Finally were off! As I sit here looking at the vast blue ocean ahead of me I cant help think of how many voyages I have made through the years and that feeling every time that I know I am forgetting something.
I can remember listening to the weather and hearing those not so favorable forecasts that would give any man butterflies in their stomachs but because this is what you did for a living you had to go anyway.
I can think of so many friends and people who I have known who have never returned from the sea.
Not so much of bad decisions but the deep down desire to provide for their families or the heart you had to have to be in the business. “just one more fish and we can leave before it gets to bad” If you have never experienced driving in total darkness and every wave crashing over your boat and the only lights are the lights from running lights and you would just barley get a glimpse of the next huge wave as it smashed down on top of you and you look at your gps and seen you still have sixty miles to the next safe harbor. I can tell you it makes men out of boys in a hurry.
All these years of fishing are behind me now. I am starting a new phase of my life one that I hope will be as successful as my fishing career one that I will give my best at one that I will try and be the best at.
I do not know how this venture will turn out but anybody that knows me knows I always give one hundred percent.
I feel pretty damn fortunate to be in the position that I am right now and owe a huge thanks to Wilf for all he has done.
I thank everybody for supporting this venture and thanks to everybody that wished us good luck I think in this business luck will have to play a role. But I have been a pretty lucky guy through the years.
And to have an opportunity like this I wouldn’t want to mess it up so everything that happens on this boat will be strictly by the book I can promise you that.
I am so damn proud of this boat and this crew for we have accomplished so much in so little time. You can see the fire in every ones eyes including the boat she also starts a new phase of her life.
So what ever happens from here on I can say we have given our best and if we fail at least I know my life was full of ventures and don’t regret not one minute of it. At least I didn’t just sit there I went down swinging. I want to thank everybody who supported us through all we have done Linda you will always be in my prayers, Wayne,Steve in Orlando,Maxjda,Jeeper,miami?,dustemoff,yardarm,even keel,capted,wreck tom who I wish nothing but the best for,I am sure there is many more I am sorry if I forgot you,
Today I have a eighty foot steel hull trawler geared up for years of treasure hunting and headed into the Caribbean with four kick ass crew members what a life I wonder what capt and deepsee are doing today, yeah that’s what I thought nothing hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahnothing nothing at all what a life hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…..and so on!
Actually capt I hope the best for you just think how boring ihub would be with out our capt
