THIS IS A SEQUEL!
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Chapter 1: New Beginnings
5 Years Later...
Sig, Edgar, Norman, Nick, Matt, and Jack had all retired from crab fishing.
Sig turned the control of the Northwestern over to Edgar and Jack's daughter, Sarah Hansen.
For the last four years of the rest of the Northwestern crew's career, Sarah had worked as a deckhand. She proved to be more than adequate and Sig began to train her in being a skipper of a Bering Sea crab boat. Now, at twenty-one years of age, Sarah Hansen was the only female skipper in the entire fleet.
She had the difficult task of choosing a brand new crew once the old Northwestern crew retired. Jake Anderson had stayed on board and by now had become a veteran of the Northwestern and the Bering Sea. At thirty-eight years of age, he was now the deckboss of the boat.
Sarah began to hang out at the local watering hole to look for potential crew members. She found three deckhands and one greenhorn that she decided to hire:
-Andrew Steadman: Thirty years old with over ten years experience on the Bering Sea
Blonde, blue-eyed, and well-built
-Jon Cooper: twenty-four years old with two years of crabbing experience
Brown hair, hazel eyes, and somewhat scraggily.
-Alexander Mahone: Thirty-nine year old veteran of the Bering Sea
Oldest on the boat and with the most experience
Brown hair, blue eyes, muscular build
-Amy Wagner: twenty-two year old greenhorn
Old friend of Sarah's from high school
Blonde, hazel eyes, with a lean build
The Maverick, Time Bandit, and the Cornelia Marie had also changed out crews during the past several years.
Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie turned the control of his boat over to his two sons, Jake and Josh Harris. Now in their late thirties, the brothers often shared the positions of skipper and deckboss.
The Hillstrand brothers turned control of their boat over to an old family friend's son named Spike Walker. During the past couple of years, Spike proved to be a force to be reckoned with out on the Bering Sea and had become close friends with the new captain of the Maverick.
Blake Painter turned the skipper position on the Maverick over to his son, Rick Painter. Like his father, Rick was blonde, had blue eyes, and was just as driven and competitive as his dad.
The fleet still felt some animosity towards the Maverick, despite the fact that Blake was no longer the skipper. Many of the others skippers and deckhands assumed that Rick would follow in his father's footsteps. This often made Rick feel defensive and angry. He was more than ready to begin the King Crab season and to prove his worth on the Bering Sea. At twenty-one years old, Rick was a greenhorn captain with a tainted heritage and had a lot yet to prove to the rest of the Dutch Harbor fleet.