Video Tour of a Japanese Tuna Fishing Boat

[@fdesmet]

I enjoyed every minute of this tour of your boat. So fun to see. Thank you!

[@sinfulldoubt]

Thank you! And no problem

[@victornicholls5866]

Thank you for the video of your fishing vessel . The Japanese sure know how to design and build boats . Truly impressive vessel in all aspects .

[@ErikS-]

Everything is in pristine condition. This is one beautiful boat.

[@vinsblack2]

holy cow! what a superb vessel that equipped all the facility in addition got a copter and skiff. there's a lot of difference in terms of fishings way with countrys of South East Asia whom carry out adventure in the ocean for tuna hunting. thanks for your guiding the ship

[@pissedkuma67]

This is really cool and a great way to research fishing boats for a book I'm working on. Thanks for sharing the video and have a wonderful day!

[@seawaynebowpeacecoralsea5834]

A very good tour of a large fishing factory. Thank you. During the 1970s off the Australian coast at a place called Lakes entrance in Victoria I went out to sea during my teenage years as a deckhand on a per-seiner , tuna or net fishing vessel. The Daggerad , The Massbanker. The Capt Harry Michelson. The length was 100 feet. The capacity in the fish hold was approximately 100 tons. The size of the engine in the engine room was about the same size as that of a Leyland mini car. The Australia tuna fishing industry at that time was also starting to suffer reduced catches due to not enough fish left to be caught in the Australian waters out to about the 200 nautical miles from the coast. The generation previously had told me that it was due to the large factory fishing ships that were working the worlds oceans before the fish even got a chance to swim around the globe to the Australian coastline. These large fish factory ships cost millions to produce and they very easily catch hundreds of thousands of tons of fish every year. Just as importantly it is also good to consider the sailing fishing industry when fisherman went to see in wooden built ships. The grand banks schooners come to mind...

[@sinfulldoubt]

Oh yeah things have definitely changed a lot over the years

[@SteamCrane]

Really nice boat! Probably standard with these boats, but the helideck on top of the wheelhouse has several advantages. Frees up space on deck, gets the bird higher above the salt, and gives a big wheelhouse and wide wings for all the electronics and spotters. Would make a nice yacht conversion.

[@nanshinleasechyui914]

いや～かっこいいですね！　航海の安全と大漁をお祈り申し上げます。　　頑張ってくださ🤗

[@dansmith937]

What a beautiful boat. Thank you for sharing it for all of us.

[@Ghost-nw7kr]

The excitement in your voice is beyond killing me

[@sinfulldoubt]

🤣 yeah I wasn't exactly excited about making this video lol. Never done narration before either but I'm sure that's obvious

[@marcgatto9675]

I live in Panama. Pacific side near the canal. We have a tuna fleet here. Always a few boats around. We're a long way from Japan but I see Japanese boats from time to time. Good luck and good fishing.

[@sinfulldoubt]

Thanks!

[@RealSamski]

Awesome video. Thanks from Germany

[@margotrosendorn6371]

The speedboat deployment is really cool to watch!

[@sinfulldoubt]

I really liked watching them too

[@gulfair-cavalry-tango1011]

Wow! So clean, too!

[@kevinkisekup1596]

I went on board one of the first two boats of that sort for two trips when they started building them, I think around 2008. I was still with the PNG's NFA Fisheries Observer Programme. Really nice PS vessels and they're well taken care of.

[@sinfulldoubt]

Oh yeah they take very good care of it

[@TanabiGoat]

Wow this was awesome, thank you so much for doing this!

[@sinfulldoubt]

No problem! Glad you enjoyed it. Just wish I could redo the voice over on it lol

[@FLYBOY123456789]

i was captivated...what an adventure...looks like really hard work and very complicated equipment...makes you wonder what computer they used to build the titanic...

[@AngelofCruelty]

My mouth fell open while you were in the engine room. It's huge! And so clean!!! Just curious, what does a company pay for a ship like this? I'm in the wrong business. I need to go to sea. Where do I sign? :) I'm a car and truck mechanic by trade but I can learn! lol

[@sinfulldoubt]

Yeah I was pretty surprised by the engine room as well. I have no idea about the finance side of things though lol.

