Don't Try This !

[Captain Rich]

I snapped a cable on the outrigger running in the slop last trip and I wanted to fix it before the next trip so I wouldn't break any more cables or bend the outrigger. As luck would have it yesterday was the first open time I had to tackle the project. The boat is in the water, so it's not like I can just put up a ladder to fix a 20 foot outrigger sitting on top of an express model boat, but I got the bright idea that if I pulled the boat almost all the way out of the slip I could drop the rigger and then jump on my neighbor's bow (Thanks Jerry !) and service the cable. Ok, so I disconnect the shore power, pull the boat forward, reset the lines, and get to work on the cable when all of a sudden the sky opens up with the torrential rain that had been threatening all day but hadn't appeared. Now all of these preparations took a while to accomplish so I was determined to finish this project, so I climbed back down and get my slickers (don't know why, I was already soaked) and get back to work. Once the new cable was in place I climbed back up into my tuna tower, raised the rigger, and started tightening the turnbuckles that adjust the cables and give an outrigger it's strength. It was at about this point, with me sitting in a metal tuna tower, holding onto alumninum outrigger poles and stainless cables that I started to think about the possibility of lightning and Rich becoming a crispy critter. It's funny how the simplest things can get complicated. Anyhow I got the turnbuckles tightened and got out of that tower just as fast as I could. Tight Lines ! -Rich

[Jimmy in Point Beach]

Crispy Tuna -Wahoo Style!

[Captain Rich]

Yeah, and I like my tuna rare !!