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Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 9:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Very. Also very hard to watch.

Tess
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04-13-2001

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 11:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tess a private message Print Post    
I agree. It was very respectfully done and hard to watch. DH always watches this program with me so tonight he called me from the hospital about 15 minutes before it was to start. Somehow it made it easier to bear knowing that he was watching too, just not beside me as usual.

I have so much respect and am in awe of those captains and their crews. My favorite is Sig and crew on the Northwestern. I worry so about Phil. On tonight's show he was still smoking. I really like his sons, especially the Josh. He sure had to grow up in a hurry.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Sunday, May 03, 2009 - 3:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Has everyone seen the new commercial on Discovery with the captains faces shown one by one while a pretty flowery song is playing about Mothers and the last captain is Phil and he says Happy F'in Mother's Day with the f'in being bleeped? It makes me giggle every time I see it. I love it.

Marameko
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07-15-2002

Monday, May 04, 2009 - 7:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marameko a private message Print Post    
I saw that Twinkie ! I gasped and said " Oh no he did not". It seems that oh yes he did .......

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Monday, May 04, 2009 - 7:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
I saw that commercial last night. Too funny.

BTW... did anyone see the show on Discovery last night. I can't remember the name, but it was about different boats in the fleet (it also featured the Arctic Dawn, which I think has been on DC in earlier seasons). Anyway, a greenhorn fell overboard in the BS in January, and miraculously they saved him.

Terolyn
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05-06-2004

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 10:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Terolyn a private message Print Post    
I was sad that Sig didn't even bother to respond for the call for help on the bait issue. Especially if the story of them helping him is true. Shame on him.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 10:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
I wondered about that too. Why wouldn't Sig help him? Is he that cold? And if the other story is true then that is shameful.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 11:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
I must have short-term memory... what bait issue (and what other story?)

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 3:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Duuuuhhh Lexie... I forgot I recorded this show this past Tuesday night so when I asked y'all a question about the bait, I was thinking back to last week's show. ((((sigh)))) I guess if I had actually watched THIS WEEK'S show, I would know what y'all were talking about.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 7:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
<---smacks Lexie upside her head

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 7:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
We all have those days. Some of us have those months.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Friday, May 15, 2009 - 10:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
I watched this week's episode last night. I'm very disappointed in Sid if that story about them helping him is true.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Friday, May 15, 2009 - 10:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Am I the only one who is feeling a little let down by this season? Last season (my first) I couldn't wait for this show, and I have probably watched all of the episodes 3-4 times apiece at least. But this year I'm just not loving it. It doesn't seem that we've seen enough fishing and maybe the weather has been too good - I don't know what the deal is but I am feeling a little disconnected with the crews this year. Maybe I'm just missing Phil.

Naja
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06-28-2003

Friday, May 15, 2009 - 11:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
Yeah, there is definitely something missing.

Also, I know a lot of people were really heart struck by the story of that ship that went down, but I thought that particular show was horribly done, and actually kept me from shedding tears. When I think of the actual event, I do get sick inside for those men and their families, but the show itself I thought was put together horribly and actually drained itself of any feeling. The story was told and put together in such a shoddy way in my opinion.

Terolyn
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05-06-2004

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 11:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Terolyn a private message Print Post    
King Crab is over...
Here come the Opies.

And it looks like Phil is Back!!! HOORAY!

Poor Murray with all the loss on the crab. But they still made a butt load of money.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 1:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
How long did Murray's trip last? One of the Harris sons said it was the longest trip he had been on, and the longest one he had ever taken was 14 days until this trip.

<<----- loves her some Opies.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 1:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
20 days? 21? Something like that. I was very surprised at how much money they made with that many dead crab.

Terolyn
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05-06-2004

Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 5:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Terolyn a private message Print Post    
They had to go back out. The first trip was 21 days but upon return with all the dead crab they had to go back out to reach quota.

Poor Murray - he is not captain material.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 5:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
I thought it was the Northwestern that had to go back out to reach quota?

Terolyn
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05-06-2004

Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 7:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Terolyn a private message Print Post    
Maybe they both did, but I know I heard that the Cornelia Marie had to go back out.

Bearlee
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05-18-2005

Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 8:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bearlee a private message Print Post    
I loved when they did the part where they say how far away and what direction the next ship was and it was the Time Bandit guys down in Mexico.

Mush
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09-09-2002

Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 7:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mush a private message Print Post    
I also didn't enjoy these last king crab season shows. It bothered me that they showed some boats doing so well, while others were having a horrible time. I spent most of the season worried about the Cornelia Marie, and the TB guys were just irritating.

The numbers at the end showed that everyone did fine, though, so it looks like it was mostly just editing and the direction that the producers wanted to go this year.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 11:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Mush, you hit the nail on the head. All season they made it sound like the Cornelia Marie wasn't going to make any money (especially with all those tanks of dead crab). And didn't they say the CM had 400,000 lbs. and made almost $2 million?

Stacey718995
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07-05-2007

Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 12:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Stacey718995 a private message Print Post    
I finally caught up. I am sure they have explained this but my memory doesn't linger as well anymore...

When looking at the final counts and money made, why do Northwestern and CM (I think those are the right 2) deckhands make 50k and the others make 30k? Is it b/c of the amount of crab their boat can hold? I see they all have different quotas, what determines that? For example, the TB boat finished early and went to Mexico (which looked fun) but they didn't make as much, could they not go back out?

Thanks for the help, hate being confused!

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, June 01, 2009 - 6:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
I think a couple of years ago the canneries instituted the quota system - before it was first come, first served, whomever brought in the most first made the most money and if you were the last boat in you might have to sit in the harbor for a week while the other boats offloaded and your crab might die. Now they have quotas and they have dates that they have to be in the harbor to offload. I do remember that your quota is based on what you caught the season before, so a boat not meeting its quota one year might get a lesser quota the next.

I don't know who the salaries are determined - I don't know if it is based on the higher quota amounts for the larger ships or whether it is set on a ship-by-ship basis by whomever owns the boat. I know some of these boats are corporately owned and others are owned by the individual skippers. I'm pretty sure that Sig and his family owns the Northwestern and maybe Keith the Wizard (based on his comments about how much money he had to spend on it in the last offseason), but am not sure whether Phil owns the Cornelia Marie.

I'm quite sure I'm probably wrong on some of this and I won't take offense at being proved as such...LOL! My memory doesn't remember all things these days either but for some reason I remember weird small stuff but not the big picture stuff...LOL!