[@casual9982]

Very cool video. Always interesting to see behind the scenes of operations like this, thanks for sharing!

[@rayedgar1992]

Also love that the washing machine is on the deck! XD makes for no issues if she leaks! LOL

[@sinfulldoubt]

Oh yeah, but kinda sucks when you're sailing through a storm 🤣

[@johnreber3823]

Awesome look into a world we never think about. A bit of a kindred spirit though, as an American who flies around the world for an Asian airline, I can relate to a lot of what your world is like, the expat pilot working within another culture

[@sinfulldoubt]

Oh yeah the culture shock was something else out here. The language barrier continues to be a pain as well but I managed

[@charlysstore]

Excellent.. thanks for sharing and regards from Deutschland

[@sinfulldoubt]

No problem, glad you enjoyed it

[@1ode2joy]

Utterly fascinating tour! Thanks for sharing. How long does this boat typically stay at sea? Or perhaps how long does the crew stay out at a time?

[@sinfulldoubt]

Thanks! I wish I had a better mic when I recorded the studio but it got the job done. We usually stay out 4-6 weeks at a time before we head back to Japan to offload the fish

[@jerathan412]

@@sinfulldoubt how long do you stay on land before heading back out?

[@EAFSQ9]

that moment when you realise a commercial fishing boat is somewhat of an impromptu ASW ship. Main ship provides distance & bearing to general location of target (in normal cases, schools of fish, in wartime, submarines), and the skiff provides depth level and more accurate speed & bearing.

[@DanielWiley]

Great Tour!

[@CEOkiller]

All those speedboats and the skiff would make it a great pirate ship…

[@sinfulldoubt]

That's what I'm saying 😂 we're wasting our potential here

[@vedymin1]

"Capn !! Permission to buzz the land lubbers with mah choppa ? Yarrr !! For the booty !!" :)

[@Rhinozherous]

Thank you for this tour!

[@peacocksglamour2893]

Loved your video 💗🇱🇰

[@sinfulldoubt]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@blucklightfoxartinnovation9357]

great video the wandering pilot

[@firecatflameking]

That is one incredibly clean fishing boat haha

[@sinfulldoubt]

Oh yeah, they put a lot of effort into keeping it clean and looking fresh

[@AerialAttraction]

Ok so I didn't watch all 30 minutes...but only cuz I couldn't without losing my shit! Your living conditions and just boat in general are WAYYYY nicer than anything going on with these Taiwanese or Korean ships. Sure, we fly more, but hell, I could live on that boat full time. Do you even have cockroaches or bed bugs? Was this a separate job you applied for? Like was there an option somewhere in the hiring process that said "would you like a Japanese boat?" cuz I definitely missed that! Are we even working for the same company right now?!

[@raymonda7043]

Enjoyed the tour mate , nice new ship, do you ever chase the Bluefin in the Southern Ocean off the Australian coastline

[@sinfulldoubt]

Thanks! Yeah we generally fish a bit North of PNG but we have gone further south into the coral sea.

[@raymonda7043]

Catching 100 to 150 kg tuna here now around Port McDonnell South Australia

[@yodaeee]

2:53 hahaha i see what you put on the wall

[@sinfulldoubt]

Gift from the fish master lol

[@avnavcgm]

Cool video! How do you always find the boat after you've been flying for a while?

[@sinfulldoubt]

So we actually do all our navigation with GPS out here. There's a beacon on the ship that provides my GPS unit with a updated location of where it is. If that fails, we also carry our own gps beacon on the heli so that the ship can track us and they can also see us on radar while we fly. So if we need to, they can guide us back to the boat. We also generally don't go very far from the boat, usually about 30-35 miles is the max I'll go because the ship would take 2+ hours to get to us if we found fish. Also on a good day, I've been able to see my boat from 27 miles out, so it's fairly easy to keep an eye on where the boat is if the lighting and weather cooperates. But other times I won't see the boat until I'm closer to 5-10 miles from it.

