What Goes In...

[Deep C]

Well here it is... A couple months until my Chub Cay run...

You've seen some posts talking about me getting it all ready... I thought I would practice with my newest camera to see if it works and do a quick video essay of just what all I tote over to the island gem...
First we lay the "groundwork". People get thirsty. Soda is about $2 each over there so like pretty much everything we may use we need to get it here and tote it over.
This is what 30 cases of soda looks like. The coolers seen will hold rigging stuff, chum making stuff, bags and kitchen utensils... These being heavy get stored low and forward. Has the effect of a big trim tab on the boat.


From there we need to store the canned goods, dry goods, candies, condiments, seasonings, pbj, cleaning and paper product. Not as heavy it gets stored for the run over high and forward again so it stays out of the sun and dry... The grill, microwave, hotplate, blender, coffee pot ride over in the head surrpunded by more paper products for cushion. This offsets the weight of the bottom and wahoo gear stored on the port side...


Now beyond the tackle already on the boat this set gets to ride over. Chub is brutal on tackle. We need to have back ups for everything and sets of stuf to cover all the styles we will employ while over there. I can actually store 15 in ceiling racks below. 12 more find a home on the tower. 14 more fit in the pit and the two piece light spins ride in the traces above the bunks...


Next we'll tote these freezers along... They'll be home to 1000 hoos, 32 packs of bottom baits, squid, shrimp, strip baits etc. Also on our trips we feed our people pretty well. Ham, Turkey, salami, Eating shrimp, chicken wings, chicken breasts, dogs burgers, butter, and cheese will join our 42 steaks in the cold hold. They ride on deck with covers above and carpet below... of course tied down.
Yes the rice rides with us too. We use it to stretch our home ground chum...


A lot of the tackle is already aboard the Deep. 100 bottom rigs, 36 deep drop rigs, 100lbs extra lead, 200 small lures rigged to go over hoos, another 50 big ones, 30 wahoo rigs, a couple thousand hooks, a couple miles of leader, a couple hundred snap swivels, bonefish jigs, yellowtail jigs, day savers, even a few shark rigs for screwing around on the point at night...
Heres the sick part. Although this looks like a lifetime supply... By the end of our month or so we will have used it all up. Short of the rods, nothing you see or are reading about will make the trip home... Seems like a lot of work and stuff to some but my guests are worth it. Its the supreme trip for supreme people.
We still have the one leg open, April 23-27th. $1750 a man or $6000 whole boat gets you air, room, 2 half+3 very full days fishing, a fish fry, a steak dinner, lunches, soft drinks...

[SeaBiscuit]

Hey Deep,
is that a billfish bill standing in front of one of the freezers?
SeaBiscuit

[Deep C]

Very observant Nick! You get a prize... Its a sword from last week... I salt the base, then freeze it and re salt before letting it dry out in the garage for a couple weeks. Salt keeps em from stinking... Some guys want a white picket fence they work for their whole life.... I want,... well you getthe picture......
As long as a fish is getting cut up and eaten I hate to see bills go to waste so into the collection it will go...

[Seaker]

Hey thanks for sharing! Man if you could keep a phot journal deal going for your adventures those of us that can't make could seriouslyfollow your great adventure. Do you leave the freezers etc over there with folks you have hooked up with also?

[johnseafood]

Hey deep can you ship that bill up here so I can make another split bill bonita

[POON MAN]

Deep

I went to abacos a few years back on 50 bert and the the boat was loaded we needed to de-soot the whole pit and transom 4 day's in a row
i have never seen so much diesel soot in my life
we were loaded for 14 day's of Marlin fishing the whole bridge deck was full of so many 30 packs of everything you needed to climb over them
2 dock freezers in the pit full and plugged in

there were 6 of us on board and 3 more flew in during the stay

we ate and drank like kings

need less to say you must be pretty well organized to get all that over there

can you get up to cruise with all that weight ?

[Jer]

Hey deep can you ship that bill up here so I can make another split bill bonita

Very cool thread, Deep C. That's a lot of planning and work.

[Deep C]

Seaker
The microwave, not plate, and stuff like that are left for the maid along with any food we don't eat... One freezer will be given to the dock staff at chub (usually takes about three seconds to disappear forever). The other will go to my buddy Pat in Bimini on the way home. He rents them out to guests at his marina and has the bait concession there...

Poon.
Getting her on top really isn't as much of an issue as it would seem. She actually goes pretty good with the balance job I do. The problem I have though is at dock... Keeping her from dunking her exhaust pipes and getting the engines wet. Too much forward can cause back siphon through the bilge pump too. This year I'm trying desperately to get either a ride on another boat or have some one tote the one freezer and most of the soda over and slide them a few bucks... If I can do that I can come 50-100 rpm off and still stay on top...

We'll have three vids aboard. One mounted, one for hand use and a third for back up. Three still digitals also ride along... The new vids are digital so I'll be able to get some up here...

[#1Gaffman]

HOLY CRAP, thats a shit load of gear man.


Those freezer hold all of that junk?

[Deep C]

Freezers hold the bait, meat, cheese etc... The rest of the stuff we tote over in coolers. Some of our clients forget to bring coolers of their own or request them in advance so we pass them on to them...
A lot of people look cross eyed when I come back to the states with nothing. But After putting on around 300 hours on our engines... I like to come home light. We're not allowed to have fillet (even frozen) aboard the boat either over there or on this side so unless we troll our way back home (which we probably will do) we don't even have any fish to unload...