It's officially a boatel condominium.

The SS Catala was brought up from California to become a "boatel" and charter fleet office.

During the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle she was used as a floating "boatel" moored on the Seattle waterfront.

But I was sitting on the deck of the Boatel at the Pines on Fire Island, and suddenly a rowboat came around the bend.

Too tired to wait up, I went to the Freeport Motor Inn and Boatel, along the waterfront on Main Street.

At the Freeport Boatel, Mr. Creamer says he still gets a steady stream of curiosity seekers, eager to stand at what amounts to ground zero.

A circular building at the intersection of Radio Road and Bayview Drive was originally constructed as a "Boatel", where boaters could dock, eat, and even sleep.

The Boatel is home to the most famous boudoir in Long Island history: Room 256, where it all started for Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafuoco.

A Maritime Village on the upland sector is to house Yacht Haven's boat services in new quarters, a commercial fishing dock, more shops and restaurants, and a 20-room boatel.

Mystic Island, New Jersey had a 'boatel' (hotel for boaters with water access) when it started in the 1960s but the building has since changed ownership and no longer operates as such.

"I cannot believe people haven't had enough," said Chris Creamer, the owner of the Freeport Motor Inn and Boatel, where prosecutors say the tryst that may send Mr. Buttafuoco to jail occurred.

The owners of the property appeared before the Croton Zoning Board of Appeals last week to request permission to build 216 marina slips, a 120-seat restaurant, a 25-unit hotel and a "boatel," or boat-storage area on the site.

Diagonally from the Boatel was "The Playhouse", on Playhouse Drive between Radio Road and S. Captains Drive, originally a welcome center which featured gift shops, an Olympic-sized saltwater swimming pool and marina.

In the book "Amy Fisher: My Story," by Sheila Weller with Miss Fisher's participation, Miss Fisher said the first tryst took place on July 2, 1991, at the Freeport Motor Inn and Boatel.