TREASURE COAST BOATING
LIVING HISTORY
WHITICAR FAMILY
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Curt, bottom row, center, made more than 60 custom sports fishing boats in his nearly 100-year career, including, top row, left to right, the Hobo, the
Gannett II, the Aphrodite; bottom, left, the Patsea, and, right, the Sea Lion.
The postwar years brought prosperity and lots of tourists
who were in the mood to fish. Business was good for the fleet
and Curt started making boats again. He didn’t have a boat
shop yet, so his father gave him permission to build one on
his property near Willoughby Creek. He found the materials
for the structure when he heard that the Army was looking
for someone to tear down the buildings at Camp Murphy,
what is now Jonathan Dickinson State Park. With a $425 bid,
he bought the 70-by-90 mess hall and dismantled it with
hand tools, piece by piece, within the required 30 days. He >>
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