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The instructions were: "Meet my sternman, and friend, Rob at 4:45am at the fish pier in Portland, Maine. From there, you two will catch a ride on another boat out to join me on the Wild Irish Rose, somewhere among the islands off coast."

Lobsterman Steve Train owns the the Wild Irish Rose, and had some engine problems that morning. Rob was running late. But Steve guided me to his brother's boat at a different pier. We picked up Rob and were out to the Wild Irish Rose soon enough.

Steve Train started lobstering with his brother when they were kids, then worked on a variety of boats throughout high school and college. In 1989, while he was still in college, he bought his first boat. He jokingly calls lobstering a "disease." His father lobstered into the 1960′s, stopped, but started again in the 1990′s. Steve's brother bought his first boat in 1992, his first year out of college. Both of Steve's daughters, twelve and sixteen years old, have lobstered with him, the elder daughter all summer until field hockey started.

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