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

Great report Joe!

Scotty

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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

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
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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