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Article: Standing by tradition: Mainer Walter Drinkwater has been catching lobsters his way for half a century, and he's not about to change. (In Profile).
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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At daybreak Walter Drinkwater motors out of the harbor of Spruce Head, Maine, to his lobstering grounds surrounding Graffam Island. To port and starboard bigger boats with powerful diesels steam by to begin fishing. Drinkwater waves to each of them as they pass.
"Those big dogs will sink us," he says with a smile as a large wake slaps the side of the Terri Gene, his 32-foot wooden lobster boat. While under way he kicks off his beat-up tongueless tennis shoes and slips into a pair of brown rubber boots. The boat continues on a steady course as Drinkwater puts on a greasy yellow smock and ties it behind his back. When I offer to steer while he dresses Drinkwater ...
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