FRYEBURG – Maine Registered Guide Fred Westerberg is in no hurry to get his canoes and kayaks on the river.
It may be costing him money in the pocket, but he's been around the Saco River long enough to know you don't rush Mother Nature.
“This is an outdoor business. You rely on the weather. It's the chance you take. You don't cry about it,” Westerberg said as he and his wife Prudy and their daughter Beth began cleaning up their Saco River Canoe & Kayak store on Main Street during a sunny, 80-plus degree day.
If it were a month or two later, he would be fielding calls from hundreds of people wanting to rent one of his canoes and kayaks that go out as many as 160 times during a summer weekend. But Westerberg, an Auburn native who opened up the canoe business in 1972 with his wife, is satisfied to wait it out.
Click on the link to the rest of today’s story by Leslie H. Dixon in the Lewiston Sun Journal.
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