To unlock career mode you have to play through the tutorial missions. After you finish them up career mode should open up and presto achievo.

In career mode there are two types of seasons King and Opilio. As you play the game will alternate back and forth between the two. You can play through a season of king or you can go out to sea return to harbor and end the season early.

You will get this after your third king season. Don't sweat this one as it will come as you work towards the others.

Again this will come in time as you are working towards the other achievements. If for some reason you finish up the other ones and you have not reached this one yet simply keep skipping seasons until you have finished up king season number 5.

This achievement is not bugged, just a bit odd. Each actual pot you drop counts as five pots in the game, so to drop 50 actual pots you must drop 250 game pots. Put 200 pots onto your boat, drop them, stack 50 pots, then drop that 50 back into the water.

I'm not exactly sure what constitutes as a full pot of crab. I believe if you have at least 80 king keepers or 500 opilio it will count. I got this during one of the tutorials but again you will be pulling up a mess of pots during your time in career and you are bound to get it unless you are the single most unlucky person ever.

This achievement is culmulative and can be done over the coarse of several seasons. You will probably get this after king season number 2 but atleast by the end of season 3. I was making around 400-500k per king season.

To get this you will need to purchase all the add-ons for your boat. At the end of each season you will come to the menu where you can make repairs or buy additional things for your boat. Don't worry about all the red bars in which you can put money into to fix them up, those don't matter. What you will need to finish your spending efforts on are the add-ons in the bottom left hand corner of the screen.

I will try to list them but again I'm doing this from memory as I don't have the game anymore.

Large Rudder-150k
Live Well Pump-60k
Heated decks and rails-100k
Washing machines-4k
Microwave-4k
Television-4k
Survival suits-10k
Fire extinguisher-2k
Life Raft-20k
Engine 1-150k
Engine 2-300k
Engine 3-350k


Thats all I can remember but you get the drift. Purchase everything from that box. It will take several seasons; some items such as the later engines don't become available until you have purchased the lower versions.

When this achievement says fishermen they are referring to the crewmen and not the captains as I had originally thought. There are 20 fishermen in all and you can use five per season. At the end of your fifth season you should get it.

What I did was at the start of the first season I picked five of them and wrote down which ones I had selected. Next, play the season and skip the Opilio season. Then at the start of the next king season I would hire five new fishermen. Repeat this process until you have used them all.

Here is a list of the fishermen.....
1. Edgar
2. Norman
3. Stan
4. Tom
5. Tico
6. Mike
7. Kayl
8. Nick
9. Dan
10. Terri
11. Spike
12. Buster
13. Burt
14. Matt
15. Jake Harris
16. Josh
17. Roxanne
18. Kenny
19. Albert
20. Jake Anderson

This achievement was also a pain the rear. To get it in theory you have to end the season with all five of your crewmen having max morale (a completely filled yellow meter). I did this on several occasions and no achievement. For other people they had no problem getting it. What I did was make a save right at the end of a season, kept ending the season and if no achievement I would reload my save file. After about 6 or 7 tries of this maybe more the achievement finally unlocked.

Morale Tips: First start by filling your roster with low% fishermen such as Burt or Roxanne. The reason behind this is that the greenhorn's morale will fill up much faster than the more experienced people. Kenny for example takes forever to fill up. First and foremost to raising morale is catch lots of crab. If you are hauling in tons of crab their meter will fill pretty quick. Make sure to give your crew breaks if they ask for them and don't work them too hard for too long. If you notice their red meters getting low, put the little guys to sleep for a while. Play on easy mode because this lessens the rate at which morale drops. You can also add things to your boat that will help such as a tv. Make sure you have someone who can cook onboard because they will be pretty pissed if they don't get some chow.

First let me say big ups to IXILegionIXL for finding this and posting these pictures of kick assery

SCREENS:
From Sea

Plotter Perspective

Plotter Pinpoint

You don't actually have to look at a whale to get this one. As long as a whale surfaces near your boat you will get it. I challenge anyone to not this achievement while going for the others, I don't think it can be done.

To get this you will need to finish a game of multiplayer with 8 people in it. This is harder than it sounds. The multiplayer setup is terrible, the servers are really bad, it took us 4 or 5 tries to finish it because people kept getting dropped from the game.

1. Set up a boosting party via x360a's awesome sauce site.
2. Create a private multiplayer room. Make sure to set the max players to 8 and turn down the time setting to whatever is shortest (5 minutes).
3. Invite everyone in and once they have readied up start the game.
4. Sit around (no need to fish) for 5 minutes and if everyone is still in the room when the season ends....achievement!

This is probably going to be the achievement that will give you the most fits. You start in a skiff and have to race from checkpoint buoy to checkpoint buoy; time is added as you pass each one. In order to get gold you'll have to beat the different missions with a certain amount of time remaining. What makes this so rough is that the skiff controls like a drunken bantha. Also try to avoid the ramps as they slow you down and there are several that cause a weird bug where your ship will nose dive into the water and become a slow submarine.

Once again you will find yourself into control of that stupid skiff. This time you have to race around the open ocean and you will have to pass through yellow beams of light (much like the ones from the tutorials). You have way more than enough time to hit them all. I got this on my first try after doing all of the races. At this point you should be pretty good at controlling the boat. You have to finish before the timer counts down to 120.

You will get this during the tutorial missions that you have to play to unlock season mode.

Do this on on the first crowded mission because some of the later ones can be very tricky. Just take it slow and don't hit anything. There is a collision counter in the upper right hand corner of the screen. I believe it starts on 3 and you fail if it reaches 0. You must finish with it still showing 3.
For the complete all missions achievement you don't have to get gold on all of these you just have to finish them.

The next stop in your tour de mission are the coast guard ones. They aren't particularly difficult just follow the instructions given for each mission and you should hammer through them pretty quickly.

To get this achievement you will need to complete every mission on the mission screen. Some of the later missions won't unlock until you have finished a few seasons in career mode.

Once you have completed Mission 5 – Through the Ice, the entire Northwest Tour becomes available. Got to Extras > Northwest Tour from the main menu, to start this achievement. The following is a list of the videos.

Look for floating yellow question marks and walk up to them until the menu pops up. Press (to start the video), then (to skip). You do NOT have to watch each entire video, skipped videos still count as watched. Question marks only appear from close range so be sure to walk completely around each area, especially the deck.

Wheelhouse:

·Captain Phil vs Captain Sig

·Coast Guard

·Sea Trials

·Docking – This one is outside the actual wheelhouse. From the captain’s chair, turn around and go outside. It’s right in front of you, before you go down stairs.

Deck:

·Change a Light – This one is actually not on the deck. From the Docking location, head toward the bow and turn right before you go down the stairs. Look at the base of the light stanchion.

·The Coiler

·Scrub Away

·Re-Assembly Pt1

·Re-Assembly Pt2

·Propeller Repair

·Loading Pots

·Shot of Line

·High Energy – This one is just inside the lower cabin, when coming from the deck.

Galley:

·Nick’s Corner

·Mail Delivery

·Cooking

State Room:

·Nick Reading

Engine Room: Unlocks after completing Mission 5.

·Introduction

·Manifold

·Centrifuge

·Hoses

·Pumps

·Storage

·Fire Up

·Main Engine

·Hydraulics

·Compressor

·Engine Cost