By Brian Robbins “You ought to be talking to Marcus about boat building — he’s the pro,” Joe Sargent told me, pointing to his right-hand man Marcus Saunders. Marcus, clad in Tyvek coveralls and a facemask, shook his head, chuckled, and went to grab a sander. Joe Sargent with the 42’ Reverence (a 42’ Mussel Ridge). With 50-plus new builds of all shapes, sizes, and degrees of complexity to his credit, you could say Joe Sargent of Sargent’s Custom Boats in Milbridge might know a thing or two...

I remember as a kid reading about Chuck Yeager, the legendary test pilot who, among other accomplishments, was the first to break the sound barrier in 1947 and went on to oversee the training of astronauts who flew in NASA’s space programs. David Osgood, Alfred, and David's son Stephen holding his son Deacon, with Alfred's 36' Starlight Express. B. Robbins photo. Yeager may have been a hotshot pilot with superhuman reflexes, but you’d never know it by his radio voice. His laid-back...

By Brian Robbins When I first started at Commercial Fisheries News (CFN) back in 1988, they asked if I would cover the lobster boat races held along the Maine coast during the summer. I was up for it, although I’d never attended a race prior to that. We were always either out on an offshore lobster trip, getting ready to leave on a trip, or had just come home from a trip and lobster boat races just weren’t on my radar. I soon figured out it wasn’t going to be as easy as it looked. Leeland...