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Michael Crowley

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Michael Crowley is the former Boats & Gear editor for National Fisherman.

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The Mary Lu left Fashion Blacksmith with a new stepped pilothouse that provides better visibility all the way around, especially toward the back deck. Fashion Blacksmith photo.

Better visibility for Texas step-pilothouse; boat carpenter clamps down worst leak he’s seen

The Millie, a Duffy 35 designed by Spencer Lincoln, is the first boat for Richard Duffy’s recently launched R&R Duffy Boats. R&R Duffy Boats.

A classic 35-foot Maine lobster boat design is back; new wooden lobster boat to be launched in fall

Blue Eyed Girl was a force to reckoned with at the Boothbay and Rockland races. Jon Johansen photo

Maine’s Lobster Capital hosts boat races this weekend

An HI500 Thrustmaster waterjet and a 500-hp Cummins will power this 20-foot seine skiff being built at Rozema Boat Works. Rozema Boat Works photo.

Wash. boatyard builds jet-powered seine skiff; covid-19 dragging down boatyard production

Maritime Fabrications is finishing off this 48-footer as a coastal crabber and Dungeness tender for Puget Sound. Maritime Fabrications photo.

Level-wind pivot named in honor of bay fisherman; gillnetters get repowered at Southeast Alaska boatyard

The Syringa, a 36 Calvin lobster boat, pulled into Dana’s Boatshop to have its deck covered with a new rubber mat. Dana’s Boatshop photo.

Maine yard sends tuna boats to Massachusetts; lobstermen are laying down rubber decks

Working deck of Rebecca Mary. Kevin Ralph/NTSB

Survival on a sinking squid boat: NTSB report

This Eaton Boat Shop 25 will be going to a tuna fisherman. Eaton’s Boat Shop & Fiberglassing photo.

Maine shop seems to have a winner in 25-footer; magic has its place on the lobster boat racing circuit

The 64-foot Prospector was the first boat in the Port of Toledo Shipyard’s new fabrication shop. Port of Toledo Shipyard photo.

Oregon shrimper gets shafted — for the better; family tradition keeps going at California boatyard

The working end of Velocity Marine’s 33-foot landing craft/gillnetter/crabber has a Kinematics hydraulic drum and roller horns. Velocity Marine photo.

Unusual landing craft coming out of Wash. shop; fire-damaged gillnetter is undergoing repairs