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BLUE JACKET

BLUE JACKET is a 33.53 m Motor Yacht, built in Netherlands by De Vries Lentsch and delivered in 1958.

Her top speed is 13.0 kn and she boasts a maximum range of 1600.0 nm when navigating at cruising speed, with power coming from two Cummins diesel engines. She can accommodate up to 6 guests, with 6 crew members waiting on their every need. She has a gross tonnage of 193.0 GT and a 6.5 m beam.

She was designed by G. De Vries Lentsch Jr. , who also completed the naval architecture. G. De Vries Lentsch Jr. has designed 12 yachts and created the naval architecture for 12 yachts for yachts above 24 metres.

BLUE JACKET is one of 2076 motor yachts in the 30-35m size range, and, compared to similarly sized motor yachts, her volume is 6.91 GT above the average.

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• Name: BLUE JACKET
• Yacht Type: Motor Yacht
• Yacht Subtype: Classic Yacht
• Builder: De Vries Lentsch
• Naval Architect: G. De Vries Lentsch Jr.
• Exterior Designer: G. De Vries Lentsch Jr.

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Luxury Yacht Ship Wreck, Raritan River, New Jersey

This abandoned yacht, just west of the mary murray staten island ferry wreck, apparently once belonged to the shah of iran.   this ship is located on the south bank of the raritan river in east brunswick nj..

Congers yacht mystery solved in NJ

The mystery surrounding an abandoned boat that washed ashore on New Jersey's Long Beach Island last week has been solved.

New Jersey State Police said they've located the owner of the Mel Rae, a Silverton cruising yacht that bore the hometown of Congers, New York.

While that had once been true, police said the vessel had recently been sold by a Rockland owner to West Virginia resident Ricky Adkins.

New Jersey State Trooper Alejandro Goez said Adkins was out boating last week when he encountered mechanical trouble and didn't think he would make it to shore because of the strong tides.

EARLIER STORY: Congers yacht washes ashore in NJ, police stumped

He said Adkins anchored the boat in the the waters of Little Egg Inlet, went to shore on a good samaritan's boat and tried to make arrangements to have the boat towed, which didn't work out.

"He assumed the boat was still there, but the tides took it away," Goez said.

Officials found the boat washed up on the beach on Tuesday and arranged to have it towed away themselves.

"It was an unusual situation, but there wasn't anything suspicious," the trooper said. "And it wasn't like he purposely left it there. He was just unfamiliar with the area."

Goez said the boat is now in Long Beach Township Public Works Yard, awaiting Adkins' arrival to claim it.

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33.53m  /  110' | de vries lentsch | 1958 / 1999.

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The 33.53m/110' motor yacht 'Blue Jacket' was built by De Vries Lentsch in the Netherlands at their Amsterdam shipyard. She was last refitted in 1999.

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Blue Jacket has been designed to comfortably accommodate up to 6 guests in 3 suites. She is also capable of carrying up to 6 crew onboard to ensure a relaxed luxury yacht experience.

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Blue Jacket is built with a steel hull and steel superstructure, with teak decks. Powered by twin diesel Cummins (VTA-28 M2) 6-cylinder 900hp engines, she reaches a maximum speed of 13 knots.

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What is an abandoned vessel.

A vessel is considered abandoned if it has remained moored, grounded, docked, or otherwise attached or fastened to any public land or waterway or any private property without consent for more than 30 days.

The following scenarios may permit a vessel to be identified as abandoned.

• A boat marina or storage facility has a customer who has not made a storage or maintenance payment in over 30 days without an alternate arrangement having been made with the storage facility.
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A landowner on whose property an abandoned vessel is located, or a municipality, harbor commission, or other entity having jurisdiction over the area in which an abandoned vessel is located, may institute proceedings to acquire the title to an abandoned vessel.

The Abandoned Vessel Disposition Law (N.J.S.A. 12:7c-7 et seq.,) provides property owners with a mechanism for legal acquisition and disposition of vessels abandoned upon their property; however, this is not a substitute for the settlement of disputes between the property owner and vessel owner.

• If the vessel is less than 12 feet long, upon acceptance of a properly completed packet, the MVC will issue a non-titled proof of ownership receipt in the applicant’s name, which will allow the vessel to be registered.

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Florida supreme court oks abortion amendment for ballot; 6-week ban goes into effect in 30 days, ask orlando: what happened to the navy ship that docked in orlando.

An unusual construction project began about 50 years ago in Orlando. The workers must have felt like Noah as he prepared for the flood.

“What’s a ship like that doing in a place like this?” curious onlookers probably asked.

