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Kirsten receives the Blue Water Medal from the Cruising Club of America at the New York Yacht Club in New York City. ROUND POND – Last spring at this time there were lots of people following the progress of South African Kirsten Neuschafer, who was sailing MINNEHAHA in the Golden Globe Race, which is a singlehanded, non-stop race around the world. This race was first run in 1968 when eight competitors headed out from England with just one finishing, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. When the race was restarted several years ago the rules said that you needed a production boat no newer than 1988 and ..read more

With the Maine Fishermen’s Forum in the rear-view mirror, there are now less than three months before the first lobster boat race. I usually have everything in order and ready to go within a couple of weeks of the last race. This year I still have the results to put into the computer. Not a big deal, takes a couple of days to put together, and I should see if I could add the results of the races before 1999. At the Annual Banquet there were no changes to the rules. There was a class change. Class N was divided into two races. It now reads: Class N (A), 40 feet and over, 751 to 1000 hp. Class N ..read more

By Sheila Dassatt         Let’s have some fun with this for a change!  After all of the seriousness of three winter storms and lots of miserable weather, the mullygumps are starting to set in with most folks these days.  We need spring and we need it now!  Those poor robins that showed up are all confused and don’t know which end is up. With this being said, I thought real hard about where to go with this, and with boat race season coming up, and the boats in the yard getting ready to go back overboard for another season, it only stands to reason that w ..read more

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American Eel Board Releases Draft Addendum VI for Public Comment Draft Addendum Considers Maine’s Glass Eel Quota for 2025 and Beyond         The Commission’s American Eel Management Board has released Draft Addendum VI to the Interstate Fishery Management Plan for American Eel for public comment. The Board initiated the addendum to address Maine’s glass eel fishery quota, which expires at the end of 2024. Draft Addendum VI presents options to set Maine’s quota as well as the number of years the quota would remain in place once it is implemented, and whether ..read more

Jeremy Beal lifting a gasoline race engine into his boat. JONESPORT – There has been a lot of changes in the lobster fishery over the years, but none compare to the changes in how the boats are powered. Back in the 1800s the fishermen rowed their boats and then they switched over to sail as the went further out. With the advent of the internal combustion engine, it was not long before fishermen started having them fitted into their boats. First, it was one-lungers running on naphtha or gasoline. These engines evolved over the years gaining more and more horsepower and this allowed the fis ..read more

    At Buxton Boat, they are progressing. The hull is done and Peter Buxton and Tim Clark are putting in the internal structure.    At Sargent Custom Boats in Milbridge is refurbishing a Crowley Beal 33, which will be going to Bonaire in the Caribbean. C. W. Johnson, Inc., Harpswell, Maine         In the first bay is Tom Clemons’ Morgan Bay 43 hull and top waiting to have her engine installed, which will be done by Chip Johnson. The engine is a 1,700-hp V-12 MAN, which was purchased as a running take-out in Florida last year. The engin ..read more

By Sheila Dassatt         It won’t be long and it will be baseball season!  This is a sign that spring is on it’s way with the hope that things will take on a normalcy for the time of the year.  There are die hard Red Sox fans and also die hard New York Yankee fans, and the two types of fans just don’t mix. Okay, what does spring baseball have to do with the fishing industry?  Well, I had to think long and hard to make this work.  It’s kinda like throwing the dice or spinning the wheel to see where it’s going to land. The wheel has various sub ..read more

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