Captain Charlie Dodd's "OPTIMIST QUEEN" prepares to depart from Dodd's Basin on the Shark River in Neptune, NJ circa 1964. The "OPTIMIST QUEEN" was built in 1959 by Stowman Shipyards at Dorchester, NJ.
During her career, she sailed as the "OPTIMIST QUEEN", the "SUNSHINE", the "OPTIMIST
SPORT", the "MOHAWK IV", the "MISS BELMAR II", the "BANDIT", the "CYNTHIA ANN", and she continues to sail from City Island, NY as the "ISLAND CURRENT IV". She is one of only a handful of Stowman-built vessels that are still in operation today.
