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Article: A trio of skiffs gets jet power; Calif. boat carpenter is busy.(WEST)
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- National Fisherman
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- October 1, 2009
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Bay Welding Services in Homer, Alaska, completed a number of projects this past winter and spring. The shop built nine seine booms to be either ret-rofitted on existing boats or put on new seiners. The shop's crew also fabricated an aluminum tophouse for a salmon seiner.
"Guys had been putting off their upgrade plans a number of years, zut there was a flood of them this year. It's kinda nice to see guys putting money back into their equipment," says Bay Welding Services' Eric Engebretsen.
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At the same time, Bay Welding Services was building three aluminum seine skiffs for this year's salmon season. All three have diesels ...