Taken By Storm:
Birch Harbor, Maine
BIRCH HARBOR Toby Chipman’s lobster boat, Minnie M, is blown onto the Pound Road in Bunker’s Harbor along with a shack, totes, and debris from multiple wharves.
BIRCH HARBOR Flotsam from the storm.
BIRCH HARBOR From a distance.
BIRCH HARBOR Toby Chipman (right) with friend and fellow fisherman, John “Jocko” Temple. That day, Toby more than deserved the beer he was drinking!
BIRCH HARBOR Strewn traps in a bed of seafoam.
BIRCH HARBOR A glimpse of the mayhem and extensive damage to gear and area wharves.
BIRCH HARBOR One of a number of damaged wharves.
BIRCH HARBOR Dana Rice, retired fisherman and owner of D.B. Rice Fisheries surveys the storm damage and oversees repairs along this busy working waterfront.
BIRCH HARBOR Man signals news team in helicopter as they survey damage on the peninsula.
BIRCH HARBOR Day after the first storm with water receding.
BIRCH HARBOR Reflection
BIRCH HARBOR I went back to Bunker’s wharf the following day and Minnie M had already been recovered and was up on jacks so repairs could be done. Toby tells me, “Yeah, she’s got a hole but I can do a fiberglass patch – just not today!” I was astonished at just how quickly they had moved to rescue her.
