PORT OF EGYPT MARINE

Boating and Marine > Marine Products

Inspired by their discovery of Long Island's North Fork, brothers William Sr., Herb and Herman Lieblein decided to purchase a fishing station on Southold Bay. The brothers launched Port of Egypt in 1946, believing that others would want to experience the idyllic location and fishing paradise.

They were right.

It wasn't long before POE was bustling with eager fisherman who would get in the boat rental line long before the sun bobbed up onto the horizon. This conglomeration of customers was described as a "United Nations" because of the camraderie between such an eclectic mix of cultures and races and the divesity of languages weidling fish tales.

People purchased bait like fiddler crabs and worms packed in white eclair boxes lined with seaweed. They rented boats -- first wooden, then aluminum. In the early years, boats were towed to prime fishing spots in the morning and picked up at the end of the day. Eventully, rental boats were powered by small, outboard engines.

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