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Andy and Jonathan have served as the boat’s captain while the youngest Hillstrand brother, Neal, serves as its chief engineer. What Happened to Time Bandit on Deadliest Catch?įV Time Bandit is a commercial fishing vessel owned by Johnathan Hillstrand, Andy Hillstrand, and Neal Hillstrand. Here are the latest updates on the Time Bandit’s whereabouts. If you are looking for details about what happened to the boat, you’ve come to the right place.
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In the wheelhouse, Andy and Jonathan Hillstrand will have the flexibility to take economy or speed from their new electronically controlled QSK19s as sea conditions require.However, it has been missing from the Discovery Channel series for quite some time, and fans are wondering if it will ever return to the show. When television viewers see the Time Bandit fighting through the Bering Sea in the upcoming season of “The Deadliest Catch,” they may not be aware of the new engines, but the crew will be a little more confident with the additional propulsion and hydraulic power for their work. Then we wrapped 30-feet of 5/8-inch plate around the bow to form a nearly one-inch thick steel ice shield.” “Early 2012 was especially bad,” Andy said, “So we cut out the steel hull plate in the forward section and replaced it with new 5/16-inch plate. Over the years, ice in the Bering Sea had taken a toll on the hull plating around the bow. This is handy when tendering in the big tides and shallow waters of Bristol Bay.įor the repower, the original channel coolers built into the hull were replaced with Duramax keel coolers. The flat bottom with a pair of 12-inch steel skegs allows her to sit on the bottom. The 113 by 28-foot hull has an 8-foot draft and the deckhouse is built right aft to the transom. The Time Bandit is known in the Alaskan fishery as a “power scow”.
The Time Bandit ready for another season on the Bering Sea.
We got in there with the torque wrenches,” says Andy of the brothers’ trip to the Cummins factory in Seymour Indiana, “The factory people probably checked it all over after we left,” he adds with a laugh, “While at the factory we saw an engine that had been painted red so we got ours painted red also.” And with that request, Cummins began offering red as a paint option on all marine engines, in addition to the company’s traditional marine gray. “We actually helped build one of the engines. But they didn’t just order an engine off the shelf. It was those KTA19 engines that the brothers decided to replace with modern electronically-controlled Tier 2 certified QSK19-M engines. After that pair ran for 48,000 hours we again repowered with a pair Cummins ReCon engines,” Andy explained.
We replaced those original engines with a second set of Cummins KTA19 engines. “My dad always used Cummins engines in his boats and so the Time Bandit was built with a set of Cummins. Their father had the boat built in 1991 at Giddings in Charleston Oregon and leased it to his sons with the option to purchase. In the fall of 2012 the three Hillstrand brothers and boat owners, Andy, Jonathan and younger brother Neal, carried out a repower on the Time Bandit. Jonathan Hillstrand adds a part to the new QSK19 while brothers Neal, Scott and Andy look on.Īll of this intense activity is dependent on a set of Cummins engines turning out their reliable power below decks.
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