Downrite Marine Towing & Salvage

07/13/2026

Heavy Storms off the Space Coast

12/26/2025

12/10/2025

10/09/2025

Small P/C in Tow.

09/26/2025

Tight Fort Lauderdale canal towing out a 390 Sea Ray

03/14/2025

Miami ➡️ St Augustine 265 mile tow competed with a 82’ Sunseeker. Pictured exiting FT Pierce after a pit stop.

02/19/2025

40’ Sea Ray in tow.

01/25/2025

Classic Boston Whaler story.

In 1961, the Space Age was in full swing. Nowhere was this better evidenced than on the cover of the May 19, 1961 issue of Life magazine. On the cover sat NASA astronaut Alan Shepard—the first American to fly to outer space—answering fan mail. Inside, on page 73, was a jaw-dropping photo of a mild-mannered looking Bostonian in a hat and tweed suit. He sat calmly on the stern quarter of a small, floating boat that was being split in half with a lumberjack saw. The headline read: “A Man in a Pickle, Unthinkable…Is Not Only Safe But Unsinkable.” Back in 1958, that man, Dick Fisher had the brilliant idea of melding two space-aged materials; fiberglass and expanding polyurethane foam. Fisher clamped an innovative and stable 13-foot fiberglass triple-vee hull and deck together. Then, leaving a hole at the bow to pour in the volatile foam brew, and others for gasses and expanding foam to escape, the concoction filled all the voids to create incredible strength and literal unsinkability. Fisher even Evinrude’ed the sawed off stern, circling his “Unibond”—built half boat around Life’s slack jawed photographers. Sales of Fisher’s “Boston Whaler” skyrocketed, and an “Unsinkable Legend” was born.