Is that Sig Hansen at the wheel before he graduated to the Northwestern
Ned
Almost certainly not. All joking aside, the WoodenBoat Forum (WBF) membership is 'weighted' towards people who sail the Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy (WoodenBoat magazine is published in the picturesque small town of Brooklin, Maine) and we 'Forumites' regard the procedures portrayed in 'The Deadliest Catch' as a sort-of running (tragic) joke. The professional merchant seamen (and seawomen; I certainly do not wish to incur the wrath
of g.captian.com's 'Catherder') who inhabit the
www.gcaptain.com Forum are even more contemptuous of the 'seamanship' portrayed in 'The Deadliest Catch'.
Ah, well, maybe we'll get a response from somebody who has worked the Deadliest Catch waters; I'm rather familiar with certain nightmarish areas of the western North Atlantic, and I'm sure that other Mayhemers have firsthand knowledge of various 'interesting' waters all over the world. The discussion would be entertaining, but, I fear, not particularly enlightening.
Tom