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In the Bass Harbor Diesel Free-For-All on June 23, LaBella Vitae and My Turn are nearly bow-to-bow in a race that La Bella Vita won. Jon Johansen photo.

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Neck and neck at Bass Harbor

Michael Crowley

The Itasca leaving San Diego and bound for her home port of Honolulu after what owner Peter Webster calls “a shave and a haircut.” Webster spends around 300 days a year at sea, longlining tuna, often hundreds of miles from any land. Peter Webster photo.

Boat of the Month: Itasca

Paul Molyneaux

Oceanville Boatworks in Stonington, Maine, is completing a 50’ x19’2” H&H Marine lobster boat for a Cape Cod, Mass., fisherman, with a 750-hp continuous-duty Volvo. Jon Johansen photo.

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Composite construction gains favor at Maine yard

Michael Crowley

KYB 525’s turns the winches on a New Bedford scallop boat, lifting the heavy dredges off bottom. The crew appreciates their even flow, power, and low noise. Photo by Asher Molyneaux

KYB stands for reliable power

Paul Molyneaux

NOAA ship Oscar Dyson. NOAA photo.

NOAA awards $95 million contract to upgrade fisheries survey vessel

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At Boothbay June 14, in Diesel Class E, 336 to 435 h.p., 24 to 33 feet, Audrey May (Holland 32, 425 Cummins, at right) took 1st place at 39.5 mph. Guilty Pleasure (Mitchell Cove 32, 380-hp Cummins) took third. Jon Johansen photo.

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Maine’s 2025 lobster boat race season kicks off

Michael Crowley

Evans Boat Construction and Repair of Crisfield, Md., have just introduced this Evans 25 scow for mid-Atlantic inshore fishermen. Photo courtesy of Evans Boat Construction and Repair.

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Evans Boat Construction revives fiberglass scow

Larry Chowning

David Peterson installed ribs and five new planks on the Elin Laine at Zerlang & Zerlang.

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David Peterson’s craft preserves West Coast fishing

Michael Crowley

Ivan Basargin Sr.s Top Notch is one of the early aluminum boats built by Basargin Boats. It reflects the Basargin family’s original designs adapted from fiberglass to aluminum and is one of the company’s first jet boats. Credit: Max Basargin

Forged in fire: Basargin Boats reinvents itself

Paul Molyneaux

Devyn Campbell’s crew gets ready to sort a tow of grey sole, monk fish, dab, haddock, and other flats and groundfish. Using knowledge and charts passed on to him by old timers, Campbell makes a living fishing the waters off the coast of Maine. Photo by De

Dragging tradition in a wooden hull

Paul Molyneaux

The Port of Toledo Shipyard’s 650-ton Ascom travel lift had no trouble bringing the 500-ton Alaska king crabber Kiska Sea ashore. The yard also has an 85-ton Acme lift for smaller vessels. Photo by Toledo Shipyard

Port of Toledo Shipyard in the flow

Paul Molyneaux