The Washburn & Doughty shipyard recently delivered the 105-foot Bountiful II (shown above) to Capt. Edison Love of Portland, Maine. The combination scalloper-dragger is the eighth vessel to be delivered by the Bath, Maine, shipyard in the past 2 1/2 years. The new fishing boat has successfully completed its first two trips, landing 6,000 bushels of scallops in seven days.
The Bountiful II is a deep-draft sea boat designed and built to handle rough North Atlantic seas. Specifications include an overall length of 105 feet, a beam of 26 feet, and a depth of 14 feet 6 inches. On his first trip out, Captain Love was able to ride out high seas while the rest of the Portland fleet had to return to port.
The new vessel is a design of John Gilbert Associates of Boston. The owner picked Washburn & Doughty as the shipbuilder because of the firm's growing reputation as a builder of rugged steel fishing boats.
The Bountiful II is powered by a Caterpillar D399 main engine driving a Columbian 72-inch wheel in a fixed Kort nozzle. During both builder's trials and delivery trip, the sleek vessel regularly beat the design speed of 12 knots. The auxiliary engines include a Caterpillar 3304 generator set and a Caterpillar 3408-TA hydraulic pump engine. With a fuel capacity of 16,000 gallons, Captain Love's new boat will have a two to three-week range at sea.
On deck are two Hathaway #12-AITHS-24-inch drum winches, with two Hathaway 8-foot wide by 6-foot flange net reels mounted on a West Coast type gallows gantry. With three fixed booms, the Bountiful II easily converts from scalloping to midwater trawling, making its 7,000-cubic-foot, divided fish hold a waiting recipient for any type of catch. Also, the forward fish hold features a Thermo King refrigeration unit for better preservation of the catch on longer trips.
The owner-furnished electronics package includes two Northstar 6000 Loran C with an Epsco plotter. Two Furuno radar units give the new vessel a 24-mile and 48-mile view range. Also at the captain's control are two Simrad sounding machines, a Robertson autopilot, VHF, and SSB radios.
Captain Love's boat has comfortable semiprivate staterooms for a crew of 14, plus captain. It has a complete, commercially equipped galley to withstand years of use, and is modeled after those found on large oceangoing ships.