Hussey, Max. June 29, 2014. Crystal Braye interviewing Max Hussey, Herring Neck.

• Main Author: Braye, Crystal
• Other Authors: Max Hussey (1945-), Max Hussey was born on Ship Island, Herring Neck in 1945. After completing school, Max spent one year as principal at St. Peter’s School in Twillingate before going on to attend Memorial University. During the summer, Max would return to Herring Neck where he spent his summers fishing to pay his way through school. Following university, Max became a teacher at Twillingate Central High (renamed J.M. Olds Collegiate in 1980). Max estimates he’s built about forty boats, all speed boats aside from a handful of rowboats he built in the later years.
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Objects; Work; Boats; Fishing; Fishing equipment; Architecture; building and construction; Boatbuilding; Tools and Equipment; Towns; Fish Traps; Wooden objects; Wooden boats; Communities; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/boatmuseum/id/221

Max Hussey discusses growing up on Ship Island, Herring Neck; using boats for transportation; fishing with cod traps; types of boats common in the area; punts and rodneys; speed boats; boat building process, materials and tools.