{"id":10084,"date":"2017-05-03T12:14:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T16:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/?p=10084"},"modified":"2017-06-02T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T20:46:43","slug":"there-back-iii-benny-tommy-the-donna-marie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/there-back-iii-benny-tommy-the-donna-marie\/","title":{"rendered":"There & Back III: Benny, Tommy & the Donna Marie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/b>by Brian Robbins\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

JONESPORT, ME \u2013 We\u2019ve written about a lot of boats in Commercial Fisheries News<\/i> over the years: small boats; big boats; real<\/i> big boats.<\/p>\n

Wooden boats; fiberglass boats; steel boats.<\/p>\n

New boats hitting the water and ready to begin their working careers; older classics that have been refurbished, rebuilt, and ready to go back down the bay.<\/p>\n

But no one boat \u2013 in recent years, anyway \u2013 has generated as much interest, in the forms of written correspondence, phone calls, and \u201cHey, I wanted to ask you about \u2026\u201d questions, as the Donna Marie.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the Donna Marie currently sits in a field alongside Rt. 187 as you head to Jonesport, ME after turning off Rt. 1 in Columbia Falls \u2026 and it\u2019s been years since her keel\u2019s felt saltwater.<\/p>\n

Rust from her fastenings stains her planks; her paint flakes in the sun.<\/p>\n

And a quick glance at her from a moving vehicle might not spark a second look; after all, there are plenty old wooden boats just about anywhere you drive in Downeast Maine.<\/p>\n

But our first \u201cThere & Back<\/a>\u201d feature with veteran fisherman Tommy Porter in the Jan. 2016 CFN<\/a> got a lot of folks thinking about the Donna Marie \u2013 some remembered her history, but many never knew what that peeling, rust-streaked 45-footer sitting in the field had accomplished in her working years.<\/p>\n

We actually did a pair of \u201cThere & Back<\/a>\u201d features with Tommy in 2016 \u2013 chock full of stories told as only he can tell \u2018em…<\/p>\n

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by Brian Robbins\u00a0 JONESPORT, ME \u2013 We\u2019ve written about a lot of boats in Commercial Fisheries News over the years: small boats; big boats; real big boats. Wooden boats; fiberglass boats; steel boats. New boats hitting the water and ready to begin their working careers; older classics that have been refurbished, rebuilt, and ready to … <\/p>\n

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