[@avnavcgm]

Interesting, thanks for the answer!

[@TaaiueaTionatan]

Hello pilot from Eisei Maru Kiribati crew anyway thanks for the tour

[@sinfulldoubt]

Hello! We sailed with you guys quite a bit when I was on the genpuku maru

[@ericfan1223]

Great lol. This was cool to watch broo

[@eldansambatyon]

NICE! whats the price range of this kind of boat?

[@RamadiTaxiDriver60M]

Bougainville?! Do you get a chance to tour some of the WW2 sites from time to time?

[@sinfulldoubt]

I'd love to tour some of it for sure. We sailed right by Iwo Jima a while back and that was pretty cool to see

[@RamadiTaxiDriver60M]

@@sinfulldoubt holy cow would have loved that! I'm switching to fixed wing (for family) but definitely want to do that eventually even if it is for only a year. Do you have a website or company recommendation?

[@Rob9mm]

Really well done vid Thx.

[@sinfulldoubt]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@communicate17]

Thanks for the video Would have been good to see all the crews bunks

[@sinfulldoubt]

They were all pretty much the same as mine just 4 people in a bigger room

[@communicate17]

@@sinfulldoubt Excellent Thanks for the reply

[@craiglachman1379]

Fantastic! Thank you.

[@psystealth]

Great tour of the ship, how many nationalities/Japanese onboard ? Do you speak Japanese yet?

[@beauluftenburg3167]

That seems like a lot of fish to be harvested at once

[@sinfulldoubt]

Sure is, but gotta keep the world fed

[@hdpredator11143103]

@The Wandering Pilot for your job on the boat I have a couple questions. How often do they ask you to fly...daily, weekly? Also do you have a job when you're not flying or are you basically on standby when not flying?

[@sinfulldoubt]

I usually flew 2-3 times a day. Didn't have any other responsibilities other than flying though

[@hdpredator11143103]

@@sinfulldoubt wow, what a cool job. Sketchy sometimes but cool lol!

[@rossginn1171]

Awesome content

[@sinfulldoubt]

Thanks!

[@andriMau-oq8im]

Challenging work...good work

[@sinfulldoubt]

Yeah it was an awesome job, I miss it

[@henryhansen5893]

I randomly found this video and that was pretty cool. How do you deal with the language barrier?

[@sinfulldoubt]

It was definitely a challenge. Had to keep things simple, use as few words as we could and mix in hand signals

[@adit7277]

I'm searching for a mid size fishing boat like yours in Japan, may I know how much does it cost?

[@primuslim313]

Hi. Great video. May I know the company shipbuilder? The price of this type of ship? how long to built?

[@sinfulldoubt]

I'm really not too sure. All I know was that it was built in the Miho shipyard in Shizuoka

[@Ghost-nw7kr]

Lower deck pretty much where most if the action happens

[@mikemc330]

Super interesting. Thanks

[@JamesVale-zh2up]

How much this kind of ship and where is the location of company builder?

[@randyneilson7465]

If only I was younger I'd love to work on a boat like that. Where were you while recording your video? How far can the ship range? And how are the fish off loaded?

[@BOBJOHNSON-v6u]

Are you working for Genfuku Maru?

[@mikek3951]

My cousin is on a boat I don’t think I can say what 1. But as he says. It’s my engine room. STAY OUT. I would eat off the floor. It’s amazing how clean it is. Every 3 months he does what he calls a clean down. I’d bet he’s better then White House cleaning staff

[@atreoamyntasmubarak9202]

hello sir do you have general arrangement for this vessel

[@Donuts_random_stuff]

31:20 please don’t, my brother did it of our inflatable boat and we suffered the same faith as the titanic. Coincidence, I don’t think so😅

[@sinfulldoubt]

Well in that case I can't risk it 🤣

[@jakeshumaker2489]

How do you get a flying job in this field? It seems like a cool gig :)

[@freelife-productions5745]

what are those small machines in the engineroom that look like radial engines? there are like 6 of them scattered around the engine room!

