Maritime Scoundrels

Maritime Scoundrels

A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE LAWSUITS SURROUNDING THE WINAMAC AND KATAHDIN. In 1988 I purchased a 54 foot tugboat named WINAMAC, built in 1909. She had been extensively neglected and required two years of restoration. I sunk (literally) $93,000 into her only to see her...
More on the Mercury Lemon

More on the Mercury Lemon

Think you’ve heard the end of the Mercury story? The Petersburg Harbor Board purchased two Mercury 225 hp outboards from this same jerk that screwed up my engines and here’s there story as told by the Petersburg Pilot: (to be posted)
Mercury outboards and Lemons

Mercury outboards and Lemons

It’s time to tell the Mercury outboard story. The beauty of the internet is if you google specific words, you can bring to the surface any subject out of trillions of bits of information. Consider the words Mercury Outboard and Lemon….now that’s a...