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Boat Yard Fire/ Hazmat in Boston
Posted: Apr 25th, '08, 08:48
by Pete Fallon
FYI,
Boston Fire Deptment 2nd alarm fire 8:00 AM this morning at Boston Boat Works 256 Marginal St. East Boston. Site is MJM yacht manufacturing plant, next to Bethleham Steel, fire involved barrels of chemicals, 30 workers and aleast 15 firefighters had to be decontaminated. Unkown damage to boats in production. MJM makes beautiful 29'-34' picnic style boats, owner Bob Johstone built J 24, J34 sail boats.
Posted: Apr 25th, '08, 08:56
by jspiezio
Glad no one was hurt. MJM's little day cruisers are sweet numbers. Very light and high tech, but nice runners- perfect picnic boat (canI say that after Hinckley trade marked it?). I rode one a few times out of 3 mile harbor in East Hampton. Never fished on one though.
Posted: Apr 25th, '08, 09:04
by Mack
Wow. Bad news for 2 of my nieghbors who own the MJM and J Boat franchises locally. Given the slow boat sales market, that is as close as you get to a knockout blow.
Posted: Apr 25th, '08, 16:11
by Bruce
Just worked on an MJM the other day. Nice boat.
Posted: Apr 25th, '08, 20:01
by CaptPatrick
Mack wrote:Wow. Bad news for 2 of my nieghbors who own the MJM and J Boat franchises locally. Given the slow boat sales market, that is as close as you get to a knockout blow.
Could be Jewish Lighting...
Posted: Apr 26th, '08, 06:34
by mike ohlstein
That was my first thought.....
Posted: Apr 26th, '08, 07:49
by randall
mine too........there's a B25 in a boat yard on 3 mile harbor that got hit by "lightning"....good hull for a redo.
Posted: Apr 26th, '08, 16:43
by Bruce
Two old business owners sitting next to each other in the home talking about the good old days.
Irv says, yea I had 3 fires at my place. Each and every time I came back stronger than ever. When it came time for me to retire, a fire broke out and I cleaned up from the insurance.
Bob said, wow I couldn't imagine going thru that. I had 45 years of good business and when it was time for me to retire I had a flood and the insurance paid off big. I retired very wealthy.
Irv thought for a moment and said, How do you start a flood?
Posted: Apr 26th, '08, 17:17
by randall
my dad was robbed at gunpoint a few times and his sales men were robbed even more. he was in the diamond jewelry biz. when i questioned him about this facet of the biz his reply was" if they dont shoot me it always works out in my favor. insurance company pays off and then they almost always recover the goods which i buy back for 20 cents on the dollar" luckily i didnt have to face that but i do know what it feels like to walk around with 1.5 million in a briefcase while gangs of colombians are looking for a mark.