Bill Murphey is the skipper of the local Sea Scouts’ newest acquisition, a donated, decommissioned 40-foot steel Coast Guard utility boat. On Saturday, four of the Sea Scouts were at the Great Bay Marina in Little Egg Harbor to scrape the bilges and get them ready for painting.

Although it’s not the most pleasant job, the young adults – Grant Los of Toms River, Julianne Jeffers and Jay Rogers of Manahawkin and Erin Murphey of Island Heights – had been working all morning despite a biting wind…