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    ONLY IN NEW YORK

    Jul 09, 2019 4 minutes
    By Bill Bleyer

    The pungent tang of fiberglass resin fills the air at Steiger Craft, a four-acre complex of sheds in Bellport, New York, where a wholesale bakery once stood. Alan Steiger, the 66-year-old grandson of that baker, runs Steiger Craft today—and in doing so is keeping one of Long Island’s only boatbuilding shipyards alive.

    With the Scopinich family having recently announced that, after five generations, they’re planning to cease boat-building operations at Hampton Shipyard in East Quogue, Long Island now has far more yards offering maintenance, dockage and storage than actually building boats. While dozens of yards built boats here from the late 1800s through the early 1900s, a steady influx of condominium

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