Tuesday, August 26, 2008

we got our fish anyway

After you guys dropping out like flies, we tried to leave to find out the channel was close until a Navy Ship at the ammunition pier departs. After waiting an hour we finally got permission by the harbor patrol to proceed through the channel. Just out of the harbor I tried to accelerate and found out the boat would not get on plane. No power....tried to troubleshoot it ourselves... for another hour then decided to put the boat back onto the trailer and take it to Maurer Marine to get it fixed. They claimed they found the problem (Gasket at the fuel filter), we launched again, went out, same problem. This was not a good day. We decided to proceed anyway at 8 Knots, it took 4 hrs to get to Catalina, arrived there at 18:00 to find murky water everrywhere... Definitively not a good day.

After trying little Farnsworth and Church rock and seeing nothing, as last resort we try the open water in front of the Seal Nursery beach - just on the line separating the clear water from the cloudy water, sending Link first to check things out. All of a sudden we see his gun floating so we jumped into our wet suits and quickly shot a YT each. By that time it was dark and Link shot another one just before getting out of the water. Saturday morning no sightings....


Report by: Captain Fred