Miss Julie Lobster Boat in Port Today

Miss Julie Crew Not Fishing on Memorial Day

The Miss Julie was tied up snugly in her slip at the Sandwich Marina today. One of the guys on the dock told me that she is a 65-foot, all-aluminum lobster boat. Her deck can hold 40 to 50 lobster traps. As the lobsters are caught they are put into holding tanks. The Miss Julie can hold up to 16,000 pounds of lobster in her two fully-insulated holding tanks. The water in these tanks can be manipulated so that there is just enough water to cover the lobsters. Each tank has an aluminum tray in it that can be lowered and raised to make off-loading the lobsters easy.

Even with all of this,  I know being a lobsterman is a hard way of life. I have tried lifting a lobster trap on the dock. I couldn't imagine lifting more than one every so often!