She left sight of land!

[J's Dream]

As some of you know, my boat has been a labor of love for the past 6 years. I have it just about completed (cosmetics left). I blew the port engine in the fall (failed o-rings), had it rebuilt and run approx. 30 hours in the river.

This past weekend I topped off the fuel tanks, water tanks, and beverages...and headed offshore for a real sea trial. Left my house at 5:45am Saturday, ran 25 miles south to Sebastian Inlet, and out 22 miles to troll for dolphin. Caught 8, released one, and came back in through a 4-5' chop and 15-20 NE winds. Overall it was a 12 hour day running, she handled wonderful, gave me NO problems at all, and burned ~125 gallons.

Anyone else getting out there and creating a carbon footprint?

Jason

 

[Avenger]

Very cool. Looks like a good time. 'specially after all you went through.

 

[Artzco]

After getting a close look at the work you have done to the boat, I'm not surprised that it performed so well. Congrats on the great fishing. This just shows how well a 43 year old boat is built and designed to handle the rough and tumble conditions. Hatteras comes through again.

 

[Seabrooke]

Congratulations Jason,

Isn't it great when all of the work pays off?

May you have fair weather and beautiful sunsets, mate. Well Done.

 

[thoward]

Good job on the dollies, it has been slow this year. Were you on that weed line in 600'? Sails are thick inside the Oculina.

 

[rsmith]

Good going Jason. 25 mi to SEB thats a killer, how many Slo zones along the way?

 

[J's Dream]

No slow speed zones at all. It's a pretty straight shot to the "dog leg", then out the channel.

Those were caught all in 100'. Those than ran outside caught few if any, and were running back to where I was. There was alot of life out there. Saw what must have been a marlin free jumping several times. I say it had to be a marlin since it was at least 7 or 8' long.