Ship Guide

A quick reference for specs, purchase locations, and riggings/type for all of the ships in the game, plus maps with ship unlock locations and landmarks.

Also some short notes, trivia, and/or subjective commentary from me if I have any.

NOTE: Game is being updated frequently. The information contained within this guide may not be 100% up-to-the-minute accurate.

See comments section for changelog.

All ships by location, with price (and type)

Dennis Point

• Follabuen - $150,000 (Longline)
  
• Full Throttle - $975,000 (Harpoon, Deepline)
  
• Legend - $675,000 (Harpoon, Deepline)
  
• Tobie - $35,000 (Longline, Net)

Digby

• Hermes - $19,950,000 (Trawler)
  
• No Yankee - $450,000 (Lobster)
  
• Scarlet - $4,950,000 (Snow Crab)
  
• Viking Power - $8,995,000 (Scallop)

Ingalls Head

• Double Trouble - $1,195,000 (Deepline, Lobster, Longline, Net)
  
• Fix - $95,000 (Longline, Net)
  
• Knots Guilty - $1,150,000 (Lobster)
  
• Vibeke Cathrin - $895,000 (Longline, Net)

Lockeport

• Ocean Runner - $695,000 (Deepline, Lobster, Longline, Net)
  
• Ocean Scout - $1,695,000 (Scallop)
  
• Mostein - $8,950,000 (Trawler)
  
• Nova Scotia - $8,895,000 (Snow Crab)
  
• Sharky - $115,000 (Longline, Net)
  
• Snarset - $550,000 (Longline, Net)

Lunenburg

• Andrea Gail - $3,975,000 (Deepline)
  
• Arctic Pioneer - $6,450,000 (Lobster, Longline, Net)
  
• Atlantic Catcher - $29,950,000 (Snow Crab)
  
• Lunar Bow - $20,495,000 (Trawler)
  
• Sjarken - $85,000 (Longline, Net)

Yarmouth

• Backstabber - $375,000 (Harpoon, Deepline)
  
• Borge - $10,000 (Longline, Net)
  
• Coastern - $6,550,000 (Snow Crab)
  
• Deckster - $12,950,000 (Trawler)
  
• Lenore - $295,000 (Deepline, Lobster, Longline, Net)
  
• Mikki - $10,000/$450,000* (Harpoon, Deepline)
  
• Moby D - $1,250,000 (Longline, Net)
  
• Old Ben - $295,000 (Scallop)
  
• Selfy - $395,000 (Lobster, Longline, Net)

* If you start with this boat it will sell for $10,000, but if you choose to start with the No Yankee instead, this will cost you $450,000 to buy.

All ships by type, with price (and location)

I've included the maximum deeplines for boats that have that capability, because that information is not included in the in-game descriptions for those ships, for some reason.

Also, all ships that have multiple riggings will have the same maximum number of pots/longlines/deeplines/nets.

Deepline
MD = Max deeplines

• Andrea Gail - $3,975,000 (Lunenburg) MD 60

Deepline, Harpoon
MD = Max deeplines

• Backstabber - $375,000 (Yarmouth) MD 12
  
• Full Throttle - $975,000 (Dennis Point) MD 12
  
• Legend - $675,000 (Dennis Point) MD 10
  
• Mikki - $10,000/$450,000* (Yarmouth) MD 8

* If you start with this boat it will sell for $10,000, but if you choose to start with the No Yankee instead, this will cost you $450,000 to buy.

Deepline, Lobster, Longline, Net
MD = Max deeplines

• Double Trouble - $1,195,000 (Ingalls Head) MD 80
  
• Lenore - $295,000 (Yarmouth) MD 12
  
• Ocean Runner - $695,000 (Lockeport) MD 40

Lobster

• Knots Guilty - $1,150,000 (Ingalls Head)
  
• No Yankee - $450,000 (Digby)

Lobster, Longline, Net

• Arctic Pioneer - $6,450,000 (Lunenburg)
  
• Selfy - $395,000 (Yarmouth)

Longline

• Fix - $95,000 (Ingalls Head)
  
• Follabuen - $150,000 (Dennis Point)

Longline, Net

• Borge - $10,000 (Yarmouth)
  
• Moby D - $1,250,000 (Yarmouth)
  
• Sharky - $115,000 (Lockeport)
  
• Sjarken - $85,000 (Lunenburg)
  
• Snarset - $550,000 (Lockeport)
  
• Tobie - $35,000 (Dennis Point)
  
• Vibeke Cathrin - $895,000 (Ingalls Head)

Scallops

• Ocean Scout - $1,695,000 (Lockeport)
  
• Old Ben - $295,000 (Yarmouth)
  
• Viking Power - $8,995,000 (Digby)

Snow Crab

• Atlantic Catcher - $29,950,000 (Lunenburg)
  
• Coastern - $6,550,000 (Yarmouth)
  
• Nova Scotia - $8,895,000 (Lockeport)
  
• Scarlet - $4,950,000 (Digby)

Trawler

• Deckster - $12,950,000 (Yarmouth)
  
• Hermes - $19,950,000 (Digby)
  
• Lunar Bow - $20,495,000 (Lunenburg)
  
• Mostein - $8,950,000 (Lockeport)

Andrea Gail

Purchase in Lunenburg.

