OK Martin, I’ll bite. . . Can you share a few offshore fishing tips?
I know the cheap booze spray bottle trick, but you probably invented it with a sneeze to the gills. . . Thanks, Lee On Jun 18, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Martin DeYoung via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > If the story teller was "Texas John" then it was the '77 delivery back from > Hawaii following our 1st Transpac as a crew on the C&C 39 "Midnight Special". > > That delivery was one of my favorite of my 4 east bound Hawaii deliveries. > Great weather and crew, reading in the cockpit by moon light, 2 weeks on one > tack, getting ready for night watch by putting on a T-shirt, and teaching the > crew the words to Jimmy Buffett's "Cheeseburger in Paradise". We hit the > dock at Shilshole around dawn on a weekday. By 9AM we were loaded into my > 1969 Ford Econoline van headed to one of the crew's lakeside houses for a > party. It was a great year to be young, single, and hooked on offshore > sailing. > > The one thing that would have improved it would be to know what I now know > about offshore fishing under sail. Back in 77 no one on the crew knew how to > catch tuna and mahi mahi. With what I learned on later Hawaii deliveries we > could have been eating like kings most of the trip back to Seattle. > > Martin DeYoung > Calypso > 1971 C&C 43 > Seattle _______________________________________________ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
