Boats & Gear

Hanging a nylon seine: While the cost of the Plateena and other lightweight fibers can be four times that of nylon, they are stronger and lighter. Dick Shellhorn photo.

Fresh mesh: Technology gives the ancient fishing technique of seining a total overhaul

Paul Molyneaux

Alamarin-Jet looks to expand U.S. market with Omega 37.

A smaller big jet: Alamarin-Jet adds to its Omega line

Brian Hagenbuch

Sinepuxent Boatworks in Berlin, Md., delivered this 22-foot glass-over-wood skiff to a Chestertown, Md., waterman to trotline for blue crabs and to harvest catfish. Sinepuxent Boatworks photo.

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Chicken grow-out house doubles as a boatshop; Cecil Robbins 29 in for repairs at Virginia yard

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Peregrine Boats’ new Bristol Bay gillnetter features a net reel that travels bow to stern in the tracks on the deck. Peregrine Boats photo.

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A gillnetter with a very different wheelhouse; good-bye hatches, hello manholes

Michael Crowley

The Aleutian Endurance. Buck and Ann Fisheries photo.

Poised for pots: A new skipper and new launch head for the Aleutian pot cod fishery

Paul Molyneaux

The Oxe 150- and 200-hp diesel outboards are joined by the new Tier III-approved Oxe 300 diesel outboard, now available in the United States. Oxe Marine photo.

Tour de force: Expanded marine engine lineups, concessions on tier requirements

Paul Molyneaux

Vetus launches two small-boat electric systems.

Vetus re-enters electric market: A pioneer of electric boating is back

Brian Hagenbuch

This Georgia-built Carolina Skiff 238 DLV is being used in Virginia’s public hand dredge fishery on the Rappahannock River by watermen Chris Belvin and Michael Shackelford. Larry Chowning photo.

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Virginia watermen maintain their own small fleet; watershed event for Chesapeake museum boatshop

Larry Chowning

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Boat of the Month: Cap’n Lake

Larry Chowning

Holland’s Boat Shop is building this 32-foot tuna boat with a 650-hp Cat for a Maine fisherman. Jon Johansen photo.

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Rebuild of well-known race boat is put on hold; boatyard says 50 feet is a good cutoff point

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The century old O’Hara Corporation engaged Elliott Bay Design Group to provide design and engineering support for the modernization of the Alaska Spirit. EBDG scanned the entire vessel and is using computer programs to rebuild her for the 21st Century.

O'Hara refitting Alaska Spirit for the 21st century

Paul Molyneaux