Deepline only

Features:

• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters
  
• Accessible cabin interior

The real ship featured in the film The Perfect Storm. They never made it back to port. Hopefully you will!

Arctic Pioneer

Purchase in Lunenburg.

Lobster/Longline/Net. Freezer/processor.

Features:

• Up to 10,000 hook longlines
  
• Up to 20-pot lobster strings
  
• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters
  
• Fully adjustable pilot's chair
  
• Accessible cabin interior

Biggest longliner you can buy. Huge storage capacity. If you've found the fish, you can stuff the tank with just 12-15 10,000 hook longlines and make $3-5 million depending on price and what you catch.

I don't recommend lobster fishing with this ship. It's much too big and unwieldy for that, in my opinion. If you want to fish lobster, I believe you will be much happier with the Knots Guilty, which is much more nimble and carries more pots.

Also, note that the door to the crew cabin is at the rear of the superstructure, so it takes a while, like 40-50 seconds, for crew members to walk from the cabin to their work stations at the front of the ship (and back).

Atlantic Catcher

Purchase in Lunenburg.

Features:

• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters
  
• Fully adjustable pilot's chair
  
• Accessible cabin interior

Biggest crab boat in the game. Also by far the most expensive ship in the game.

Backstabber

Purchase in Yarmouth.

Harpoon/Deepline

Features:

• Max deeplines: 12
  
• Cook
  
• Repair

Based on the Wesmac Custom "Backstabber."

Borge

Purchase in Yarmouth.

Longline/Net. Your initial boat from Barents Sea.

Features:

• 500 hook longlines
  
• Accessible lower cabin

At just $10,000 it's the cheapest vessel in the game.

If you're into rugged self-reliance (i.e. doing all of the work yourself), this is the boat for you.

Coastern

Purchase in Yarmouth.

Features:

• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters
  
• Fully adjustable pilot's chair
  
• Accessible cabin interior

Crab boat, based on the F/V Northwestern from Deadliest Catch.

Deckster

Purchase in Yarmouth.

Trawler

Features:

• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters
  
• Fully adjustable pilot's chair
  
• Accessible cabin interior
  
• Searchlight IV comes standard
  
• Wall clock (anchor) is accessible from the driver's seat

Double Trouble

Purchase in Ingalls Head.

Can be rigged for deepline, lobster, longline, or net fishing.

Features:

• Max deeplines: 80
  
• Up to 5,000 hook longlines
  
• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters

Essentially just a bigger version of the Ocean Runner. A good value for $1.2M.

Fix

Purchase in Ingalls Head.

Longline only.

Features:

• Up to 2,000 hook longlines
  
• Cook

Slow. Doesn't handle very well.

It's basically the "Follabuen Jr." Makes for a very simple, relaxed experience. No crew so you will have to do all of the work yourself.

Follabuen

Purchase in Dennis Point.

Longline only.

Features:

• Up to 5,000 hook longlines
  
• Cook
  
• Repair

Very slow. Tops out around 10 knots, fully upgraded, and only if everything is in your favor. Otherwise, you'll average about 5-6 knots. Picking up buoys can be challenging sometimes.

Despite all of that, I still think it's a cool boat. It's one of my personal favorites, I come back to it frequently.

If you're looking for a nice, simple, slow, relaxing experience on the water, this might be the boat for you. Also see: Fix.

Full Throttle

Purchase in Dennis Point.

Harpoon/Deepline

Features:

• Max deeplines: 12
  
• Cook
  
• Repair

Main or top deck driving. Very powerful engine; quick acceleration.

Resembles a Hatteras GT65 Carolina.

Hermes

Purchase in Digby.

Trawler

Features:

• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters
  
• Fully adjustable pilot's chair
  
• Accessible cabin interior

Top-of-the-line trawler from Barents Sea.

Knots Guilty

Purchase in Ingalls Head.

