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Fisherman and filmmaker Jason Crosby is restoring a family heirloom wooden seiner in Port Townsend, Wash. Watch the progress and follow the story of the Genius, featured in National Fisherman's September issue.

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Those were the golden years

Follow Jason Crosby's progress as he restores a wooden seiner built in 1920.

 

Genius 2013

This old boat: Steaming wood and installing new frames.

 

Genius — Beam me up

Attaching new beam ends on the bow of the Genius as another Skansie Shipyard-built boat moves into the neighborhood.

 

Genius — We can become

Scraping, sanding, painting, pounding, tearing, uncovering family artifacts: Things are coming along on the Genius project.

 

More on the Genius Project at www.ageniusproject.com 

 

More of Jason Crosby's fishing films on YouTube

More squid than squid
Shoot to thrill
Catcher cowboys: The 2013 Sitka sac roe herring fishery
Real women, real fishing: In Southeast Alaska aboard the Miss Danica

 

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