Are You Sure You Know Where We Are

[the fisherman]

I get asked that question at least once every season, well, I think I know where we are. Tonight at shut down we are 508 mi west by northwest of Westport Wash. For the last five days we have enjoyed some very good fishing, I don't like to give up numbers, but very good.We have had a few problems, the r.o. water maker stopped making water three days ago, we think we fixed it last night. We have had problems woking around quite a large longline fleet out of Taiwan, the're a real bummer, boats that fish eighty to a hundred mi. of gear, with huge by catch problems. We are a jig boat, we fish at the most a dozen jigs, with zero by catch. Check your labels, by American produced products. T.T. I think you won a box of Albacore loins, i'm probably going to use the name Tiller. Along with freezing as much fish as I can, we are processing vac. bagged Albacore loins, to try and add some more value to our product, we hope to have this trip over by the 4th, we plan to unload the boat in Astoria Ore. Time for me to go to the engine roon to service our main, Mr. Pueblo it's a Catapillar 3408,a real Diesel. WE WILL KEEP CATCHING

 

[robbie]

Good to hear you are ok out there.
keep in touch..
robbie

 

[John D]

Fisherman, Based on your main engine alone, I'm guessing your fishing trawler is 60 to 70 feet. That type of vessel often utilizes a wing engine as auxiliary emergency power. Regardless of how you are set up, the readers, including me, might enjoy a description of your backup power. Obviously, any kind of hard failure with a 3408 is extremely rare. Nevertheless, you and the crew are well prepared for anything. Campers who venture into remote areas must adopt the same philosophy and could learn a thing or two from an offshore fisherman. -John D

 

[chnlisle]

Or as my buddy Jim who flew for American Airlines said "Redundancy saves lives"

 

[Tomas Tierra]

Come on..It's yes, or no! I got kids to feed here!

Hopefully the big turtle you saw didn't eat taiwanese long line for dinner.......F___heads!

 

[LOG]

Fires

Hey fisherman,

How close is the Paradise Fire to your place. Looks like they are starting to get ahead of it.