Big Apple Boating

After three decades of boating and fishing from an inlet where commercial vessel traffic was almost non-existent, I moved to a new locale adjacent to the main thoroughfares for New York Harbor and Port Newark. I am a lifelong recreational fisherman with a penchant for center console boats who formerly called Point Pleasant, New Jersey, my home port. That area includes a small commercial fishing center that caters to trawlers and clammers, but most of the boats are recreational craft. While the narrow waterway could get congested, it always felt manageable.

That all changed two years ago when I moved my boat about 35 miles north to Gateway