EXPRESS 125’ Steel Salmon Tender. Transited from the Seattle ship canal to Port Townsend shipyard August 8 2005. Completed audio gauge/survey hull repairs. Crossed Gulf of Alaska Seattle to Kodiak June 2006 to Bristol Bay. Tender contract with Norquest Seafoods. Finished 2006 season tendering salmon around Kodiak Island for Global Seafoods. Kodiak to Naknek 2007 Bristol Bay season. August 2007 solo trip Kodiak to Westport Washington, winter layup at Port Orchard Washington. April- May Port Townsend Shipyard haulout aft cabin addition, constructed foremast. Transit to Bristol Bay, packed over one million pounds of sockeye salmon for Trident Seafoods. Purchased fish pump at Kodiak, tendered Chignik salmon for International Seafoods in Kodiak. Motorsailed to Port Orchard Washington October 2008. 2009 round trip Port Orchard to Bristol Bay via Kodiak & SE Alaska Salmon tendering for Snopac Products Inc. May 2010: Departed Washington for the herring grounds at Togiak Alaska and Bristol Bay salmon operations for North Pacific Seafoods, return trip early September across Gulf of Alaska for winter repairs at Port Orchard Washington. 2011 season: Haulout at  Port Townsend, Washington, Loaded cargo at Anacortes, transited direct to Chignik Alaska under contract with Trident Seafoods. Post season round trip Chignik to Kodiak salvage tow of f/v BEAR from Chignik to Homer, port call at Seward and Kodiak, cargo run to Chignik Lagoon then direct transit to Port Orchard Washington for winter repair, top rail replacement. 2012: demolished and replaced wheelhouse roof, additional captain stateroom, pilot station and midmast construction. Transited direct from Sequim Bay to Chignik Alaska (6 days) for tender operations. Transited Chignik to Kodiak, then motorsailing on to Port Orchard Washington for winter renovations. 2013: finished interior welding for remodeled wheelhouse, galley and aft cabin. Removed old interior foam insulation and wood framing. Primed & painted all interior steel/replaced with new lumber, new electrical, plumbing, and foam insulation. Transit from Port Orchard to Bristol Bay for tender operations and late summer operations in Cook Inlet and Kodiak island waters. Winter 2013/2014 at Auke Bay Juneau, Alaska for main propulsion repower and repairs. 2014 Bristol Bay and Kodiak salmon tender operations, transited kodiak to Port Orchard, Washington (solo trip) for winter repairs and renovations. 2015 transit from Port Orchard to King Cove and on to Bristol bay for tender operations and return to Sequim Bay from Chignik Lagoon in October for shipyard a November haulout at Port Townsend. Another haulout from late April to early June 2016 was completed at Port Townsend with a  new survey and USCG fishing vessel inspection. Renamed vessel ALEUTIAN EXPRESS combining previous name ALEUTIAN NATIVE with existing name with existing name EXPRESS since 1939.                                           

ALEUTIAN EXPRESS -2016 Transited directly from Port Angeles, Washington to King Cove, Alaska (7 days) for salmon tendering operations Along the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea sides of the western Alaska Peninsula. Solo transit from Kodiak to Sequim, Washington for winter layup and projects. 2017 Departed Port Orchard Washington to Bristol Bay, Alaska directly via Gulf of Alaska operating out of the Naknek River and Egegik River. Departed Bristol Bay for King Cove, Chignik, Kodiak, Valdez operating Prince William Sound, back to Kodiak and return to Washington for winter shipyard projects. 2018: after 5 months of shipyard work and failed Chignik run, vessel was laid up and Captained the f/v REPUBLIC out of Valdez for Icicle Seafoods at Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet and Kodiak Island. 2019 season back working the ALEUTIAN EXPRESS transited from Seattle to Sitka via the Stait of Juan de Fuca operating for Seafood Producers Cooperative (SPC) taking drift, troll and purse sein caught salmon between Sitka and Lynn Canal in Southeast Alaska. Transited the west coast of Vancouver Island to Washington for winter maintenance and repairs. Solo roundtrip from Port Townsend Washington to Chignik June and September 2021 direct between Cape Flattery and Castle Cape.