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went to one of my favorite salty trout creeks this morning. uneventful launch, headed out into the creek...first thing on entering the main creek looked like a piling out in the middle, but it was making a wake across the normal current. turned out to be a bear - a big one - swimming across campbell creek. i followed him/her across the creek and watched him/her scurry out of the water into the woods. pretty neat start to the day. caught a few fish - speckled trout, flounder, and blue fish - but, as i was heading out to a favorite spot in the sound, my motor quit on me in the mouth of jones bay. ended the day beating back into the wind about 5 miles using the trolling motor...it was a pleasant afternoon for a slow boat ride back to hobucken, where i met a lost soul from pennsylvania who corraled his friend to give me a ride to get my truck...bummer, but, the bear sighting made it a splendid day. pictures on abpf. jeff |
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jeff wrote:
went to one of my favorite salty trout creeks this morning. uneventful launch, headed out into the creek...first thing on entering the main creek looked like a piling out in the middle, but it was making a wake across the normal current. turned out to be a bear - a big one - swimming across campbell creek. That *IS* a big bear! At least you weren't fishing from the shoreline. -- TL, Tim --------------------------- http://css.sbcma.com/timj/ |
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On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:20:10 -0400, jeff wrote:
went to one of my favorite salty trout creeks this morning. uneventful launch, headed out into the creek...first thing on entering the main creek looked like a piling out in the middle, but it was making a wake across the normal current. turned out to be a bear - a big one - swimming across campbell creek. i followed him/her across the creek and watched him/her scurry out of the water into the woods. pretty neat start to the day. caught a few fish - speckled trout, flounder, and blue fish - but, as i was heading out to a favorite spot in the sound, my motor quit on me in the mouth of jones bay. ended the day beating back into the wind about 5 miles using the trolling motor...it was a pleasant afternoon for a slow boat ride back to hobucken, where i met a lost soul from pennsylvania who corraled his friend to give me a ride to get my truck...bummer, but, the bear sighting made it a splendid day. pictures on abpf. jeff This is the same boat you take 40 miles out into the ocean? |
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"daytripper" wrote This is the same boat you take 40 miles out into the ocean? yep--i'm tellin' you, when you cross the neuse river, just east of raleigh, headed further east, you enter a different world. dudes are freaking *crazy* out there... yfitons wayno |
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daytripper wrote:
On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:20:10 -0400, jeff wrote: went to one of my favorite salty trout creeks this morning. uneventful launch, headed out into the creek...first thing on entering the main creek looked like a piling out in the middle, but it was making a wake across the normal current. turned out to be a bear - a big one - swimming across campbell creek. i followed him/her across the creek and watched him/her scurry out of the water into the woods. pretty neat start to the day. caught a few fish - speckled trout, flounder, and blue fish - but, as i was heading out to a favorite spot in the sound, my motor quit on me in the mouth of jones bay. ended the day beating back into the wind about 5 miles using the trolling motor...it was a pleasant afternoon for a slow boat ride back to hobucken, where i met a lost soul from pennsylvania who corraled his friend to give me a ride to get my truck...bummer, but, the bear sighting made it a splendid day. pictures on abpf. jeff This is the same boat you take 40 miles out into the ocean? no...use a 17' sea pro - a center console bay boat - in creeks and rivers, the sal****er marshes, the sound, inshore sal****er on calm days, and mountain lakes. great little boat. go to the gulf stream in a 25' carolina classic. |
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On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:20:10 -0400, jeff wrote:
went to one of my favorite salty trout creeks this morning. uneventful launch, headed out into the creek...first thing on entering the main creek looked like a piling out in the middle, but it was making a wake across the normal current. turned out to be a bear - a big one - swimming across campbell creek. i followed him/her across the creek and watched him/her scurry out of the water into the woods. pretty neat start to the day. caught a few fish - speckled trout, flounder, and blue fish - but, as i was heading out to a favorite spot in the sound, my motor quit on me in the mouth of jones bay. That's pretty cool... ended the day beating back into the wind about 5 miles using the trolling motor...it was a pleasant afternoon for a slow boat ride back to hobucken, where i met a lost soul from pennsylvania who corraled his friend to give me a ride to get my truck...bummer, but, the bear sighting made it a splendid day. pictures on abpf. Geez, Jeff, another breakdown? Is it time to coin the "full Miller" for boating? Seriously, you might wish to look into TowBoatUS...and before I go any further, I have no interest in BoatUS, TowBoatUS, or any tow service...IAC, they are sort of like "AAA" for the water. I'm sure that much like AAA, the service varies, but in my (limited) experience with them, they are a decent deal, especially if one is prone to need tow services. For 139.00 a year, you get unlimited towing/breakdown/fuel hotshotting/etc., and for 89.00 a year, you get (IIRC) 500.00USD per incident coverage. BoatUS is www.boatus.com . They claim more service boats and areas than SeaTow, but I have no idea on what that is based. And for the record, I do know the service owner in S. MS, but I get nothing whatsoever if anyone joins. TC, R jeff |
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On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:53:47 -0400, jeff wrote:
