Crabmaster 14"

Attach Sails and this Model Fishing Boat is Ready for Immediate Display 

Prepare to harvest the fruit of the sea with this adorable fishing boat model. Whether your catch is fish, crab, shrimp or lobster, you’re sure to come home with a full catch aboard this model fishing boat. A wonderful piece of nautical décor for any beach house, sunroom or office, the fine craftsmanship and excellent features of this model fishing boat make it impressive for display to friends and family. 

14" Long x 4" Wide x 12" High

• Suits any room or décor with clean lines and simple colors
• Quality construction of solid wooden parts
• Amazing Details, in these fishing boat models include such features as:
  • Fishing nets, lines and crab pots or lobster traps
  • Real cloth sails and flags
  • Expansive rigging with up to a dozen deadeyes
  • Individual deck planks visible
  • Detailed pilothouse and deckhouses
  • Metal railings, mast antennae, anchor chains and propellers
  • Barrels, buckets, life preservers, rubber bumper tires, lifeboat, deck cleats, rope coils and other nautical items about the decks
• Sturdy wooden base attached to these model fishing boats
• Pre-assembled, simply attach the masts and display
  • Ready to display in less than five minutes
  • Separate pre-assembled hull and sails ensure safe shipping and lower cost
  • Insert mast in designated hole and clip brass rigging hooks as shown in illustrations
  • Sails and rigging already complete

With crab species found worldwide, from the tropics to the arctic, crab boats sail all the world’s seas in search of their catch. Crabs make up 20% of all crustaceans consumed by humans, amounting to 1.4 million tons of catch by crab boats. Horse crab accounts for a quarter of this total, but other important crab fishing species include the snow crab, blue crab, edible crab, Dungeness crab and the famous king crab. 

Crab boats often fish by using traps. Large cage “pots” are baited with fish, then sunk to the sea floor where crab live, while floating buoys mark their locations. After deploying all of its traps throughout the crab fishery, the crab boat then repeats the circuit, hoisting the crab pots back aboard the ship and hoping to find them full of catch. Undersized specimens as well as unwanted bycatch are returned to the sea, while the desired crab types are stored in tanks aboard the crab boat until it arrives back in port. 

In recent years, commercial crab fishing has become a high-profile industry. Several documentary films and television series have exposed the world to the exciting and adventurous, yet dangerous world of crab fishing in Alaska’s Bering Sea, often focusing on the trapping of king crab and opilio crab, more commonly known as the queen crab or snow crab.