Masunagas get ’em

Dr Mark Masunaga, son Tate and friend Dr Tom caught this nice ahi in the dolphins on the stick. We had a long wait while the tuna came from the depths where they could see us. Finally we got bit and caught this nice one. As soon as we caught this one we trolled north …

Interior

Week 3 Tracy and I started on the interior. I built and Tracy filled and helped me install everything. We moved some things around and with the new windows in we were able to work on the interior. We had to fill all of the holes that were drilled all over the cabin to put …

Varnish On The Bridge

Tracy Epstein has been doing varnish with his dad Steve and I for years now and is going to be doing a bunch of the varnish work on this job. He has gotten very good with the prep and the brushing. We all will be helping but for the majority of this job but he …

Back to Florida

I had to finish my hunt and get back to Florida where the Lu Lu  now bought had to get ready to come to Hawaii. Our mission was to get her to American Custom Yachts in Stuart and figure out how to get the tower and the boat on Barney Stolz of Skipper Shippers trailer. …

Gabriella Performs Today

We took the day off from work today to see Gabriella hula. Good day off the water for me. The family days will be back soon. Our schedule usually opens up a little starting Oct. The girls did great!

Nice one Tim

Tim Thomasson came to fish with Rob and I for 4 days. We fished for big fish the whole time which here in Kona can be a bit of a wait. We put our time in and the odd big one being seen and caught kept our attention. The porpoise pods were loading up with …

Looking at Boats

After a long flight and a full night of sword fishing we managed to see a bunch a boats. The boats that fit our needs was a 40 foot Gamefisherman named the Lu Lu. It was in good shape and a little bigger and more comfortable. A perfect boat for Kona. Not to big but …