![]() Marconi-rigged boat built by a former URI professor. Moreover, a cousin of his dad, Mabel Watson, was a guide at the Herreshoff Museum in Bristol - sailing is in his blood. Steve Hull descends from Captain Isaac Hull, who was the Master of Old Ironsides. Cady started the Sea Scouts - a maritime version of the Boy Scouts-and gave him the boat to fix up and sail. He got his first Beetle Cat from his uncle Stanley Cady. As a kid at his folk’s place up on Salt Pond at Jerry Brown Farm, young Steve sailed Blue Jays. At five, he’ll grab his fork, don his oilers and boots, then hop in his truck and go to work. And that’s how it goes, the boat comes in with the fish, and Steve lumps it out - fast. During our chat in the kitchen of his snug Galilee home, the phone rang, “Yup, 5? Ok, I’ll see you then.” Steve had just received a call from the captain of the 50-foot dragger that would need him to “take out,” at five. “It’s basically humping the fish out of the hold as fast as you can,” says Hull, smiling, “Ya know, get the fish out of the boat, into a box and into a truck, then get it to the Fulton Market.”Īt one time, Hull had 13 boats he lumped on a regular basis, now he has only one dragger. Being what is known as a “lumpa” involves getting down in the hold of a boat, and unloading the fish. ![]() Galilee resident Steve Hull has been working the docks lumping out fishing draggers for the past 34 years.
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