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When it comes to marketing diesel engines to Maine lobstermen and fishermen in general who like to get to the fishing grounds and back in a hurry, engine companies and [...]

If you fish Bristol Bay and favor fast gillnettners able to get on step with a lot of weight --we're talking 15,000 pounds-- your chances of getting such a boat [...]

Want a new fishing boat built in the 30- to 50-foot range? If you want it built out of fiberglass, aluminum or (in the large size) steel, you shouldn't have [...]

The Aug. 21 race in Portland, Maine, was the last of Maine's 2022 lobster boat racing season, after 573 boats came out for 11 events starting with June 18 at [...]

The Highlander, the latest boat to be launched at Bay Welding Services in Homer, Alaska, is bound to get a lot of attention, both for its speed and ability to [...]

At Rozema Boat Works in Mt. Vernon, Wash., the boatbuilding projects are very different than they were a year ago. That's when Rozema Boat Works' Dirk Rozema thought he had [...]

Farrin's Boatshop in Walpole, Maine, launched the Endeavor on Aug. 1. It's a boat Maine fishermen will undoubtedly encounter now and then, because the Endeavor is the Maine Department of [...]

After 44 years of building, repairing, finishing off and outfitting commercial fishing boats, Petrzelka Brothers (Joel, Jon and Paul) in Mt. Vernon, Wash., has completed its last commercial fishing boat. [...]

There's no shortage of boats being built at Wesmac Custom Boats in Surry, Maine. 'We have many, many to build,' says Steve Wessel, owner of the yard, adding that Wesmac [...]

The Winona J arrived at Fred Wahl Marine Construction in Reedsport, Ore., measuring 68' * 22'. The West Coast crabber and shrimper left at the end of June, after being [...]

The East Side Boat Shop in Machiasport, Maine, launched the 'Yes Dear,' a 41' * 15' 8' Libby with a 1,000-hp FPT, for a Rockland, Maine, lobsterman. Frank Coffin, the [...]

Seven races completed and 281 boats have come to the line in the 2022 Maine Lobster Boat Racing Season, from skiffs with 30hp outboards to high-powered lobster boats, such as [...]

On May 27, Fashion Blacksmith in Crescent City, Calif., launched the Mary Lu, and on June 1, the 57' x 25' Dungeness crabber and shrimper was back shrimping while sporting [...]

Saturday, June 19, was the day--the first race of the 2021 Maine lobster boatracing season. That was in Boothbay Harbor, which last year canceled its race because of the coronavirus [...]

The Maritime Fabrications in La Conner, Wash., has been winding down the building of new boats for the past year, while focusing on retrofitting and repair work, as well as [...]

It was boredom,' says Richard Duffy, that brought him back to boatbuilding. He had been half of the Duffy & Duffy boatbuilding team (the other half was his father, Ralph) [...]

Mainely Boats in Cushing, Maine, sent a Calvin 34 about 11 miles up the coast to Rockland for an early May launching. That was the Bottom Line, and it was [...]

Rozema Boat Works had nearly finished a 20' * 11' seine skiff in mid-April that's going to Prince William Sound. As opposed to the three 19' * 10' seine skiffs [...]

Last year, Jeff Eaton at Eaton's Boat Shop & Fiberglassing in Deer Isle, Maine, finished off an Eaton Boat Shop 25 for a local lobsterman, and immediately it showed signs [...]

The Prospector, a 64' x 25' shrimper and crabber built in 1973, was hauled out in March at the Port of Toledo Shipyard in Toledo, Ore., for a major overhaul. [...]

Velocity Marine and Fabrication's Rob Smith calls it 'a strange one but kind of a cool one.' He's talking about the Helisa Marie, a high-speed 33' * 11' aluminum landing [...]

H&H Marine is building an Osmond 42 with a 17' 6' beam that's going to the San Francisco area. Originally it was to be completed at the end of 2020, [...]

At the Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op, planks were being re. moved from the 58-foot seiner Defiance the second week in January, all because of an abrupt encounter with a large [...]

It's a big step up for a Cutler, Maine, lobsterman who will be going from a 20-footer to the 35 Mitchell Cove that's being built at Feeney Boat Shop in [...]

