Jersey Speed Skiffs & Garveys  

Tom - I lived in Barnegat when I was 7 - 8 years old and spent a lot of my summers down there after that, and a big thrill for me was going to the Garvey races that were held a different places throughout the summer along the Barnegat Bay.

When they made their yearly appearance for raceday at the Barnegat Public Dock, it was like our Indy 500....  Tweety Bird, Red Baron, Chantilly Lace, Tom & Jerry are some of the names I remember.  All the boats were tied up to the dock, so it was like everyone was in the pits even this 7 year old!. 

Watching the drivers climb down off the dock and into the boats to head off to who knows what awaited...  Just two guys with orange helmets... sitting in the back of flat bottom boat, with a 283 with pointed up just a few feet in front of them heading out across the chop. 

Pretty cool stuff.