On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:31:21 -0700, Gordon wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:


Many Pacific boats have 2000 feet or so of wire on a winch.

Casady

Very true! They're called long liners!

At one time I considered a cheap, the fish are gone, longliner. The
kind with 50 miles of 700 lb mono. About 1200 hooks. I figured that it
wouldn't make a bad cruiser as is. They go 10 knots for a month. They
put a 400 HP engine on a 100 footer, and cruise something like 6000
miles per trip. Time was when you could catch 40 tons of swordfish in
one trip. There is a movie about a long liner, THe boat, a 100
footer, in the movie that didn't sink, the Hannah Boden, was for sale
and I thought about making an offer, Like I said, the fish are gone. A
actual trawler yacht, of all things.

Casady