I was on the phone a couple times with my brother today as he was bringing his 1957 Beals Island lobster boat from Marblehead to Marion. He called to let me know he had made it to the canal entrance when the phone got dropped and I heard him yell out something in his excitement. When he picked the phone up he told me that a whale had surfaced directly in front of him, forcing his emergency course correction.
Channel 5 just had a report, complete with drone video, of a 40' traversing the canal today. Just texted him to say it wasn't a porpoise (as he wondered) and he wasn't high...….
