mmd
05-10-2010, 02:58 PM
While in Lunenburg last Sunday - going for the obligatory Mother's Day drive, but sneaking in a bit of boat-ogling - I came across these photo-worthy subjects:
Three generations of deep-sea scallop draggers: The Ernest E. Peirce is from the late 'seventies and is the final iteration of the mid-ship working deck scalloper that originated in converted side-trawlers. The original boats were built of wood (I sailed on one of those) but were eventually built in steel to the same form as the wood ones. The scallops were shucked at sea, bagged in 40-lb bags and chilled on ice in the hold. These vessels stay out at sea for about two weeks, with ten to twelve days of that engaged in fishing with the remainder if the time steaming to and from the fishing grounds. Behind her is the Tenacity from sometime in the early 'eighties when they were playing around with deck layouts to make the boats safer and easier to work, but with essentially the same deck gear and catch-handling process as their predecessors like the Pierce. Tenacity has her wheelhouse 'midships, the shucking house and winch house under the aft superstructure, and the fishing gear lands on the stern of the boat. Crews didn't like it because the motion of the boat at the stern made the fishing gear dangerous to work around, and in winter the exposed deck was always wet & icy. On the inside is the Atlantic Preserver, one of the latest-design scallop freezer-trawlers. It has automated everything, carries about 2/3 of the crew that the Pierce does but fishes with about three times the efficiency, and stays out a month at a time.
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/mmd_ns/Misc%20pics/ClearwaterdraggersinLunenburg2.jpg
The next pic is not what is commonly found on many waterfronts these days - a square-rigged ship's yard. It is from the Picton Castle, and was replaced a couple of years ago.
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/mmd_ns/Misc%20pics/PictonCastleyardarmongroundinLunenb.jpg
Next up is one of the least welcome and least attractive vessels on the Lunenburg waterfront. The Sea Shepherd ship Farley Mowat was arrested in North Sidney for interfering with the Gulf of St. Lawrence seal harvest, and subsequently towed to Lunenburg to be tied up until the court case is settled. Fetching paint job, don't you think?
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/mmd_ns/Misc%20pics/SeaShepherdshipFarleyMowatinLunenbu.jpg
Finally, a bit of boat modern art: a stack of small boat hulls at the Dory Shop caught my eye.
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/mmd_ns/Misc%20pics/Stackedboathulls-Lunenburg.jpg
Three generations of deep-sea scallop draggers: The Ernest E. Peirce is from the late 'seventies and is the final iteration of the mid-ship working deck scalloper that originated in converted side-trawlers. The original boats were built of wood (I sailed on one of those) but were eventually built in steel to the same form as the wood ones. The scallops were shucked at sea, bagged in 40-lb bags and chilled on ice in the hold. These vessels stay out at sea for about two weeks, with ten to twelve days of that engaged in fishing with the remainder if the time steaming to and from the fishing grounds. Behind her is the Tenacity from sometime in the early 'eighties when they were playing around with deck layouts to make the boats safer and easier to work, but with essentially the same deck gear and catch-handling process as their predecessors like the Pierce. Tenacity has her wheelhouse 'midships, the shucking house and winch house under the aft superstructure, and the fishing gear lands on the stern of the boat. Crews didn't like it because the motion of the boat at the stern made the fishing gear dangerous to work around, and in winter the exposed deck was always wet & icy. On the inside is the Atlantic Preserver, one of the latest-design scallop freezer-trawlers. It has automated everything, carries about 2/3 of the crew that the Pierce does but fishes with about three times the efficiency, and stays out a month at a time.
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/mmd_ns/Misc%20pics/ClearwaterdraggersinLunenburg2.jpg
The next pic is not what is commonly found on many waterfronts these days - a square-rigged ship's yard. It is from the Picton Castle, and was replaced a couple of years ago.
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/mmd_ns/Misc%20pics/PictonCastleyardarmongroundinLunenb.jpg
Next up is one of the least welcome and least attractive vessels on the Lunenburg waterfront. The Sea Shepherd ship Farley Mowat was arrested in North Sidney for interfering with the Gulf of St. Lawrence seal harvest, and subsequently towed to Lunenburg to be tied up until the court case is settled. Fetching paint job, don't you think?
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/mmd_ns/Misc%20pics/SeaShepherdshipFarleyMowatinLunenbu.jpg
Finally, a bit of boat modern art: a stack of small boat hulls at the Dory Shop caught my eye.
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d19/mmd_ns/Misc%20pics/Stackedboathulls-Lunenburg.jpg