Lobster boat

Features:

• Single, 5- or 10-pot strings
  
• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters

Has a covered work area. Quick, good handling. Good acceleration and great turning radius. Great lighting. When you turn on all the lights on this thing, it really lights up bright all around and inside the boat.

If you're going lobster fishing, this is definitely the boat you want.

Based on the A.F. Theriault model "Knot Guilty."

Legend

Purchase in Dennis Point.

Harpoon/Deepline

Features:

• Max deeplines: 10
  
• Cook
  
• Repair

Top deck driving only.

Resembles an Ocean Yachts 55 Super Sport.

Lenore

Purchase in Yarmouth.

Can be rigged for deepline, lobster, longline, or net fishing.

Features:

• Max deeplines: 12
  
• Cook
  
• Repair

A very versatile boat, but slow. Tops out around 11-12 knots, fully upgraded.

At this price you can pick it up very early in the game and be able to fish almost anything.

Lunar Bow

Purchase in Lunenburg.

Trawler

Features:

• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters
  
• Fully adjustable pilot's chair
  
• Accessible cabin interior

Longest, heaviest ship in the game.

Based on the Skipasyn Icelandic 72m Seiner/Pelagic Trawler.

Mikki

Purchase in Yarmouth.

Features:

• Max deeplines: 8

One of two choices for your initial ship.

Basic, small harpoon/deepline boat. Utilitarian.

If you start with this boat it will sell for $10,000, but if you choose to start with the No Yankee instead, this will cost you $450,000 to buy.

Moby D

Purchase in Yarmouth.

Longline/Net. Freezer/processor.

Features:

• Up to 5,000 hook longlines
  
• Cook
  
• Repair

Large storage capacity for this class of boat, but it handles like a brick. A single 10,000 hook longline can fill it.

You might need level III or IV radar to unlock this one, or a very small, nimble boat (see maps at end of guide for exact location).

Mostein

Purchase in Lockeport.

Pelagic trawler. Mackerel and pollock.

Features:

• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters
  
• Fully adjustable pilot's chair
  
• Accessible cabin interior

No Yankee

Purchase in Digby.

Lobster boat

Features:

• Clock (anchor) is right on the dashboard
  
• Pickup on port side

One of two choices for your starting boat. You get this one if you select "Easy" mode.

A nice little boat for for solo lobstering.

Nova Scotia

Purchase in Lockeport.

Features:

• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters
  
• Fully adjustable pilot's chair
  
• Accessible cabin interior
  
• Secondary driving controls on rear crane console

The big crab boat from Barents Sea.

Ocean Runner

Purchase in Lockeport.

Features:

• Max deeplines: 40
  
• Up to 5,000 hook longlines
  
• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters

A very versatile boat capable of rigging for deepline, lobster, longline, or net fishing. Easy to make pickups.

Probably the best all-arounder in the game. You can make a lot of money very fast, fairly early in the game with this thing.

Ocean Scout

Purchase in Lockeport.

Scallops

Features:

• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters
  
• Accessible cabin interior

Dual cranes with separate controls.

I would recommend using all 5 crew slots. Filling this boat can take a while and you'll want to rotate the crew so they can keep up their stamina for marathon dredging sessions, but you could go with as few as 3 with two on the cranes and one on the fishing deck doing all the sorting and gutting (and resting between net dumps), who should all get tired at about the same time if they have the same stamina.

Old Ben

Purchase in Yarmouth.

Scallops

Features:

• Cook
  
• Repair

Very basic scallop boat. You can have up to 4 crew members, but you can actually run this boat entirely solo.

A lot of work to do yourself, and a ton of waiting if you assign the work to a crew member. Watching a crew member work the all of the lines, cranes, and nets on this boat is incredibly frustrating. Just get on with it, man! LOL Not my favorite scalloping option.

Scarlet

Purchase in Digby.

Features:

• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters
  
• Fully adjustable pilot's chair
  
• Accessible cabin interior

Crab boat, based on the F/V Saga from Deadliest Catch.

Selfy

Purchase in Yarmouth.

Lobster/Longline/Net.

Features:

• Up to 2,000 hook longlines
  
• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters

Still the fastest vessel in the game. I've hit over 60 knots with a fully upgraded engine in ideal conditions. Smallest boat with side thrusters available.

Fairly versatile little boat, but you only get one crew member so you still have to do some of the work yourself.

Based on the Selfa 1099speed.

Sharky

Purchase in Lockeport.

Longline/Net

Features:

• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Secondary driving controls on the fishing deck
  
• Wall clock (anchor) is accessible from the driver's seat

A real basic fishing boat. The upgrade from the Sjarken is you get up to 2 crew members instead of just one.

