I agree, one of the best posts in a while! Thanks Phin!
Umm, you gonna eat that?©
Thousands have died to save my freedom. Only one has died to save my soul!
glad your safe…how deep for the snapper…those chickens sometimes look like yellow eyes (silks)…but I am sure they were ars…battery issues are sketchy…can run everything off of one and save the other one for emergencies?
quote:Wait a minute!!! I thought you said that you did this the "skinneej approach", which means you would have caught way more gags than this!!! :smiley:
Originally posted by PhinFish landed or leadered:
1 gag grouper
2 strawberry groupers
2 scamp groupers
1 almaco jack
2 sharpnose sharks
1 lemon shark
1 tiger shark
15+ red and/or silk snappers
18 vermillion snapper
30+ blackfish
10+ triggerfish
4 tomtate grunts
10+ red porgy
sculpinProbably missing something… ???
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awesome report. the SPOT thing. is it like a cell phone,do you pay a monthly service?
Glad you got in OK. Back up battery?? Perko Switch??
Good report!!
Rog
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2001 Sea Fox 230
2001 Merc 200
Great post very glad you guys made it to the hill safe!!! Thanks for the best post ever I personally have read it was great!!! Congrats on the fish also!!! Tight lines!!!
thanks sleepy. i’m getting one!
so…to the person who emailed me and asked what was in the big yellow bag I carry on the Sea Tow boat and please do not mention my name (why do I feel like I’m being setup?)
1 set of dry clothes (in case you make me get wet)
2-MRE’s (no I do not share)
TP (of course)
2-SOLAS flares
4-glow sticks (sometimes I hang one on the tow line to attract jetskiers:smiley:)
1-backup handheld GPS
1-handheld VHF
All the paperwork the Coast gurad makes me carry)
1-cell phone charger
1-Cobra bluetooth mike(cause I’m getting old and sometimes I can’t hear the cellphone)Mrs C says I’m gettiin FME’s for our anniversary
1-first aid kit w/ epi pen/inj benadryl/1 IV setup/BP cuff/steth/and pocket mask(cause if I have to do M2M, your gonna die)1 set of intubation gear
Sunscreen #50
1-pair of 7x50 binoculrs (though I’m hoping for a pair of image-stabilizing some day)
1- pair of backup to the backup glasses (cause the coasties say so)
1-set of bibs and rain jacket(yeah I know its red, Helly H does make a yellow one)
1- pelican box w/ batteries/meds/tums/batteries/3 knifes/maglight/spare PFD arming kit/spare fuses (bayonet and stick)
as soon as I get a SPOT it will also go in the bag (i’m kinda hoping Mrs C(aka Hobbitt) will get me one instead of the FME’s:question:
all the boats have EPIRBS so I do not carry mine unless someone takes me fishing:wink:
I also carry 1 samll dry bag w fins/mask/snorkle/knife/boltcutters and linemanspliers/gloves (in case you make me get out of the boat and cut the crap outa your prop)
and of course the dig camera cause I will take your pic
What does the bag weigh when loaded? hell I don’t know I carry it to the boat and it sits on the deck…
just in case
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Great read. Wes, you had us worried with the weather that was headin your way. One of the best parts about this situation was how the cf.com family rallied. My phone lit up when people recieved the notification. I contacted Sea Tow G’town and Chas to confirm they had a vessel responding. I also had cf.com folks sayin they were “ready to go”! Its great that we get to learn/discuss things, and poke fun at each other; its even better that you know we’re all watchin’ out to. Kudos to ALL involved. BTW get a SPOT!
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I just figured out why the battery went dead.
I heard Wes just spent about $4000 on a new hip hop gangsta rap stereo for the bote. But they forgot to tell him he was gonna need a heavy duty alternator to keep the tunes and rhymes pumping outta da 14" super sub pushing 2000 amps. Wes catches more fish that way because the fish just cant take the tunes anymore and they give up!!
Just kidding Wes, but I had to have a little fun on this one!!
Rog
“Double Trouble”
2001 Sea Fox 230
2001 Merc 200
Very nice. We saw lots of man-o-wars out there Sunday also.
