F/V Northwestern, Deadliest Catch Boat, Home Arrival, West Wall Pot Offload FAST!

F/V Northwestern, Deadliest Catch Boat, Home Arrival, West Wall Pot Offload Lightning FAST!

Deadliest Catch Season 12 Has Kicked Off:  It’s still amazing to those of us in the Maritime Industry how successful this show has become in the last 12 years, who knew fans would or could enjoy watching a bunch of tired, smelly guys on deck at sea would attract such a fan following.

Deadliest Catch Boats and AK Bering Sea Crab Crews are salt and peppered around Ballard and the greater Pacific Northwest. F/V Northwestern hit the Ballard locks late this afternoon, of such a good feeling getting the Ballard Lock lift into our amazing Seattle Ship Canal.  Next the Northwestern came in hot to the ship canal rounding just before the Ballard Bridge into Fishermen’s Terminal for a lightning speed offload.  Ooooo crabber crane driving skills, run for your life it what I always said when we had to tie next to them up in Bristol Bay to on or offload gear of god knows what.

Northwestern has pots off, deck clear zipped out of Fishermen’s Terminal then back down the canal to put the boat to bed in her home shipyard port, just in time for a PNW sunset and time to jump off the boat to have dinner with family & friends.  It’s hard to imagine Deadliest Catch is in season 12.  Shocking to most of us who grew up fishing in AK, fans want to watch dirty, smelly, wet, tired, pain driven crew work on deck.  Although, Deadliest Catch producers have given viewers/fans the inside scoop of dating or being married to a fishermen, what its like for children to see their fathers less than 6 months a year and so on… it’s a crazy world living and working on the sea.  It gets in your blood, by end of each season ya can’t wait to get off the boat, then before you know it while at home you start to miss the boat and freaking wild days at sea where you never know what’s up next according to mother nature or the fishing/crab gods – what they have in store!

Deadliest Catch Northwestern, Ballard Locks, Welcome Home!!!

Deadliest Catch Northwestern, Ballard Locks, Welcome Home!!!

Ballard Locks – F/V Northwestern Early March, ALASKA Bering Sea Crabbers! 

Northwestern, Deadliest Catch, Just hit Ballard Locks, now coming in hot, Ship Canal to offload

Northwestern, Deadliest Catch, Just hit Ballard Locks, now coming in hot, Ship Canal to offload

F/V Northwestern, coming in hot, busting out of the Ballard Locks in the Ship Canal….

F/V Northwestern, Deadliest Catch Boat, Rounding the corner, Fishermen's Terminal, Almost Home

F/V Northwestern, Deadliest Catch Boat, Rounding the corner, Fishermen’s Terminal, Almost Home

F/V Northwestern, zipping over to offload pots west wall, Fishermen’s Terminal….

A busy week… in the commercial fishery world…!!! 

F/V Northwestern, Deadliest Catch Boat, West Wall Offload touch & go!

F/V Northwestern, Deadliest Catch Boat, West Wall Offload touch & go!

F/V Northwestern, crab pot offload touch and go…. almost home…

Crabber rapid fire offload! 

F/V Northwestern, Ballard Bridge off the stern, fast pot off load now rounding the corning coming in hot back down the ship canal, almost home!

F/V Northwestern, Ballard Bridge off the stern, fast pot off load now rounding the corning coming in hot back down the ship canal, almost home!

F/V Northwestern, doing what nearly all crabbers do as soon as they hit the lower 48, ship canal, zip over to Fishermen’s Terminal fast crab pot off load, touch and go…. then off to home port!  WELCOME HOME PNW SPRING HAS ALMOST SPRUNG!

F/V Northwestern, Deadliest Catch Boat, rounding fast, Salty Dog Lab on the lookout....

F/V Northwestern, Deadliest Catch Boat, rounding fast, Salty Dog Lab on the lookout….

Salty Dog Lab Mascot knows the sound of AK Crabbers just getting home! F/V Northwestern, rounding the corner heading back westbound down the ship canal.

F/V Northwestern, Deadliest Catch Boat, got our Salty Dog Lab up on all 4's the boat is coming in a bit close!

F/V Northwestern, Deadliest Catch Boat, got our Salty Dog Lab up on all 4’s the boat is coming in a bit close! Been coming in hot everywhere all afternoon, exciting times to be almost home!

F/V Northwestern, Deadliest Catch Boat getting our Salty Dog Lab Welcome Home Bark! 

F/V Northwestern. off loaded freaking fast, now heading over to their Ballard Home Port, just in time for a PWN sunset dinner!

F/V Northwestern. off loaded freaking fast, now heading over to their Ballard Home Port, just in time for a PWN sunset dinner!

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ALASKA BERING SEA CRABBERS – Welcome Home!  May you enjoy these next few months home before Alaska Summer Salmon season, up next! 

GOD BLESS OUR AK BERING SEA CRABBERS!!!