It was truly a sad day when I heard that the party boat Carolyn Ann III was leaving Barnegat Light to become part of a whale watching fleet in Cape May. I know the Carolyn Ann III because I lived just down the road from where she was docked in Barnegat Light. The Carolyn Ann III was a fixture at those docks since 1972.
I fished on this grand party boat many times. When I wasn’t fishing from her decks, I would drop by in the afternoons to see what the anglers of the day were catching.
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