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Originally posted by rhuseI just figured out why the battery went dead.
I heard Wes just spent about $4000 on a new hip hop gangsta rap stereo for the bote. But they forgot to tell him he was gonna need a heavy duty alternator to keep the tunes and rhymes pumping outta da 14" super sub pushing 2000 amps. Wes catches more fish that way because the fish just cant take the tunes anymore and they give up!!
Just kidding Wes, but I had to have a little fun on this one!!
Rog
“Double Trouble”
2001 Sea Fox 230
2001 Merc 200
Snapper don’t like music. They like fried chicken.
It is dolphin that like gangsta rap…
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The thing I will be doing from now on when running the boat is never putting the perko switch on “ALL.” I will put on one batt or the other so that if the motor isn’t charging the batts, having the switch on all won’t discharge both batts as my accessories are running.
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It’s that new secret 10 jillion gigawatt transducer he put on his boat that really should be running off 480v 3phase! Now he can tell if the fish are smiling or not before he catches them! 
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Originally posted by Phinquote:
Originally posted by rhuseI just figured out why the battery went dead.
I heard Wes just spent about $4000 on a new hip hop gangsta rap stereo for the bote. But they forgot to tell him he was gonna need a heavy duty alternator to keep the tunes and rhymes pumping outta da 14" super sub pushing 2000 amps. Wes catches more fish that way because the fish just cant take the tunes anymore and they give up!!
Just kidding Wes, but I had to have a little fun on this one!!
Rog
“Double Trouble”
2001 Sea Fox 230
2001 Merc 200
Snapper don’t like music. They like fried chicken.
It is dolphin that like gangsta rap…
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The only way you could know that is by trial and error!!
GUILTY!!! 
Turn the dam radio off and get to fishing and save the Batteries!!
Rog
“Double Trouble”
2001 Sea Fox 230
2001 Merc 200
quote:I have a solution to remembering to fiddle with the batt switch. pm sent. call me.
Originally posted by PhinThe thing I will be doing from now on when running the boat is never putting the perko switch on “ALL.” I will put on one batt or the other so that if the motor isn’t charging the batts, having the switch on all won’t discharge both batts as my accessories are running.
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do you turn your motor off while fishing? You can alway run out on both batteries, turn off the motor and switch over to 1. Or get a pro mariner charger and always have a charge going to the motor that needs it.
Teamwork. Nice job all the way around and great read. I added battery number 2 after Mike jumped me off one night. Hope the fix is easy.
“The good fisherman is surprised when he doesn’t catch fish: I am just the other way around.”
Gene Hill, Passing a Good Time.
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Originally posted by flatcalmdo you turn your motor off while fishing? You can alway run out on both batteries, turn off the motor and switch over to 1. Or get a pro mariner charger and always have a charge going to the motor that needs it.
That is what I have always done. This is why I got stranded.
I have always run the motor with batts on ALL- when cutting off I switch to 1 or 2 isolated to save the other batt for cranking.
The problem is when your charging system (on the motor) goes bad, then when you run your switch on ALL, you are discharging both batts. If one of your batt’s are bad, then when you put the switch on ALL, you are killing your good batt faster because it’s power is being burnt trying to pull the bad batt back up.
I have a few pumps on my bote, and the transducer really does use a fair bit of power when in deep water. Plus, I did have the switch on ALL for all that time I had the motor running. So everything on the boat was discharging the batts all day long - both batts - instead of just one like if I’d cranked on a batt that morning and then switched to the other batt immediately to keep what I knew was a good batt isolated as reserve.
You should crank on #1, and if it turns over fast, switch immediately to @2 for the entire day. If 2 goes bad, you know #1 is perfectly fine when you need to go to it. Switch the batts you use in those roles each trip…
This would have prevented me from being stranded Sunday!
Chris V was the first to tell me this after he learned about what happened. Others have also since then.
On running the single engine while offshore-
I do not cut my motor off when offshore except for maybe 10-15 min periods at the time. When seas are rough I never cut the motor off even while on anchor.
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