ARAHO

ARAHO

The 120 foot stern trawler ARAHO was built at Gamage Shipbuilding, South Bristol, Maine, and launched in the spring of 1979 . With a steel hull, she was the largest trawler built at a Maine shipyard since the 1930's. Francis J. O'Hara & Sons of Rockland, Maine, was the owner. The man on the left with the pipe is John Gilbert of Gilbert & Assoc. On the right is Lin Gamage, shipyard manager. They are next to the ARAHO's Kort System nozzle and propeller. Gilbert founded John W. Gilbert Associates, Inc., in 1964, which had a long and successful business in ship design, overseeing the construction of over 400 vessels ranging from fishing, research, passenger vessels and vehicle ferries, excursion ships, tugboats, fireboats, river towboats, to other commercial vessels. He pioneered original research from his model tests, developed computer programs and simulations for his design and stability of vessels. Additionally, Gilbert received numerous awards and has given lectures worldwide on topics of naval architecture and marine engineering, fishing industry and diversification, vessel regulations, and ferry transportation to name a few. Gilbert designed many of the New Bedford and Gloucester fishing vessels, and a number of local ferries, such as the Nantucket ferries, the Eagle and Great Point, the Provincetown ferries: The Provincetown I and Provincetown II, and the Block Island ferries: Nelseco, Photographer Red Boutilier documented the modernization of the fishery. Modern fishing is mostly about towing large nets at slow speeds, and a propeller can be its symbol. Here is ARAHO's patented "Kort" directional steering nozzle, an invention of the 1930s that radically increased propeller efficiency below about 10 knots. These are found today on most tugboats and fishing vessels.