Maine Lobster Boat Racing
Association Meeting

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The annual Maine Lobster Boat Racing Association meeting at the Fishermen’s Forum slipped over the finish line in under 10 minutes in March. There will be races in 2015, but no dates were set. Gone are the days of standing room only high octane growling fest meetings over allowing blowers, aircraft fuel and token ornamental haulers. There was more comment down at the Samoset bar than at the meeting, where the voluble Stevie Johnson's response to queries about what he might be concocting under cover of darkness at his shop. All he had to say was “My lips are sealed.” Stevie Johnson’s lips are sealed?? It is either a first or a coded preview of coming racing attractions of interest. The back story at the MLBRA meeting is that since Chris Byers has taken some time off to spend more time with his family, Scott Young of Winter Harbor will be organizing the Winter Harbor races this year. Now that the construction project on the Searsport waterfront is complete there will races in Searsport again this season.

Andy Gove’s big Volvo repower will likely be turning a few heads on the circuit.

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