Adolph Almasy who knows the Mastic bay area well told me (in regards to the size of the original Storm King ) that Dodi probably used it twice in Mastic. Once trying to go into his cove and once trying to go out.

He of course is referring to the original SK's size 53' 2" and the shallowness of the "Narrow Bay" we knew as kids. Before the storm of 1931 that created the Moriches Inlet, there was only an inlet just past Smith's Point. I'm sure the bay bottom was quite different prior to that. Dodi dredged enough bay bottom to create an area known as the "Mud Flats" that lies between Dock Rd. and Jefferson Dr. Home Guardian once had plans to make a park at the Mud Flats and it is shown on the original file map of 1938.

Once again thanks to the Mystic Seaport Museum and the efforts of their librarian, Wendy Schnur, I was able to come up with more info on the original Storm King including the subsequent owners as late as 1979 ! and the existence of Dodi's Storm King Too and Storm King III .

Dodi sold the Storm King in 1940-41 and it sailed off with various owners to ports in Cleveland Ohio, Larchmont Ny, and was last seen in Washington D.C. as late as 1979. I am going to attempt to contact the families that have owned it over the years for photos and hopefully even though it would now be 71 years old, I just might find it still afloat somewhere. Here is two actual photos of STORM KING TOO used in a Matthews Boat Ad in August of 1941.

The last boat registered in Dodi's name with Lloyds was the STORM KING III. It's home port was Hampton Bays and he only owned it for two years 1946- 48. It was sold to another Hampton Bays resident and has gone through many name changes over the years. The photo below is from a Matthews 1946 ad but is not identified as the actual boat, however this is most likely what Storm King III looked like as it sailed around Tiana and Shinnecock Bay after WWII.