Maine lobstermen work hard and move fast on the water throughout the lobstering season, tallying up miles on the ocean each day and hauling trap after trap. On Sunday in Portland Harbor, their goal was more simple: move fast.

“It’s NASCAR on the water,” said Katie Werner, who oversees the lobster boat race in Casco Bay.

Werner organizes the Portland Lobster Boat Race with her husband, lobsterman Thom Werner. Stationed on the Werners’ 50-by-20-foot lobster boat the “Patience,” the couple and their friends and family operated the race’s command center, calling which boats won each race as they completed the half-mile course and crossed the finish line marked with buoys.

In one race, the “Happy Hour” sped across the finish line going 29.6 mph, with “Pretty Woman” winning its heat at 27 mph

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