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Great Lakes 33

“In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,” Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote in 1842. But in the early 1980s, Canadian sailor Nick Aitken’s thoughts sprung toward trawlers, and that’s how the Great Lakes 33 was born.

Aitken and some friends wanted a

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