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Article: Down East, in the land of lobster.(boating industry in Maine)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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Several years ago, I was leaving the shop of Jonesport, Maine, boatbuilder Freddy Lenfesty when I asked him about the small rowing and sailing boats lobstermen fished from before the time of power boats. "Come back and I'll show you," he said.
Months later I was back to watch the Fourth of July lobster-boat races and stopped by Lenfesty's shop to ask him about the Laura W., which he'd designed and built and which had won the title of World's Fastest Lobster Boat. As soon as he saw me, he hauled a little boat off a shelf. "Here," he said. "That's for you. It's a reach boat, like they used to lobster with."
I'd forgotten what Lenfesty had said at the end ...