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One of the most enjoyable aspects of the tournament is a chance to fish with French Canadian fishermen who sail the boats in the tournament. Most of the professional fishermen are tightlipped men who grew up in the nearby fishing villages and are now in their sixties. One exception to...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: 'Ask Any Mermaid You Happen to See...' | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

Hughes, Purdy, and Murray are all standouts on the Harvard varsity hockey team. Fishing is a pleasant diversion for them in the off-season. Murray happened to work with Zewinski last summer at Buildings and Grounds. Zewinski forms the team just once every year for the tournament, and asked Murray...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: 'Ask Any Mermaid You Happen to See...' | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

"The fishing wasn't that great," Zewinski says, but the Harvard squad that arrived for the fishfest by dint of a ten-hour ferry ride from Portsmouth, Maine was never disappointed in the least. "It's basically a good time," says Hughes. The team lost little time in starting to...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: 'Ask Any Mermaid You Happen to See...' | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

The tournament commenced from idyllic Mateghan wharf with the Crimson venturing out in a lobster-fishing rig named the Mary Jane, skippered by a one-armed graybeard named Melbourne. Melbourne and his crew of two prepared an al fresco fish chowder for the Crimson fishermen's lunch. "They would pull...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: 'Ask Any Mermaid You Happen to See...' | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

The Crimson then returned to dry land for a clambake, cornbroil, and "Fun-in-the-Woods" session. The team was also treated to a seminar on the more abstruse aspects of salt-water fishing by icythyologist Aubrey Gladwin, who lives nearby in Herring Cove, Nova Scotia.

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: 'Ask Any Mermaid You Happen to See...' | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

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