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Conspiracies? You bet.
Trying to unravel the Christmas/New Year’s lobster sales debacle was much like trying to find the way out of a maze. It was loaded with dead-ends, and those fishermen, buyers, and wholesalers, who would talk weren’t saying much. And who knows if they were telling it straight: As one fisherman/dealer put it, “lobster prices are
Dana Rice, Birch Harbor: A respect for the past, an eye toward the future
The things that produce leaders, that cause them to do the things they do, are not always obvious. In Dana Rice’s case, only those who’ve known him since he was a child would have any inkling of what drives him, and even then they might not realize that those formative factors were what most would
Teenaged Stonington fisherman heads for Australia
In July, 14-year-old Stonington lobsterman Patrick Shepard will have to leave his pots with their Rocket Red and black buoys (a variant on the family colors) in the water for the three weeks he’ll be away as a student ambassador Down Under in the People to People program. While there, he’ll stay with an Australian
Committee works on revised lobsterboat racing rules
Those present at the January hearing included some 45 racers, boatbuilders, interested others and two Coast Guard officers. Clive Farrin, of Boothbay Harbor, Chairman of the Oversight Committee, moderated the meeting well, according to those present, and with good humor. In fact, wry humor kept the debate from deteriorating into rancor, which might also have
Jericho Bay Boatyard suffers second fire
How such a tragedy could have happened twice in a matter of months was on everybody’s mind. Insurance investigators, Deer Isle fire chief Brent Morey and state fire marshal John Morse had examined the site, but as of mid-January the cause of the fire had not been determined. Deer Isle fire chief Brent Morey, asked
In the ice: Modelmaker depicts a historic schooner, frozen in
Both Chase, the subject of John McPhee’s Looking For a Ship, and the BOWDOIN are at the Maine Maritime Academy, in Castine, where Gardner’s family has lived since the eighteenth century. It was natural that the three should come together. Chase and his four-year-old daughter, Lilly, stood in Gardner’s studio overlooking the Penobscot River on
Safety concerns prompt calls for new lobsterboat racing rules
Those lighter boats aren’t safe, Gove and others said, and, to their sorrow, they were right. What they had long dreaded came true in Searsport on Aug. 26, when, in a choppy sea, James West’s recreational racing boat WILD WILD WEST became airborne at what Beals boat-builder Calvin Beal reportedly clocked at 46.5 mph. It
Proceedings: The Coast Guard Journal of Safety at Sea
Proceedings: The Coast Guard Journal of Safety at Sea The fatal STARBOUND-VIRGO collision of Aug. 5 made those who work on the water acutely aware of safety issues. Gloucester fisherman and journalist Peter K. Prybot spoke for many when he posed such questions as: Did fatigue play a factor? Could the Russian crewmember on watch
STARBOUND, VIRGO and the rules of the road: Someone wasn’t paying attention off Cape Ann on Aug. 5
The U.S. Coast Guard’s investigation of the collision led to the 541-foot Cypriot-registered, Russian tanker VIRGO. Canadian authorities detained the vessel when it docked at Come By Chance, Newfoundland, Canada to reload. Almost immediately the international politics of four nations and the constabularies of two, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the U. S.