N-W - 80 Ft

The Texas Star was built in 1977 on a multi-purpose supply ship hull, probably to service offshore oil platforms. The vessel was refitted as a floating casino in 1986 and renamed Texas Star Casino. As a casino, the vessel had its share of troubles, she was chased out of Savannah, filed bankruptcies, caught on fire, and was finally impounded by Federal Marshals in 2006. After years of sitting on blocks, the Daniels family bought the Texas Star Casino and drove it up the Intercoastal Waterway on one working engine, to North Carolina. There she was refitted in 2014 as an unusually large scallop boat with on-board processing, and renamed Texas Star. Claimed to be the only fully-automated scallop processing boat in the world, on her third fishing trip, Texas Star harvested a 92,000 lbs. of scallops, about half of what she can actually carry. She was sunk on June 29, 2022 as part of the Cape May Artificial Reef Project.