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Greg Moncrief – Captain |
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Greg has 20 years of fishing experience and has been running the Farwest Leader for the last 7 years. |
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| Greg and Ragnhild met in 1986 onboard the F/V Northern Glacier, a factory trawler fishing and producing pollock and cod in Alaska. |
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| Greg’s first voyage as Captain was on the F/V Maverick back in 1994. He worked as Captain on the F/V Shaman until he started as a full time Captain on the Farwest Leader. |
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Greg is originally from Ketchikan, Alaska. He moved to Seattle his senior year of High School. When Greg is not fishing you will find him on the golf course, traveling or sports fishing. |
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Chris "Chilly" Anderson - Engineer |
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Chilly has been commercial fishing for twenty- six years. He started his fishing career on the Trident Seafoods crab processing vessel C/P Bountiful. He has worked onboard the Farwest Leader for 13 years. Prior to working onboard the Farwest Leader, Chilly worked onboard other crab vessels in the Bering Sea and Russia. |
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| Chris is from Seattle, Washington and enjoys biking, golf and watching the Seattle professional sports teams in his spare time. |
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Tico Tyson – Deckhand |
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Tico has been commercial fishing for ten years and has spent six years onboard the Farwest Leader. Tico fished with Greg on the F/V Shaman prior to his job on the Farwest Leader. |
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| Tico is from Seattle, Washington and enjoys working around his house and playing Texas Hold'em when he is not fishing. |
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John Mavar – Deckhand |
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John Mavar has been commercial fishing for about 25 years, and has spent the last three years onboard the Farwest Leader. John started out salmon fishing, later worked as a factory foreman for Trident Seafoods at their shoreplant in St Paul, AK before he started crab fishing with his brother. |
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| His brother Nick currently works as a deckhand onboard the F/V Northwestern for Sig Hansen. |
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| John also owns and operates the F/V Windsong, a 32 foot Gillnetter that fishes salmon in Bristol Bay in the summers. John is from Anacortes, Washington, and enjoys doing construction work, playing golf and poker on his time off from Alaska. |
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Ragnhild Moncrief - Cook/Deckhand |
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This is Ragnhilds second King Crab season and first opilio season working along side of her husband (Capt Greg) onboard the Farwest Leader. |
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| Ragnhild is originally from Sykkylven, Norway and moved to Seattle in 1986 when she started working on the pollock/ cod factory trawler the F/V Northern Glacier in Alaska. |
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| When she is not in Alaska fishing, she works for a Seattle based travel agency that specializes in travel for the Alaska Fishing Industry. Besides taking care of their two teenage daughters, Christina and Victoria, Ragnhild enjoys traveling and skiing in the winter. |
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