Interesting boat I saw last week...

Yeah,
It's a Lake Superior gillnetting tug, mostly after herring now days. Most of them began their lives as open vessels and then were later enclosed to make the bad weather on Lake Superior a bit easier to take. Note the large door, there is one on the other side as well. The long gillnets are brought in on one side, picked of fish inside the boat, and payed back out through the other side door. The boat travels side ways along the net. When finished the net is already pretty much reset. Some of these boats have wood or coal stoves inside as well. Lake Superior is one very cold work environment and the men that fish it are real inovative guys.

Dan
 
tomherrick":3k2ruf0z said:
They caught my eye up on the lakes last year. Their total enclosure reminds me of the Coast Guard rescue boats.

Here's a link to a Web site by someone who's fond of these boats:

http://www.harveyhadland.com/
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Interesting web site. I had to look it up because of the name. Could spend several hours there. Annals and gallery. Thanks for posting that link.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon
 
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