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SUE AIKENS: All of my food got wiped out.

I need to now replace from ground zero.

NARRATOR: Several months ago, a horrifying accident left Sue Aikens injured

and her camp unattended.

Upon her return, she was forced to dispose of spoiled meat from Kavik's food supply.

SUE: Probably lost around $18,000 in food.

NARRATOR: She has begun to restock her food,

but to survive the winter ahead, she'll need more meat and protein.

Caribou right here. Half a mile.

Yep.

Time to go.

I've got no time to prepare, but I gotta get meat.

I don't get meat, I don't have nothing.

Real nervous about trying to take a shot with this.

I don't wanna pooch it.

I am gonna have to get right up his backside.

And I'm on the road.

It could be that the caribou, they're not alarmed, they're just looking for food.

He could have come here, and he's gonna follow it down.

The caribou migrated out almost all in force.

They came through here, couple hundred-thousand thick, and went south early.

Three months early.

Anything I see I've gotta try and get.

I'm not giving up. But it sure would have been nice to see him standing this way.

I know, those little son of a guns, they're right here, they're right here.

I know it.

Perfect opportunity fucking gone.

CHIP HAILSTONE: If you can't teach 'em how to make a lot of money,

you can teach 'em how to live without it and be proud and happy.

That's really the best education you can give a kid.

So we're gonna set this net, and we're gonna catch ourselves a bunch of salmon.

And we have different kinds of salmon that come here.

And er, we're gonna make dog food and people food.

And food for gifts and giving and trading and whatever else we feel like doing.

NARRATOR: For the Hailstones, it is crucial to harvest migrating salmon

to survive the coming winter.

They will spend several days net fishing, a native method

that has been passed down for generations.

AGNES: Check it out.

You can see the fish splashing already.

Fun!

So we're hoping there's quite a few fish out there.

CHIP: Feel free to advance in the boat. Thank you, dear.

Bring it upside, bring it upside.

AGNES: Oh, fish on! (EXCLAIMS)

We're definitely gonna have salmon dinner tonight.

Boy, that was fun watching the fish get caught to the net as you pull it.

CHIP: Have a salmon for dinner.

Salmon are a valuable resource, really valuable in Alaska.

Tasty fish, they're full of fats, full of oils.

They've got a lot of good vitamins and minerals and proteins,

and it's all just good for you.

It's fish. It's brain food, you know?

Well, I got two fish but it's still catching the boat more than it's catching fish.

Fucking boat.

Not a good boat for checking a net in. Everything is caught on everything.

Any boat's a good boat to check a net in if you're really trying to,

but this one's not ideal.

This one right here has lots of snags and rivets and screws

and oarlocks and back corners.

We have an older boat that's a Boston Whaler.

And I'm thinking I'm gonna go pick that up.

CHIP: I had an old boat that we were using for a net-checker,

and it has a leak that's irreparable.

And it just sinks.

As we fill it up with more and more salmon,

it sinks lower and lower and fills with more water.

But I have a brand-new motor coming. So I'll have an extra motor.

I'm gonna go pick the wife up our really good fishing boat

that we have over at our son's house.

It'll have real smooth sides and my wife will fish to her heart's delight without

snagging anything while checking net.

I'll have two motors, I'll have two boats.

We've got six good fish, seven good fish.

Yep. No complaints about that.

AGNES: Seven fish, awesome.

(AGNES EXCLAIMS)

ERIK SALITAN: If I don't have any boss chewing me out.

Tomorrow's Monday morning and I don't have to be to work.

My name's Erik Salitan. I'm a registered guide outfitter,

and I operate two lodges in Alaska with my wife, Martha Mae.

We're gonna go ahead and try a little bit longer distance here

and see if we can, er, be comfortable at a 35-yard range.

Bullseye.

Did I hear you say "bullseye"?

-ERIK: Bullseye! -Nice shot.

Yeah. I been practising up here.

Let's see if I can't catch me a bear with a bow.

The state of Alaska's encouraging sportsmen to go out

and harvest brown bears and black bears,

so that they don't predate upon the moose calves.

Individual bears can kill an astonishingly large number of moose calves

in a very short period, and that really puts a hurt on the moose population.

I'm gonna throw my stuff together if you throw a little food together for me.

How many days? How many days' worth of food?

Oh, I'd say if I don't catch anything, in two days I'll come home.

MARTHA MAE: What's challenging about this hunt is that you're not shooting

with the rifle any more, you're shooting with a bow.

So you gotta get closer, you gotta practise a lot more. It's totally different.

