V ride

[bgreene]

Read that during the " Perfect Storm " a bouy off well of Cape Cod recorded a 100' wave.

That was a rogue, and possibly somewhere around the vicinity of the eye .

Definitely not V weather.......

Andrea Gale, God rest their souls.

[inaforty]

Sister ship to the Andrea Gale....

F/V Hannah Boden off loading Swordfish in New Bedford

[Pipe_Dream]

Originally Posted by inaforty

Sister ship to the Andrea Gale....

F/V Hannah Boden off loading Swordfish in New Bedford

Wow, very cool...

[inaforty]

Originally Posted by Pipe_Dream

Wow, very cool...

We still have a few Sword boats that fish out of New Bedford.
The last one to buy provisions was a boat called Whitewater.
Long trip to the fishing grounds. Usually a 30 day trip. 5 days of steaming there and then 5 days back all to chase the swords on the break of the gulf stream.
Crazy!!

[phatdaddy]

Both the Hanna Bowden and the Andrea Gail were built here at a local shipyard. Eastern ship building.

[inaforty]

Phat,
That's cool!
Building cost are pretty high around here. I think lots of the fishing boats are built in Louisiana.
Fairhaven shipyard here built two Scalloper last year. Seems the build cost is getting close. The scallop fishery is big $$$ around here. New Bedford has held the #1 fish port (for $$$ per catch) for a number of years.

[phatdaddy]

We had a few shipyards here, but they went in and out of different chapters and ended up with one, Eastern. In september, they were awarded a 10.5 BILLION dollar contract for 24 new coast guard cutters. Louisiana builds a lot of fishing and oil field boats. I think they start teaching welding in the third grade over there.

[steplift20]

So far I haven't been caught in bad seas, I guess I'm a little lucky and very very careful with the weather maybe to much sometimes, but I'm sure if I find get caught my v will get us back safe

[steplift20]

Was out in the canyon the other day in my v20 the waves were 100 feet plus , took one over the bow ( no big deal ) just opened another beer and headed in