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Now, that's a boat!!!
Do you bring fishing gear to supplement your protein while underway?
I would be dragging a meat line for fresh tune. You guys are going to have a ball, be safe out there, and take loads of photos. I will be living vicariously though you . I need an adventure bad.

Thank you for the boat details, and photos.

Enjoy !!!
Dan.
Dan,

I have a medium Penn Squall II combo along with a Penn Battle III med/heavy 8' combo. Along with that I keep a bottom rig and several trolling lures for Mahi, tuna and whatever else wants to bite.

In the pic you see the Battle III with the Carolina rig. We caught a few mangrove snapper on that particular rig!
 

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Wow - best post of the month! What a neat adventure and what a fun read to end my work day.

I have never sailed on a boat of that size. I would love to crew for you for a day. Would need some schooling for sure. My dad and I used to race sailboats (years ago), and pleasure sailed (of course), but we were lake sailing with 22 - 25 feet long boats.
 
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Dan,

I have a medium Penn Squall II combo along with a Penn Battle III med/heavy 8' combo. Along with that I keep a bottom rig and several trolling lures for Mahi, tuna and whatever else wants to bite.

In the pic you see the Battle III with the Carolina rig. We caught a few mangrove snapper on that particular rig!
Perfect, those are both great reels with good drag systems.
Are you familiar with running a meat line off the stern while underway?
It's a great way to fish when your busy with other things .
It's basically a bungee , and a length of shock cord . The bungee is attached to a stern cleat, and at the business end you attach a small Daisy chain of tuna feathers or Clone.
I prefer 2 to 3 Clones Daisy chained together. We run these for Abacore. It's fun handlining in fish, or you can drag them until they die, then handline in.
You should check out a few videos.
 

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Wow have fun and enjoy….i spent 14 days sailing the inside passage south of Anchorage (pre GPS days). It was and incredible experience! I use to crew on j-boat (22s) buoy racing and “off shore” inland GSLake on a C&C 27.
 
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I have never sailed on a boat of that size. I would love to crew for you for a day. Would need some schooling for sure. My dad and I used to race sailboats (years ago), and pleasure sailed (of course), but we were lake sailing with 22 - 25 feet long boboats.
Our first sailboat was an old Cherubini Hunter 25 we sailed on Carlyle Lake in Illinois. Back then we drove a Jeep Wrangler and it would wreak havoc on The Better 9/10ths back. After a day of heeling (she called it healing) she'd sleep all the way back to St Peters!
 

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Our first sailboat was an old Cherubini Hunter 25 we sailed on Carlyle Lake in Illinois. Back then we drove a Jeep Wrangler and it would wreak havoc on The Better 9/10ths back. After a day of heeling (she called it healing) she'd sleep all the way back to St Peters!

Lake Carlyle was so shallow in places we had to pull the centerboard up to get "unstuck"! It took a while to figure out where we could sail and where to stay away from.

At that time in my young life we were using a Catalina 22 for pleasure and a 17' O'Day Daysailer for racing...which could fly when we could used the spinnaker!
 
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Lake Carlyle was so shallow in places we had to pull the centerboard up to get "unstuck"! It took a while to figure out where we could sail and where to stay away from.
Add to that the fact that when built by the ACoE (to help with the Kaskaskia River flooding problems), the lake was fifteen miles long and little over three wide, but then the added the bridge and cut us down to nine miles. The shallow shores brought the sailable width to just over a mile. Still, we loved it and the people at the West Access Marina.
 
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It took a while to figure out where we could sail and where to stay away from.
We had the same problem with the Columbia. It looks wide, but is shallow outside of the channel. We love the Puget Sound and San Juans. So much space. You just have to keep an eye out for ferries and shipping. Some of them move over 20 knots! AIS and radar are a big help.
 
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VERY COOL! Hope you guys have a blast! Do some pirate sh%# for me!
 
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