OC 8/15 overnight report, good news, bad news.

[snowranger]

Went out on an overnight trip on Saturday with Danielle (wife), her brother Mike, his wife Jess and, of course, the Pirate. 10 miles off, my stbd transmission lost pressure and I find a cracked brass fitting where the oil return attached to the tranny. By some miracle, there was a redundant fitting on the hose so all we had to do was remove the cracked one and re-attach. Refill fluid and back in the game. Phew!

Headed toward the Heyes Canyons looking for some cleaner water. Trolled through the Baltimore and was not liking what I saw. On the flats NE of the Baltimore we found some porpoises, weeds and less green water. Pushed off some more and just before the South Vries, found some pilot whales and had some tunas blow op on the teasers and one came tight. After a nice battle on a 30 w/ 80lb leader, we put the steel in a 62lb yellowfin (bled and weighed the next day). Nice fish and a welcome surprise. Worked out to the South Vries and called in the other overnight boats because there was bait and whales everywhere with the best looking water yet. Set up just after sundown and started chunking and put out a bucket of chum. Immediately had tons of squid under the boat they stayed there all night (good and bad). The squid were tearing up the baits but it was nice there was bait around! About an hour after dark we had two nice pulls that put some bend in the rod but the buried circles never found the jaw.

Had one nice bite on a outrigger jig that broke off when we tried to slow it down 3/4 of the way into the spool. Nice fish but it wasn't meant to be. Late in the night the blue sharks showed up and we released three. Not what we were looking for but added some excitement.

At first light we were up on the troll but no bites in that area. With a tired crew, we pointed the boat back toward the Baltimore and Danielle caught her first white on the west wall around 11! Trolled for a little more than pointed her home in calm seas. Not a banner overnight but a nice tuna in the box, some pullage at night, beautiful weather and a white one released to top it off. Mike put Danielle in the drink for catching her first white when we got back to Bahia (glad he was there to do it!)

Now to the bad news. Had some increased blowby and oil coming out of my stbd engine and made the call to have it looked at. Turns out I have a shot cylinder. Going to be down for a while (and poor). Anyone need a ho?

[Chocomilo]

Very nice yeller congrats I almost forgot what they looked like .Thanks for the report and good luck with the engine

[SharkJP]

nice yellowfin, thanks for the report.

[LONGFIN2]

Eric, what kind of engines you have in her? Like I said on the other one, you can always fish with me.

[snowranger]

Thanks Lance. Ther are Cummins 6BTA's. 300 hp engines derated to 250 (supposed to last forever). Not sure what happened yet.

[LONGFIN2]

I'm running Cummins too, you're lucky they weren't volvos like we have in the Topaz. Would have cost you a fortune.

[gameover]

Was there a loss of power in the motor? I have the same motor but the 370. I get a lot of blow back and other guys I now that have the same motor have said the same. Just curious, I should get some one to look at mine. I got about 1200 hour on her.

Taylor

[PurpleCedarPlug]

Eric, I'll make room for you too if your down for a while and want to go..

I'm in the Fishing Center.

Ed

[snowranger]

Was there a loss of power in the motor? I have the same motor but the 370. I get a lot of blow back and other guys I now that have the same motor have said the same. Just curious, I should get some one to look at mine. I got about 1200 hour on her.

Taylor

No loss of power. Knew the engine was having trouble. Slow to start, oil leaking out of the turbo, blowby with faint white smoke (not so faint the last two trips). Changed the oil a couple of weeks ago. Will get the analysis tonight. Had an overheat in 2007. May have had damage then but put 45 trips on it since.

My advice is to start with regular oil analysis. Have someone measure the blowby and maybe compression test.

[snowranger]

Eric, I'll make room for you too if your down for a while and want to go..

I'm in the Fishing Center.

Ed

Thanks Ed, I appreciate it!