Tom and Carol Donlan found Spirit in 2005 after spending about three decades on the water together. Spirit is a lobster boat designed by Ralph Stanley that features a deck by Jarvis Newman of Southwest Harbor, Maine, and a pilothouse with flybridge conceived by Lee S. Wilbur. Wilbur went on to finish the boat as a yacht in 1980. That’s one reason why Tom likes to call his boat a Newman 32. He likes to differentiate it from the version introduced years after the original.
The couple started dating in 1971, when they were both working as journalists at the in Hackensack, New Jersey. They