Capt. Jean F. Frottier, skipper of Annalise, when he was the proprietor of the Gifford House. [1981, David Jarrett]
Updated on 8 September 2026 | Before he piloted Twin Lights, on which he perished in 2012, Capt. Jean F. Frottier owned F/V Annalise, which I presume to have been named after his daughter. At the time he owned Annalise, in 2001, Frottier joined the embryonic Provincetown Fishermen’s Association, one of several efforts over the years to unify the ever-squabbling boat captains and owners. “What’s happening to us is we’re losing — bit by bit, inch by inch — our ability to get access to the pier,” Frottier said at the time. “It behooves everyone to make the association, not only for dealing with the Town but for dealing with” the New England Fishery Management Council, which proposes rules for fishermen operating in federal waters from 3 to 200 miles off the coast.
“There’s been so many conflicts between the fishermen. You can hardly find two draggermen who’ll cooperate with each other, and the lobstermen are pretty much like that. Hook guys are a little better. It took a diminishing fleet and a group of guys who are a little different from the old school and a problem that was greater than their smaller problems. The fishermen feel very vulnerable at this point.”1
I know little else about Annalise other than that it was listed as a tenant vessel in the 2005 lease of MacMillan Wharf from the Town to the Provincetown Public Pier Corporation.
1 “Fishermen Form New Alliance,” by Sally Rose, Provincetown Banner, 4 January 2001, Page 1.