FOX Surf Boat
''Fox'' was a specially built surfboat to be rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. ''Fox'' was custom built in 1896 by William A. Seaman at Seaman Sea Skiffs of Branchport, New Jersey for Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo of Highlands, New Jersey. The boat was named ''Fox'' for the financial backer Richard Kyle Fox (1846-1922) owner of the "pink tabloid", ''National Police Gazette, Police Gazette''. William A. Seaman was well known for building the seaworthy ''Nauvoo'' surf boat. He built the ''Fox'' with watertight compartments and hand rails on the keel, for righting the boat if capsized at sea. This feature would be used at least once in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean during heavy seas. The original ''Fox'' is lost, but in 1975 a replica of the ''Fox'' was built by the Long Branch Ice Boat and Yacht Club (LBIBYC) of New Jersey with the participation of Harold L. Seaman, son of the boat builder. As a youngster, Harold Seaman backed-up most of the rivets during construction o ...
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