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Bob, 100 lb yellowfins are sounding mighty good to me right about now. While I was at the fuel dock in Pt. Judith this evening I heard about yet another boat that came in from W. Atlantis ( Jim Noonan's Midnight Rambler) with some very hefty bigeyes. They DRESSED at 260. Bunch of yellows too. We're ...

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The guys hooking up with all the bluefin are using fluke, drifted out among the discarded bycatch. My friend dean hooked-and lost-three last week alone on fluke right behind the scallop boats. Walt, Another sure fire bass bait (if you have it to spare) is any kind of tuna meat. Tried it once chunkin...

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Bob,
Huge yellowfins? 100 plus? how big? Sounds great. Looks like we are heading out tomorrow morning overnight. One more try at the eye. Can't wait......

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Dug, As disappointed as I was at not going fishing, I didn't consider it anyone's fault. Even so, any apology graciously accepted. Can't wait to get back out there!! I just got more of a secret ingredient this evening. Last time out at Veatch, we were the only boat to catch yellowfin at night. The s...

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Dan, This seems to be the year of the bigeye. For everyone but me that is! I guess all I can do is just keep trying. Yet another boat came in last night from west atlantis having done well. The Island Girl, out of Jamestown, R.I. had eight albies, five yellows, and busted off a very large bigeye. Th...

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Dan, Great catch! Did you say you were west of the dip? All the reports I've heard except one have been heavy on albies and light on yellows. Very steady bigeye bight in west atlantis. The irie out of B.I. came in this morning from w. atlantis with two around 250 each. Steve Tempini on the seareba f...

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Dug, Nice going!!! We were between the tales and w. atlantis. No other boats, whales, bait, nice temp break with the cooler water over the edge. 0 yellowfin, 0 mahi, 15 albacore in the boat, with the biggest around 50 pounds plug weight. We bet the house on a bigeye bight..... oh well. I didn't hear...

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Dan, I got your email and called you earlier before I left for dinner. I'm thinking that we will probably go to West Atlantis. The most consistent reports for good yellowfin and bigeye catches have been from there. Six bigeyes were taken this morning at Hydrographer by two different commercial boats...

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Dan, There is a commercial guy out of B.I. (where I live) who will be returning from a three day trip either tomorrow or Tues. Email me your phone # and I'll call you with the latest info when he gets in. Chances are he is out east where we like to fish, but even so, fresh info is fresh info. I am h...

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Dug,
My email is on the blink........ if you need to be in touch, post here or give me a call. I noticed when I ordered a spreader bar over the internet and did not receive the automatic response that I wasn't getting any emails.
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John, I'm assuming you'll be going by boat. Most people stay at Champlin's, it being the biggest and most complete marina. The staff there may be indifferent to your concerns, and there is a lot of rafting. The best restaurants are; (in descending order of my personal preferences) The Mannisses, Eli...

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Dug,
The weather for Sun/Mon. looks fabulous, inshore and offshore.
If you go and want crew, I will go. Call me soonest if you intend to go and want company.

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Guys, We ended up at Veatch. 5 yellows, 3 albies, many many mahi mahi. All the conditions were there for the monster bite; 8 degree break right on the west wall, bait stacked like I have never in my life seen, only four other boats seen during the entire trip. Yet a modest catch. We had a school of ...

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Hey Brewster, Are you around? Have you been out? Are you headed out? I'm headed out Tuesday early for an overnight trip. There are some nice looking breaks out there. I'm wondering what you're hearing from the dip....looks mighty good there. Anyone else going to be out Tues/Wed? Dug, I'm waiting for...

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Dug, Looks like the weather is shaping up. Two bigeyes that I know of, because friends of mine caught them, came out of west atlantis. One was 147 lbs caught at 11:30 a.m. (!) the other was 233 caught on a purple spreader at dusk. I saw two more that were also weighed in at the tri-state, 250 & 267....

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Dug,
It looks like Sun./Mon. might not be in the cards weatherwise. Are you able to go midweek? Or will you wait 'til the following weekend? This is the very best time of the year for canyon trips, for my money. Keep in touch....

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A mola mola is also called an ocean sunfish. Over the years, I have seen many of them jump. People never want to believe that they can, until they see one themselves.

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Dug,
That's too close to the tournament. Right now would be better, except for work:) A few days ago, the fish were biting great. I wonder if it will pick up now that the full moon is past.

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Dug, I yelled at the guy who screwed up the gaffshot something fierce, and then I proceeded to do the same thing on the next fish. Just didn't really grab any meat with the point of the gaff. Difference was, this one didn't break the leader when it took off. Re the overheating, we simply removed one...

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We were out there during that fight. Tried to leave at 5:00 am, had an engine overheat. It was 9:00 by the time we got it straightened out, so we went to the south, not the east. Finally caught the season's first tuna- on the chunk! We lost the first fish, about eighty pounds and totally on steroids...

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Brewster & JP, Nice job! I'm hearing that Hydrographer is going off bigtime. Not surprising if you look at the temp charts. We're headed out there going overnight Fri-Sat. Brewster, I'm wondering if you caught those yellows out in the deep? I'll post sometime on Sat. & let you know how we did. Dug, ...

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Brewster, We were the (riggerless) white 38 express. There was a sweet looking convertible with a blue hull out there too. I tried raising you a bunch of times on ch. 68. I think the small antenna on the boat doesn't allow the signal to travel vey far. It was owned by one of the Luhrs family and not...

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Dug, I wouldn't go rushing out there just yet if I were you. We found a two degree break with some life. Birds, dolphins, a whale or two. We saw mahi too small to eat lures, had a ferocious knockdown (had to be a yellowfin), lost the fish within a minute, and otherwise had the worst canyon trip ever...

