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Just booked fall break at DLR, luckily the weather should be good so we’ll survive.

Agreed on Great Southern, really all of the places in Seaside are decent including the food trucks. That place will be an epic clusterfuck of teenagers next week with school getting ready to start back up.

Took my kids (15/12) this afternoon to get round 1, so they can get round 2 right before school starts up. We would have done it sooner, but we’ve been out of town. The doctors I work with all have vaccinated their kids, so we didn’t think much about it and just scheduled it. It helped that both kids had done their own reading and wanted to get the shots even though we live in an area where they are in the vast minority in their age group. I think some of the bs they read online about fertility issues and other things definitely concerned them, but they were smart enough not to get caught up in it. My mother expressed her displeasure with it and my oldest basically told her that it was her decision and she didn’t need her approval. The fucking nutjobs are going to be the end of all of us.

Pretty sure I can get you more information on it if interested. My plane, pilots, and management company are based there and may actually have this one brokered. If not, the main guy will likely know it as he manages quite a few planes based there. We’re looking at moving up the time line on getting a CJ. The Baron works great for short hops with 1-2 people, but longer flights or more people make it a lot less comfortable. I think we may end up trying to partner on a group of 2-3 planes that each owner can then use the plane that works best for the trip.

F this season, Turner and Yelich hitting the COVID list on the same day is great. I can’t even field a complete team again with the other IL’s and DTD’s. Injuries have been a bitch this year.

To be fair I saw one this afternoon when we were crossing the bridge out to where our house is. It was hauling ass down the ICW with a full load of people and looked like a nice ride. I was expecting a couple hundred thousand considering there are $90k in Yamahas on the back of it, but $300k for a 2 year old one with 150 hours on it just seems like a lot.

For anyone looking to drop $300k on a used pontoon, here is your boat. https://www.marinamikes.com/inv/2019-Bennington-30-QSRFBWAX2-LMM-N45526A/

Ended up going with the blue face over the silver.

The mutt doing his favorite thing. I think he would be content just sitting in a car all day every day.

Gotcha, the last one went really well for a while although both are back on track now it looks like. Cole had to remember how to pitch without the sticky stuff

Something I haven’t figured out how to do that I need to work on. I get away plenty, but I still end up working most of it just not sitting in the office. Getting a couple hours in fishing several afternoons a week is a positive right now, but I keep telling myself I’m going to put in some full days and just don’t do it.

The last offer was a shit show? I offered up the higher rated player by any service you look at and a need based on your numbers, so I’m not sure how that is the case.

This, bonefish can be found in a number of places. GT’s are what you are looking for where you are going. I watched a special somewhere with some guys that were big time GT guys and it was pretty amazing. I wish I could remember where I saw it.

You have to find the right one. The guy that I fish with occasionally is great. He owns a bait and tackle place which I frequent, but I think that lends itself to having a different attitude also. When I bought my fly rod from him, he got someone else to cover the counter and went out back to show me how to cast. Same when I bought cast nets for the first time. He’s always seems to be more about being on the water and teaching than treating it as a job. There are several others in the area that are similar.

Older hulls need weight and usually a lot of it. Ballast front, center, back corners, and a lot of additional weight on the corner you are going to ride off of. Then have everyone sit on the rider side around the back also. They have detachable wedges and other things that are also supposed to help, but weight and getting the back corner as low as possible will generally get a nice wave. In my older boats it would take as much as 3000+ pounds of ballast plus people to get a good wave. They just don’t have the shape, size, or mechanical gizmos to get there without it. Even on the brand new one, it’s going to take another 600-1000 pound bag in the back corner to get a great wave I think.

Does your boat have a disconnect? If not, I would look to get one installed. Batteries should not run down that fast unless they are crap or you have power drawing from somewhere. You can put an isolator/disconnect on the boat where you can turn the power completely off or isolate to using battery 1 or 2 or both when you are running. Just make sure if it’s going to be left in the water or uncovered the bilge is wired hot so it will pump water out when needed. If it is going to sit a while, put a battery tender in it but that should be unnecessary unless you are getting into the weeks. Every boat is different on surfing/boarding and then it also changes with weight. You’ll find the sweet spot for speed with practice, but I would also find someone you can go out with to walk through everything. It’s a constant learning process. I haven’t pulled a new boarder in a long time. My youngest decided to try it again and we couldn’t get her up. I finally figured out I needed to come out of the hole slowly, let her stand, and then go. She couldn’t hold the rope and drag at all, but it was completely different than everyone else that rides.

A steaming pile of shit is what tomorrow brings. Too much wind, too much seaweed, no fish anywhere to be found. Going to try some backwater areas later this afternoon and see if the baitfish have moved into more protected areas.

I prefer the more laid back lifestyle on the west coast of FL. The whole Miami scene isn’t my idea of fun, but the boats and the beach scenery make it worth the visits. You’ll see the occasional big boat pass through the ICW on this side, but it’s just a different world two hours across the Everglades.

I was a lot more serious years ago and have done my fair share of replacements on vehicles and still have the equipment. We’ll see where it goes.

We were over there Wednesday looking at boats and letting the kids see the beaches on the other side of the state. Weather, water, etc are all great right now, just hot as hell. The boat game in Miami is otherworldly. I could dog do days on the water just touring marinas. There is a boat yard in Aventura that had a couple of massive yachts that looked like they were getting final rigging done.

The last one I priced was on a MC 205 replacement through a dealer using Jasper long blocks but that has been a few years ago. I ended up selling it with a cracked block (fully disclosed) rather than fix it and bought the X1 I sold last year. If he gets quotes anywhere near the numbers above, we’ll just do it ourselves. $15k for a long block replacement on a 2009 boat is asinine. There is no doubt at this point that he got fucked by the seller. There was a terminal issue of some sort that will hopefully get cleared up when it is pulled. Nothing you can do now but write checks.

A wasted summer of fishing due to constant winds and rain and an early tropical storm finally came together this afternoon. Hit the big snook hard with one right at 38-40 inches (biggest snook I’ve ever pulled on the beach, took 20 minutes to finesse him in), 3 more over 30, and a bunch in the 20-30 range. The beaches got worked over with the storms but there was a nice cut formed also. Weather was perfect today, water was finally fairly clear, and for once it came together into a good couple of hours on the water. See what tomorrow brings.

Buddy just bought a 2009 Nautique, first trip out it overheats. Took it in to get checked out, motor is shot. The overheat cutoff didn’t kick in properly so it melted all of the wiring and they believe it cooked the internals. Not sure if it was a water pump or impeller issue at this point. Goes back to if you buy a new inboard, immediately change the impeller and fluids, change the trailer tires, etc. He overpaid for the boat and now is probably going to drop another $8k on a new motor. Boat ownership is a constant pain in the ass, but the good days make it worth it.

Park City definitely caters to the higher end, but I don’t know that many are formal per se just higher priced. River horse, Loco Lizard, High West, etc were all good. I would lean more towards the bars like Drafts or some of the other similar places.