He went from a shipwreck to a trainwreck.

Residents of a tony Jersey Shore town are furious after the shipwrecked Florida boater they welcomed with open arms turned out to be an ex-con with a rap sheet longer than a bluefin tuna.

Lawrence Kaehler, 51, was trying to sail solo from New York Harbor to Cocoa Beach, FL, but managed to make it only 48 miles. When rough weather caused him to lose control of his front sail, he frantically attempted to course correct and dock in what he believed to be an inlet — but he ended up running aground on the beach in Sea Girt.

“It got really, really nasty, really fast. It probably was four to six-foot waves, and probably about 25-mile-an-hour, 30-mile-an-hour winds,” said Kaehler, who owns a flooring business in Florida.

At first, locals rushed to he

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