Recent Lodge Activities - Oct 05
With no guests at the lodge for the past several months, we have been busy with boat building, lodge improvements and of course our favorite non-domestic activities, surfing and soaking sardines for table fish. Alex broke his surfboard in late August so he spent a few days shaping and glassing a replacement. Bones his fixed up his room up stairs at the lodge so he frequently leaves his golfing at Coronado to join Alex and Tom to develop ideas for the project, quality control and to soak baits. We have recently completed a major milestone in the new boat project with the fabrication and installation of stringers, bulkheads and the transom. The next phase of this project will be shaping and painting the bottom. This will entail flipping hull and some serious grinding effort. The final phases will consist of fabricating and installing the fuel tank, console, cuddy cabin and deck. The construction techniques for this boat are basically the same as those we used with the Magoo. The boat is made of fiberglass sheets and fiber glassed reinforced PVC, constructed in much the same way as a steel or aluminum hull boat would be built from welded metal sheets. The overall size of the hull is 38 feet long, 9 feet wide, 6-1/3 feet high at the bow and 5 feet high mid-ship. The deck will be 28" above the keel and sides will rise 32" above the deck. We calculate that the draft will be 6" to 10", rigged and fully loaded. We have been out fishing without guests several times a month since May, mostly anchoring up for a half day with live sardines. Our catch has been consistently good for 40 to 60 schoolie snappers in the 3 to 8 pound range and a few 15-25 pound yellow corbinas mixed in. On one of our trips, Alex free lined a sardine on a 20 pound test rig and hooked up a large sailfish that he hopelessly fought at anchor for several minutes.
