SANDY HOOK – A 32-foot recreational boat with no one aboard ran aground near the mouth of the Shrewsbury River off the south end of Gateway National Recreation Area on Monday, according to federal authorities.
A number of people had reported seeing the Linda T., a 1984 Bayliner cabin cruiser, registered in New York, adrift in the icy waters of Sandy Hook Bay over the weekend with a severed mooring line and superficial damage to its port side.
Daphne Yun, a spokeswoman with the National Park Service, said a law enforcement ranger was dispatched to Lot B on Sandy Hook’s bayside in response to a call from Monmouth County’s 911 center about the beached vessel.
A boat sits grounded in the mouth of the Shrewsbury River off the south end of Sandy Hook Monday afternoon, January 27, 2025.
“There is an open investigation into the circumstances of the vessel’s grounding,” Yun said. “The National Park Service is working with the U.S. Coast Guard to safely remove the vessel.”
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Petty Officer Second Class Sydney Phoenix, a spokesperson with the Coast Guard, said the agency “is responding to a 32-foot pleasure craft that was unmanned and adrift over the weekend and ran aground on Gateway National Recreation Area property in Sandy Hook, New Jersey, on Monday morning.”
“We are actively working with the National Park Service to address the situation,” Phoenix said. “Though there has been no pollution reported from this vessel yet, our primary focus is removing any threat of future pollution of oil or hazardous substances to the marine environment now that the vessel is aground in the sand.”
The Coast Guard was working in partnership with other law enforcement agencies to understand the circumstances that led to the incident, Phoenix added.
A boat sits grounded in the mouth of the Shrewsbury River off the south end of Sandy Hook Monday afternoon, January 27, 2025.
Contact Asbury Park Press reporter Erik Larsen at elarsen@gannettnj.com.
This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: Ghost boat runs aground on Sandy Hook NJ: Feds investigating
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