Boats & Gear

Simrad brings big boat sonar to smaller vessels.

A smaller sonar with bigger features

Brian Hagenbuch

Thanks to the new bow configuration and power package in the Bering Hope, Captain Arron Burbach and crew can take on what the Bering Sea has to offer, and keep fishing. Ocean Peace photo

Bayou to the Bering Sea: Ocean Peace converts an oil patch vessel

Paul Molyneaux

Owen Smith relies on a suite of electronics, particularly his two Olex bottom builders, to keep the Relentless on the scallops and out of the rock piles. Jake Smith photo Follow Relentless_scalloping on social

Captain’s Choice: What’s in your wheelhouse?

Paul Molyneaux

Dual props increase thrust and efficiency. Wesmar photo

Solid and powerful, Wesmar thrusters work

Brian Hagenbuch

The Endeavor, built by Farrin’s Boatshop, is the Maine Department of Marine Resources newest patrol boat. Jon Johansen photo

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Boatshop finishes Maine’s newest patrol boat

Michael Crowley

The newly launched Killshot exercises her 750-hp Volvo engine shortly after being launched at Oceanville Boatworks in Stonington, Maine. Terry Boivin photo

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Maine lobstermen stick with large boats and big engines

Michael Crowley

Furuno transducers cover 3-D sounders and CHIRP fish finders from a single unit.

Dual-function pocket transducers

Brian Hagenbuch

Schottel just celebrated its 100th birthday. Located in Germany’s Rhine Valley, where the company began in 1921, Schottel continues to build its propellers to exacting standards. Schottel photo

Power Pods: Thrusters maximize fuel efficiency

Paul Molyneaux

Delays in getting materials during the pandemic meant the projects continued into summer — afloat in Port Townsend’s Commercial Basin. Elizabeth Becker photo

F/V Indiana: Reinstated

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Phyllis Shirron bought a Prince William Sound salmon drift permit and a bowpicker in 2020. Phyllis Shirron photo

Boat of the Month: Cape Fear

Charlie Ess

Rozema Boatworks completed this raised-pilothouse Bristol Bay gillnetter in spring 2020. The three gillnetters currently under construction will be nearly identical. Rozema Boatworks photo

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Washington boatshop is back in the game

Michael Crowley