I own every issue of National Geographic beginning with the year I was born. I love the magazine. Ask my friends who have helped me move them. My very first job for National Geographic included six different fishing vessels, the most complicated being the 376-foot “Alaska Ocean” pollock catcher/processor. This is bigger than most of our ferries. A great deal of research, travel, and conversations with experts was required, which is always my favorite part of the job.  Geographic asked me to travel to visit the ship and meet the designer, Guido Perla. To their surprise I responded, “He’s a friend, lives about a mile down the road.“ Travel, it turned out, was only into Seattle. I spent a couple of days crawling with my camera into every corner of the ship, conveniently moored at Harbor Island for refurbishment. With her luxury accommodations, fishing decks, processing decks, and a gigantic deep freeze hold, this vessel is generally known as the queen of the fleet. Guido is a brilliant naval architect.