![]() ![]() She targeted primarily Bairdi crab (tanner) and the fledgling opilio crab (snow) throughout the 1980’s. ![]() The F/V Wizard (Fishing Vessel is a Coast Guard registered vessel) began fishing crab in 1979 during what is now known as the “King Crab Heyday” of the late 1970’s. The house and living quarters were increased, and a substantial amount of hydraulics for the two cranes and crab pot hauling equipment were added. Four of the original tanks are used as live holding tanks for crab, and the two forward tanks are used for dry storage and refrigerated seawater unit. During the conversion, two of the tanks were eliminated to increase the size of the engine room to hold added generators and a salt-water circulation system. She originally had 8 tanks for carrying oil cargo and a capacity of 240,000 gallons. Outfitted as a crabberīender Shipyard in Louisiana converted the Wizard to a crabber in 1978, from where John and his family sailed her through the Panama Canal and on to Seattle where Marco Shipyard finished the conversion. John’s father and grandfather were Norwegian immigrants in the pioneer days of the Alaskan commercial fishing industry, and John started working for them at a very young age. The boat was then renamed the Wizard after his grandfather’s Longliner, which was one of the premier cod and halibut boats in the Seattle fleet of the early and mid 20th Century. YO-210 was eventually purchased and made one trip unsuccessfully as the Clifford K hauling molasses before being purchased by John Jorgensen in 1978 to be converted to a fishing vessel to fish crab in the Bering Sea. Some of the Oiler fleet was used as target practice, or for building artificial reefs off the Eastern seaboard in the last few decades. Purchased by John JorgensenĪfter World War II, she was laid up in mothballs in Boston harbor. She is one of the few remaining YO-153 class vessels. Her original name is an International Marine Organization (IMO) number, YO-210. Navy in 1945 in Brooklyn, NY by the Ira S. The Wizard is a 155’x30’ vessel commissioned to be built by the U.S. Aft is a steering gear compartment with a fresh water peak tank below. Next aft is an engine room with main propulsion machinery, electrical power generation plants, bilge, fresh water, fuel system and other ancillary machinery, as well as non-integral lube oil and hydraulic oil tanks integral fresh water tanks and integral fuel oil wing and day tanks. Next aft are 2 port and 2 stbd flooded holds arranged on the sides of the centerline with double bottom fuel tanks below, typically kept pressed with fresh water. The port hold also contains refrigeration machinery and equipment. Next aft is a bow thruster and refrigeration machinery space with a double bottom potable water tank below. Forward the collision bulkhead is a saltwater ballast tank. The hold/machinery deck (below deck) is divided into 13 primary watertight compartments. The weather deck aft is stocked with fishing equipment, deck cranes and hatches to the holds and machinery spaces below. The main deck is enclosed forward to accommodate a bait locker and a chain locker. The hull is constructed of all welded steel construction and includes a raised foredeck with a framed steel top house placed aft, a vertical stem with a moderately flared bow and an elliptical stern. The vessel is comprised of three levels including a main deck, spaces below the main deck and an 01 deck level above the main deck with a wheelhouse on the 01 level. The 01 deck is a forward weather deck that carries anchor gear and moorage tackle, and the top level of a full width deck enclosure aft with a raised partial-width deckhouse used as a navigation bridge forward with an office and master’s accommodations aft. The vessel has participated in Bering Sea crab fisheries since conversion. In 1978, it was purchased by John Jorgensen and converted at Bender Shipbuilding of Mobile, AL to serve as a crab fishing vessel. In 1974, the vessel was sold to a private party and used as a molasses hauler for 8 months. ![]() After serving the Navy, the vessel was decommissioned and tied up in Boston Harbor until September 1, 1974. of Brooklyn, NY to a US Navy design as a yard oiler. The “ WIZARD” is a single deck crab fishing vessel designed for ocean service with a single diesel-oil propulsion engine, single rudder and single propeller. The vessel was built in 1945 by Ira Bushey and Sons, Inc. ![]()
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