New Fishing Vessel

Designed for purse-seine netting, as well as trawling, the new Watties Canneries fishing vessel was commissioned recently. The new boat, named Kaiti, brings the company's fishing fleet to five in number.

The vessel is 71 feet long, has a beam of 20 feet, and has a nine foot draught.

Putting out for a week at a time the ship and crew are able to travel extensively about the prolific waters of the East Coast reaping the harvest of the sea.

Ken Walters went along on the shake-down cruise and took these pictures showing life on board.

Lying quietly alongside No.1 shed in the harbour basin is the new craft.

The net floats out in an arc from the stern of the Kaiti.

Crew members on the cruise are Barry Aspden, Geonge Jolley, Des Schroder, Sven Hjorth (skipper), and Con Staples.

Des Schroder, Con Staples and Barry Aspden at the controls to winch in the net.

The cod end of the net (the heavier mesh which takes the strain of the weight of fish) contains the fish caught on the try-out.

A small part of the harvest of the sea.

Led by the Kaiti are the other vessels of the fleet, the Marine Maid and Marine Princess, and the Quest and the Olwyn. (Photo, Lloyd Cornish).

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 152 : February 22, 1967

New Fishing Vessel