The F/V Northwestern from the Discovery Channel's series "Deadliest Catch".
About this creation
 Stacy and I are huge fans of the Discovery series "Deadliest Catch". Our favorite boat on the show is the F/V Northwestern followed closely by the "Cornelia Marie" and the "Time Bandit". This is my first MOC in what (I hope) will be a series of all the boats from "Deadliest Catch". My hope is to be building these over the next year and to have them all complete by Brickworld 2009.
 Northwestern was built in 1977 at Marco Shipyard in Seattle, WA. She was originally 108 feet in length overall. The vessel was built specifically for the King and Tanner crab fisheries of Alaska’s Bering Sea. In 1981 there was a collapse of the King crab fishery so the boat stayed busy fishing Tanner crab. In the early-80’s, Northwestern was one of the first boats to fish Opilio crab. The Opilio crab fishery turned out to be the “bread and butter” fishery for the entire crab fleet. Opilio fishing lead to over-capitalization of the fishery overall with several new boats being built at that time.
 During the 1980’s, the vessel stayed busy all year long fishing Opilio crab 6-8 months (January-August), Blue King crab in the Pribilof Islands (August), Red King Crab (September),Brown and Red King Crab (November-December) out West on the Aleutian chain. Even though the vessel was very busy year-round, the crew always made it home for Christmas.
 In 1987, rather than buying a new boat, the family decided to have Northwestern lengthened to 118 feet in order to pack more crab and increase the vessels stability and ability to carry more gear (crab pots). The vessel went from 156 pots maximum to 200 pots maximum.
In 1991 there was a “pot limit” introduced to the Alaskan crab fishery. This prompted the family to have the boat lengthened to 125 feet in order to attain the maximum pot limit of 250 pots per vessel.
 This MOC features a working pot launcher, sorting table, pots, crane and picking hook, and (of course) crabs. In addition, there is a "Sig Hansen" minifig in the wheelhouse. More pictures are available on my Brickshelf page.
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February 5, 2012 |
WOAAAA!!!!! I love that show. My boat is horrible compared to this masterpiece. |
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Getting ready to build a fishing boat, looking for ideas, very nice! |
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Getting ready to build a fishing boat, looking for ideas, very nice! |
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December 22, 2011 |
Nice boat! |
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March 14, 2011 |
Awesome boat dude. The design is cool, looks just like it
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July 21, 2010 |
Sweet man. Have you tried to build the Wizard or Time Bandit or Cornelia Marie? Great build. RIP Phil Harris |
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how did you build the F/V NORTHWESTERN |
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February 20, 2010 |
Dear Dave,
I would like to buy this boat from you for $50 name your price |
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Justin BG December 15, 2009 |
OMG INSTANT SONG STUCK IN MAH HEAD!!!
i travel aall niiiggghht....just to get back home...ima cowboi!...on tah steal horse i ride...
great building,keep up the good work! |
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September 6, 2009 |
Wow how much legos do u have |
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August 20, 2009 |
Nice. You should have a minifig Mike Rowe to narrate it. |
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August 16, 2009 |
I absolutely love this! I have been a fan of Deadliest Catch since the beginning and love the F/V Northwestern and her crew. I would love to have the plans to build my own little lego Northwestern! |
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August 7, 2009 |
Awesome boat! I love that show too. |
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July 24, 2009 |
I love this show. Nice job withe the color and detail. |
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July 20, 2009 |
Quoting Jonathan Chou
Nicely done dave how did you build the pots and the sweeping of the hull
The pots are built using 4x6 plates, 1x4x2 Fences, and 1x4x2 Spindled Fences. When you say the 'sweeping of the hull', I assume you mean the bow. That was done using parts #2622 and #2623 (look them up on Peeron.com). Glad you liked it! :-) |
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March 30, 2009 |
Thanks for the comment April! I checked out your blog and your husband's models are way cool. Very detailed and professional. Glad you could stop over here to check out MOCPages. :-) |
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That is pretty cool...
my hubby makes model boats... I have a couple of them posted on my blog http://aprildawnpelkey.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-hubbys-model-boats.html
He is currently working on a Northwestern model, but it isn't finished yet. He's very detailed about stuff...
But I just thought I'd let you know your lego models are pretty awesome!
I live in Akutan, AK - They film some of DC here :) |
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Wicked awsome!!! OK I will admit it that is my favorite crab boat on deadliest catch. Nice base of the boat,I like the way you put it together.You got alot of potentual. |
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November 5, 2008 |
Beautiful. You even put the navigation lights on the correct sides. *tear* |
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August 10, 2008 |
AMAZING! thnis is so cool. I am a huge fan of deadliest catch and the Northwestern is the best! |
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July 18, 2008 |
I love it. The Northwestern is my favorite boat on the show too. Let's see that Time Bandit. I can't wait for John and Andy Hillstrand in Lego form! |
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July 18, 2008 |
Let's see. Do I go with the Village People's "In the NAVY" joke or the obligitory "You're gonna need a bigger boat" comment from jaws? How 'bout this... While on the job in the Bermuda triangle, the ship was borded by green women from nebulon persei 6 and the crew all enjoyed a good probing... yep, I got nuthin' ~ Chris. |
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July 18, 2008 |
Looks good, especially the relatively high bow of this ship. Keep up the good work! Steffen |
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July 18, 2008 |
Awesome! end of Story! Awesome! |
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July 17, 2008 |
Nice to see a another Deadliest catch fan. Like the boat, especially since it is the Northwestern. Please take a look at mine, The Bluejay. |
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July 17, 2008 |
thats my favorite boat on deadiyest catch! |
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July 17, 2008 |
Right on!! Go Deadliest catch! And you made my favorite boat too...AND you did an awesome job doing it. This is just plain perfect. Can't wait to see the others. |
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