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Article: Crab boat is being converted; Alaska yard has new gillnetter.(WEST)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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There is something to be said for having an anchor watch--at least the owner of a 32-foot aluminum gillnetter that's getting his tophouse rebuilt at Edling Enterprises in Bellingham, Wash., probably thinks so.
The boat was anchored up when an errant salmon tender got much too close, caving in the gillnetter's bulwarks, anchor chock and roller before sliding off. "Then it kind of crushed the port side of the flying bridge," says Edling Enterprises' John Edling.
Edling Enterprises had "finished the boat here a couple of years ago. We had bolted the flybridge on, so we just unbolted it," says Edling.
The third week in November the exterior of the ...
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