Dear Commercial Fishing Editor:

The following is the first in a series of information sheets that I will be sending you on behalf of Cummins Marine. In future I will hope to notify you early on in the building process. In this way, should some aspect of the vessel fit your editorial plans, you will be able to assign a writer to the boat before it leaves for the fishing grounds. I look forward to speaking with more of you by telephone and hope that you find the following useful.

Cummins Marine: Hot Tips for Editors

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ALASKA DAWN and ANNA LEA at bottom, second write up for Alaska Dawn also included here.

Roderiguez Boatbuilders Inc. Alabama
Builder and Designer: Joe Roderiguez 334-824-4067
Owner: William Gilbert, Bellingham, WA ph:360 733-0416
Dim: 90X26X11
Main Eng: 12-cylinder Cummins KTA38 MO
Marine gear: Twin Disc, MG530 6.06:1
Prop: 68-inch
Mission: Crabber, Dragger, Bristol Bay salmon tender
Arriving Seattle: May 18 and will be at the Puget Sound Hydraulic Dock on North Shore just above the Ballard Bridge (Old Union Bay Dry dock) she will depart for Bellingham later in the week prior to travelling to Bristol Bay.

A.HAIG-BROWN & ASSOC.
1513 Sixth Ave.
New Westminster, B.C.
Canada
V3M 2C5
June 1, 1997

Dear Editor:

The enclosed slides and this release are a follow up on the "Cummins Hot Tips" that I sent you recently. I will be sending more in the near future and would be interested in hearing from you about any changes or additions you might like on either the Hot Tips or these releases. I have word of an interesting boat building in Newfoundland which is particularly nice news.

If you have an e-mail address I would appreciate having it for the Cummins Hot Tips. My e-mail is at the bottom of this page. Please do let me know if there is anything that you would like to see added to these new boat releases.

As this is being done for Cummins there is no charge to your publication. However, if I am not already on your mailing list I would appreciate having my address added.

Thank-you

Alan Haig-Brown

ALASKA DAWN

William Gilbert was born, raised and has fished most of his life out of Sand Point Alaska. Primarily a salmon seiner today, he keeps his involvement in a wide range of other Alaskan fisheries through his ownership of the 90-foot combination boat ALASKA DAWN. As an Alaskan, he knows and likes a good boat, so when he lost the original ALASKA DAWN, he went back to Roderiguez Boat Builders in Bayou LaBatre, Alabama for another boat just the same.

The new boat, launched this past April maintains the same dimensions as the 90x24X11-foot original and even uses some of the same electronics and equipment.

Skippered by Haukur Johannesson, who learned the ways of boats and fish in his native Iceland, the boat made the trip around from the Gulf of Mexico to Puget Sound in 28 days. "We didn't go ashore on the whole trip, even at Panama we anchored out," says the youthful skipper, "With 18,000 gallons of fuel there was no need to refuel."

The big fuel tanks are important to a boat that puts in the kind of year that will be the lot of the ALASKA DAWN. In summer she will serve as a tender to the Bristol Bay salmon fleet. From September to March they alternate between Bering Sea tanner and king crab fishing, mid-water trawling for pollock and bottom trawling for cod. "We have the boat really well set up to change gear quickly," says Johannesson.

The boat is equipped with a 40 ton and a 20 ton freezer system supported by two 99 kw Cummins powered gen sets with a third 35 kw set for ship service. With RSW and 5000 cubic feet of hold space, they deliver the cod to Trident Seafood plants at Sand Point and Akutan where it is processed to high quality fillets. The pollock is delivered every second day to those same plants for surumi production. The boat fishes a Lummi Net Company midwater trawl with a 25X15-fathom opening. A typical trawl will bring up 40 to 50 tons of fish. It was for this fishery that Gilbert made the most significant change over the original boat. He has had Cummins on two other boats including the first ALASKA DAWN. "I like Cummins, I never had any trouble with them, they don't burn oil and they cost less per horse power," he explains. On the new boat, he wanted a little more power than he had with the earlier model 1710 cubic inch 675 hp Cummins VTA28M, so he moved up to a 12-cylinder 2300-cubic inch Cummins KTA 38 MO delivering 850 hp. Linked to a Twin Disc 6.06:1 gear and turning a 68-inch prop in a kort nozzle.

After further outfitting at Puget Sound ports, the ALASKA DAWN headed north in early June for her home port at Sand Point near the entrance to the Bering Sea. She is expected to spend three years in some of the world's most rugged fisheries before coming to southern waters for overhaul.

ANNA LEA

Jody Giannini of Morro Bay will be launching his new 58X23 foot steel combination boat in mid-June. Powered by a 6-cyl. Cummins KTA19 rated 500 hp@1800 continuous, supplied by Tom O'Conner of Cummins West, Inc. in San Leandro, Calif. (ph: 510 351-6101), the boat also has a stainless steel fishhold and a 100 kw gen set with a Cold Sea (Seattle) refrigeration system as well as a 40 Kw gen set. Giannini has made extensive use of stainless throughout.

Jody owns two boats and a marine supply store. He is building this boat because, at 50 years of age and having spent his whole life in the fisheries, he knows that a new boat must have flexibility and quality. The flexibility comes from building for all gear types, he is currently trying to get grandfathered into the squid fishery but can also fish albacore, trawl hake or perhaps seine sardine.

The boat is being built by Chris Van Peer at Fort Bragg (707) 964-6712. Jody can be reached at his marine supply store (805) 772-7326. The vessel was designed by Jensen of Seattle.

If you have ideas to improved the format of this memo in the future please do give me a call, (604) 520-6748, fax, (604) 521-5428 or e-mail, ahaig-br@cln.etc.bc.ca

Yours truly,

Alan Haig-Brown

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