{"id":261350,"date":"2026-08-08T00:57:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261350\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:57:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:57:57","slug":"put-in-bay-man-brings-old-coast-guard-boat-back-to-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261350\/","title":{"rendered":"Put-in-Bay man brings old Coast Guard boat back to Lake Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio \u2014 After looking for decades, a Put-in-Bay man in his mid-80s has brought an old Coast Guard utility boat back to Lake Erie.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just any boat \u2014 for Marv Booker, it\u2019s the one he served on years ago when he was stationed there. <\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786150676_10_.jpeg\" alt=\"Put-in-Bay man brings old Coast Guard boat back to Lake Erie\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>News 5 Cleveland<\/p>\n<p>Booker would have been lucky to find one\u00a0like\u00a0it. But he found the actual boat, number 40587. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is,\u201d said Booker, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Booker never forgot the boat and never stopped looking for it. He searched magazines and trade publications for years. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery month for about 50-plus years,\u201d Booker&#8217;s son, Eric, said. <\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, Eric was the first one to actually see the boat after Booker found it for sale in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>The family bought it and brought it back to Put-in-Bay, where Booker has built his life. Three generations helped get the boat back on Lake Erie. Booker&#8217;s granddaughter, Audrey Sheehan, is a boat captain herself. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis dream \u2026 it\u2019s cool to just kind of see it come true,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>It took a few years to get it ready, but everyone pitched in. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had this dream,\u201d Eric said.<\/p>\n<p>Finding the boat and getting it ready for the water brought back a lot of memories and gave Booker&#8217;s family a chance to make some new ones. <\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786150677_914_.jpeg\" alt=\"Put-in-Bay man brings old Coast Guard boat back to Lake Erie\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>News 5 Cleveland<\/p>\n<p>You can find the family and the boat at Put-in-Bay. They now give guided tours, so visitors can be part of the history, too.<\/p>\n<p>After all his years on Lake Erie, Booker was recently asked if it ever gets old. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it hasn\u2019t yet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>We Follow Through<\/p>\n<p>Want us to continue to follow through on a story? Let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio \u2014 After looking for decades, a Put-in-Bay man in his mid-80s has brought an old Coast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2700,47947,136,138,137,13229,13230,58536],"class_list":["post-261350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-boat","tag-coast-guard","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-news5cleveland","tag-northeast-ohio-news","tag-put-in-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}