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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 North Coast, powered by two 500-hp FPT engines, hits 40 knots in a light condition and

Salmon sprinters

A fire in the engine room of the trawler Rose Marie resulted in $700,000 in damages, according to a report from the NTSB. Rose Marie photo courtesy NTSB

Engine room fire: What would you have done?

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, Me., lobster boat races July 29, 2019. Jon Johansen photo. — 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

Beals Lobster Races — 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

Boothbay Harbor racing finish — 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