A Few Photos From My Last Two Trips Out To Sea

I'm heading out in the morning for another three day trip. Usually we leave at night to arrive at our crabbing grounds by early morning, but this trip we are going down to our deepwater lobster gear further away, and we are leaving during the day, which means I get to bird on the way out. I'm pretty excited about that. I'm really hoping to see a Dovekie within Rhode Island state waters for my year list.

Here are a few photos from the last two trips. During the last trip, the temperatures were in the single digits and everything was frozen, including boogers and beardcicles!!



Deck Boss Chris Wroblewski chips at ice on the tanks at sunrise.

A full load of three trawls heading toward the crabbing grounds. Along with the 150 pots is over 3 miles of line connecting the pots within each trawl. Miraculously, it all went back into the ocean without a single snag!

Frozen Bait that had to be chipped out before we put it in the pots. It was real cold. Seriously.

Transit deckhand Bert downstacks a trawl at sunset.

This Northern Gannet came in for a close look at the boat. Gannets are frickin' cool!

It glided down for a shallow dive, and you can see how its tail feathers parted the face of the wave as it slid in.


Sunrises on the sea are almost always amazing.