Category: Commercial Fishing
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What a Great Day!
Tom and I drove to Homer today (and back) about a 340 mile trip, to get things for the boat. Fishing season is almost here and he has been working on the boat daily. On the way there I saw the most beautiful drake in a pond, several moose, many eagles, a few run down…
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Seward in August
Some photos I’ve take recently. Tom came home briefly, bringing the jitney in. This photo was taken about about nine or nine thirty at night. Earlier that same day a cruise ship left port. Notice the fireweed? The story goes that when the fireweed is done blooming, two weeks later it will snow. Today the…
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Gone Fishing
Here’s the F/V Dolly B towing her jitney and skiff out of the harbor and in the second picture you can see the boats as a tiny spec. They are on their way to Nuka Bay. It’s about an 8 hour run and fishing there opens at 6am tomorrow morning. Please wish them safe travels…
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F/V Melissa B
The Melissa B has been in the driveway for renovations. She gets a lot of looks from passers by! She was originally owned by Perry Buchanan and he taught his sons, Steve & Tom to fish on her. She’s seen a lot of modifications over the years. Eventually Steve bought a boat, the F/V Marathon,…
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Commercial Fishing and the Cabana Family
This season has been a difficult one so far and every day I dread more bad news. Last night Tom called and said that they were coming in because the skiff (with it’s brand new thousands of $$ outboard) had been swamped. In salt water. It was less than 36 hours old, and all the…
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Mending the Seine
Here’s Tom and crew David and James, mending the jitney seine on Sunday afternoon. We loaded the seine onto the jitney first thing this morning (no pics, I was too busy keeping the seine straight and free from snags) and then mended the net after that. (When we got to a bigger hole I dropped…
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Seine
The net is called the “seine” on a boat that is a seiner. Here is the jitney’s seine, in the back of Tom’s truck. After working on the skiff outboard all morning, launching the jitney, filling her tanks, standing up the mast and then dealing with my broken down car, he and I loaded the…
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NQR stands for Not Quilting Related
I’ve been a busy gal since coming back from Portland Quilt Market! The boats still need work & maintenance and that is first priority in our lives. So, it’s been the usual routine of scrubbing the fish hold, mending nets, launching skiffs and stocking the big boat with groceries and supplies. The jitney is in…
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Fishing Season
It’s that time of year again. I’ve been on the boat, which is dry docked right now, cleaning and making her ready for another fishing season. Here’s an older picture of me, when I worked on the boat as crew a couple of years ago. In the first photo I am surrounded by fish, hand…
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Photos of fishing and more in Alaska
I love taking photos around Alaska. Here are some of my favorite fishing pictures (and a black bear pic) – I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! The black bear is in the woods inside Nuka Bay, the 2 men on the bridge of the F/V Dolly B are Tom and his…