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- The Bridgeport Post
Connecticut
September 18, 1959
Three Couples to Wed
Elmer A. Bassett, 66, a boatman and fisherman, who makes his home at the Ischoda Yacht Club off Water Street and Evellyn E. Reynolds, 53, a laundry worker, of 11 Cross Street.
The Bridgeport Post
Connecticut
September 29, 1963
Elmer A. Bassett
Elmer A. Bassett, formerly captain of an oyster sloop in Bridgeport, recently completed a two-month cruse to Bradenten, Florida, from Massachusetts with his wife in their 38-foot converted Coast Guard boat.
The Bassetts sailed most of the way to Florida in the Intercoastal waterway preferring safety to speed. Their trip started in Boston, led through Block Island Sound, Long Island Sound to the East river, into the Atlantic Ocean and into the intercoastal waterway at Point Pleasant, New Jersey.
Their boat, the “Evelyn R” powered by a 40-horse engine moved them along at a rate of only six or seven knots an hour. The trip could have been made in less than two months but the Bassetts made stops to visit friends on the way and stopped in New Jersey for a ship bottom painting job.
Mr. Bassett’s last trip to Florida was in 1911. He made his first trips there as an able seaman aboard a three-masted schooner, hauling yellow pine timber from Fernandina, Florida to Rhode Island. He was later skipper of 14 to 18 ton oyster sloops and engaged in charter fishing.
Mr. Bassett, who recently celebrated his 70th birthday, plans to stay in Florida and possibly resume his charter fishing business.
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Bassett Family Association Database
Abt 1906 - 
d. 21 Sep 1966, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut