Ready For Shipping

After a long 3 days we got her as far as I could in the time we had.  This is how I left her for the guys to load her up.

Back to Florida

I had to finish my hunt and get back to Florida where the Lu Lu  now bought had to get ready to come to Hawaii. Our mission was to get her to American Custom Yachts in Stuart and figure out how to get the tower and the boat on Barney Stolz of Skipper Shippers trailer. …

Northern Lights Sea Trial

Today was bitter sweet for me. After 11 years on the Northern Lights we entered into contract today to possibly sell the 37 Merrit to buy the Lu Lu the 40 Game fisherman that we saw in Florida. We have to do a ton of leg work and negotiation and figuring but it looks like …

Early Blue

Caught this blue early. Good to get one right away. Steve came with me today. Tracy is due home from Madeira any day and dad had to fill in for a couple days. Looks like dad still got it making this one look tame.

Sharks One Us one

The tuna are in the porpoise but very hard to catch. They look to me like they have seen a bunch of boats. The bite just started and the tune are acting very funny. They are really careful and will not bite like it looks like they should.Tim Johnson fished with us today and found …

Gabriella Performs Today

We took the day off from work today to see Gabriella hula. Good day off the water for me. The family days will be back soon. Our schedule usually opens up a little starting Oct. The girls did great!

Nice one Tim

Tim Thomasson came to fish with Rob and I for 4 days. We fished for big fish the whole time which here in Kona can be a bit of a wait. We put our time in and the odd big one being seen and caught kept our attention. The porpoise pods were loading up with …

Looking at Boats

After a long flight and a full night of sword fishing we managed to see a bunch a boats. The boats that fit our needs was a 40 foot Gamefisherman named the Lu Lu. It was in good shape and a little bigger and more comfortable. A perfect boat for Kona. Not to big but …

SOUTH FLORIDA SWORDS

Rob Ellyn and I went to Florida to look at boats and got in a swordfish trip with good friends at L and H Sportfishing. We didn’t think we were going to have time but in the end got out to try for Rob’s first swordfish. We met up with Debbi David and their kids …

VARNISH TIME

Time for the part we love. Varnish. It looks good but sure is a ton of work to keep up. Mat and I found that there was a problem with the varnish. Our varnish that we used didn’t hold up to the summer like it has in the past. It was splitting in cracks down …