After getting some new fuel in the gas tank in the boat, we decided to give her another try. So Jay came over to help us, and we took her out. Dad went down to the warf with us and then drove over to the camp to get the skiff ready for us to row in when we got around.
This is our mooring that Dad helped us make. Someone else gave us the idea of how you can make your own mooring with concrete, and it has worked real well! You see there are two different sizes of chains. The large chain is the ground chain that acts as kind of like a spring as the tide comes in and goes out or as the boat moves. The small chain is the light chain that hooks onto the ball. Then we have rope from the ball to the boat.
It was a little bit rough the evening we took it out to moor it in the reach, so there was a lot of sea spray in our faces, but it felt great!! Pam drove us around, and Jay went with us of course in case we had engine failure.
Our tags came! Yay! We get to have five traps, and you have to get new tags every year.
Getting the buoys tide onto the end of the ropes. We couldn't wait to get them out!
Just for the record....do not use this bait that we decided to try!! :-) Bait was kind of hard to come by at the time, so we decided to try sardines. Not a good idea! The lobsters didn't think it was a good idea either, I guess...(See my nifty little knife? It comes in real handy if you need to cut rope or get the bait apart or anything like that.)
All ready to go! I know that pink isn't the most popular color for buoys, but our friends that also go lobstering told us you want big and bright when it comes to choosing your buoys or else the sail boats will run them over. So we got big and bright! (Besides, I don't think other fishermen would want to be seen hauling up traps with pink buoys on them, so probably they won't steel them.) :-)
Just a little water to bail. Gramp says it's bad luck to have a blue boat because blue boats always sink, but he said as long as it's not light blue your all set, so hopefully we are all set. It's a good thing someone painted over the light blue.
We drove in to load the traps onto the boat. It was great because we were able to fit all five traps on this boat. Last year we had to just do one or two at the most because that's all the little boat could handle.
