The Troller Yacht Book, 2nd Edition - The Book Locker

The Troller Yacht Book, 2 nd edition
The new Coast Guard boats have little in common with the old timers…
Western America and Canada have some of the most and
treacherous coastline in the world, with few protected anchorages--a
trip to be attempted only by seaworthy boats and mariners who are
prepared. Sailing yachtsmen who negotiate this coast make a big deal
of it, and rightly so. But God only knows how many 30- to -50-foot
fishboats, sometimes piloted by one guy, sometimes by two, sometimes
by a husband and wife, sometimes by a woman alone, have gone up
and down that coast routinely. Back in the 1960s, before government
regulators killed off small family fishboats in favor of factory-owned
ships, serious
fishermen would start the salmon season in Monterey or maybe
San Louis Obispo, and follow the fish clear up the coast into Oregon or
even
Washington. The wonderful old engine-powered halibut schooners
ranged the entire coast. I watched one, the Ancient Mariner, unload a
catch of squid in San Diego; three years later I saw it at the fisherman’s
terminal in Seattle.
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