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Stacy and I are huge fans of the Discovery series “Deadliest Catch”. Our
favorite boat on the show is the F/V Northwestern followed closely by the
“Cornelia Marie” and the “Time Bandit”. This is my first MOC in what (I hope)
will be a series of all the boats from “Deadliest Catch”. I will be building
these over the next year and hope to have them all complete by Brickworld 2009.
Northwestern was built in 1977 at Marco Shipyard in Seattle, WA. She was
originally 108 feet in length overall. The vessel was built specifically for the
King and Tanner crab fisheries of Alaska’s Bering Sea. In 1981 there was a
collapse of the King crab fishery so the boat stayed busy fishing Tanner crab.
In the early-80’s, Northwestern was one of the first boats to fish Opilio crab.
The Opilio crab fishery turned out to be the “bread and butter” fishery for the
entire crab fleet. Opilio fishing lead to over-capitalization of the fishery
overall with several new boats being built at that time.
During the 1980’s, the vessel stayed busy all year long fishing Opilio crab 6-8
months (January-August), Blue King crab in the Pribilof Islands (August), Red
King Crab (September),Brown and Red King Crab (November-December) out West on
the Aleutian chain. Even though the vessel was very busy year-round, the crew
always made it home for Christmas.
In 1987, rather than buying a new boat, the family decided to have Northwestern
lengthened to 118 feet in order to pack more crab and increase the vessels
stability and ability to carry more gear (crab pots). The vessel went from 156
pots maximum to 200 pots maximum.
In 1991 there was a “pot limit” introduced to the Alaskan crab fishery. This
prompted the family to have the boat lengthened to 125 feet in order to attain
the maximum pot limit of 250 pots per vessel.
This MOC features a working pot launcher, sorting table, pots, crane and picking
hook, and (of course) crabs. In addition, there is a “Sig Hansen” minifig in the
wheelhouse.
More pictures are available on my
Brickshelf page and on
my MOCPages page.
-Dave
ToT-LUG
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| (...) Neat ship (and interesting TV series). Looks great with the blue baseplates under it. x-posted to lugnet.boats. Please consider your FUT, since some here are FUT·less about that sort of thing. They will be replying here soon, no doubt. :P (...) (16 years ago, 18-Jul-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| I'm a big fan of the show. Love the boat - it captures the essence of Northwestern, for sure. One thing Lego would never make, but needed to add that final touch of reality - cigarettes. Lots of 'em. :-) (16 years ago, 24-Jul-08, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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