Novels of Life, Love & Danger in The Great Land
The two images below are both looking down to the deck on an 86′ long tender that is tied up to a pier. On the left, the view is from the wheelhouse on the stern. On the upper deck are hoses and parts of the conveyor/slide. On the lower deck are the aluminum sorting tables. There are cranes on both sides of the boat. The photo on the right is taken from the bow and you can see part of the wheelhouse. This is the same boat deck, from two viewpoints.
This is a tender tied up to the delivery dock at a cannery/processing facility. The yellow crane in the center is often used during deliveries and to lower supplies to the boats.
The power block is a spinning wheel, controlled with hydraulics, that helps bring the net in. The interior rubber grips the net, leadline, and corks, pulling the net and fish aboard, where the deckhands separate and stack it, corks on one side and leadline on the opposite side, with the webbing between them. On the boat above, the power block is on a slider on the main boom, meaning it can be extended to the end of the boom when needed, or brought in closer as shown above. One end of the net is hanging from the power block in the photo above.
The crow’s nest is a stand at the stop of the main mast. It has a steering wheel and throttle controls and the height allows the skipper to see into the water and see the net as it is deployed. Access is via rungs welded onto the main mast.
The flying bridge is above the main cabin. It has full controls for the boat, and gives the skipper a 360 degree view. Some boats have a fully open flying bridge, some have a cover, to keep the skipper out of the rain, and some boats have an enclosed flying bridge, like the one below.
On the left is a floating fuel station, or fuel dock, in the harbor. Boats of all sizes tie up and fill their tanks there. In the background on the right is a hotel overlooking the harbor. The long aluminum boat near the center is a small landing craft.