Tight-knit Long Island boating family sells homemade ice cream at sea: Need this option every day

They cover shipping. A Long Island family that recently dipped into the ice cream business is seasing the day by hand- delivering their delicious homemade product by boat to folks out on the south shore’s waters in need of a quick cool-down.“Anyone on Long Island will tell you that we all look forward to a Long Island summer,” Caitlin Mann of Mann’s Homemade Ice Cream in Amityville told The Post.“So we figured, why not bring something that we love to the water?”The recent psychology grad spends her summer weekends scooping flavors on the family’s 21-foot center console craft as her longtime boating dad, Eric, cruises around with their phone number massively displayed atop it for call in orders.They jet to coves and canals in the Amityville and nearby Massapequa areas, where other vessels and waterfront homeowners flag them down or telephone in some stern side sweets.“It’s not a normal thing to have an ice cream truck show up in your backyard,” loyal customer Sue Sklarsky said while enjoying a cup of the Mann family’s popular homemade cherry vanilla on her canal-side lawn. The duo comes around with five rotating flavors at a cost of $8 for a small and $13 for a large.Last week, the purveyors offered chocolate, mint chip, Sklarsky’s favorite cherry vanilla, in addition to cookie dough and top seller cookies & cream.“It’s amazing.

It’s the best ice cream I ever had on the water,” first timer Mike Iacono said from his boat anchored in Massapequa Cove, of which the Manns tied a rope line to make the exchange. “I need this option every day I’m on the water.”Their boat fits 30 gallons of ice cream in a subzero fridge and usually returns to the Mann’s Massapequa home dock fully empty after 20 or so stops at sea on a good trip out.After all, locals claim the Manns are the first with the concept of selling proper ice cream that isn’t prepackaged popsicles on their waters. “We’ve been waiting forever for somebody to have...