So you gotta be comfortable with the bow.

And confident, which is hard to be.

-The fog lifted. -Yeah, Matt should be.

Actually, it burned all off, so.

No, this is a lot nicer than it was yesterday.

I, I had seen all kinds of planes flying around this morning.

Yeah.

Let's go dump this stuff out by the airstrip.

I got some extra arrows in my pack

and got my frame pack and a knife and a sleeping bag. I got a tent.

Here comes Matt.

How was the weather on the way over?

-Beautiful. -MARTHA MAE: Good.

-Had an awesome trip. -MARTHA MAE: Nice.

MATT: So we'll load ya up and get going.

Whoa, whoa, you better be careful with my bow now.

I know how you pilots are.

All right, guys.

Hopefully we'll be seeing ya in a couple days.

-All right, ya all buckled in back there? -I'm good to go.

MARTHA MAE: While Erik and Matt are gone doing their hunting thing,

I'm gonna hold up the fort here.

Just day-to-day chores, taking care of fishing clients,

facilitating whatever needs to be done.

JESSIE HOLMES: This is how I go out and relax in the summers.

I go out and get prepared for winter.

All right, so fish are here and it's time to go catch some.

I got these dogs.

It's a heck of a lot better when I got fish

for 'em and I don't have to buy dog food.

NARRATOR: In Nenana, Jessie Holmes relies on the fish from the surrounding rivers to

feed himself and his team of sled dogs.

After getting his fish wheel into the current,

Jessie must now get the wheel operational

to take advantage of the summer chum salmon run.

This is a fish wheel, and it's used to catch large amounts of salmon

during their peak runs, which right now, the summer chum are in their peak run.

I gotta get this big, heavy-ass fish wheel downriver eight feet,

and then I gotta push it out into the river about 15 feet,

so I can get it to the depth that I can drop the baskets down.

Time to get my spar log attached here.

A spar log is the log that you anchor to the raft

and you use to push the wheel out into the current.

This is a lot of work for one man.

Everything's heavy and heavy-duty when it comes to fish wheels, so.

You gotta be in really good physical shape to do these things.

This is anchoring the spar log to the raft here.

This fish wheel is in pretty bad condition, you know?

But once it's dropped down it should still work and catch fish.

But you know, not really that safe working on this thing.

Once I get these secured on there, I can start pushing this fish wheel out there

and then I'll be able to see some action.

Just a one-step-at-a-time kind of thing, you know?

So far I think this is going better than ever, possibly.

Ah, fuck!

Hey, good to see the old wheel running, right?

(LAUGHS)

I was going across and I was gonna put a choker up on this,

and start pulling it, and the rope that I had tied there,

hanging on to a piece of wood, that was kind of minimal and broke.

I ran off of it, no problem.

This is dangerous stuff out here.

I'm just really hoping that, you know, this thing catches some fish.

I love that sound.

ERIK: If I wanted to do something easy,

I'd go live a totally different life.

MATT: Eighty degrees, Erik.

ERIK: Ridiculous. MATT: That is ridiculous.

I was like holy crap, man, I need, almost need a T-shirt.

-There's a bear. -Where?

-Oh, yeah. -And there's a bear on the left.

-Oh yeah, a black bear too. -Yep.

NARRATOR: In order to manage the number of black bears

and increase the moose population in the area,

Alaska Fish and Game has issued Erik a permit

that will allow him to hunt for predator control.

-Hey, good old Notellum Creek. -All right.

ERIK: In hour one of my solo archery bear hunt.

Pretty pumped.

Matt just ripped outta here.

Freaking beautiful out here.

I'm gonna throw up my bomb shelter.

One danger you always wanna look out for is that rising water.

I like set my tent up right near an escape route, away from the channel of the river.

Nothing sucks worse than waking up and having water running through your tent.

Pretty beautiful day. See if I can't get out there and find me a bear.

Think I'm gonna take my sleeping bag with me

in case I gotta set up somewhere.

Woo, tell you what.

Here's a pretty good brown bear track.

Pretty good size bear, real fresh.

It's maybe a eight-foot brown bear, so it's just a little bit bigger than my hand.

Already on fresh bear sign.

Predator control is essential in Alaska.

If you're an ethical and a responsible hunter

and you want to harvest moose,

you should put in the effort to harvest animals like bears

that eat those animals as well, to keep a good balance.

I'm gonna ease my way up this river towards those mountains

and see if I can't find a nice place to settle in and glass for the night.

A couple miles from my little camp I set up.

