throw in the rockweed and you put the food in and cover it with seaweed (it's different from rockweed), and throw a tarp over the whole thing and it steams. The rockweed has these little balls full of water, and when they get hot, they pop and make steam. And that's the real genuine clambake. That's the way they did it three hundred years ago. Do you realize there's very few people who still know how to do that?"

https://quahog.org/FactsFolklore/Cultural_Brouhaha/Bullrakes_to_Clamcakes

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