As in the former boat company from Bellingham, Wash.? My dad owned a couple of
Uniflite passenger cabin cruiser boats (a 31' boat and then a 36' boat for the longest time, until he bought his house on Martha's Vineyard. He would actually sail the boats from NJ up through Long Island Sound to Martha's Vineyard every August for vacation.
Going across "Rhode Island" Sound (i.e. from Point Judith, RI (last fuel stop) to the entrance to Vineyard Sound (a buoy labeled "VS") was often a trip and a half! Often 13' seas and visibility poor enough to not see the coast line to the North of us. There was no land to the South, exposing us to nothing but the Atlantic Ocean. The only other boat out there, sometimes, was a Navy Destroyer out on maneuvers. We knew we were getting close to that "VS" buoy when we'd see the "Buzzard's Bay Entrance Tower" (we called it "Texas Tower" - it had a large white Strobe) but about 4-5 miles to the North of the "VS" Buoy.
You never wanted to go towards the tower because you could cut across a real nasty reef (Sow & Pig's Reef). It was a boat killer. Anyway, the trip would take about 15 hours total, and we'd often split it up into two days, staying in New London, CT going up, and Old Saybrook, CT returning back.
