Word has been received of the death of Patrick Abrams in Costa Rica in December. He had cancer. A Montauk resident for over two decades, he had lived in Costa Rica since the mid-1990s.
Mr. Abrams was an Army veteran who served in Vietnam. He was injured in battle and bore the scars of war, but never really talked about it. He was “a true character and Zen master, long before it was cool to be one,” said a friend, Lee Bieler.
Originally from the Babylon and Bay Shore areas, he was adopted as a young boy. He moved to Montauk in the early 1970s to surf and start a new life. He was a fisherman and a woodworker.
According to Mr. Bieler, Mr. Abrams was “a legend” who was featured prominently in Allan Weisbecker’s 2001 memoir, “In Search of Captain Zero.”
Mr. Abrams is said to have loved his dogs more than the people he met on his journey through life, and he always had a pack of them with him. Memorial donations have been suggested to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, at arfhamptons.org.
