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How about a ride on a cigar boat?

Half the year gone--poof.

By Jonathan D. Miller | Updated on June 30, 2008

Half the year gone–poof.

If you think, drivers are cutting back, the pleasure boat industry has been hammered even more. From my inlet vantage point with a view of all comings and goings from various marinas into Long Island bays towards the ocean, those comings and goings are relatively few and far between this summer. Late June–early July weekends normally pack the channel with watercraft–not this year. You’ve got to have money to burn under any circumstances to take out a cigar boat — yesterday nary a one passed by to rouse the neighborhood in familiar jackhammer-like cacophony. And the local fishermen seem to be sticking to the docks and surf casting. Marina owners must feel a lot like greenfield suburban developers.

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