December 23, 2013 — Barbara A. Foster always dreaded the possibility the ocean could one day claim her son, and Friday she got the call she feared — 47-year-old Martin Gorham had been lost in the rough winter seas off Cape Ann.
“All my life I always worried, I worried I would get that call that I hoped would never come. And yesterday it came,” Foster said from her South Portland, Maine, home.
Gorham, who lived in Westbrook, Maine, but often captained the Boston-based 71-foot fishing boat Lydia & Maya, was working the deck Thursday and the boat’s owner, Christopher Odlin of Scarborough, Maine, a close friend, was on board when he fell into the sea around noon without a life jacket.
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