Rapid Repair Saves Fishermans Season

American fisherman Joe Hamm suffered his worst nightmare last month when the engine on his 73ft trawler Chellissa blew up at the very start of the west coast hake season. Towed back to port, he went to see the supplier of an engine less than three years old only to be rebuffed.

Tom Curry of Curry Marine in the engine room of a crabbing boat under construction in America.

American fisherman Joe Hamm suffered his worst nightmare last month when the engine on his 73ft trawler Chellissa blew up at the very start of the west coast hake season. Towed back to port, he went to see the supplier of an engine less than three years old only to be rebuffed.