Pictures of shrimping

• January
• 6

9:17 pm Daily Log

   Here are a few pictures from shrimping in December 2008.

Also here’s a video that Will McNelis put together from the hour of tedious pan shots I took with a cheeeaaap camera.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY3BOIrUY98
 
Actually, there’s no footage of me in this video because I was holding the camera!  This was taken just before Christmas on the Miss Henrietta, a 45′ carolina style (nc) shrimp trawler.  It starts off with the ride out in the dark (5 am) then shows some dragging of the nets (all you see are the cables in the water) then ends with some running back in and when the music starts we are in the final approach to McClellanville.  Will McNelis did a great job of editing the footage I took, thanks Will!
 
Other info:
engine – 671 Detroit
cruise speed – 7.5 kts (9 kts going with max current)
trawl speed – 1.8 to 2.2 kts
net size – two 45′ white shrimp nets
draft – 2.5 feet (yes, two and a half feet…there is a channel in the hull designed for the prop to be about halfway up into the hull)
captain – Richie Billington