The nearest ocean was 50 miles away. And unlike Noah, the U.S. Navy was not counting on 40 days and nights of rain to get its ark off the ground.

But on May 3, 1969, the Florida Citrus Queen smashed a bottle of orange juice over the bow. With that, Orlando’s ship had literally come in.

The odd thing is it never left.

The newly christened USS Blue Jacket essentially set sail to nowhere. That long strange trip lasted more than 30 years and prompted this week’s Ask Orlando question.

“What happened to the submarine that sat where the big fountain is in Blue Jacket Park? And your writers can give the history behind the park’s name.”

Our crack researchers easily deduced the reader actually meant “ship” instead of “submarine.” It was also easy to answer the second part of the question.

Blue Jacket Park came from the name of Navy enlisted personnel – Blue Jackets.

As for what happened to the Blue Jacket ship, that’s something of a mystery. Not a Noah’s Ark-caliber mystery, since nobody disputes there was actually a huge wooden vessel (minus the elephants, emus and other animal pairs).

But it’s not clear if it was the “Bluejacket” or “Blue Jacket.” Stories and documents had both spellings. And the precise details of the boat’s demise are a bit sketchy, which frustrates historians.

“If you were to tell the story of the NTC/RTC Orlando in 100 objects, what would it be?” Adam Ware said.

He’s now director of the history center at Dalton State College, but in 2016 he was in charge of collecting artifacts for an exhibit at the Orange County Regional History Center. The exhibit was for Orlando’s Naval Training Center and the Recruiting Training Center.

Yes, millennials, the Navy was once a big thing in landlocked Orlando. There was a 1,900-acre base where Baldwin Park now sits, and the biggest thing there was the answer to Ware’s question.

“The Blue Jacket was maybe one of the most distinctive pieces of the site,” he said.

The Army first used the site as a World War II base. The military returned the airfield to the city of Orlando when the base was decommissioned in 1946, but it retained the rest of the land.

The Navy moved in in 1968, building a training facility for recruits. Over the next 30 years, it welcomed about 652,000 visitors to Orlando. Disney World it wasn’t.

Raw recruits were whipped into boot-camp shape. In 1973, women joined the fun as the base became the first where member of both sexes trained at the same site.

Much of it took place on the “Grinder,” the big field that acted as a giant frying pan in the Florida sun. Over the years, there was probably enough sweat dispensed to float an aircraft carrier.

Looming on one side was the Blue Jacket. It was a scaled-down mockup of a destroyer escort, 262 feet long and 40 feet wide.

Below deck were classrooms and offices. Above deck, recruits learned about mooring and refueling and other duties. It was like being on the ocean, except nobody got seasick.

The ship eventually went on the disabled list. Water damage from leaks caused $160,000 worth of damage in 1991, and the Navy considered demolishing the Blue Jacket.

As luck would have it, the opening scene in Lethal Weapon 3 was being filmed downtown, featuring the real live explosive demolition of the old Orlando City Hall. That gave Navy brass an idea.

“We’ve talked it over, and we’d like to see Mel Gibson and Danny Glover running out of it,” Lt. Cmdr. Bill Gore joked.

The Navy reconsidered and refurbished the ship. It served as a teaching tool and panoramic backdrop for graduation ceremonies until the final class of recruits paraded out on Dec. 2, 1995.

The base was closed and the property eventually became a high-end housing development. In 2000, the city honored its naval history by designating 75 acres for Blue Jacket Park.

Thanks to weather, neglect and termites, the ship had fallen into worse shape than the Titanic. There was no official decommissioning. The old wooden bucket just fell apart and was hauled away.

“I had hoped to find a piece that had been saved somehow, to be preserved for the History Center,” Ware said. “But I don’t think any of it was saved from the debris pile.”

The 2016 exhibit coincided with the construction of a 7-foot bronze statue at Blue Jacket Park. “The Lone Sailor” depicts a boatswain’s mate looking out to sea.

He was joined last year by “Blue Jacket Recruit.” That statue of a female enlisted sailor honors the 188,000 women who graduated from the nation’s first coed boot camp.

If the statues could talk, they’d share a lot of memories from the landlocked Navy base. At the top of that list might be the USS Blue Jacket.

For a ship that went nowhere, it had a quite a voyage.

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Bringing blue jacket back to life.

