“They’re hot rod clam boats,” is how East Coast Boat Racing ClubPresident Steve Adams describes the racing garveys that comprise the majority of boats in the club’s first races of the 2012 season, held Sunday at the bayside docks behind Fantasy Island Amusement Park in Beach Haven.
As the club’s website explains, the Jersey garvey, also known as the baymen’s boat, is a flat-bottomed boat named after Jarvis (Gervas) Pharo, an early settler in West Creek.
Adams is not only the club president, he’s also a driver – of last year’s champion garvey Hot Rod, which sports a 375 Chevrolet engine and can…
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