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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 120-foot Sea Ern and the 130-foot Kari Marie are tied up at the Hansen Boat Co. dock to be worked on. Hansen Boat Co. photo.

Work speeds up at Washington shipyard

Wesmac Custom Boats 54-foot Kaye Williams is for the Bridgeport Regional Vocational Aquaculture School. It has the same walk-around wheelhouse design with a recessed deck that Wesmac is starting to put on tuna boats. Wesmac Custom Boats photo.

Maine builder feeds the ‘tuna fever’

The Reverence has a stern extension for extra traps and holds 18 crates below deck. Sargent's Custom Boats photo.

New lobster boat fulfills the need for speed

Velocity Marine and Fabrication's 32-foot through-picker will have a power roller at the bow and stern and a swiveling gill net drum in the center of the boat. Velocity Marine rendering.

Through-pickers preferred by more Bristol Bay fishermen

The Deliverance, a 58-foot steel pot-fishing boat out of Homer, Alaska, came in to be hauled at the Port of Toledo Shipyard in Toledo, Ore. Port of Toledo Shipyard photo.

Delivering a new Deliverance

After being completely rebuilt at Cape Codder Marine, the Happy Trails is ready to go back to lobstering. Cape Codder Marine photo.

New life for a Novi lobster boat on Cape Cod

Rozema Boat Works’ 47-foot crab and prawn fishing boat is designed with a raised pilothouse on a planing hull. Rozema Boat Works image.

Rozema’s fast, new 47-foot design

At the Long Island races in Maine, Downeast Nightmare was the fastest boat at 48 mph, while sometimes going airborne to do it. Jon Johansen photo.

The 2022 lobster boat race season wraps up

The purse seiner St. Teresa was re-equipped with a new mast, boom and A-frame in just four weeks. Snow & Co. photo.

Scan software quickens purse seiner modification

At the Bass Habor races, the diesel record was broken when Maria’s Nightmare II (left) and Wild Wild West tied at 62 mph. A week later Maria’s Nightmare II broke it again hitting 68.3 mph. Jon Johansen photo.

Record-breaking Maine lobster boat race season in final stretch