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JulesMaximus

JulesMaximus

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Bobbing around 40-50 miles off the coast of San Diego with 2 of my best friends and their Dad fishing for Bluefin Tuna. I caught a couple nice 20lb Bluefin and a 12lb Dorado. My friend Tom caught an 80lb Bluefin on Thursday. We all caught fish right up until dusk last night.

We went out on the Royal Polaris out of San Diego. We left Wednesday morning and just got back in at 3AM this morning, anchored off Fisherman's Landing and headed in to dock at 5AM.

Great boat, great skipper and great crew. They feed you well and they know where the fish are.

I still feel like I'm on a boat.

Just picked up the fish. My biggest bluefin was 35lbs.
 
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MongGrel

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Yeah, I used to get that a lot.

You can lay in bed at night and still feel like you're bobbing around for about a day or so.
 
JulesMaximus

JulesMaximus

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MongGrel said:
Yeah, I used to get that a lot.

You can lay in bed at night and still feel like you're bobbing around for about a day or so.
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The boat was 115' long and there were 36 anglers on board. It is amazing how much a boat that size rolls in even 2-3' seas. Yesterday afternoon I was sitting in the main cabin drinking a beer and watching the view through the 3' window on the other side of the cabin going from complete sky to complete ocean every second or so. It was like that nearly the entire time.

Good thing I don't get seasick on boats. :cool:

The food was excellent BTW. They served prime rib last night with pineapple upside down cake for dessert. Everything was baked fresh on the boat. They even baked the bread they served with dinner.
 
preslove

preslove

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Is this catch and release, catch and eat, or catch and send you home with processed fish?
 
TheGardener

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Sounds like a great a time. I'm jealous. Hope you have a big freezer at home. Then again I've never eaten Bluefin or Dorado. Trade for some prime rib and such.

I've gotten sea sick more than once. But more often not. Sometimes it depends on whether you start drinking before 9AM.
 
Jeeebus

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the best is standing in a bathroom to pee after you get off a rockin boat. You stand there bobbing left and right.

We went out last night - got a blackfin tuna and some small snappers. Had to call it a night though because the wind was fierce with storms all around. Waves were throwing us around like crazy.
 
zerocool84

zerocool84

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No pics?

Also why serve prime rib when you're out fishing? I love prime rib but fish just seems like a given.
 
Rubycon

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JulesMaximus said:
The boat was 115' long and there were 36 anglers on board. It is amazing how much a boat that size rolls in even 2-3' seas. Yesterday afternoon I was sitting in the main cabin drinking a beer and watching the view through the 3' window on the other side of the cabin going from complete sky to complete ocean every second or so. It was like that nearly the entire time.

Good thing I don't get seasick on boats. :cool:

The food was excellent BTW. They served prime rib last night with pineapple upside down cake for dessert. Everything was baked fresh on the boat. They even baked the bread they served with dinner.
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It's not the size of the vessel, it's the size of the wave. ;)

Stabilizers are amazing, they can't help with pitch but rolling is mostly eliminated. Even a 1000' ship without stabilization will roll noticeably even in a slight swell as you noted.

And this type of motion for hours will also make those not so used to it quite ill feeling.

Sounds like a decent excursion!
 
John Connor

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Went for about 6-8 hours off the coast of Newport Beach, CA. I got myself sea sick from looking down at the water all the time, but I recovered. We were about 50 miles off the coast as well. No land in sight.

I don't remember having that boat sensation after I got off. It's interesting because I like to do summer salts in the pool and when I first did one I had a disorientation that was pretty cool in fact. But now after three years I don't have that felling anymore when I do one. I guess like a fighter pilot you get used to those sensations. All about that inner ear thing.
 
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JulesMaximus

JulesMaximus

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Rubycon said:
It's not the size of the vessel, it's the size of the wave. ;)

Stabilizers are amazing, they can't help with pitch but rolling is mostly eliminated. Even a 1000' ship without stabilization will roll noticeably even in a slight swell as you noted.

And this type of motion for hours will also make those not so used to it quite ill feeling.

