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The fish tender Pacific Knight sank July 25, 2018 in Nushagak Bay. NTSB photo.
NTSB: Overloading, altered stability linked to tender sinking
Motivation edges out Blue Eyed Girl at Long Island. Jon Johansen photo
2019 racing season ends
Aliotti Enterprises designed and built the Bristol Bay gillnetter North Coast with a pair of 500-hp FPT engines and UltraJet 340 HT waterjets. Mike Gatch Photography photo
Washington boatyard expands shop and its market
The Winter Harbor 2018 lobster boat races. The event this weekend features a brand new Mitchell Cove 35 bare hull in a prize drawing. Jon Johansen photo.
Win a boat at Winter Harbor lobster boat races
Gold Digger, at 40.8 mph, edges out Danica Hailey at the Harpswell, Maine, lobster boat races on July 29, 2019. Jon Johansen photo.
July lobster boat races wrap up at Harpswell
Jeremy Beal's Semper Fi, a rebuilt Crowley 28, won the Diesel Class G race at Moosabec Reach in June 2019. Jon Johansen photo
Fastest lobster boats: Racing on the Reach
Screaming past
Wild Wild West dominates high-test lobster boat races
Shishaldin, Isanotski and Roundtop volcanoes as seen from the Unimak Pass in morning light. Unimak Island is the largest island in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. Gordon Spear photo.
Busted up in the Bering Sea
Part of the 40 boats that came to the line for Randy
Maine lobster boat racing season will kick off in June
Stacks of lobster pots cover a wooden pier on a bay in New England. Maine Lobster Institute photo.
Unwritten rules: Four Maine lobstermen charged with molesting gear
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