SPORT FISHING
After it sank during Hurricane Irma, the legendary sport-fishing boat Sea Lion II is being rebuilt by a team of five craftsmen using Willis Marine of Stuart.
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TREASURE COAST BOATING
ROARING BACK
TO LIFE
GREG GARDNER
Efforts underway to restore Sea Lion II
to fight fish another day
BY GREG GARDNER
Perhaps the most famous sport-fishing boat in history
has been raised from the bottom of the Indian River
Lagoon to fight monster fish for another 50 years.
Sea Lion II is well-known from Mexico to the Bahamas,
from Florida to Long Island, N.Y., and has been profiled
on several television shows. The guest list is long on celebrities
including former President Richard Nixon.
“In every major port we stopped, people would stop by
and tell their stories of being on the boat,” said Jim Carey,
who has the longest tenure of any of the boat’s captains from >>