[@bart9587]

I'm pretty sure those radial things are refrigirant compressors. The 3 'blocks' at the lower level are the main engines (2 small ones are generators and the big one is main propulsion). The green barrels which he says the crew said were compressors are actually condensors for the refrigirant. Must be a mixup because of the language barrier I think.

[@Leafs_SS]

I'm about to start studying marinetime/Sailor deckman and im also going to takeJapanese lessons in the school (mandatory). Getting a good. Is it worth to try to go there for a year or more after i'm done?

[@sinfulldoubt]

I think it definitely is

[@BOBJOHNSON-v6u]

What is the speed of that ship?

[@AreyReynan]

Wow that interested for this type of purshiner vessel

[@gearheadgaming1537]

How is the helicopter fueled? I didn’t see an hose on the Heli deck

[@sinfulldoubt]

There's a hose up there, it's just usually tucked behind the blade box or inside the right side cabinet when we're in transit

[@Aruchan16]

Awesome video ! How long is a fishing sortie usually ?

[@sinfulldoubt]

Usually about one month

[@rock3times]

What language spoken between crews on the boat ? And what are their nationalities ?

[@sinfulldoubt]

Mostly their native language, English or Japanese. There was a mix of guys from Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Japan

[@bencoldwell4609]

2:53 and who’s this

[@1ode2joy]

Every vessel needs a mascot.

[@SteamCrane]

Motivational.

[@timothywestman283]

Curious how you scored the Pilot job on a Japanese ship? Japan must have Pilots. Thanks for the tour.

[@sinfulldoubt]

I'm actually contacted to the ship through a company that was US based when I got hired on before covid struck

[@timothywestman283]

@@sinfulldoubt Do you hire out of Guam?

[@sinfulldoubt]

@@timothywestman283 yes they did at the time. I think they're moving all operations to the Philippines right now though. I'm not too sure though, got a lot of things changing these last few weeks

[@timothywestman283]

@@sinfulldoubt I use to live on Guam and know the owner. Enjoy keep the vids coming.

[@sinfulldoubt]

@@timothywestman283 ah nice, so you're probably familiar with all that's been going on with the company lol

[@tomwilliams8675]

Have you ever had to land in the water due to mechanical problems? I notice you had the floats.

[@sinfulldoubt]

Lucky not. My heli always got be back to the ship dry

[@jeanpaulfilippi8964]

Just curious, the helicopter belongs to the japanese tuna boat company or does it rented to a helicopter company? Thanks.

[@sinfulldoubt]

It belongs to a helicopter company that leases the heli and the crew to the boat

[@jeanpaulfilippi8964]

@@sinfulldoubt Thanks a lot for your answer. Tropic or Hansen?

[@sinfulldoubt]

@@jeanpaulfilippi8964 Pacific Spotters

[@jeanpaulfilippi8964]

@@sinfulldoubt Thanks! This is the new name of Hansen? I worked years ago (2009) with Tropic Helicopters.

[@sinfulldoubt]

@@jeanpaulfilippi8964 yeah it's the new and improved Hansen, doing things legit these days

[@BOBJOHNSON-v6u]

What is the gross tonnage of that ship?

[@_rehkop_]

What company did you work for on this ship? Their standards seem much higher than on other vessels I’ve seen.

[@sinfulldoubt]

I work for Pacific Spotters. I get contracted to the boat through my company. It's certainly a nice ship though

[@thabit21s58]

how much this big guy cost?

[@sinfulldoubt]

No idea lol but I'm sure it's eye watering

[@AreyReynan]

How to apply this type ship

[@Hexonip]

Can you state approximately how many crew are onboard?

[@sinfulldoubt]

Usually 26

[@zakielsk2289]

How much is it?

[@Just_a_Kilawhale]

What exactly is a "fish master"?

[@sinfulldoubt]

He's basically the God of the boat. He's in charge of everyone, even the captain.

[@Just_a_Kilawhale]

@@sinfulldoubt Got it! Thanks for the reply my dude. Your channel is great!

