Yours truly, Trevor Corson, looking for lobster stuff. Got any? E-mail me
This was where I posted my irregular ramblings, reports, and pictures as the author of THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS from 2004 through 2006. This page is no longer active, and serves simply as an archive. To read new entries starting in 2007, please visit my new Lobster Blog.
To see scenes from Little Cranberry Island, where THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS takes place, and to read an interview with me, click here. To see photos of some of the people featured in the book, click here, and view the blog entries below. To see more pictures of weird lobster stuff, click here.
Ever seen a lobster boat driving down the street? The Double Trouble departs on its way to its new owner. (photo: Sarah Corson)
Yesterday Bruce Fernald bade farewell to the Double Trouble, the lobster boat named after his twin boys, the boat that was featured in THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS. She served Bruce well for just over twenty years.
When speaking recently with the boat's new owner in Massachusetts, Bruce learned that the new owner had received THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS as a Christmas present from three separate acquaintances. It's not often that a person purchases a used fishing boat and finds that the boat's entire history is available as a book at Barnes & Noble.
A few days earlier, on December 31st, Bruce's current sternman and his fiance had eloped and gotten married -- aboard the Double Trouble, with Bruce and Barb's blessing. Serving as a matrimonial sanctuary at sea was the boat's final act under Bruce's stewardship. Barb wrote about the wedding and the boat's departure in her column for the newspaper the Working Waterfront.
Construction will soon begin on Bruce's new boat, which he hopes to have finished in time for spring fishing.
It's just hit me that I spent two years of my life aboard the Double Trouble -- two years where nothing stood between me and an icy death at sea but her fiberglass hull. Thanks, boat.
