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Williams-built Alaska joins Vinjerud fleet
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 NEW BEDFORD, MA – Alaska is the latest scalloper to join Lars Vinjerud II’s Fleet Fisheries Inc. And at 102’ LOA, it may be his most impressive vessel yet.
As with all of Vinjerud’s new boats, the builders were Dale and son Lane Williams and the team at Williams Fabrication in Coden, AL.
Fleet’s Marine Operations Manager Paul Lane said of the Williams family, “They’re old style people, where a handshake is a binding contract. They get a bang out of Lars, and Lars thinks the world of them.”
 The boat was co-designed by Vinjerud and Dale Williams.
“I met Dale in June 2001. He’d never built a scalloper up until that time. I interviewed three builders, and (we) just clicked,” Vinjerud said. “He made more sense, he was easy to work with, and honest. You didn’t have to go there and watch all the time.”
Alaska is named for Vinjerud’s memories of adventures in that state, where he began his fishing career as a 15-year-old deckhand (see story next page).
Alaska measures 92.1’x 27’x14’. Her main power comes from a Milton Cat-supplied Caterpillar 3508 diesel engine, which delivers 1,000 hp @ 1,800 rpm. Cruising speed is about 10 knots. Alaska’s Twin Disc 6:1 reduction gear and 6” stainless steel shaft spin a 77”x77”x4-blade bronze propeller in a 78” Kort nozzle.
R.A. Mitchell Company of New Bedford supplied two John Deere 65 kw gensets and the 8.1 liter, 6-cylinder haulback engine rated at 325 hp.
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Father, son team work to build scallop business
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CAPE MAY, NJ – Tom McNulty Sr. and Tom McNulty Jr. have banded together to run with two new full-time, small-dredge scallop boats built by Tim Jemison.
The purchase of the Pride & Joy and Negotiator is just the latest step in the evolution of the father-and-son team as fishermen.
The elder McNulty began his fishing career going out with his stepdad on old wooden oysterboat-style clammers that were eventually upgraded to big steel stern rigs as the fleet modernized in the 1980s.
When he was 15, he skipped out of Cape May and headed for Virginia to go clamming and eventually came back to Cape May to run the Madison II, his first clam boat.
After that, he ran American Patriot, so named because she was built in the bicentennial year 1976 and was appropriately decked out in red, white, and blue. The boat was one of the first clammers with conveyers and considered big for her day.
But it was his son Tom Jr.’s work as a day-boat scalloper that diverted Tom Sr.’s attention to scalloping.
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Fairhaven Shipyard launches steel dragger
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FAIRHAVEN, MA – It was mission accomplished on Sept. 26 as Fairhaven Shipyard and Marina Inc. launched its first newly built steel fish dragger.
Well, launched might not be quite the right word. After being christened, the 83' Elizabeth was moved by Marine Travelift from the spot where she was built to the yard’s launching area and then gently lowered until she just touched the water.
The event marked the culmination of months of hard work, vision, and courage on the part of the Isaksens – Arne, Gail, and Max – and Kevin McLaughlin, the owners of Fairhaven Shipyard. The launch was a great success, and a large crowd showed up to view the historic moment. Afterwards, the shipyard put on an old-fashioned cookout on the premises with hamburgers, hotdogs, shrimp and pasta salad, and a few cold ones on ice there for the taking.
Elizabeth first began to take shape back in January. Work progressed rapidly and quite smoothly considering this was the yard’s first full-fledged construction job.
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New scalloper Neskone joins Enoksen fleet
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NEW BEDFORD, MA - Painted in the traditional Enoksen black and yellow color scheme, the new scalloper Neskone recently joined the Eastern Fisheries Inc. fleet at the company’s New Bedford dock. The scalloper is owned and managed by Nordic Fisheries’ Roy Enoksen,
Neskone’s unusual name is the reverse spelling of the last name of company principals Roy and son Ronnie Enoksen, á la Araho, an Eastern Fisheries-managed boat owned by the O’Hara Corp. of Rockland, ME. (print edition only)
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