It's really thick, thick stuff in here.

A bunch of bear tracks in the soft soil.

I'm gonna get up in these rocks and set up.

Just do a nice spot-and-stalk hunt, see if I can't wait,

spot one from up high,

and then sneak down these rocks and put the sneak on him.

This looks like a prime, prime area.

Archery hunting's a lot different than a lot of other types of hunting.

You have to get much closer to the animal.

There's a lot more skill involved.

You got to practise with a bow a lot more than you do a rifle to be proficient.

You got a bear 150 yards, 200 yards, broadside,

you have a rifle that's set up properly, the hunt's over. You, you got him.

A well-placed arrow can kill an animal just as efficiently

if not more efficiently than a bullet.

There's bear trails walking left and right,

and up the river and down the river, and all through this meadow,

so I'm just gonna kind of lay up here,

and I'm gonna watch all night.

This is a perfect place to find a bear coming across an opening.

I'm gonna snuggle in here to my little er, rocky hillside and my bivy sack,

and see if I can't hold down the fort and put the sneak on a black bear tonight.

SUE: This is mine, that's yours.

You want to cross it, we're gonna have to have words.

This is a .30-30.

Am I hesitant to take a shot on it?

Absolutely.

So I've got Betsy over here, Bob's just gonna kinda have to help me.

If I have to take a shot here, I've got a little padding that I've put underneath

and it's not gonna knock it back.

It's gonna bump it.

But I've gotta get meat.

NARRATOR: In order to replenish her winter food supply,

Sue must take advantage of the small window

to hunt caribou as they migrate through the tundra.

Maybe I'll tool down my little road, see if I see anything.

I'll keep using my eyes, and I'm just gonna see what I find.

I'm gonna beat myself up again for a little while because I hesitated.

You know, I mean that's something a virgin does on the wedding night,

that's not something somebody in their fifties does if they want to stay full of food.

This is normally where I drop down to get into the river.

Those caribou and different animals will take this little highway.

Where they were in the river,

this is sort of, the natural progression

for where they'd jump in and hide from me.

Okay, I can definitely see bears been through because it's all tore up.

I can see where some of the tracks go this way and it looks like

something has climbed up there.

So it's possible I made the wrong choice coming down and they went up.

We're gonna be going into the water here in about 30 feet.

(GUNSHOT)

That hurt like a son of a bitch, but I got one down.

I will not waste a single ounce of your meat. No way, little buddy.

The pain here is just unreal.

I mean I couldn't even hold it upright, buzzing going all the way down here.

These three fingers are getting pretty numb,

this one's getting pretty numb.

The next thing I need to do, go get the Argo, get over here,

and take care of what I got.

Hey, little girlfriend.

Er, this is absolutely one of the caribou that I saw earlier.

I have zero meat in the coffers,

so this is an absolutely necessary step for my own survival.

This is a small cow, so you're not gonna be busting out any, you know,

C-Note on your er, poundage.

Meaning 100 pounds? No. Fifty, sixty, maybe.

Yeah, my shoulder is not enjoying this processing at all.

This was a reality check for me that I am not bigger than my injury.

I don't always have to be at the top of my game, but you know,

I've always kind of said, you know, the top of my game is a pretty lofty height.

I am constantly in a state of learning, constantly in a state of evaluation.

Obviously I don't live with a group of people, so it's self-evaluation.

I'm hard on myself.

But I have to be.

Had to be from a young age.

This should hold a caribou.

I get him cut up and deboned, no problem.

What I want to do is get what I've got home.

I've got meat here I need to process and, er, go from there.

Thank you, caribou.

JESSIE: It's not like it's just one task up here. It's multitasking all the time.

Make two jobs out of one.

It's turning nicely and straight so nothing's falling to pieces yet.

I can't believe I got it started up, you know?

NARRATOR: After getting his fish wheel into the current,

it is critical for Jessie to make sure that it's

capable of catching fish during the summer chum run.

We just got to catch the fish now.

Fish dinner.

We just need enough fish to go cook for some dogs.

Oh!

I just don't wanna fucking be here all night doing this.

It's a major, heavy thing.

It's a major operation to run one of these things.

Something is always breaking and needing fixed and repaired.

Oh, shit.

The axle sleeve slipped off of the axle.

The fish are running right now.

And done a lot of work already.

Maybe after my accident there, I'll get it down this time.

CHIP: Up here you can live in a tent and still be mayor,

and people will respect you even more.

CHIP: Love you, girls.

