Captain Phil in PDX

Ryan and I Met captain Phil last week or so. He's A tough guy and knows how to ride a bike as well as being crazy enough to run a crab boat out of Dutch Harbor to the Bering sea. I have been scared enough of 28 foot tides in Juneau when I lived there, but King Crab is good, I don't care who you are. We should all be impressed with those who go down to the sea in ships and do business in great waters. We gave him a bottle of 12 Bridges as a souvenir. I hope it helps.

http://www.corneliamarie.com/

Rich

Captain Phil got his sea legs while working on fishing boats beginning at the tender age of seven. Ten years later he started crabbing on the F/V American Eagle. When Phil turned 21, he ran a boat, the F/V Golden Viking, out of Seattle making him one of the youngest to captains in the Bering Sea. Phil went on to work on another boat shortly after, but some of his friends stayed on the F/V Golden Viking. It capsized and sank in 1983 near St. Matthew Island, Alaska. Phil lost some very close friends that day and still finds the disaster difficult to talk about.

In 1990 Phil bought into the F/V Cornelia Marie with its namesake, Cornelia Marie and her husband. Cornelia’’s husband sold his share of the boat, but Phil stayed on as captain, and Cornelia attended to the business. The boat is unique – in that is the last one operating of only three crabbing boats designed by Elmo Horton of Horton Boats, Inc. out of Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Horton normally built tug and other working boats.