Still Getting It Done After All These Years!
Pic taken with my HTC EVO phone
The Western Wave Herring Seiner
My View of Life on the Dock
My View of Life on the Dock
Still Getting It Done After All These Years!
Pic taken with my HTC EVO phone
Good Morning Gloucester 
I designed that boat and had it built in New Bern, N.C. in 1973. She was built for the offshore lobster/crab fishery. She also pair trawled with the Western Sea for herring in the winter before being sold to Stinson Canning Co., Prospect Harbor, Me. in 1978.
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My Uncle Clelle and Cousin Joey skippered her when the boat was sold to Stinson I believe. I can’t even begin to imagine how much fish that boat has landed for as long as she has fished.
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The Western Wave was built by DESCO in St. Augustine, FL, as were all the Western Ocean boats. They are modified shrimpers. My Grandmother, Martha Curtis christened the Sea Dog II (the first of the Western Ocean boats), Mrs. O’leary christened the Western Ocean, and my sister and I christened this boat. I do not remember the Western Sea. I recently found an marine artist’s painting of the the Western Ocean that was done prior to the 3 Western boats being built. The painting was damp and had molded but I had it cleaned – it’s a sparkling rendition of what you see in the above photograph.
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Nice history.
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I worked on this boat back in 70’s. Started on when boat was used for Texaco plotting locations for offshore oil out past Georges Bank. Then switched to Pair trawling. Got some great pics off the day. Western Sea, Western Ocean were sister boats. Drycock in Pt. Judith. This boat was my home. I used to tell the girls I had a place on the water. LOL. Worked for Ocean Resources in Gloucester. Frozen solid in C.C. Canal. Stay Safe!!
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