It was built as a crab boat and a tender and has no stabilizers.ĭW: What about her makes her special to you?ĪH: Time Bandit is one of the most seaworthy boats out there, and it was built with our father who is no longer with us.ĭW: Under what conditions does she ride best and why?ĪH: Tank down and a load of pots on it, then we are drawing eight feet.
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For generators it has B series Cummings 125KW which run all the hydraulics including a 10-ton crane and the pot launcher. Typically she cruises at 8.5 knots and nine knots is top cruise. Time Bandit has a 20,000 gallon fuel capacity. The layout is a house aft Power-Scow with Cummings engines for mains. The most under-developed characters in the Deadliest Catch television series are the boats themselves, so let’s start by learning a little more about the F/V Time Bandit.ĪH: The Time Bandit was built by my father, myself and my two brothers at a shipyard in Charleston, Oregon in 1991. They know boats and they know what it is like to work at sea. About the Boat DW: Dockwalk readers may not be Bering Sea fishermen, but they are boat people. Andy Hillstrand is a man of few words short and to the point, he was gracious enough to sit down and sate the curiosity of and several captains who submitted questions of their own. True to his fisherman/cowboy identity, Capt. Here is the expanded interview with one of the vessel's captains, Andy Hillstrand. network Discovery Channel about a fishing vessel in the Bering Sea. This included a peek into the reality behind the reality television series "Deadliest Catch" that runs on the U.S. In the February issue of Dockwalk, we featured an article about life at sea in the commercial world.
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