National Fisherman

Boats & Gear

The Chuck Norris, a new Bristol Bay gillnetter, was designed to fish in extremely shallow water and stay there longer than other gillnetters. Shiloh Seymour photo.

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New Bristol Bay gillnetter with shallow draft – and a side house

Michael Crowley

The 90-foot scalloper Amelia Joyce is being refurbished at B & C Seafood in Newport News, Va. Larry Chowning photo.

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Scallop fisherman adds another refurbished boat to fleet

Larry Chowning

Do hybrid engines have a future in U.S. fishing markets?

Jeremiah Karpowicz

The Shenanegan as it arrived back at Giddings Boatworks in Charleston, Oregon in 2019. Giddings sponsoned and lengthened the boat in 2007, and added a bulbous bow more than a decade later. Harry Allen photo.

The rebuild of the F/V Shenanegan took fourteen years, but it was worth the wait

Paul Molyneaux

A Seafood Harvesters of America survey found that fishermen are looking for improvements in engine efficiency, including hybrid electric vessels such as the Norwegian longliner Geir, launched in 2020. HP Holmeset photo.

Focus on fish tech

Paul Molyneaux

James W. "Jimmyjohn" Hunley is refurbishing the Willard Norris-built Aubri Lynn at his boatshed behind his home in Deltaville, Va. Larry Chowning photo.

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Keeping it alive: Rebuilding a Willard Norris deadrise in Deltaville

Larry Chowning

Tailored Boats widened the Deja Vu, a Willis Beal 44, from 15’ 2” to 18’. Taylored Boats photo.

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Taylored Boats builds on classic Willis Beal designs

Michael Crowley

Boricua Custom Boats launched the Cap’N Ben, a 43-year-old Young Brothers, in a like-new condition on April 4. Boricua Custom Boats photos.

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Maine yard revives classic lobster boats

Michael Crowley

Maritime Fabrications finished off the 46-foot Pacific Hunter as a crabber. Maritime Fabrications photo

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Washington yard finishes crabber before prepping gillnetters for summer

Michael Crowley

Ready for “Wicked Tuna,” charters and offshore trips, Paul Hebert heads of Milbridge, Maine, bound for the Wicked Pissah’s home port of Gloucester, Mass. Paul Hebert photo

Wicked Pissah: Maine’s H&H Marine launches a star-quality bluefin tuna hunter

Paul Molyneaux

The V-bow on this 20-foot commercial fishing skiff is shaped with a chunk forefoot an ancient method of creating deadrise of shaping a V in the bow and stern of Chesapeake Bay log canoes. Larry Chowning photo

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Bay builder goes back to classic techniques

Larry Chowning