F/V Pacific Mariner, Alaska Bering Sea Crabber; another Marco crabber landing back to home port this spring, from this recent extra snotty Alaska crab season. Pacific Fishermen Shipyard a lower 48 crabbers shipyard hot spot, by February and March fishermen put the boat to bed and get her worked on, most spend spring prepping the boat for Bristol Bay and SE AK Salmon Tendering come summer.
Fremont Tugboats assist commercial vessel and passenger vessels year round in the WA Ship Canal and throughout the great NW region. F/V Pacific Mariner, gets a soft tug, pull and flip around by Fremont Tugboats. Like most maritime businesses in the greater Seattle area Fremont Tugboat Company is – of course run by the third generation tugboat captains and family; it’s over 100 years old. They make it look so easy flipping around F/V Pacific Mariner on this windy cold wet early spring NW afternoon.
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Marco Shipyard out of Seattle WA, built the F/V Pacific Mariner in 1974. Marco was established in 1953 and shut down in the Pacific Northwest in 2005. Marco crab boats have forward house big bootie stern that some say looks like a bird coasting in the wind and some say the stern design when not loaded down looks like to raised ‘butt cheeks’ above the water line. Marco Shipyard designs modernized the US commercial fishing industry. For almost half a century Marco Shipyard operated as one of the best ship and boat builders in the Port of Seattle, Washington. When you’re in our around the WA Ship Canal just look left then right, you’re bound to see a Marco Boat.
Pacific Fishermen Shipyard three haul out facilities and finger docks on the freshwater side of the WA Ship Canal Ballard Locks. The ways include: 100’ x 200 ton marine railway, 160′ x 600 ton marine railway and the original Rowe 145′ x 600 ton screw lift dock with 140’ covered end track rails for extended dry dock ship repairs.
Pacific Fishermen Shipyard and PFI Marine Electric are best know in the lower 48 for their seasoned and experienced shipwrights, boilermakers, machinists, fabricators and electricians. In the Pacific Northwest wooden boat world; Pac. Fish has experienced caulkers on staff in their oakum loft.
Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers, Draggers and Tenders flock to Pacific Fishermen Shipyard for their skilled heavy steel fabrication, piping, wood joinery and full service machine shop that gives the vessel owner access to a one‐stop repair and maintenance on site facility.
PFI Marine Electric maintains a local mobile base, outfitted with all the materials required to effectively perform electrical repairs in the Puget Sound region at local shipyards and dockside facilities. PFI Marine Electric worked closely with the owners of Marco Seiners and Crabbers, as well as with many local AK and NW fisheries. PFI Marine Electric is the local dealer for NightWatch monitoring systems and has several recent installations aboard the Seattle to AK commercial fleets.
PFI Marine Electric has their service shop at Lunde North in Dutch Harbor and at Pacific Fishermen Shipyard in Ballard, WA. They are a full-service marine electric contractor with UL 508 panel shop, located on the freshwater side of Ballard’s Salmon Bay, just east of the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. Established in 1946, the shipyard purchased the assets of Lunde Electric in 2004 with a longstanding history of providing service to tugboats, passenger vessels, charter yachts and commercial fishing vessels. Today, the dedicated workforce at PFI Marine Electric, continue a heritage of maintaining seaworthiness in the Bering Sea of Alaska and the Puget Sound and Pacific Coast region.
F/V Pacific Mariner & Fremont Tugboats, Original Photography, All Photo’s by: Salty Dog Boating News, Salty Dog Maritime Marketing, Salty Sea Gal, Inquiries to: [email protected] Salty Dog Marine Traffic Source PNW to AK Up & Down Hill. God Bless our fishermen & their families! Alaska Bering Sea Crabber Welcome Home in the Lower 48!