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... and keep 'em forever! i Still loyal after 29 years — Fournier owes much of his industry knowledge to MR — even after becoming president of Portland Tugboat in ! 1995.

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Those lessons with dad were probably

Start 'em young ...

At just four years old, Brian Fournier presents

Santa Claus with the December 1974 edition of

Maritime Reporter featuring McCallister Towing's

Christmas ad.

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Still an avid reader to this day,

Brian Fournier, 29, a self-pro- claimed tugboat enthusiast has been collecting copies of Mar- itime Reporter & Engineering

News before he could even read.

Born into a family of tugboat owners, he learned all the ins and outs of the maritime world through his MR collection - which he still uses as a reference tool to keep up with industry products and innovations.

MR recently met with Fournier aboard Weeks Marine's tugboat

Robert at the Intrepid Tugboat

Races held during Labor Day

Weekend in Manhattan.

By Regina P. Ciardiello, assistant editor

He loved Maritime Reporter so much that he failed a class project for it. Yes, it's true that when he was an eighth grad- er in Boston, Brian Fournier sadly real- ized that he received an "F" on a book report that he had written on MR for his

English class. Fournier didn't receive his failing grade for his lack of knowledge on the subject or for "lying his way through the assignment" as his teacher thought. He did everything he was sup- posed to do — he read the material thor- oughly sometimes six or seven times over, he had the basis of the industry down pat and he chose something that he was interested in. It was only until he realized that his "book" did not suit the task at hand. According to the future tugboat company president's teacher, the reason behind his unfavorable grade was simple — Maritime Reporter was not a book.

Even though his teacher didn't see MR as a book, Fournier would emphatically disagree, for he regards it as his bible. It was through the magazine that Fournier would learn and absorb all the informa- tion he could about an industry that is and always has been the center of his family life.

Fournier boasts that he holds every issue of MR that has been published since he was born on September 29, 1970. For the past 29 years, he gained his know-how and knowledge not by reading books, but by leafing through the pages of MR and working on his dad's tugboats. His father, Arthur

Fournier has been an instrumental force in the tugboat industry since purchasing his first tug for $1 in 1953. After buying and selling a variety of tug companies in

Boston, the elder Fournier relocated to

Maine where he started Portland Tug- boat in 1985.

Though his father was in Maine most of the time working on the family busi- ness, Fournier would look forward to those times when he and his older broth- er, William would sit with their dad as he enlightened the boys with stories of his days on the tugs. "My dad would get home from work and he would take out MR and show us pictures of different engines and ships," reminisced Fournier, who joined the family business in 1989. "He would quiz

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