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Jun 25, 2020 · June 25, 2020. By Krystle J. Bailey. When you see a lifeguard boat on the beaches this summer, you’ll know to respect them. They may be saving someone’s life. John and Sam VanDuyne, born and raised in Ventnor NJ were the original boat builders, a business that came in a roundabout way.
May 22, 2014 · Measuring 17 feet, 3 inches long and 5 feet, 2 inches wide at its middle, the Van Duyne rescue boat weighs 350 pounds. Outfitted with one or two sets of oars, it plows through swells and surf like a champ. “They handle the seas better than anything I’ve seen,” says Murray Wolf, chief of the Avalon Beach Patrol since 1967.
Mar 1, 1998 · Weighing about 350 pounds, measuring 5 feet wide and 17 feet, 3 inches long, the boat is ''unsinkable and indestructible,'' according to Tom Van Duyne, whose uncle Samuel, and father, John,...
Aug 25, 2010 · Van Duyne builds surfboats for most all ocean lifeguards in South Jersey. So in 1950, young Sam and John Van Duyne did something boat purists thought unthinkable. “They called my uncle...
Jun 12, 2023 · The Van Duyne surfboat is a great one. However, it is important to note that before there was a Van Duyne lifeguard boat … there was the groundbreaking VanSant boat that predated it by almost one century. I recently looked at a photo and description of a VanSant lifeguard boat, which was sold at auction.
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Jan 10, 2022 · The South Jersey Lifeguard rowing championships started there in 1924, and for the past sixty years, the Van Duyne family has constructed the lifeguard boats used by most Jersey coast beach patrols. “Surfboats, moving well in and out of the surf, has always been a South Jersey thing,” said Garbutt.
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An Atlantic City Shore Lifeguard Boat, Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Van Duyne Bros. have built hundreds of lifeguard boats for beach patrols along the Atlantic since. New Jersey United States Atlantic City, 2017. -08-11. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017882189/.
