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There is an amazing volume of dorado out there. Sounds like the zone hasn't changed much in a week. Nice work getting a few of them to bite!

Chickens!!! I miss those things in the south part of the state. I've always thought the 208 is one of the most seaworthy 20 foot boats there is, and a long offshore run out of Ft. Bragg supports that. Great work!

They bit immediately on both baits in the water on our first drift, but one spit the hook on its second jump. Then they did not bite again for us no matter what we tried. They just would swim right up to our baits and turn away. Needed a spear gun! There were a couple spots of puddling YFT that...

Got out with my dad yesterday for a local trip. Our choices were to run 40-50 miles for a shot at the triple-digit bluefin or stay local for a shot at the warm water exotics. We went with the more relaxing approach and launched late at 9:30am, picked up a half scoop of live sardines and made 10...

Just a thought... Maybe this is your forever boat, maybe not. I don't know. But I would question buying a boat that had removed the transom scuppers and would likely walk away not knowing what other weird things you may have done to the boat I can't see. So you may be hurting the resale value of...

Dana Point is a bit slim for boat shops. West Coast Marine Service in Costa Mesa is a pretty good shop, at least for outboard work. I've not used them for other services, though. https://www.westcoastmarine.com/

Yeah that was my bad, sorry! Haha.

I don’t know what to tell you. That type of caliper is literally called a vernier caliper, whether it’s SAE, metric, or both. No more bad engineering jokes from me. I’ve gotten lazy over the years because 95% of the time I use digital calipers at work. The other 5% of the time is my own...

I was just making a joke because trying to determine 1.0 inches from 0.875 or 1.125 won't require reading the vernier, but that Harbor Freight caliper is exactly a vernier scale :) https://www.physics.hmc.edu/~physics50/wp/index.php/calipers/

Your F150 is a little more efficient than my 175 carbureted 2-stroke. For safety factor, I always use 2.0 mpg for my planning calculations, but we typically get about 2.3 mpg. And I agree... I get real nervous when I've burned more than 60 gallons... though I've made it to 70 without stalling...

But then you have to spend the next 2 hours trying to figure out how to read that vernier scale... :D

After they make their quick showing around the Channel Islands, they'll settle in at the Tanner and Cortez for the rest of the summer and fall, which is when I have my 2.5 day trip scheduled... fingers crossed... The farthest I've been in my 208 is about 12 miles west of San Clemente Island...

I may try Sunday launching from Dana Point and working towards the east end of Catalina to see what we see... This is exactly what these bluefin have done the past 2 years in a row moving north around this time. Last year mid-July I was chasing foamers between the 14 mile bank and 267, and 2...

Ha! I didn't even notice it there in the pic. Just read your report on BD. That's an absolutely amazing story! Fish of a lifetime! I'm 0 for 4 on big bluefin on my boat... one hook pull, one chew off, one that went squirrely boatside and sawed itself off on my motor, and one moron boater who...

Nice work! What did he eat?

Yep, what Glacierbaze says. I'd check it with the engine running too. LED's are very sensitive to current and voltage and don't like it if they are overpowered for too long. Your engine charging circuit probably jumps the voltage at the light to 14 or 15 volts if it's not regulated.

I can't add much to this discussion, but a trick I've done in the past when I got an overheat alarm was to hook up the washdown hose to the motor flush fitting and run water through the block with the motor off. Maybe doing that would speed up the 30-45 minute wait time, and if it did, that...

Yeah, it's not the fastest process... in fact really quite slow if you rely on a gravity feed through a 3/8" hose. Repeated pumping of the primer bulb makes it go faster... that's your "manual mechanical" fuel pump ;-) Most anti-siphon valves require a vacuum of about 1.5 inches of mercury to...

The unfortunate part of outboard powered boats is the easiest way (though maybe not the fastest) is to disconnect the fuel line just past the primer bulb and use the bulb to prime a siphon. Easy access to the fuel lines in many cases. Just like in vehicles, you can have locking gas caps, but...

Someone else suggested it to me when they saw me scrubbing off tiny barnacles at the launch ramp wash rack.