Well, we're sorry to wake you up so early and all. But we're out of here.

We're gonna go pick up that boat motor. We'll be back.

We're going over to Deering. I got a brand-new motor over there I'm gonna pick up.

And er, I'm gonna put it on this boat here,

and then we have another boat over there

that we want to bring here really badly for fishing right here.

AGNES: Love you girls.

CHIP: Love you. AGNES: You girls stay together now.

-Yep, stick together. -And be loud.

And I see the tide's already shifted and started going down, so

the time to leave here is pretty quick.

And we want to catch a tide to get through our shallow lagoon.

We don't really get to Deering that often, but erm, it's gonna be fun.

We have grandkids over there and erm, friends.

We should be to Deering in three hours probably.

CHIP: My motor just fucking died.

AGNES: Your motor!

CHIP: Ah, we came out of the lagoon and I thought that the tide being high

I could go over the sandbar, and it stopped me dead.

CHIP: Take us sideways, would ya?

CHIP: I'm changing propellers.

Standard operating procedure when we hit the ocean.

You can see the difference between the propellers.

This one's been scarred, marred, hit, and jarred.

What we're out for is efficiency,

and this is the place that I always change my prop out.

Just come right here, stop, takes five minutes,

and then I, er, I can go a little faster.

Aw, man, that thing weighs a ton.

All right, here we go. Are you ready?

Oh, yeah.

A lot more power.

ERIK: If I wasn't doing this with my life, I really don't know what I would be doing.

This is a sweet spot.

And I'm just gonna own this.

I'm just gonna watch it, watch it, and watch it.

Bears are very predacious on, er, little baby moose calves,

so Fish and Game is trying to keep more meat in the woods for all Alaskans,

and, er, they've opened up this predator control area.

I'm happy to oblige and help out.

I get to enjoy this.

How many people's lives do you get to just be out in the wild,

and see things that are painfully beautiful?

I get to sit here, up on a hill, glassing for bears.

Living out here is just, it's awesome.

That bear took off,

ran through the clearing, and it climbed up that big birch tree.

I watched these meadows for a long, long time.

I'm confident we're gonna find that bear dead just inside the tree line.

I'm gonna ease up in there with an arrow all knocked, ready to rock and roll.

See if we can't find ourselves a real nice bear, black bear.

NARRATOR: Erik has wounded a black bear with his bow and arrow.

He will track the animal into the woods to harvest the hide,

but finding the animal in the dense terrain is a dangerous task.

I'm gonna leave my extra clothes here.

I'm gonna leave my binoculars, my rangefinder and my sleeping bag.

If you're gonna make your living off the natural resources of Alaska,

that privilege comes with a responsibility.

It's, it's my responsibility and every other person who's a consumptive user

of these natural resources to manage wildlife here in Alaska.

Seems like there's a lot of bears working this area.

I might even get another one here before I'm outta here.

SUE: If I carried around every piece of resentment I ever built up,

I wouldn't be able to drag it to the runway.

What I'm doing, this is one hindquarter and some of the, some of the back strap.

Er, and all's I do, this is the heart.

But for me, time is of the essence. Let's get it cut up.

I've got a little bowl going here.

These are hocks, this portion of your body or your calf.

But you put that again in the crockpot or the pot on top of the oil stove,

and that cooks, cooks, cooks, and it cooks it right down into nothing,

so then you have a tender little pile of shredded meat.

This is not tender by any stretch of the imagination on the hock.

You know, and a lot of people just throw it out or give it to their dogs and say,

"Oh, it's not edible, I can't use it."

And I'm like, well, yeah, it's edible.

You just have to cook it a little differently.

This is what you would call the ham of the, er, hindquarters.

I'm just gonna cut it up into larger sections.

I follow the line that the meat is already giving me,

the muscle structure, and separate it.

Something slimy.

I am proud and happy that I'm starting to put something back.

It's not Sue-Zero.

It's Sue's got something for her freezie right now.

I can take time, make it pretty now, but I've got plenty of time this winter.

If you look at that, yum-yum, it's winter, right?

That is a nice piece of meat. That's a beautiful steak.

I can make myself a couple of those, and then there's a little roast I can put in.

The start, ya know, I get a certain amount done,

and then I wanna get it cooled down and starting to freeze.

Go, me! This is the, the part where it feels good.

And it feels like I'm accomplishing something.

Then I just keep chipping away at it.

I mean, it's not a lot.

That's the first bit towards my winter success.

Boo-ya! Suzie's got meat.

