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Re: F/V Northwestern (from 'Deadliest Catch')
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lugnet.boats
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Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:07:42 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Nelson Yrizarry wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Dave Sterling wrote:
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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
Cheers,
“Big Daddy” Nelson
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Wow. We have a lugnet.boats? Guess I should look at the various newsgroup
names more. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a post to lugnet.boats before. I
learn something new everyday. Thanks!
-Dave
ToT-LUG
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Message is in Reply To:
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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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