This page will, for now, include a mix of halibut schooners, crab boats and Bristol Bay gillnetters and collector boats. If your boat is not here and should be, please send an image to alan@haig-brown.com
In future, this page may have to split to separate the Bering Sea from Bristol Bay.
- Aleutian built 1928 by Ole Moberg, photo taken early 1990s
- Atlas: built in 1918 and died on the hard at Winchester Oregon in 2013.
- Grant: 1924-built Seattle halibut schooner Grant southbound Johnstone Straits
- Aleutian, Polaris
- Northern: built in 1927 by C.E. Moberg owned 2013 by Patrick Storrs.
- Olympic: built 1911 by Gust Jorgensen
- Pacific Sun built by Bender Welding hailing port Seattle
- The Quest leaving the Ballard Locks on a black cod and halibut longline trip to the Gulf of Alaska. Marshal Ross is Captain and Jason Newel in pic on bow.
- Republic, halibut schooner built 1913, owned 2012 by Duane R Torgeson
- Resolute: Built Sagstad 1924 and still fishing
- Rogue built by Giddings Boat Works in Oregon in 1989. seen here southbound on Inside Passage
- Thor built 1925 by Edward E. Johson. halibut schooner rigged here for tuna at Astoria OR.
- Tordenskjold built 1911
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Does anyone know what happened to MV Chelsea? skipper was Adolf when I sailed with them during IPHC cruises back in the ’80’s.
the mv chelsea is currently in the gold coast maybe a different boat though as the mv chelsea was built in the 90s in NZ it is for sale and is reduced alot with the skipper living on it (mark) and his many girlfriends lol
Fished the Bering Sea 1969 to 1989 for Red King Crab, tanners, blues, opilio’s,in the hay days winters were hell back then even fished Cape Douglas,Shumagin Islands for crab tuff place to fish, we also fished right in Unimac Pass right in it a hell hole for Tanners F/F Scorpio 115′ Martinolich got a real ass kicking i’m 66 years old know just want to find out what is going on up there ya ya ya i watch tv but looking for boats and guys from the past not many of us left any more god bless all who play there hand with mother nature to make a living would not have had it any other way.
Rick Gilhousen says:
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12 April, 2018 at 8:52 am
Fished the Bering Sea 1969 to 1989 for Red King Crab, tanners, blues, opilio’s,in the hay days winters were hell back then even fished Cape Douglas,Shumagin Islands for crab tuff place to fish, we also fished right in Unimac Pass right in it a hell hole for Tanners F/F Scorpio 115′ Martinolich got a real ass kicking i’m 66 years old know just want to find out what is going on up there ya ya ya i watch tv but looking for boats and guys from the past not many of us left any more god bless all who play there hand with mother nature to make a living would not have had it any other way.
Saw her in Tacoma was 4 years ago at a dock rotting away had a 10 degree list soooo sad