The Ferry Game
For Maine?s island basketball teams, every road trip is an adventure on the high seas.
By Rob Sneddon, Photography by Melonie Bennett
With his sharp suit and shaved head, Mike Johnson looks like he should be coaching in the NBA instead of Maine's Class D. But no NBA team's itinerary includes a seventy-five-minute ferry ride across Penobscot Bay, followed by a stop at a grocery store. Johnson, who coaches the Vinalhaven boys' varsity, and Torry Pratt, who coaches the girls', wait aboard a bus outside the Hannaford Supermarket in Rockland while their charges buy supplies. The kids have to fortify themselves to play Richmond High School on Friday night and again on Saturday morning.
