January 2, 2020 — A unique new fishing boat joins the fleet in New Bedford.
The scalloper Viking Power is now docked at Fish Island.
The different shape of the orange boat is what most people probably notice first.
“It’s designed to cut through the water better, to be more fuel efficient,” says the boat’s captain, Marty Harris.
Harris brought the Viking Power up from Alabama where it was built.
“Seemed like it didn’t slow down as much going into the weather and it seemed like it didn’t roll as much going into the weather,” Harris told NBC 10.
The weather it will likely face is 15 to 20 foot seas as scallop boats fish about 150 miles off shore.
“You’d probably be scared for your life,” Harris says of those kinds of conditions.
To him, though, “Just a day at work.”