A Collaboration of Friends & Colleagues Set New Sails on BJY

Blue Jacket Yachts was first conceived between two sailing experts. The Blue Jacket 40 design was a collaboration between Naval Architect Bob Johnson, owner and designer of Island Packet Yachts, and Tim Jackett of Jackett Yacht Design.  Island Packet, well known for their comfortable big volume cruising boats, wanted to establish a departure in style and performance, asking Jackett to collaborate on the design.  With Jackett's decades of experience designing Tartan and C&C performance racer/cruisers, the outcome was predictable and the judges at Cruising World Magazine agreed - awarding the Blue Jacket 40 Boat of the Year in 2014. There have been 14 Blue Jacket 40 built between 2013-2016.  Many of the boats are on their 2nd owners.  We are hearing from them - and the boats continue to stand the test of time.

Mike Mullenberg & Tim Jackett first met in 1987 at Tartan Yachts.  Mullenberg first worked as a dealer, and then headed their West Coast expansion with sales, marketing, and dealer development. Jackett was a designer and head of production. Their careers continued to intertwine for decades and they remained great friends. In 2017, Mullenberg started his own yacht brokerage, Pacific Cruising Yachts , in Anacortes, WA.  He frequently met with customers who were looking for a performance cruiser, and there were not many that fit the niche. This sparked his idea to start his own design, and he reached out to Jackett, the now lead designer at Tartan Yachts , to throw around ideas and start drafting his vision. 

Over time, it came to Mullenberg's attention that the Blue Jacket 40 exemplified much of what he envisioned. Jackett had designed the Blue Jacket 40 in an attempt to perfect the elusive idea of a performance cruiser - a versatile boat expected to excel in various conditions, all with the comforts of a luxury cruiser. Island Packet had built 14 boats, but tabled the design to meet other demands. So the idea struck - instead of starting from scratch, they would approach Island Packet for the chance to acquire Blue Jacket Yachts and relaunch the program. They said yes, and in 2022, Mullenberg, under the umbrella of Niche Watercraft , purchased Blue Jacket Yachts. Between Mullenberg's expertise and intuition for the boating industry, and Jackett's talents and prolific history in design, Blue Jacket Yachts is back and better than ever and ready to springboard the fabulous and proven designs forward into the next evolution. The new Blue Jacket Yachts will feature the same hull and deck, but feature new modern interpretations in interior and performance that embody creativity and design prowess. 

See the eerie graveyard of WWII-era ships off N.J. coast (VIDEO)

• Updated: Mar. 31, 2016, 5:55 p.m. |
• Published: Mar. 31, 2016, 4:55 p.m.
• Craig McCarthy | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Just off the New Jersey coast, lies the skeletons of forsaken ships, sunken and stuck in coastal mud -- a few more than a century old.

Out of view while driving across the Outerbridge Crossing, the closest span to site, sits the abandoned Arthur Kill Ship Graveyard on the Staten Island side of the tidal strait, dividing New Jersey and New York.

But thanks to Chad Aaronson, also known as Jersey Drone on social media , his eerie drone footage shows the afterlife of a number of deteriorating tugboats, decommissioned steam-powered ferries, wooden barges and other old ships at different states of submerged.

"I've always been intrigued by abandoned places," Aaronson, a Freehold resident, told NJ Advance Media on what motivated him to make the trek out to the forgotten area. "I love exploring places that not many people know about or even want to know about."

And Aaronson said one day he just stumbled upon the site while browsing Google Maps.

"[I] noticed what looked like 'junk' sitting in murky waters," he said. "To some, that is probably what it still looks like. But to me, I saw ships that, at one time, were things of beauty."

The graveyard, which sits less than 20 miles from the city that never sleeps, is a time capsule to an era just after World War II when it once operated as a marine scrapyard across from Tufts Point in Carteret.

But due to an overwhelming number of once-sea-worthy vessels, ship-breakers gave up on the unsuccessful effort tearing down the abandoned boats, leaving the ones that remained to rust.

The now partial-sunken maritime museum was originally known as the Witte Marine Scrap Yard.

Aaronson said what he saw last year when taking his aerial drone tour of the graveyard was "once pride and joys, lying in muck, stripped of their shiny brass and electronics, just sad hunks of metal left to rot."

A documentary of the grave yard, "Grave Of Arthur Kill,"  calls the site a "glimpse into the city's maritime history that you won't find on any tourist map." The 32-minute doc made in 2014 offers gorgeous up-close views of the decaying ships.

However, the reason why the boat boneyard isn't marked for travelers is that it's inaccessible to the public. The debris filled land on Staten Island side of the Arthur Kill is clearly marked with signs reading  "No Trespassing," according to Wired.

The 24-acre property is currently held by the Donjon Marine Company , which is part dredging company, whose owner Arnold J. Witte  calls the area one of the largest collections of old ships, according to WNYC.

Witte, the son of John J. Witte who started the scrapyard, says the location is closed off to the public due to safety concerns, the report says.

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