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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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Wesmac Custom Boats built the RV Pilar for a San Diego, Calif., owner as a tuna boat and to be chartered out for scientific research. Wesmac Custom Boats photo.

Maine yard sends tuna boat to California; Coast Guard gets a ‘make-believe’ lobster boat

The 36-foot Robin Lyn was hauled at Farrin’s Boatshop to be repowered and overhauled. Bill Sherburne photo.

Marine patrol boat will replace one that burned; Downeast boatyard finishing off Canadian hull

Misty Blue in June 2017 in Fairhaven, Mass. Enoch MacDonough photo/NTSB

NTSB: Misty Blue's capsize started with tank flooding

Blue Eyed Girl is the fastest working lobster boat. She hit 49 mph at Portland. Jon Johansen photo.

2020 lobster boat racing season wraps up; six races draw 379 competing boats

Strongback Metal Boats is building this 32-foot combination boat to fish Bristol Bay salmon and spiny lobsters off Southern California. — Strongback Metal Boats is building this 32-foot combination boat to fish Bristol Bay salmon and spiny lobsters off Southern California. Strongback Metal Boats photo.

First-of-a-kind combo will run spinies to bay salmon; Washington boatyard delivers 49-foot California crabber

Strongback Metal Boats is building this 32-foot combination boat to fish Bristol Bay salmon and spiny lobsters off Southern California. — Strongback Metal Boats is building this 32-foot combination boat to fish Bristol Bay salmon and spiny lobsters off Southern California. Strongback Metal Boats photo.

First-of-a-kind combo will run spinies to bay salmon; Washington boatyard delivers 49-foot California crabber

This Osmond 46' x 17' 6" crabber is one of several boats H&H Marine has sent to California. H&H Marine photo.

Maine yard sends crabber to the West Coast; lobstermen’s love of racing perseveres in pandemic

The wooden dragger and crabber Blue Pacific after leaving Makela Boatworks. Makela Boatworks photo.

Wooden boat gets first major workover in 57 years; a little welding help comes along just at the right time

The Salt Shaker, a 42-foot Mussel Ridge hull was finished off by Simmons Boatworks for Friendship lobsterman Eugene Harrington. Eugene Harrington photo.

More horsepower is driving force for new boat; boatyard expands lineup with 38-foot model

Blue Eyed Girl hit 49 mph at the Portland lobster boat races Aug. 16, 2020. Jon Johansen photo.

Maine’s lobster boat racing season ends