On the anniversary of the 60th year celebrating Windjammers Days and maritime history, we pay homage to our founder, Captain Marion Dash for her contribution as a female role model in our maritime community. It is her legacy that has inspired the Friends of Windjammer Days to celebrate the women who are working on the waterfront today who in turn inspire young girls and future maritime generations to come.

Kristin and her husband Nick and his brother Andy are the owners of Atlantic Edge Lobster located on Atlantic Avenue in Boothbay Harbor. Kristin functions as general manager/owner and clerk. The business was purchased in January of 2021 from the Tibbetts family who had been longtime owners.

While assuming ownership of a business right in the middle of a pandemic was somewhat challenging, they have now been in business for over a year. Kristin reports that Kathy and Eddie Tibbetts laid a great foundation of quality products, large customer base and strong values. She is proud to report they have maintained and expanded the customer base in addition to remaining open seven days a week.

Kristin’s background of being born and bred in Boothbay Harbor prepared her well for her current role. She worked at numerous Boothbay Harbor businesses as a youth including Cabbage Island Clambakes, Mama D’s and Robinson’s Wharf. While working at Robinson’s Kristin met her husband Nick, a fisherman. During this time, she also graduated from the University of Vermont with a degree in exercise and movement science.

Through her varied work experiences, she learned scheduling, timing and ordering skills which have served her well in her current busy role of managing retail and wholesale sales as well as coordinating nationwide shipping. Atlantic Edge is a year-round business that handles thousands of pounds of lobsters and picked meat per week in the summer. At the retail store they also sell local seafoods including steamers, oysters, scallops, shrimp, haddock and crab. In the high season, they receive products from by 20-25 fishermen with that number dropping to five or so in the winter when there are fewer fishermen actively fishing year round.  Numerous local businesses are the wholesale recipients of lobster as well as some high-volume eateries in Wiscasset. In the summer Kristin can be seen in her skiff making deliveries to the restaurants in the inner harbor. Kristin says this method is much quicker since it avoids traffic and parking concerns and is of course more fun!

Despite 12-hour days in the summer, Kristin is quick to say how much she enjoys her job from the salty humor on the docks to the extra added benefit of working with her husband and extended family. In her spare time, she loves to hike with her husband and black lab Luna and to also visit her family camp in Eustis.