Owners Lyle And Son News

Fred Wahl, whose Oregon yard built two Bering Sea aft-house crab boats last year, is starting in on a quite different pot fishing boat to work off the U.S. west coast. Design work on this forward cabin raised-fo'c'sle vessel is by Jensen Maritime of Seattle. Owners Lyle and son Scott Harzell of Florence, Ore. will fish crab, sable fish and other species with the vessel off the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington states. The 85 x 26 ft. vessel, with a molded depth midships of 13.3 ft., will have a 2,500 cu. ft. forward floodable/RSW hold for live transport of crab as well as two holds aft with a total capacity of 3,500 cu.ft. for dry frozen product.