A good boat to use to level up crew member skills. Work one, rest one, repeat.

Sjarken

Purchase in Lunenburg.

Longline/Net

Features:

• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Secondary driving controls on the fishing deck
  
• Wall clock (anchor) is accessible from the driver's seat

Quick, nimble, fun little boat. Upgrade from the Tobie. Has an accessible lower cabin. There's nothing to do, but you can go down there.

I love this little boat! It's super fun to drive around, and it's a good one to take one crew member out fishing and rank up some of their skills.

Snarset

Purchase in Lockeport.

Longline/Net. Freezer/processor.

Features:

• Up to 10,000 hook longlines
  
• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters
  
• Fully adjustable pilot's chair
  
• Wall clock (anchor) is accessible from the driver's seat

Kind of sluggish. Relatively low storage capacity. Just one 10,000 hook longline can fill it to capacity. No interior cabin.

Based on the Moen Marin 1575.

Tobie

Purchase in Dennis Point.

Longline/Net

Features:

• 500 hook longlines

Only a marginal upgrade from the Mikki/Borge. Smallest boat in the game.

Unremarkable. Solo fishing.

Vibeke Cathrin

Purchase in Ingalls Head.

Longline/Net. Freezer/processor.

Features:

• Up to 10,000 hook longlines
  
• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters
  
• Fully adjustable pilot's chair
  
• Accessible cabin interior

Relatively low storage capacity. Just one 10,000 hook longline can fill it to capacity.

Costs $374,000 to fully upgrade, not including Fishing Quota IV (+$300,000).

Has a covered work area. Nice for the crew! Has the most complete interior of any ship in the game. You can go to the engine room! There's nothing to do in there, but you can go down there!

Overall, a very good ship, except for the low storage. One of my personal favorites.

Based on the Moen Marin 2190.

Viking Power

Purchase in Digby.

Scallops

Features:

• Cook
  
• Repair
  
• Thrusters
  
• Accessible cabin interior

Single combined crane controls.

The high-end scallop option. Nets are at least 50% larger than the Ocean Scout. Really easy fishing.

You can scallop comfortably in this ship with just 2 crew on board, but I'd recommend you take at least 4 and rotate them between jobs, resting between net dumps; you can fish around the clock this way and fill up in as few as 2 days (which takes me about 2-3 hours IRL time).

Honestly I wasn't a huge fan of this at first but I've warmed up to it. It's just too convenient to only need one person on the crane, and of course the bigger nets make it all faster and that much more profitable.

It's almost too easy. Scallops are very lucrative and you will easily make back your money on this boat, plus the cost of all the upgrades, 2 to 4 times over on your very first trip, depending on the price and your game difficulty settings.

Maps - ship unlock locations

Helpful tip: It helps a lot to have upgraded radar.

Vibeke Cathrin

Hermes

Fix

Borge, Selfy, Moby D

Tobie

Follabuen, Snarset

Nova Scotia

Sharky, Sjarken, Lunar Bow

NOTE: Sjarken has moved; it can now be found in the adjacent inlet directly to the East of where it is marked on the map above.

Maps - landmarks

NOTE: The Cape Roseway Lighthouse POI has moved since I stitched together this map; the new location is just to the NE of the location currently marked on my map, at the SE end of that large sort of bullet-shaped island right in the middle between the currently marked spot and Lockeport.

Quick reference: fish & bait

Just a quick reference guide for the fish icons, with the fish facing left like they are on the sonar screen, for your convenience.

Lobster, crab, and scallops not included. I'm assuming you can tell the difference between them. Scallops don't appear on sonar anyways.

Also, stitched together a quick reference guide for bait that you can download and keep handy.

General gameplay tips/hints

Just a few things I've learned playing the game. Your mileage may vary.

• Read the sonar correctly
  
  • What is on the far right of the sonar screen is what is directly under the boat. Everything to the left of that is just a record of what was directly under the boat. 1 fish on the sonar = a group of that type of fish, so you don't necessarily need to look for a lot of one type of fish on the screen.
  
  
• 18h40m is magic hour
  
  • Your gear indicators may turn blue on the map in as few as 14 hours, especially deeplines, but you should still wait until at least 18 hours and 40 minutes. I've had deeplines turn blue at 15 hours, but when I pulled them, half of them were "no fish caught" and the rest were just 1 fish each. Next run I waited the full 18:40 and had 3 on almost every line.
  
