Lobster fishermen continue to winddown their season at Naskeag Harbor, bringing in their traps to be trailered to winter storage.
One technique, shown above, is to place their trailers in Naskeag Point’s shallow water as the tide is coming in and run their boats up on the shore next to them. The traps then can be transferred to the trailers without hoisting and the emptied boats can later slip away in the higher water of the incoming tide.
A fully-loaded trailer of traps — colorful rectangles within rectangles — can be a work of abstract art to those with a little imagination:
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on November 9 [on pier] and 11 [on shore], 2022.)