With barely 36 hours in Provincetown to clean out the motor after a harrowing breakdown and a marathon Coast Guard tow from Georges Bank, a 77-foot, Gloucester-based, offshore lobster boat will headed back out today to haul traps while holiday prices are favorably high.
The owner of the Michael & Kristen, Charles Raymond of Beverly said yesterday "by a miracle," the motor started up yesterday afternoon.
Raymond told the Times the Michael & Kristen will depart Provincetown sometime today, steam for a day to the "canyon," a deep ravine in Georges, about 200 miles from Nantucket, haul traps for a day and return on Wednesday, the day before Christmas Eve.
That schedule, Raymond said, would allow the captain Ron Davis, 43, of Rochester, N.H., and the crew of five — possibly with one replacement for a lobsterman arrested on outstanding warrants — to enjoy the holiday on dry land.