[@sinfulldoubt]

@@Just_a_Kilawhale no problem! And thank you

[@fgm1197]

I like smaller cozier cabins better what you want with a suite....

[@sinfulldoubt]

Yeah it was pretty nice

[@HansGurke44]

13:17 nice sound

[@wiwiksupriyati6920]

O hayo deki muse kh mata asoko de watashi sigoto desu kh mae14gatsu gurai genpuku maru ni shigoto desu....

[@Ghost-nw7kr]

Andy's bunk is more bad ass and neat

[@mediacoregroupph]

Where is your fishing grounds? General Santos, Southern Philippines?

[@sinfulldoubt]

Usually Papua New Guinea, the south Pacific or Solomon Sea

[@mediacoregroupph]

@@sinfulldoubt Odd you have a Philippine registered copter, and seamen.

[@sinfulldoubt]

@@mediacoregroupph yeah and working on a Japanese boat with a US license lol. The company is based out of the Philippines though

[@rayedgar1992]

What kind of games do you play on steam?! :D

[@sinfulldoubt]

Lots of offline single player games. Played through GTA5, all of the borderlands games, Mafia and a few others

[@rayedgar1992]

Nice! :) Do you guys get wifi on this ship? Could you run starlink on a ship like that?@@sinfulldoubt

[@abdourahmanosmanali7421]

Which name this fishing vessel please

[@sinfulldoubt]

Genpuku Maru 81

[@dscott130]

Just awesome! ❤

[@smedoz]

How long is the average trip

[@sinfulldoubt]

About 4-6 weeks

[@davidmahumu8341]

How much for this

[@leovaldez5017]

It’s ship not a boat. I really missed this type of vessels since I became one of the crew here in philippine fishing company wayback 1979

[@gulfair-cavalry-tango1011]

🤣 Yeh, and a door is a hatch, the kitchen is the galley, and bathrooms are heads. Oh well. Still a great video tour of an impressive tuna ship.

[@ahmedslihbuza6645]

in the tuna seiner world every comments how well are japanese boats taken care off

[@jinup1669]

Sir can I get this vessel layout pls

[@sinfulldoubt]

I don't have anything showing a full layout

[@BrandoActual77]

What company do you fly for?

[@sinfulldoubt]

I was with Pacific Spotters

[@horatiop818]

The fishes 🐠🐟don't stand no chance against all this high tech 🛳🚢...Poverino...

[@sinfulldoubt]

Oh you'd be surprised at just how well they still evade us

[@robinwalsh9542]

that's not a fishing boat, it's more like a luxury cruiser.

[@ElmiTerencio]

is this private owned or japan govt?

[@sinfulldoubt]

It's privately owned

[@serdavosseaworth6115]

That toilet , oh boy. You would laugh if you saw what I’ve got. I’m on an old Taiwanese battleship.

[@sinfulldoubt]

Lol now I'm kinda curious 🤔

[@BOBJOHNSON-v6u]

Mechanic Any is a Filipino?

[@samman-kd8gc]

I want to buy 75 feet lengths fishing boat. In japan

[@pauldanielczyk3398]

It is not a ship it is a BOAT...

[@markwenzel7690]

Hi, my name is Ruby and I am doing a video project for school about Japanese fishing. Could I please use 5 seconds of your video? Thank you!

[@sinfulldoubt]

What are you looking to use?

[@markwenzel7690]

I am looking to use the clip at 10.8 seconds and 4 seconds of it. Thank you!

[@sinfulldoubt]

@@markwenzel7690 yeah no problem. If you want I can try to send you some footage or pics

[@markwenzel7690]

Thank you so much. @@sinfulldoubt

[@wiwiksupriyati6920]

Why cant me konfirmasion to here?

[@lostkiwi2695]

God damn! I was on a Taiwanese boat in 2014 with Hansen and she was nowhere near as clean and tidy as this thing!

[@sinfulldoubt]

Oh yeah, it was a floating Ritz Carlton compared to some of the other boats lol