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Brewster, We'll be out tomorrow as well. Can't leave till 5:00 tomorrow, we'll stay out late. Forecast is perfect. I'm not sure where we'll be yet. Perhaps start at Block (fishtales) and troll west. BTW, why are you starting in 500 fathoms? Looking for marlin and/or bigeyes? or some other reason? Se...

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That's great to hear Brewster. Any info on the night bite? I will be heading out as soon as the weather allows. We're in a fuel-sucking Luhrs 38, so it makes sense to go overnight if we can. What channel are you on, should we happen to be out the same day?

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Brewster,
Were you out yourself, or did you hear this from someone else? I'm ready to go as soon as we get the right conditions. Tell us more!!
Steve

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Dug,
Have you seen that warm core eddy south of Nantucket off 1000 fathoms? All hell is going to break loose when that thing hits the shelf. It'll definately perk the fishing right up.
Steve

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John,
What kinds of places are you looking for? Swanky, basic, or somewhere in between? Email me at stevonbi@msn.com or give me a call
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I'll be happy to steer you to the right place.
Steve

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Oh, yeah. For those who don't know, my boat is a '62 FBC
Steve

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I had my boat insured for charter through the Frank Bradford agency in Freeport New York. I paid $1800 per year with a $100,000 agreed value, tow rider, oil spill, terrorism , etc. Frank Senior is a wonderful guy, long experience in the business. Friendliest insurance agency Ive ever dealt with. Any...

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Doug & charlie,
Are you guys referring to that little fender-bender that happened in Montauk? In 2003? Jeez, and I thought elephants had long memories!!

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Dug, You know how it is.....sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and sell something in order to hold it all together. Since I'm selling mine, I'm really looking forward to fishing on YOURS! Heh. BTW, is the work on your boat coming along ok? Mike, Good luck buying a Bertram 31- best boat ever ...

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If you go to the listing, you will see the head in photo # 3, if you enlarge it. As a matter of fact, I notice that # 6 is backwarda as well.
Steve

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Tommy, There IS a stand up head starboard side. The broker somehow reversed two of the photos, that is , left is right, and vice versa. One of the reversed photos is of the dinette side, the other is one of the bridge shots. The bulkhead was put in by the previous owner, I don't know about the head ...

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Walt, She MAY have been a sportfish originally, that bulkhead is awfully cheesy. On the other hand, she does have what appears to be a factory Bertram head. Were there any f.bc.s that had a lower station? Whoever does buy it is going to have to spend some time & money to bring her from charter boat ...

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Tim,
Just in time, and lucky for you, Awlgrip is introducing a new line of underwater paints. Perfect for a hatter-ass which, after all, is just as likely to spend time under water as it is floating.

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Neil, I am thinking about coming to montauk. If it happens to be the same time as the Tri-state tournament on B.I., I would not be able to make it. Otherwise, I'm always ready to leave the B.I. madness for a couple days in the summer! Especially if it means being able to see a whole bunch of B31s!! ...

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Thanks for that, Mike! I read the FAQs, didn't see anything about links. John, Like you said, that prep was a lot of work. I had already sanded the entire hull. All I had to do was fix the dings and fair them out. That took almost eight hours, and after we sprayed three coats of primer on, I found a...

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John,
Hell, posting a link is easy! You do it, screw it up, and Professor Ohlstein fixes it for you. ;)

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I see that I have not yet matered the intracacies of posting a &*%##@#^*&!! link so here is the Yachtworld listing number;
74586-1625230

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Well, I did it..... finally painted, bootstriped and bottom painted the old girl! She looks great!! It is a bittersweet thing to have to sell her. God knows I need the money. But NO money could buy the memories I will always have. Memories I would share with my fellow faithfull, if I could only figu...

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steve,
Make sure you fill your tank with fuel before you lay up. Supposedly, a full tank will not allow condensation of water inside the tank.

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Wow!
A deal indeed, if the reserve isn't too much higher. Then again, it's probably an excellent deal at three times that.

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Do you have a chair or fighting post? If so, space 'em out toward the gunnels a little. If not, try three or four spaced across the transom. I troll flatlines out of the transom rod holders. I used rod holders with no angle in the transom. On Storm petrel, I stopped using my outriggers. We routinely...

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John, It's amazing how much they get to paint a tiny-freeboard B31 hull. I talked with several painters, they were all around the same price wise. The guy I'm going with is head and shoulders above the rest in terms of experience and the fact that Awlgripping boats is all he does. BTW, I have gotten...

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Dug, I talked to the folks at Composite One, the major distributor of Awlgrip in R.I. They gave me the names of a few people that only do Awlgrip. I talked to one who is willing to travel to my boat and let me do all the prep and masking. Total price to prime and finish coat; $1900. That seems more ...

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Mike,
Thanks for your post. I didn't sand everything off down to the hull, merely sanded everything perfectly smooth, to prep it for primer. I AM looking for someone to shoot it though. Any suggestions on an awlgrip guy in the southeast new england area??

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Aren't the Yanmar 240's and 170's the same size and weight? I seem to recal that the Yanmar literature more or less said that. Anyone?

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John,
I certainly hope you are right about the quick sale!!
Steve

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Mike, Good to hear from you. I thaink that, if my boat was a weekend tachtsman job, it would be worth around $70,000 or so. But remember, It has those engine boxes and a glass over plywood cockpit sole. As a charter boat, it's had many 100 mile trips straight into a 5' headses, things like that, tha...

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Hey, Dug!!

Storm Petrel Awlgripped and listed!!