JESSIE: I have no problem with all the work, but you gotta work

around the clock up here just to be prepared for winter.

The axle sleeve slipped off of the axle.

Trying to get my sleeve back on this axle,

and it's not going very smoothly so far.

Every year, I'm constantly doing maintenance to this thing.

It's an old wheel, it's been through hell, it's been in the water its whole life

and it's gonna go back in the water when it's done.

I'm about to have to try to figure something else out here.

I'm gonna try to put this spike in there and see if I can't get it picked up,

put it on a block of wood to where I can get my sleeve under it somehow.

I went to the Tanana River University of Fish Wheels.

You gotta make the best of what you've got and what's at hand, you know.

It's not like I'm gonna go to a hardware store and buy new pieces for this

when it's right here, you know, or right on the river bank.

I'm gonna try to make a little block of wood with a saddle in it,

so if I can get this thing up I can set it back down on this.

Some people might be liking to be idealistic and simplistic, but I'll tell you one thing,

up in Alaska you ain't nothing without a chainsaw.

Everything I do demands a chainsaw.

I'm not sure whether this is plan C or D. (LAUGHS)

I'm trying to time this, 'cause there's only a certain rotation

that I can get this spike hooked on, and if it goes past it,

it just gets tight and falls off.

I'm trying to get this block underneath there,

and that'll work if I can get it under there.

Then we can get this thing going.

Kinda taking me some time to get the timing right.

Ah, fuck!

Thank God for the suffering that you catch a fish, right?

That's a nice-looking chum right there, baby.

Chum money.

We gotta get this thing going right.

I could go with that, but that just won't last for too long,

I need to get it further in there, so.

Whoo!

That's kinda scary business right there.

There's another fish, so it might be working out.

That's what I'm talking about, chum money.

Yeah, go right in there!

That's right! Two fish. Two fish down!

I'd say for the amount of dogs I got,

once we got 17 fish in there we'll be cooking, baby.

I'm gonna have myself a little snack, here.

That's some rich food right there. That'll keep you going.

Nice to have a little rich snack.

Straight up from the land.

Can't get no better than that.

Now the dogs are gonna eat, I'm gonna eat.

It's a blessing to have this old fish wheel.

CHIP: I see a lot of it around here, where these kids learn their natural resources.

But kids elsewhere, I don't see that.

AGNES: Parking spot. (EXCLAIMS)

I would say this was a pretty standard crossing for us.

We just did about three hours in the ocean, so not so bad.

How's it go, Joe?

Er, just beached my boat.

My friend Joe came over and offered us a ride.

I'm gonna go into town.

AGNES: It's nice to get here and somebody's here to help us bring our stuff up.

We're gonna go look at the boat motor, and see the boat situation

and go visit with the boy and the grandkids.

-How's it going? -It goes, how you been?

-Pretty good. -Hi, Des.

-You see us go by in the boat and go park at the spit? -AGNES: Hi, son.

Hi, baby. Hi.

I brought a gallon of resin to finish this off.

First layer of resin's dry, just have to set and do it again.

Oh, yeah.

If we get some paper onto those sanders and get an extension cord out here,

we could get this all done by tonight. If I start here in a little while,

then I'll have the rest of the day free to go visit.

Oh, wow, when did this get here?

Just got in the other day, or a couple days ago.

Well, we'll work on this boat here and bring our 20-horse to this boat,

launch it, and go park it at the spit when we're done with this, fixing this one.

Well, for us you know, it's, er, having two boats is always better than one.

Just like having two snow machines.

When one's down, you got the other one to back yourself up with.

When my wife is fishing with that one,

I can be off hunting and wood-gathering with the other one.

I'll be safer out here in the ocean, and she'll have an easier time

pulling a net over the side with a smooth-sided boat with no rivets and no seats

and none of that stuff.

I'm smoothing this up.

I'm using this sander right now to erm,

get all the lumps and bumps and high points that were left

when the, erm, this keel got rebuilt.

So the next step in the process is adding the, erm, hardener.

I'm just doing a resin, a resin-over.

It's already been fibreglassed.

Basically I'm taking and I'm putting another coating of resin.

And I just wanna seal everything up. I wanna make sure it's all gone over.

It's all been proofed.

It's kind of like a final paint job.

Final waterproofing.

I treat all boats as if I want them to float for forever,

because I'm gonna put my kids in 'em and stuff,

so I try to make sure that they're in tune all right.

This boat's got a lot of great memories, a lot of adventures.

Lot of crazy shit, lot of stuff with my kids.

I look forward to seeing this thing in action again.

