The two went on boat trips to catch tuna and shark.
When she was just 14, a family connection helped her get a summer job on a Town Dock lobster boat.
So it was of little surprise that when she graduated in 2013 from Ledyard High School, where she said her grades were good and she could have gone to college, Kuhse found herself working at the Town Dock. Since I was really too young to know, I said, This is what I want to do. And I just kept rolling with it, she said. I ve never had another job.
She worked her way up from stringing skate together for lobster bait to being the mate on the dragger Jenna Lynn II. In between, she s worked on several boats in the fleet.