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- [S127] Advance, Long Island, 22 may 1952, p. 1.
Bruuhgavwn—Ever have the feeling you'd like to chuck it all and take off on a nice restful ocean cruise? Who hasn't!
The different thing about Joseph Adams, well-known Brookhaven photographer, is that he is doing somethng about it. Mr. Adams will pack his gear into a
standard 16-foot outboard runabout this morning and shove off for Florida via the Inland waterway.
What makes the trip especially unique is that "Captain" Adams is making the six-to-eight week trip alone. "I've got a leave of absence from home," he said jokingly.
But he will be accompanied by plenty of equipment including a portable radio and four cameras with which he will make a complete photographic record, black and white and in color, of his trip.
So, the trip is not entirely a vacation, inasmuch as he hopes eventually to interest magazine publishers in some of his pictures, and he shouldn't have much trouble doing so if his past success in selling free lance pictures to national and European publications is any criterion.
The fearless voyager said he plans to use either the Fire Island inlet or the East Rockaway inlet, depending upon the weather, and then will stop for gas in New York, at 23rd street (East river).
He plans to hit Miami, Fla., June 8 for a meeting of the Outdoor Writers club. He's also looking forward to exploring the Everglades.
Mr. Adams said he thought at first he'd make the trip by automobile, but gave up that idea as "too dangerous" and decided to go the "safe, sane way."
The boat is a standard 16-foot runabout from Shell Lake, Wis. The motor is a Johnson 25 h.p. capable of 30 m.p.h. He can sleep out under the stars if he wants to, but won't have to since he has constructed a collapsible superstrusture of plywood and canvas which can be erected in 15 minutes.
For navigation he has a Dinsmore compass and regular charts, "similar to the road charts you get in any gas station."
But Mr. Adams isn't worrying any about the trip because he has been a sailing and outboard enthusiast most of his Hfe. Born in East Moriches, Mr. Adams attended Patchogue High school and said the trip has been in the planning since he graduated from that institution 20 years ago.
Mr. Adams formerly operated a photography studio in Riverhead, but in 1950 moved it to his home on Carman boulevard , Brookhaven, where he and his wife have made their home for the past four years. They have a daughter Barbara,
8, and a son John, 3.
- [S127] Advance, Long Island, 12 Jun 1852, p. 1.
MIAMI , FLA. — .Joseph Adams free-lance photographer-writer from Brookhaven ,
arrived here Saturday to complete one of the most daring sea treks in history.
He covered the 2,000 miles down the inland waterway in a 16-foot runabout
powered with a 25 horse- power outboard motor.
According to officials he encountered on the way down, nobody had ever before
started and completed the trip alone.
"When I got in I felt okay," said Joe , "but the next day the boys told me that
they guessed my a#e as 50, others said 'ageless'—didn't feel 'let down' until
last Sunday."
The story of Adams' trip is a real saga of the sea. He left Brookhaven on May 23, via Fire Island inlet , and went up to 23rd street, East River, for fuel. The river, reports Joe, is a dangerous thoroughfare with driftwood, boxes and debris cluttering the waterlanes.
With the steamers, he moved on to Sandy Hook, N. J. and ran into some choppy water near Manasquan inlet, where he was greeted by Adrian Salter, who was formerly in charge of the Bellport Coast Guard station. Mr. Salter asked Joe to transmit his regards to Dey Demarest, Mike Wallen and Frank Trotta in Bellport.
At Manasquan inlet, Joe also met G. E. Louis, whose brother, Ira, is stationed at the East Moriches Coast Guard station. Later, at Metomkin inlet , Adams ran, into C. O. Harmon, who was stationed
at the Bellport station from 1931 to 1935. Harmon inquired about Clarence Hawkins and others from the Bellport area.
When Adams reached Delaware bay, the Coast Guard station at Cape May warned him against crossing that body of water.
"When I eased into the rollers of the bay, I began to wonder why 1 had gotten myself into such a mess," related Joe.
"Then I was out of sight of land and the rollers came larger. The chop at the entrance of the canal had disappeared and a haze set in. This cut my visibility to a mile or so. But after what seemed like far too long, the other
shore appeared and the run was over."
The crossing of the Delaware led Joe to figure out a time saver for by-passing the long run down the Chesapeake bay. He left for Norfolk on a calm but fickle day and the wind freshened and a chop developed as he was half-way across.
"The waves," recalls Joe, "were hitting me broadside and the motor and I were under a constant deluge of spray. Small craft warnings were out, and when 1 reached the Twin Fork Coast Guard station I was ankle-deep in water but still running and riding very well."
Adams reached Norfolk harbor late in the afternoon and spent the night on board in his sleeping bag. "1 made sleeping room," Joe says, "by squeezing my cameras
and camping equipment into the bow, then 1 unrolled the bag and slept in a sort of kitten-coil. I got so used to this way of sleeping I didn't bother going ashore for the night from there on down."
The trip, which took 15 days including time lost for bad weather, cost Adams $160 for food, gas, oil , docking and other expenses. Joe estimates his running time was 125 hours, for an average speed of 15 or 16 miles per hour.
He made the remarkable trip to attend the national convention of the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He received a great welcome from J. Hammond Brown, president of the association , and a large crowd was at the pier to
greet the intrepid seafarer.
When the convention ends on Sunday, Adams expects to return via the outboard route. This time, Joe says , he may go by way of the Gulf of Mexico , then up
the Mississippi river.
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