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FIVE MINUTES WITH

Fishing boats in the Bering Sea take a beating.

Here is Cornelia Marine “Before”...

Left: The crew of Cornelia Marie; Center: Nasa Earth Observatory image of Super Typhoon Nuri; RIght: Coating the Cornelia Marie with Sherwin-Williams coatings.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen paint, it is remarkable.” a massive storm in late 2014 which selves, they pull it off the pallets

F/V Cornelia Marie

But make no mistake, the prospect of starring on one generated wind speeds to 125 mph themselves to make sure you got

Length ...............................129 of the longest running, highly ranked cable television and a low pressure of 910 mbar. everything you’ve ordered, and

Breadth ...............................29 shows played no small part in the decision made to give While the Cornelia Marie didn’t get they talk to you about mixing and

Depth ..........................10.5 ft.

the boat a great paint job. “We needed a paint job, it was caught in the heaviest part of the applying the paint. They check the

Built ...............................1989 going on ? ve years. Being on the most popular show on storm, it operated in 40 ft. swells, weather, the humidity, and give

Shipyard ......Horton Shipyard, the planet, rolling in with a rust bucket is not the cool with a few waves above 50 ft., for advice on when to paint the boat. ........................Bayou LaBatre, thing. You have to look sharp,” said Harris. more than 12 hours, returning to They work with you to ensure ev- • When built it was 105; it was

McManus knows the rigors of keeping a ? shing boat port and ? nding that its wave wall erything works right. It’s not just lengthened in 1995 to 129 ft.

properly coated, as he has a history and strong ties to the had been bent. the product, the follow up is incred-

Trident ? shing ? eet. “We’ve gone through every paint “When you’re out in heavy weath- ible, and they want to make sure manufacturer that there is, and if you bounce pots off it, er, the steel on the boat bends and that it is done to their specs and that other coatings are brittle, they break and it rusts. With contorts, and the paint usually hard- it’s performing as you expect.” the polyurethane that we put on the Cornelia from Sher- ens to the steel … but this stuff ? exes with the steel and Harris concluded: “We work our tails off. We’re not win, a pot hits it and it just scuffs. You still get a mark, it doesn’t just snap off.” made of millions of dollars. We came from nothing and but the steel is still protected. And that’s what matters to McManus agreed: “I’ve worked with a number of we’ve created this into something, and we’re so close us; in the environment that we ? sh in, you cannot afford coating and marine applications, and I’ve never seen to an operation that is close to making money. Anything to let your boat get cancerous (with rust).” anything like it. I had worked with Sherwin Williams that has to do with that boat, we ask what is the long-

The boat, crew and coating were put to the test last for more than 10 years with as a port engineer project term impact. We have to do everything smartly, because year when it ? shed as Super Typhoon Nuri churned, manager. They come by and drop the paint off them- if we don’t we will fail.” 12 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • FEBRUARY 2015

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