On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:31:56 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

I'm trying to be somewhat economical
about the fuel thing - not because of cost so much as just the thought
of burning through 300/400 gallons of diesel just for a fishing trip.

It will definitely increase your "cost per fish" to well above market
price. :-)

We were following a nice looking 50+ Viking sportfish through a slow
speed area yesterday as we were coming home from the weekend. I got a
real adrenaline rush watching him accelerate up onto plane at the end
of the speed zone. There were a *lot* of horsepower at work as he
came up out of the hole in no time at all. Very impressive.

Wayne.B wrote:

We were following a nice looking 50+ Viking sportfish through a slow
speed area yesterday as we were coming home from the weekend. I got a
real adrenaline rush watching him accelerate up onto plane at the end
of the speed zone. There were a *lot* of horsepower at work as he
came up out of the hole in no time at all. Very impressive.

Ibet what ever engine[s] he had on board were pushing that diesel fuel
though the injectors, like giant hydrolic rams!

Wayne.B wrote:
We were following a nice looking 50+ Viking sportfish through a slow
speed area yesterday as we were coming home from the weekend.


is that what Chuck describes as a "Blue-water Battlewagon?"

Tim wrote:
Wayne.B wrote:
We were following a nice looking 50+ Viking sportfish through a slow
speed area yesterday as we were coming home from the weekend.


is that what Chuck describes as a "Blue-water Battlewagon?"


Yes, but the term "Bluewater Battlewagon" is a common term among
offshore fisherman, it is not Chuck's.