Silver sail
 

Well we went out last night at sunset. Here we had light winds around
10 kts. We crossed the shipping channel and dropped the sport shrimp
net. It's a 25ft mouth and has 4 ft doors. On a broad reach all the
way to the Trinity river making about 2 kts dragging the net. We caught
around 25 lbs of brown shrimp, 3 nice flounders, and about 40 blue
crabs.

The breeze last night was around 10-15 and the rain storms were on and
off all night.

Normally here whenyou see a bad ass rain storm heading your way you
can expect 50 kt gusts. we saw several Big waves of rain heading our
way so I doused the head sails and set a double reef in the main and
mizzen and as soon as the heavy rain hit it was almost calm, the wind
stopped. We had to pull up the net to get going again. Got around 25
lbs of 15-20 shrimp and lots of cull including a few flounders and a
huge rainbow trout.

Bonus is we caught around 15 soft shell blue crabs!!!!! If you have
never ad a soft shell crab deep fried you have never lived. 8 boats at
anchor at Redfish island so we chose to keep sailing all night, the
girls manned the wheel all night and I slept to sun-up when the smell
of bacon and eggs woke me up. We had heavy rain all day. So heavy every
drop spit a huge silver BB into the air, the water was silver, the
clouds were silver and the rain was cool and came in silver waves.
Silver sail IMO.

The rain is cool, do not have to wash the cull slime and such off the
stern. Still have a big crab on deck, he was so mean ll let him go.
Even skipppe respects that crab!

Did you sail?

Joe

Silver sail
 

Great report Joe!

Scotty

"Joe" wrote in message
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Well we went out last night at sunset. Here we had light
winds around
10 kts. We crossed the shipping channel and dropped the
sport shrimp
net. It's a 25ft mouth and has 4 ft doors. On a broad
reach all the
way to the Trinity river making about 2 kts dragging the
net. We caught
around 25 lbs of brown shrimp, 3 nice flounders, and about
40 blue
crabs.

The breeze last night was around 10-15 and the rain
storms were on and
off all night.

Normally here whenyou see a bad ass rain storm heading
your way you
can expect 50 kt gusts. we saw several Big waves of rain
heading our
way so I doused the head sails and set a double reef in
the main and
mizzen and as soon as the heavy rain hit it was almost
calm, the wind
stopped. We had to pull up the net to get going again. Got
around 25
lbs of 15-20 shrimp and lots of cull including a few
flounders and a
huge rainbow trout.

Bonus is we caught around 15 soft shell blue crabs!!!!!
If you have
never ad a soft shell crab deep fried you have never
lived. 8 boats at
anchor at Redfish island so we chose to keep sailing all
night, the
girls manned the wheel all night and I slept to sun-up
when the smell
of bacon and eggs woke me up. We had heavy rain all day.
So heavy every
drop spit a huge silver BB into the air, the water was
silver, the
clouds were silver and the rain was cool and came in
silver waves.
Silver sail IMO.

The rain is cool, do not have to wash the cull slime and
such off the
stern. Still have a big crab on deck, he was so mean ll
let him go.
Even skipppe respects that crab!

Did you sail?

Joe

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"Krusty Morgan" wrote ...

Touched reality at about 3:30 pm today.
The last time I had touched reality was early
Thursday morning, Nov 7th, 1985. It was great.

CWM

Silver sail
 

Scotty wrote:
Great report Joe!

We had a good time, but for some reason my tranny fluid looks milky.
I guess the heat exchanger failed, haven't had a chance to find out
yet.

That's the only way I can think that water coulda gotten N the fluid.
Now I'm ****ed I did not buy a spare exchanger I saw in the bargian bin
at Bluewater for 100 bucks a few mo. back.

Joe




Scotty

"Joe" wrote in message
oups.com..
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Well we went out last night at sunset. Here we had light
winds around
10 kts. We crossed the shipping channel and dropped the
sport shrimp
net. It's a 25ft mouth and has 4 ft doors. On a broad
reach all the
way to the Trinity river making about 2 kts dragging the
net. We caught
around 25 lbs of brown shrimp, 3 nice flounders, and about
40 blue
crabs.