American Seafoods' Northern Jaeger is getting 15 new electric winches. All but two of the hydraulic winches on the 336-foot pollock boat will be replaced. The two remaining winches, a [...]

Some refer to them as monster boats. Others joke about 46-footers that are 30 feet wide. Yes, Maine's lobster boats have been coming out of boatshops a lot longer and [...]

Talk to fellow boat owners who have been through a similar project that you may be planning, who have been to that yard and can say what happened that they [...]

The January issue of National Fisherman is always a chance to look back at the past year's stories and remember some of the more interesting ideas that appeared. In 2015, [...]

There's been a 34 percent overall decline in commercial fishing fatalities between 2000 and 2014, according to recent figures from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Healths commercial fishing [...]

Maritime Fabrications in La Conner, Wash., conducted sea trials in September for the 'first of the second generation,' of a new fiberglass design, which is longer and carries more beam [...]

Bruce Marifern had a problem. It centered on his 54' x 15' seiner Freedom, a Delta Marine design built in 1980 that he fishes out of Petersburg, Alaska. The problem [...]

The last time Jeff Johnson at Peregrine Boats in Chugiak, Alaska, built a Bristol Bay gillnetter like the one that's currently under construction was 23 years ago. That was for [...]

Fairhaven Shipyard in Fairhaven, Mass., delivered the Joey D to Oceanside Marine at the beginning of October. The 90' x 28' clammer, designed by Farrell & Norton Naval Architects, is [...]

David Peterson is a boat carpenter in Eureka, Calif., specializing in repairing wooden fishing boats, like the 54-foot Blue Pacific out of Fort Bragg, Calif., that arrived in Eureka in [...]

Holland's Boat Shop in Belfast, Maine, has a fairly long list of boats to build --13 to be exact. The list includes several skiffs, two 20-footers and four in the [...]

'There's never a dull moment around here,' says Matt Hamilton, Quality/Project manager at Fred Wahl Marine Construction after going over the list of boats currently in for repairs and alterations [...]

Steve Wessel, owner of Wesmac Custom Boats in Surry, Maine, describes living in a time dominated by covid-19 as, 'crazy. Scary. We are all gun-shy, worried and timid. But as [...]

During the second week in July, the 42-foot wooden lobster boat the Sea Wife had been hauled out at John's Bay Boat Co. in South Bristol, Maine, and then moved [...]

Come Labor Day weekend, if you're on a dock in Gloucester, Mass., or working the deck of a fishing boat near the harbor's entrance, you are liable to see an [...]

National Fisherman's January issue is always the time to look back at the most interesting Boats & Gear ideas that ran through the our pages in the last year. This [...]

Coast Guard casualty figures indicate that 67 percent of fishing boat sinkings are caused by downflooding, which is usually a result of equipment or hull failure. Trace the cause back [...]

The Bering Sea groundfish fleets haven't seen much in the way of new steel boat construction since the early 1990s, thanks mainly to regulatory obstacles. However, recent federal legislation has [...]

Brownsville, Texas, has a shrimping fleet of about 130 trawlers, not including smaller shrimp boats that go out only for a day at a time. Their shrimping season goes from [...]

Farrin's Boatshop in Walpole, Maine, recently rebuilt two older Maine lobster boats. One was the Trudy Lee, a 34-foot Calvin that Farrin's Boatshop built 14 years ago for a lobsterman [...]

It's been 14 years, but if you watched Season 2 of the 'Deadliest Catch,' you might still recognize the Aleutian Ballad that was at Giddings Boatworks in Coos Bay, Ore., [...]

Nearly two years ago, Strongback Metal Boats president Ole Oksvold said he was thinking about building a version of a jet-powered boat that could fish for salmon in Alaska's Bristol [...]

Maine's 2020 lobster boat racing season, which began in June in Rockland and ended in August in Portland, was like no other. The continual threat of the coronavirus wiped out [...]

H&H Marine in Steu Hben, Maine, should really set up a boatshop on the West Coast. Ideally it would be somewhere around San Francisco, because that's where they've sent several [...]

What kind of shape would you expect a 57-year-old wooden dragger and crabber to be in that hadn't undergone major restoration work? Well, if it's the Blue Pacific built by [...]

Last summer Knud Olsen and his son, Garrett, were doing what they do every summer, purse seining for salmon. But they were a long way from their home port of [...]