Sounds like a decent excursion!
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Depends which way the swell and wind is headed too.

Stabilizers do nothing when the boat is just drifting and we were drifting all day Friday. Didn't move the boat once until we started heading back to port after the sun went down. It was nice and smooth then but we were going with the swell and wind then too.
 
Rubycon

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JulesMaximus said:
Depends which way the swell and wind is headed too.

Stabilizers do nothing when the boat is just drifting and we were drifting all day Friday. Didn't move the boat once until we started heading back to port after the sun went down. It was nice and smooth then but we were going with the swell and wind then too.
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There are various solutions for at rest and under way conditions. Fin stabilizers work best under way, while birds stationary, etc. There is cost and downsides of course. Most vessels in the "yacht" category including sportfishermen will have some sort of stabilization. Naiad is probably the most known builder of such apparatus.

Avoiding a beam sea is always best but when stationary this requires constant engine/thruster use and increases fuel costs considerably. 2-3' swell is considered "near calm" by most experienced mariners. Try 200 NM offshore of the Carolina coast in late November where the swells can reach 16' and then if there's a storm with 60 knot winds you get another 12-20 foot waves on top of that! Even with optimal stabilization and adjusted SOG, the pitching and bow falling off waves is tremendous. Forward cabins definitely experience a rough ride in such conditions.

I should post some video of a 75-85' bow wave reaching up to deck 10 of such conditions. Nor'Easters are (sort of) fun! ;)

But for rec fishing that sounds like near perfect conditions. What enjoyment is it being at sea without it feeling you're at sea? Personally I like feeling the motion of the ocean and have very strong sea legs! ;)

OTOH, if it's so rough you cannot sleep and need to take drugs, etc. to cope, not much fun in that.
 
JulesMaximus

JulesMaximus

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Rubycon said:
There are various solutions for at rest and under way conditions. Fin stabilizers work best under way, while birds stationary, etc. There is cost and downsides of course. Most vessels in the "yacht" category including sportfishermen will have some sort of stabilization. Naiad is probably the most known builder of such apparatus.

Avoiding a beam sea is always best but when stationary this requires constant engine/thruster use and increases fuel costs considerably. 2-3' swell is considered "near calm" by most experienced mariners. Try 200 NM offshore of the Carolina coast in late November where the swells can reach 16' and then if there's a storm with 60 knot winds you get another 12-20 foot waves on top of that! Even with optimal stabilization and adjusted SOG, the pitching and bow falling off waves is tremendous. Forward cabins definitely experience a rough ride in such conditions.

I should post some video of a 75-85' bow wave reaching up to deck 10 of such conditions. Nor'Easters are (sort of) fun! ;)

But for rec fishing that sounds like near perfect conditions. What enjoyment is it being at sea without it feeling you're at sea? Personally I like feeling the motion of the ocean and have very strong sea legs! ;)

OTOH, if it's so rough you cannot sleep and need to take drugs, etc. to cope, not much fun in that.
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This is not a yacht. It is a sportfishing boat.

I've been sailing all my life so it wasn't a problem for me. I've sailed offshore here in the the SoCal area for quite a few years now, came back from Catalina Island once with 40 knot Santa Ana winds blowing and 15' seas on a 38' sailboat (Downeastern-good heavy sailboat ideal for offshore cruising).

It always takes me a couple days for me to get used to being on land again. Never felt sick from it, just feels like everything is moving sometimes.

This is the boat I was on.

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John Connor

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Looks like a cool boat! Wouldn't mind shark fishing. My dad went shark fishing and they had a guy on board with a shot gun when you pull a shark out of the water. LOL
 
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John Connor said:
Looks like a cool boat! Wouldn't mind shark fishing. My dad went shark fishing and they had a guy on board with a shot gun when you pull a shark out of the water. LOL
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biggest shark i ever caught is like 3ft long. the deck mate cut the throats of them as they tossed them into the cooler. even the 3 footers put up a pretty damn crazy fight.
 
John Connor

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Damn!

I always wanted pet sharks in a salt water aquarium. Wonder how they'd be? :twisted:
 
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