Oh, but some of the stories the lobstahmen tell...falling off their boats drunk, the running gun battles like the one off Mantinicus a couple years back...ah, good times. But even now the dock price for lobster is wicked low, poor guys.
Ayah - I know of a fella that was warned about his raiding pots - didn't listen.
He also had a nice, fancy, handmade slat canoe - a beauty.
One morning he found a dead deer in the bottom, under the crossbars - been there long enough for riger mortis to've set in.
Quite a mess and lots of repairs needed after getting it out.
Cured him -