Tag Archives: Kodiak Maritime Museum

There’s a new pint-sized exhibition on display at Kodiak’s downtown brewery. The Kodiak Maritime Museum’s exhibition is called “Water Haul,” and features art inspired by and for the commercial fishing industry. Catie Bursch is an artist from Homer. She’s been an Alaska commercial fisherman for more than three decades with her family in Bristol Bay. She said the term “water …

2018 Kodiak Crab Festival Daysha Eaton/KMXT Today is the beginning of the 60th annual Kodiak Crab Festival, which started in 1958. Toby Sullivan, Executive Director of the Kodiak Maritime Museum recently told KMXT that the king crab fishery was a seminal event in Kodiak’s history. “It was started in the late 50’s because the crab season, in those days, went …

King crabs in a crab pot. (Photo by allyhook/Flickr) Mitch Borden/KMXT On this week’s Talk of the Rock, Dana Haynes, the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce community relations director, and Toby Sullivan, the executive director of the Kodiak Maritime Museum, chat with KMXT’s Mitch Borden about this year’s Kodiak Crab Fest. Their conversation ranges from Crab Fest events, Kodiak’s relationship with crabbing, …

Spectators walk past the Point Omega during the Harbor Lights Festival Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013 in St. Paul Harbor. (Photo by James Brooks / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT For one night every winter, vessel owners decorate their boats with Christmas lights and locals can walk the harbors and appreciate the display. Toby Sullivan is the executive director of the Kodiak Maritime …

The Thelma C in its permanent location downtown by Trident Seafoods. (Photo by Pam Foreman / KMXT) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Maritime Museum just moved its future outdoor exhibit, a historic fishing vessel, to its permanent location downtown. Museum executive director Toby Sullivan says the Thelma C has been in the museum’s collection since 2005 and it was built following …

The Thelma C. (Photo courtesy of Kodiak Maritime Museum Thelma C Collection) Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Maritime Museum has settled on the shelter design for its future Thelma C exhibit. The refurbished seiner Thelma C is one of the fleet of vessels built directly after the 1964 earthquake and tsunami. The museum fixed it up back in 2012. Museum executive …

The Thelma C. (Photo courtesy of Kodiak Maritime Museum Thelma C Collection) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Construction of the new Kodiak Maritime Museum outdoor exhibit is almost complete at the Spit downtown. Museum executive director Toby Sullivan says workers will soon set up a steel frame to hold the vessel Thelma C, which the museum rebuilt and restored in 2012. He says …