

visited daily and continued to make a strong presence to their long standing customers and employees until his passing on July 21 2008. Tammy and Bill now perform the daily responsibilities of the Marina, but Bill Sr. In 1984 Bill Parsons children Tammy and Bill Jr. Bayliner and it's Sister boat lines Maxum and Trophy have been the principal boat lines of Dredge Harbor ever since.

In 1946 the brothers became boat dealers for a company called Chris Craft, which remained their principle boat line until the New York Boat Show of 1978 where Jack Purcell convinced them to drop Chris Craft in favor of an up and coming west coast boat company called Bayliner. In the early forties the brothers Bill and Herb had developed the "sandpit" location with a few in water slips and began selling such famous boat lines as Broadwater Yachts and Greenwich boats, which they sold in varying quantities after the second world war. Dredge Harbor Marina was on its way to becoming the largest full service marina in the Delaware valley. The riverfront was being dredged and the brothers had the foresight to see the potential of the future boating needs of the area. and his brother Herb traded their interest in two cars for a down payment on a sandpit located along the riverfront.
