07-11-2013, 04:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-11-2013, 04:29 PM by Tugboatcap.)
My brother and I already own a 42' Hatteras Sportfish that never gets used. We keep it rent free at my Family's Marina in Pensacola and it gets used maybe 2-3 times a year. It was a trade-in from my family's Yacht business back before I left Pensacola and he and I decided to keep it. Where I currently live is about 3 hours from there. My brother doesn't have any excuse, he still lives in Pensacola! LOL!
We fished the heck out if it in the 90's, not so much in the early 2000's and now we keep it hauled out on the yard until one of us decides we're going to use it and he gets it put into the water a few days before we use it. We completely rebuilt it in 2011 and I've been out on it twice since. With things finally settling down at work and my hiring more help for our department, I'm going to make sure I use it more next spring!
Every time we go out though, we go through a case of fuel filters because of the algae that grows in the fuel tanks, even though we've treated the fuel.
In fact, I'm heading there tomorrow to go out fishing this weekend, before my shoulder surgery next week takes me out for the rest of fishing season...
Tugboat"Not looking forward to Rotator Cuff Reattachment Surgery"Cap!
We fished the heck out if it in the 90's, not so much in the early 2000's and now we keep it hauled out on the yard until one of us decides we're going to use it and he gets it put into the water a few days before we use it. We completely rebuilt it in 2011 and I've been out on it twice since. With things finally settling down at work and my hiring more help for our department, I'm going to make sure I use it more next spring!
Every time we go out though, we go through a case of fuel filters because of the algae that grows in the fuel tanks, even though we've treated the fuel.
In fact, I'm heading there tomorrow to go out fishing this weekend, before my shoulder surgery next week takes me out for the rest of fishing season...
Tugboat"Not looking forward to Rotator Cuff Reattachment Surgery"Cap!
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