  
• Useful (or not) stuff inside the cabin
  
  • I don't know why they don't bother to tell you this in the tutorial, but somewhere inside your wheelhouse is a clock (usually on a wall; location varies by ship). On a few boats the clock can actually be used without having to leave the driver's seat in 1st person mode, which is convenient. At least one boat has it right on the dashboard. Click on the clock and you can skip time like you are in port.
    
    
  • You also may have, on your dashboard, a small button with an anchor symbol. It's a "dock at port" button, so you can dock in 1st person mode.
  
  
• Other things they don't tell you that maybe they should
  
  • Quicksave: F5
    
  • Quickload: F9
  
  
• Hand gutting tip
  
  • When doing the hand gutting minigame, I've found faster is better than slower, and err above the line rather than below. Don't worry about where the knife is, just worry about where your mouse cursor is.
  
  
• Lobster fishing tips
  
  • I've found that putting together 5-pot strings and skipping an hour between them generally gives you really good timing for hauling later with below-average to average pot hauling/sorting skill level crew members ("average" = 10). 10-pot strings take at least 2 game hours to haul and sort unless you're doing it manually yourself.
    
    
  • Also, even though a lot of ships in this game can fish lobster, I'm certain your best experience with lobster fishing is going to be with the Knots Guilty. Lobster fishing is the only thing it does, and it's ideally set up for it. It has room for 4 crew members (you really only need 2) so all you need to do is drive. At over $1M it's probably not going to be available to you until you're several ships in already, but once you have it, you will notice the difference.
  
  
• Scallop fishing tips
  
  • You can keep your crew fresh by resting the sorting/gutting crew between net dumps and rotating them between jobs. If you manage them right you can fish indefinitely.
    
    
  • The viable fishing area around a marked scallop bed is pretty large, almost a kilometer in diameter, so just set up the autopilot to zig-zag or spiral around a scallop tip marking on the map and set your speed between 2.5 - 7 knots (about 3 - 8 mph) and you'll fill up your boat in a day or two.
    
    
  • I like to fish one scallop bed until I'm half full then move to the next closest one to finish off the rest. I feel like that helps to maintain habitat populations.
  
  
• Shop around
  
  • You can view all of the current fish prices from your map screen (map>finances>fish prices) and easily compare between ports so you know where you'll get the best price for your catch.
    
    
  • Also, click on the fish listed at the bottom of the page to toggle their line on the "demand" graph.
  
  
• Quick ship progression
  I think the quickest progression to the big ships is going to be:
  
  • Immediately upgrade the Mikki to deepline fishing at the very beginning of the game (starting in Yarmouth). You will need a bank loan of at least $20k to hire a crew member. Don't worry, you'll be able to pay back the loan after your first trip.
    
  • Upgrade the storage capacity and engine on the Mikki and it shouldn't take very long to deepline fish until you can buy the Follabuen.
    
  • Longline fishing with 5,000 hooks should fill the Follabuen in just 2-3 lines earning you about $250k per offload.
    
  • It should only take a few trips to earn enough to buy the Ocean Runner, and once you own that, you will be earning $500k-1M per trip and then you're rich and can do whatever you want.

[Senpai]

You have to be somewhat close to the marker to see it on the map

[Мой Хозяин]

i can't see this place's in game, aren't they gonna update at 2026 ? or when ?
why ppl make comment's that they like already play with this update

[Мой Хозяин]

i cant find all this place's by this map, can anyone help with the oriantaion ?

[Goblinian]

for everyone coming here to say "you are missing ships" "there are changes to the ships you posted" etc. etc. the guide was made in October 2020, and last updated in March 2022, i am using this guide as a guideline, most ships are still similar in price, size, number of fishing gear, take Sharky: 8 longlines/nets in the guide vs 10 of each in the game and 100k more fishing quota in the game 625k vs 525k. otherwise the ship is the same.

[Aguda]

Moby D storage size and hooks was nerfed to 80,000 kg and 5,000 hooks.

[Thomas Kirkman]

Additionally, the Snarset takes 20, 5000 hook longlines. Guide is absolutely great, it just needs to be updated for all the current vessels.

[Chase Breen]

I *am not* being mean in saying this, but this guide *is outdated* as Knots Guilty holds 200 lobster pots *not 120* as the guide says

[Chase Breen]

You're missing some ships *IE Korrigan from what I can recall right now*

[John Armfeldt]

since the A.F Theriault DLC came, this guide is somewhat outdated, but only in terms of the ship roster i think, would be nice with it being brought up to date.

[GamerColyn117]

The UI on the Arctic Pioneer shows a 25 pot line, but the in-game guide says you can only have a max of 20. If you hover over it, it says "not possible on this boat." Is this a bug or an upcoming feature?