
    In the Matter of the Claim of Otto Andreassen, Appellant. Philip Ross, as Industrial Commissioner, Respondent.
   Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed June 21, 1976, which affirmed the decision of a referee sustaining an initial determination of the Industrial Commissioner holding claimant ineligible to receive benefits effective January 27, 1976 through March 2, 1976 because he was not available for employment in that period (Labor Law, § 591, subd 2). Claimant, a deckhand on vessels in the Great Lakes area, last worked on December 2, 1975 at which time he was laid off at the end of the Great Lakes shipping season. On January 27, 1976, claimant left by car for West Palm Beach, Florida, stopping briefly on the way at Savannah, Jacksonville, and Fort Lauderdale. He returned driving his car to New York on March 3, 1976. The board found that claimant went on a vacation trip to Florida during the period in question and that his meager efforts to find work in Florida did not constitute a meaningful search for employment during that vacation period. As there is substantial evidence in the record to support the board’s findings, the decision must be affirmed (Matter of Longabucco [Levine], 50 AD2d 1002; Matter of Zaput [Catherwood] 25 AD2d 903). Decision affirmed, without costs. Kane, J. P., Main, Larkin, Herlihy and Reynolds, JJ., concur.  