The breeze last night was around 10-15 and the rain
storms were on and
off all night.

Normally here whenyou see a bad ass rain storm heading
your way you
can expect 50 kt gusts. we saw several Big waves of rain
heading our
way so I doused the head sails and set a double reef in
the main and
mizzen and as soon as the heavy rain hit it was almost
calm, the wind
stopped. We had to pull up the net to get going again. Got
around 25
lbs of 15-20 shrimp and lots of cull including a few
flounders and a
huge rainbow trout.

Bonus is we caught around 15 soft shell blue crabs!!!!!
If you have
never ad a soft shell crab deep fried you have never
lived. 8 boats at
anchor at Redfish island so we chose to keep sailing all
night, the
girls manned the wheel all night and I slept to sun-up
when the smell
of bacon and eggs woke me up. We had heavy rain all day.
So heavy every
drop spit a huge silver BB into the air, the water was
silver, the
clouds were silver and the rain was cool and came in
silver waves.
Silver sail IMO.

The rain is cool, do not have to wash the cull slime and
such off the
stern. Still have a big crab on deck, he was so mean ll
let him go.
Even skipppe respects that crab!

Did you sail?

Joe

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"Charlie Morgan" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:43:43 -0400, "Scotty"
wrote:


"Krusty Morgan" wrote ...

Touched reality at about 3:30 pm today.
The last time I had touched reality was early
Thursday morning, Nov 7th, 1985. It was great.

CWM


Scotty,

Is this really the best you can do? You have proven to be a one trick
pony, and
the one trick you have is not really much to brag about. If this is your
best
work, then perhaps you would appear more creative by not posting at all.
This
lame re-wording stunt doesn't really cut it any more... if it ever did.

It made me laugh. But then just about everything about you makes me laugh.

Max

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In article ,
Charlie Morgan wrote:

Did you sail?

Joe

Touched land at about 3:30 pm today. The last time I had touched land was early
Thursday morning. It was great.

CWM

Been sailing all weekend... nice.

--
Capt. JG @@
www.sailnow.com

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"Krusty Morgan" wrote

Touched reality at about 3:30 pm today.
The last time I had touched reality was early
Thursday morning, Nov 7th, 1985. It was great.

CWM
Is this really the best you can do? You have proven to
be a one trick
pony, and
the one trick you have is not really much to brag
about. If this is your
best
work, then perhaps you would appear more creative by
not posting at all.
This
lame re-wording stunt doesn't really cut it any more...
if it ever did.

It made me laugh. But then just about everything about
you makes me laugh.

Max


I'm not surprised I made you laugh. It's just reinforces
the adage that Krusty The Clown is a bumbling idiot..

CWM

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Sounds like Joe is having some fun down there in the GoM.

The weather has been perfect here. Extreme tides
have made things intersting. Saw one boat high and
dry. Spotted a few reefs exposed I had never seen
exposed. Low was in the minus 1 foot range. There is
only one charted reef left in the harbor I have not seen.
I found a few unreported new rocks--hit one of them,
that I'd like to add to my charts. I'd like to go back and
see if I can find the other again--it showed up on the
depth finder and could have been a big fish.

I'm thinking about setting a few lobster traps--a friend
offered to loan me a trap.

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote

Been sailing all weekend... nice.

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Well, we've been sailing, so I guess there are people doing that. :-) I'm
teaching all this week in the afternoons. Gone in a hour or so.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Bart Senior" .@. wrote in message ...
Sounds like Joe is having some fun down there in the GoM.

The weather has been perfect here. Extreme tides
have made things intersting. Saw one boat high and
dry. Spotted a few reefs exposed I had never seen
exposed. Low was in the minus 1 foot range. There is
only one charted reef left in the harbor I have not seen.
I found a few unreported new rocks--hit one of them,
that I'd like to add to my charts. I'd like to go back and
see if I can find the other again--it showed up on the
depth finder and could have been a big fish.

I'm thinking about setting a few lobster traps--a friend
offered to loan me a trap.

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote

Been sailing all weekend... nice.