Clear Stream Construction tug winners
Who’s number one? Clear Stream Construction! Company owner Chris Bertin, surrounded by his team, holds the winner’s trophy high at the completion of the 2018 Windjammer Days Tug Across the Harbor. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
Marden Home Builders team members hold their own against Clear Stream Construction pulling on the east side of the harbor. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
Chris Bertin and his Clear Stream Construction team giving it their all. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
Gleason races for the rope to add his strength to team Clear Stream Construction after observing the size of the team on the east side. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
Chris Gleason joins the Clear Stream Construction team. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
The Clear Stream Construction team hears it is the winning team of 2018. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
Chris Gleason carries the Tug Across the Harbor trophy to the June 30 event. Darrell Gudroe, co-emcee, far right. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
Tug coordinator Chris Gleason, far left, with Friends of Windjammer Days Secretary Mark Gimbel, center, and emcee Doug Gimbel at the 2018 tug. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
Clear Stream Construction will be added to the trophy as the fourth winning team of the tug across the harbor event. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
Who’s number one? Clear Stream Construction! Company owner Chris Bertin, surrounded by his team, holds the winner’s trophy high at the completion of the 2018 Windjammer Days Tug Across the Harbor. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
Marden Home Builders team members hold their own against Clear Stream Construction pulling on the east side of the harbor. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
Chris Bertin and his Clear Stream Construction team giving it their all. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
Gleason races for the rope to add his strength to team Clear Stream Construction after observing the size of the team on the east side. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
Chris Gleason joins the Clear Stream Construction team. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
The Clear Stream Construction team hears it is the winning team of 2018. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
Chris Gleason carries the Tug Across the Harbor trophy to the June 30 event. Darrell Gudroe, co-emcee, far right. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
Tug coordinator Chris Gleason, far left, with Friends of Windjammer Days Secretary Mark Gimbel, center, and emcee Doug Gimbel at the 2018 tug. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
Clear Stream Construction will be added to the trophy as the fourth winning team of the tug across the harbor event. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register
An enthusiastic crowd gathered on the footbridge and in the adjacent parking lot to cheer on the Tug of War Across the Harbor teams June 30, the final day of the 56th Annual Windjammer Days Festival in Boothbay Harbor. Emcee Doug Gimbel kept things lively with his quick wit and engaging humor. Co-emcee Darrell Gudroe exchanged banter with Gimbel and covered the east side pulls.
The Clear Stream Construction crew won every pull - their first against Marden Builders was a beaut, the longest pull of the event. And then there was an unexpected turn of events in their final pull versus Marden Builders on the east side. Clear Stream Construction had 12 people, Marden had, according to one spectator on the east side, 20 people. Say what?!
No one knew what was happening when event coordinator Chris Gleason suddenly jumped in to pull with the Clear Stream team - and jumped back out just as quickly and sounded the horn. After hearing what Gleason had observed, Gimbel pronounced Clear Stream the winners. But, hey, these are the shenanigans that add a bit of drama, and all in good fun!
A third team was pulled together from among the spectators. Members hailed from Mississippi, Texas, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Florida and Auburn. Their team name: The Winners. Their expectation: high. Their performance: awesome.
Congratulations Chris Bertin and the crew of Clear Stream Construction! The team is the fourth to win the event. Bertin’s company joins Knickerbocker Group (2015), Marden Home Builders (2016), and Valley Beverage/Budweiser (2017) on the ginormous trophy!
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