Along The
Waterfroit
By Karl Armstrong
Reefer King Skipper George
Gronholt was in town Monday to
pick up about a dozen men for their
second shift operation. He said that
by the 20th the King would be lay
ing at Trap Point. He said the Deep
Sea arrived at Port Wakefield Sun
day evening and would refuel here
Tuesday before heading to the
south end. Wakefield Cannery got
*nto full swing again last Saturday
and Lowell Wakefield is back
from a quick trip outside.
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Almost a week ago. had the plea
sure, along with Father Don Bul
lock and APA Area Supervisor
Vern Hilliker, of being taken on a
tour of the mighty Ptarmigan by
Skipper - Owner Hubert Ursich.
The huge 128-foot former Tuna
clipper will be under lease to APA
and will be tendering salmon
through the season and will king
crab later. She can hold 140,000
Kodiak pinks! And each day’s catch
can be held in a separate chilled
sea water compartment at 29 de
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grees if necessary. She can hold
22,000 king crab and will be able
to fish away out there in direct
fishing competition with the Rus
sian and Japanese fleets. Skipper
Ulrich will later on be moving his
family to Kodiak permanently. The
Ptarmigan has a crew of five con
sisting of: George Ursich, deck
hand; Francis Lucich, engineer;
Boris Pesa, cook; Francis Pesenn,
mate. If we had a fleet of vessels
this size or larger the competition
from the foreign fleets would tend
to look less formidable and very
conceivably, indeed probably, our
fishermen would outfish the aliens
and otherwise make the foreign
operations less profitable and thus
eradicate the threat they pose of
vacumming our continental shelf
clean of resources.
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Also had lunch aboard Paa
Alaska’s tremendous processor ship
Mercator as a guest of Skipper Vic
Hansen, undoubtedly one of the
the best - known, well-liked and re
spected mariners in the North Pa
cific. Other guests sharing the Cap
tain’s table were Pat (Mrs. Lloyd)
Cannon, Peggy Dyson, and Dora
Kramer and her son Charlie. Char
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* Picnickers *
Don’t Forget To Be Prepared
On That Outing
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lie and I stayed aboard when she
moved from City Dock to the Stan
dard Oil Dock and were able to
watch firsthand up on the bridge
why Skipper Hansen is rated an
expert mariner. Although the dock
was supposed to be cleared for the
Mercator’s mooring a halibut scho
oner had snuck in ahead of her and
as we approached the dock a small
salmon seiner darted out in front
of and cut across our bow. Also
the Fedair had pulled into it’s mo
oring spot and it was obvious that
the Mercator just was too long to
fit between the halibut schooner
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and the Fedair. By this time the
whole approach to the docking was
snafooed and Skipper Hansen had
to manuever in the narrow channel
with a stiff breeze blowing and the
tide running and try to hold to a
position for approach while the
schooner moved. This he was able
to accomplish and it was a marv
elous example of teamwork be
tween his helmsman, wheel watch,
and the skipper who was constantly
calling out his orders for manuev
ering the huge ship. Later learned
that the previous day he had ac
complished a complete turnaround
with the Mercator in the channel.
She has a crew of 34 and will add
15 more when the double shift be
gins.
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Talked a bit with 1st National
Bank Manager Dave Savoie and
was surprised at hearing him talk
so knowledgeably about fisheries.
Found out he was a fisheries bi
ologist with the ADF&G and work
ed for Wally Noerenberg over
Prince William Sound.
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While down at the boat harbor
ran into John Osenga and young
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