May 9th
I slept in my car again…
Today I met with Dave at his 32-foot boat, “Vestige.” He is Norwegian – and awesome. Nothing about this guy was suspicious. He almost immediately offered me the position on his boat to go with him and one other crewmember (three of us in total) to Bristol Bay to gill net for red salmon, and when we aren’t doing that we’ll be catching halibut. For those of you who haven’t tried getting a job up here on a fishing boat won’t understand how unheard of it is for a green horn to get a job on this type of boat; mainly because those two type of fish are the moneymakers. For the rest of the day we worked on generators and the door to the engine room of the boat, (all my carpentry skills were put to good use). We have a lot of prep work to do, and the boat is still in the dry dock. But we expect to be finished and in the water by the end of next week. I can’t stay on the boat until it is finished and in the water. Dave, the skipper, invited me to stay at his house in the mean time. So now I have a job and free lodging in a really nice house on a lake.
It’s 10:30 pm – still light out, and my toothpaste is frozen.
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