Meet your Captains Kyle and Elizabeth Tyler

and Fleet!

Captain Kyle Tyler

Kyle is no stranger to making a living from the sea. He started digging clams when he was in grade school in the 1960s and began lobstering with family and friends in the 1970s. He learned to dive for scallops and urchins around the same time, and in the late 1970s, he decided to try something new and shipped out of New Orleans to work on a crew boat for an oil rig for several years. Kyle’s first two boats, the Miss Elizabeth and Miss Elizabeth II were smaller lobster boats that he ran for years until he bought the Miss Elizabeth III in 1996. With over 30 years of lobster fishing experience and over 50 years of knowledge of the Blue Hill Bay area, Kyle can deliver an experience on the water unlike any other.

Captain Elizabeth Tyler

Elizabeth was raised on her dad’s lobster boats from the day she was born. He taught her to read the bay and the ocean bottom when she was younger and she has been lobstering for 30 years. Elizabeth has been the captain of her lobster boat F/V Orin James for 7 years. Elizabeth learned many different fisheries over the years including lobstering, urchining, scalloping, offshore fishing, and clamming.

Miss Elizabeth III

Kyle bought the Miss Elizabeth III in 1996 and built everything on the boat from the hull up. It took Kyle one month to build the 35′ Duffy with a QSB 5.9 380 horsepower engine and he rigged her for lobstering and scalloping. The boat is also rigged for sport fishing and uses a Hondex sonar to precisely located fish 360 degrees around the boat and on the surface, and can find fish up to a depth of 800 meters.

F/V Orin James

Elizabeth’s boat is a 23′ Seaway. With a 90-horsepower outboard engine, the boat is fast and versatile. Elizabeth can shuttle passengers and gear to islands and with an outboard engine she is able to beach her boat right on the shores of islands, making it unnecessary to anchor offshore and bring passengers across by skiff.