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Tisbury security/firefighting boat hits rough seas

A Texas shipyard now at work building a boat for the town of Tisbury with funds from a $265,306 Homeland Security grant intended to fund the design of vessels to give security, fire fighting and training capabilities on Martha's Vineyard waters.

Tisbury harbormaster Jay Wilbur is overseeing the construction. The new vessel is no off-the-shelf design. Instead, over the past several months, Mr. Wilbur has requested changes in the boat design to meet his requirements and the conditions under which it will operate. Delivery of the new boat is expected this month.

In a highly critical survey letter , dated May 21, and in a conversation with The Times, Capt. Richard L. Frenzel, a marine surveyor the town hired to inspect the project, said Mr. Wilbur and John Bugbee, town administrator and chief procurement officer, lacked the skills and experience to plan and oversee the construction of a vessel. Citing a particular deficiency in the new vessel, he said she will not have the firefighting capabilities described in the grant application and award.

Mr. Wilbur and Mr. Bugbee dispute Mr. Frenzel's assessment.

"Most of his comments are based on processes for Coast Guard inspected vessels —passenger-carrying vessels — that's not what we are building," Mr. Wilbur told The Times in a telephone conversation yesterday.

As for Mr. Frenzel's view that the boat will not have firefighting capabilities, Mr. Wilbur said, "He does not know what he is talking about."

Mr. Wilbur said he has been in the boating business, at least semi-professionally, since he was 14 years old and has been involved in several town boatbuilding projects. "I think you would be hard pressed to find someone more experienced," he said.

He said members of the harbor management committee, local boatbuilders, and members of the fire department all participated in the process.

Selectmen weigh issue

The Tisbury selectmen briefly discussed the harbor patrol boat inspection report at a meeting on May 31. Selectmen asked Mr. Wilbur, Jim Lobdell, chairman of the harbor management committee, town administrator John Bugbee, and selectman chairman Geoghan Coogan to discuss issues raised in the report with the boatbuilder and give a report.

At a meeting Tuesday, Mr. Coogan said the selectmen received written comments about the boat survey report from Mr. Wilbur, Mr. Lobdell, and the Welded Boat Company of Palacios, Texas. Mr. Wilbur did not attend the meeting.

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