Meet the Crew

摘要

A confluence of friends old and new brought together the two fine articles in this issue on the Maine lobsterboat RESOLUTE. The spark came from author Jennifer Eaton Larrabee, who shares her wonderful meditation on the boat's construction beginning on page 86. She and her husband, Ryan, a lobsterman, commissioned the boat with designer-builder Peter Kass. After the project commenced in 2012, the Larrabee family made weekly trips from their home in Stonington to the shop, pitching in on the job and watching the boat take shape. Those experiences, and the launching, are the basis of Jennifer's article, and they give us a rare client's-eye perspective of a lobsterboat-building project-a perspective missing from our previous coverage of Peter (WB Nos. 115 and 227). The launching of RESOLUTE added to a growing fleet of Kass-built boats in Stonington, which has the largest concentration of them anywhere.