F/V Time Bandit

F/V Time Bandit .. arrr!

Built here at Giddings in 1991, the Time Bandit has gone on to be one of the more memorable boats featured in the Deadliest Catch.  Every boat we’ve ever built has a story to tell worthy of an epic– maybe only at the dinner table with family & friends or yarned hard at the bar after work when fishing is slow, so it’s nice to see one of our own and her crew telling her story to the world.  Cheers!

Time Bandit Specs

  • Engines: two 425 horsepower (317 kW) Cummins diesels
  • Props: two 52×58 propellers
  • Hydraulics: two 125 kW auxiliaries
  • Crane: 10 ton 40’ knuckle boom

Much thanks to Timebandit.tv for images and help!

P.S. back in ’91 we installed this basic computer system for the Bandit.. keeping it simple for the Hillstrand brothers  :)

Official 'Time Bandit' kebyoard har har har

Official 1991 'Time Bandit' keyboard har har har

Keep Fishing and watch the Avast Key!

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The Bait is on NOW on Discovery Channel, followed by a new episode of Deadliest Catch at 9PM/e

Posted: May 15, 2013, 12:42 am
Captain Andy gives Axel a lesson on throwing the hook
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Deadliest Catch 9: Andy Teaches Axel How to Throw : Video : Discovery Channel
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On the Time Bandit, deckhand Axel Hillstrand gets a lesson in hook throwing from Captain Andy and Mike Fourtner.
Posted: May 10, 2013, 4:49 pm
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Tonight at 9pm on Discovery Channel - a very special Mythbusters!

Deadliest Catch Captains Johnathan Hillstrand and Scott Campbell (Junior) join the MythBusters to test if a crab pot will drag you overboard to the bottom if your foot is caught in a coil, if it's better to work a 30-hr grind with no sleep, and if crab pots truly are indestructible.

Mythbusters + F/V Time Bandit = now that's an explosive team!


‘MythBusters’ takes on ‘Deadliest Catch’ chaos — EXCLUSIVE VIDEO | EW.com
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This week’s episode of MythBusters (Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET) keeps it in the Discovery family with a “Deadliest Catch Crabtastic Special.” Captains Johnathan and Junior...
Posted: May 8, 2013, 3:35 pm
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'Deadliest Catch' Captains Reveal Season Nine's Scariest Moments (Video)
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Deadliest Catch viewers will see many scary moments in season nine. Time Bandit Captain Johnathan Hillstrand and Seabrooke Captain Scott "Jr." Campbell recently stopped by The Hollywood Reporter's Cover Lounge to share some of the most "hair raising" -- Hillstrand's words -- moments of the current…
Posted: May 7, 2013, 8:18 pm
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‘Deadliest Catch’: Josh Harris gets the Cornelia Marie ... and a baby
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“It was a three-year process of getting the boat,” “Deadliest Catch” star Josh Harris says. “It took a lot of my money. My kid’s kids will be poor if we don’t make it.”
Posted: May 6, 2013, 4:20 pm
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‘Deadliest Catch’: Johnathan Hillstrand talks storms, injury and the fates of Josh and Jake Harris
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“It’s ugly,” Johnathan Hillstrand tells Zap2it. “There are a lot of injuries. It’s just part of our job, but it looks pretty bad. They didn’t have cameras on every boat, but the first two days of opie season, two guys lost their legs out there.”
Posted: May 6, 2013, 3:55 am

Watch: 'Deadliest Catch''s Johnathan and Junior talk death, chaos and crab
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I had a chance to sit down with "Deadliest Catch" captains Johnathan Hillstrand and Scott Campbell Junior during their visit to Los Angeles, and found them to be exactly the way they are on television -- talkative, outgoing and, of course, tough as nails.
Posted: May 6, 2013, 3:45 am
MEET CAPTAIN JOHNATHAN at his upcoming book signing

Saturday May 4th and Sunday May 5th
Times: 11am - 4pm each day
Place: Johnson's
Address: 26625 Maple Valley Black Diamond Road SE
Maple Valley, WA 95038

Available for purchase and signing at this event will be Johnathan's first book: "Adventures of Little Bird"

Keep an eye out for another book signing later in May at Nikki's in Covington, WA where Captain Johnathan will be launching is second book!

Posted: May 3, 2013, 10:00 pm
Here's the video from our appearance on Conan for those who missed it Here is the link to our appearance on #CONAN for anyone who missed it. A good time was had by all @TeamCoco http://ow.ly/kGtTj


Deadliest Catch's Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand Cooking Pt. 1 04/30/13
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Captain Andy & Johnathan Hillstrand show Conan the manly way to eat crab legs.
Posted: May 3, 2013, 8:06 pm

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