wrote: On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:20:10 -0400, jeff wrote: went to one of my favorite salty trout creeks this morning. uneventful launch, headed out into the creek...first thing on entering the main creek looked like a piling out in the middle, but it was making a wake across the normal current. turned out to be a bear - a big one - swimming across campbell creek. i followed him/her across the creek and watched him/her scurry out of the water into the woods. pretty neat start to the day. caught a few fish - speckled trout, flounder, and blue fish - but, as i was heading out to a favorite spot in the sound, my motor quit on me in the mouth of jones bay. That's pretty cool... ended the day beating back into the wind about 5 miles using the trolling motor...it was a pleasant afternoon for a slow boat ride back to hobucken, where i met a lost soul from pennsylvania who corraled his friend to give me a ride to get my truck...bummer, but, the bear sighting made it a splendid day. pictures on abpf. Geez, Jeff, another breakdown? Is it time to coin the "full Miller" for boating? Seriously, you might wish to look into TowBoatUS...and before I go any further, I have no interest in BoatUS, TowBoatUS, or any tow service...IAC, they are sort of like "AAA" for the water. I'm sure that much like AAA, the service varies, but in my (limited) experience with them, they are a decent deal, especially if one is prone to need tow services. For 139.00 a year, you get unlimited towing/breakdown/fuel hotshotting/etc., and for 89.00 a year, you get (IIRC) 500.00USD per incident coverage. BoatUS is www.boatus.com . They claim more service boats and areas than SeaTow, but I have no idea on what that is based. And for the record, I do know the service owner in S. MS, but I get nothing whatsoever if anyone joins. TC, R jeff heck...it's a normal part of the boating experience, no? Yes. See below.... i have some friends who would better serve as models for the "full-(yournamehere)" characterization. i've been fortunate with the bay boat...no problems for several years of constant use. i think this one involved the water pump and cooling system. anyway, i don't subscribe to a towing service for the bay boat. i'm always close enough to shore and some landing that i feel secure in getting home ok, eventually. between the trolling motor and the relative certainty that friends within a cell phone call or other boaters will tow me, i've not been too concerned with it. but, before i ever left the dock with the offshore boat i had a seatow card in my wallet. seatow seems to be the better equipped and more responsive service in my area of north carolina. the annual premium - about $135 - is excellent value. plus, on the recent breakdown off lookout, the towing charge was over a $1,000...but no charge to me as a seatow member. i was very pleased with the service. like you, i recommend getting the towing insurance package to anyone who owns a boat used for offshore sal****er fishing or who might be concerned about getting towed back to their homeport after a breakdown. just be aware of the limits of the service, because the charges for non-covered work can be very, very costly. FWIW, TowBoatUS is really like AAA - _you're_ covered, not _a_ boat, and as such, your boats, boats you charter or borrow, etc. are covered without "primary vessel" reg'ing, ala SeaTow. What would happen if someone borrowed your boat, I don't know. And as to SeaTow, they are here, too, but they are stretched pretty thin with everything right now - they are even doing land recovery. IAC, I like them, and wouldn't hesitate to recommend them, too. As your point location is a good one - as far as I know, they both are like AAA in that the provider is not an employee of the either SeaTow or TowBoat, but a contract provider, and as such, one may well be better in one area. As to water systems, ****! It must be that time of the year...I've been fighting a raw water pump issue on a starboard engine for 3 days. I think a pyramid washer has finally locked the sorry POS down tight (knock on teak). My recent incident is sorta funny actually: we're getting ready for the Blessing of the Fleet and the Schooner Race (this weekend), and were doing a prep cruise on the boat we plan to use with a few non-boating types on-board (last weekend) when the raw water pump belt started slipping. For those that have never heard such, imagine a automotive belt squeal with the squeal due to a family of rabid chimps being caught up in the belts. About 20 seconds into the squeal, the temp sensor registers the heat rise and the engine shuts down. The boating types realize it's no real big deal as far as returning to port is concerned, while the non-boater types start looking for life jackets and have visions of a CG rescue...I, on the other hand, have visions of my ass crawling around under the engine to remedy things... TC, R |
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On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 20:29:53 -0400, jeff wrote:
wrote: The boating types realize it's no real big deal as far as returning to port is concerned, while the non-boater types start looking for life jackets and have visions of a CG rescue...I, on the other hand, have visions of my ass crawling around under the engine to remedy things... g ...while i'm not a life-jacket paranoid, if ever i was crawling about any engine, i'd recommend everyone on board immediately don a lifejacket as i'd undoubtedly pull the wrong shuttlecock or plug in such a misguided adventure. when my sal****er boat broke down, i looked at the engine solely for the purpose of assuring there wasn't a flame, smoke, or spewing liquids that might require an abandon ship response. i had no idea what was wrong...figured i was simply once again victimized and ****upon by yet another movement of the cosmic mechanical sphincters. when i got back to the dock, mel the mechanic got on the boat, put his hand on something that looked like the rest of the indistinguishable engine landscape to me, and pronounced the problem as a bad high pressure fuel pump. mel is an "engine whisperer" and i consider him worthy of hero worship. jeff My (totally unasked-for) advice would be to study up on the basic workings of your motor(s). A whole lot of what goes wrong can be fixed or patched on the water if one has some basic info, a few spare parts, and a relative few well-chosen tools (and no, a "Crescent"/Polish speed wrench, pump pliers, two screwdrivers, and a Leatherman does not a tool kit make). Marine drive systems, be the inboard, I/O, or outboard are not all that complicated, and most problems are either fuel, spark, or adjustment(s)/cleaning (with the exceptions of things like dip****s ringing out outdrive cases on I/Os if a cable gets a little hinky). Obviously, major problems aren't readily fixable on the water, but in my experience, catastrophic failures don't usually happen too far from splash/leaving port with reasonably well-maintained engines. I'd suspect that you take reasonable care of your engines and that you're more than capable of handling a fair amount of the minor stuff. And another suggestion - a good (used, older, simpler, IMO) kicker setup, and if possible, one that can function on more than one boat. I like something along the lines of a 15-20 hp, and if the boat is gasoline-powered, the kicker's fuel tank can serve as an emergency supply for the main(s). If you take that advice, please take this as well - exercise the kicker regularly. TC, R |
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