We also look at the height above the river. This dock didn't submerge during Katrina, so it's a pretty secure berth.

I don't want to go to sea, ... We'd have to find a course to steer through those oil rigs - some of them were damaged in Katrina and haven't been repaired and still don't have any lights. I don't want to be out there playing around with those rigs.

We always look at how secure the berth is and what it can withstand.

I think it's great that we can do a small part to aid the people and aid the effort to rebuild down there, especially if it can get the refineries back on to lower the gas prices in the U.S. and especially Maine with winter coming on.

I feel like I kind of represent what the American dream is all about. I was the first person in my family to graduate college.