That should about do it. That's the end of it.

I'm gonna let this dry for a couple hours.

And we'll let it go from there.

It's all good to me.

ERIK: Natural resources are key to my life as a subsistence user.

They're also key to me as a commercial operator.

I'm here at the spot where I shot the bear, where he was actually standing.

You can see the vegetation's all knocked down here.

I gotta go into some pretty thick, nasty stuff here to try and find him.

Ditch my pack here for two reasons.

One is I don't wanna get hung up in case I gotta do something that's a little bit,

little bit rowdy in there.

The other reason is this'll let me remember exactly where the bear was.

If I get screwed up tracking and I'm circling and I get all kinds of lost

and screwed up, come back to this pack and I can start all over.

That bear cut right through here.

And then it climbed up one of these birch trees.

And it was making a wild racket, it went 30, 40 foot up the birch.

It's one of these two trees right here.

Not exactly sure,

but I'm willing to bet when I get over there I'm gonna see some sign of it.

Let's see if we can't sneak up in there.

We're stepping into another world here.

This isn't bright and sunny and hot,

this is shady and full of shadows.

This is the world of the bears.

A whole understory of this forest here is these ferns.

I'm 6'4" and they're waist-deep on me.

Which means that bear, dead or alive,

you're not gonna see him till you step on him.

That's the tree that bear climbed.

You can see the blood on the base of that birch right there.

I heard him come down.

Crash, a little bit, then I didn't hear nothin'.

I'm hoping that bear's dead right up in here.

(WHISPERING)

Pretty dead to me. He's gone.

That concludes my first solo archery bear hunt.

Got a dead black bear here.

One clean shot, kept it under 25 yards, good ethical range.

Did the moose a favour here in this predator control unit.

You know, I was able to get this bear,

have a little bit more, er,

little bit more meat running around in the woods for all Alaskans, and life is good.

My bear here.

Got my pack. I'm pretty pumped, this was a successful hunt.

Little worn out, ready to head home,

eat some good food Martha'll make for me, and, er, get out of here.

I enjoy just a little quiet time.

It lets me, er, reflect on things.

You know, a good way to regroup, refocus,

be a good husband, be a good business owner, a good operator,

and keep moving forward.

So the harvest of this bear may have saved a large number of moose.

It's a positive thing for my psyche overall.

CHIP: If you're gonna work, you can do it smiling or crying,

but you're gonna work.

Boat here's about 800 pounds, total.

And the three of us, to move it to the beach, is gonna be quite a struggle.

Er, basically what I'm gonna do next is go over, get some wood, get my son to help me.

We're gonna go put them down as rollers, and we're gonna roll this

boat right down to the beach.

We'll stop, we'll put the engine on, we'll push it in the rest of the way,

we'll start it up and, er, go park it in the harbour over there.

Okay. Stop, stop, stop!

Every few feet we gotta move this thing, we gotta reposition our logs.

(GRUNTING) All right. There we go.

We're almost there.

Right there, right there, right there, right there.

One, two, three, go.

Ah, we're just getting the motor fixed.

Yeah, you'll meet me down at the, at the other boat with the 60-horse.

Thanks!

The boat is awesome.

The boat'll do the job the way it's done before and it's intended to do soon.

All the repairs seem to have turned out well.

Everything seems to have turned out well. No complaints.

The only water in the boat is what splashed over the back

while we were getting out of the waves.

Good, look like son's coming here with the motor.

AGNES: Just in time.

I'm getting this motor mounted on with Doug here,

and we're almost done.

Pretty cool, huh?

We'll go test it and son, you'll watch us and make sure we're okay and come back yeah?

Either that or at least be laughing as we drown.

Wow, it goes backwards!

Feels powerful.

Wow, power?

Power.

Usually we don't even try to go out in big waves,

but with a bigger motor and more power, we should be able to do this.

(AGNES EXCLAIMS)

Everything at your control, with your thumb?

Yeah. I like it. I'm impressed.

(EXCLAIMS) We got a brand new boat motor.

I'm so happy.

We also got this Boston Whaler net-checker...

-Revived. -...revived.

CHIP: Well I came to Deering in one boat,

and I'm leaving with two 'cause I came to Deering to pick up a new motor.

Since I got a spare motor, with a new motor on here, I can't run two of 'em,

we decided that we needed to revive an old fishing boat.

So, erm, my wife was really needing a fishing boat anyway

and it worked out pretty well.

Nothing but the best.

AGNES: Thank you. CHIP: Yeah.