Captain Phil made an appearance at the Bedford, MA. Working Waterfront Festival earlier this fall on September 22nd, along with Captain Johnathan Hillstrand.  They were both attending festivities in Dover, Delaware that weekend, but they managed to fly up to Bedford and make an appearance.  They had the opportunity to meet up with many fans and enjoyed the local “fishermen friendly” sights.  In the photos, Capt. Phil is looking at a fishing chart on the wall of the Seaman’s Bethel.  In the second one, both Capt. Phil and Capt Johnathan make a donation.  In the third photo, the skippers sign the guestbook at the Seaman’s Bethel.  Later, they both held a meet and greet session with fans and signed plenty of autograph’s.  The skippers had a great time in New Bedford. (Photos are courtesy of John Sladewski) 

Captain Phil and the crew arrived back in the Port of Dutch Harbor for the weekend.   Capt. Phil had his photo taken while doing his banking and the Cornelia Marie was looking good as usual. (photos courtesy of Robert & Lisa Omstead, Dutch Harbor resident photographers)

Passing milestones while fishing out at sea is just one of those things that happens all the time with fishermen and that’s why we want to make sure and wish Jake a huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY!  He just turned 22.  We hope the crew didn’t play too big of tricks on the birthday boy, but if they did, we’re also hoping we get to watch it on tv eventually!

Since Captain Phil is currently out at sea and hauling gear and crab as we speak, we thought it might be a good time to review some of the events and interviews that have taken place over the summer.

(photo courtesy of Justin Stephens)

EW.com had an interesting article, The EW 100–Stars We Love Right Now Capt. Phil was right there with Mike Rowe, Les Stroud, and Sig Hansen.  Why them?  EW responds, Whether it’s Stroud coping with the world’s harshest environments on Survivorman, Rowe tackling Dirty Jobs, or Alaskan king crab fishermen Hansen and Harris going after The Deadliest Catch, the quartet risk life, limb, and personal hygiene for our edutainment. (We’d have included Man vs. Wild’s Bear Grylls in the photo, too, if he weren’t climbing Everest!)

The voting booth is closed and we have a tie! Two of the four t-shirts voted on had nearly the same amount of votes, so we will print both of them. Thanks to everyone who took part in our poll. Please look for these two t-shirts for sale in our online store soon.

Also, we are making new efforts to update our blog more frequently - so stay tuned.