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Charter boat industry expects busy season
SOUTHWEST HARBOR When the pandemic hit last spring, the charter boat and tour industry thought it was sunk.
“I thought, ‘This is it.’ This is the end of my business,” said Shane Ellis, who runs Ellis Boat Charters in Southwest Harbor.
Bookings dropped off the map as the season was just about to start, he wondered how he would survive and even pondered selling off some of the boats.
But things turned around the middle of the summer and many businesses reported they were as busy as they could be under state regulations.
“We kind of lost July and part of August, before everyone went stir crazy and wanted to go on vacation,” Ellis said.
Charter boat industry expects a busy season
SOUTHWEST HARBOR When the pandemic hit last spring, the charter boat and tour industry thought it was sunk.
“I thought, ‘This is it.’ This is the end of my business,” said Shane Ellis, who runs Ellis Boat Charters in Southwest Harbor.
As bookings dropped off the map as the season was just about to start, he wondered how he would survive and even pondered selling off some of the boats.
But things turned around the middle of the summer and many businesses reported they were as busy as they could be under state regulations.