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May – Blue Marlin arrive.

captain — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:49:35 +0000

MAY – The Marlin have arrived. The first fish was caught on May 7. A few have already been

The New Roof at last. Ready to go.

seen and a few bites going on. I am still hauled out and getting on with the new roof and general maintenance.

April – dry NE Trade Winds arrive.

captain — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:30:38 +0000

April ; I hauled out and the dry NE Trade arrived that day and the rain stopped.

April and the dry NE trades arrive. This is the fish wind.

Blog update for 2010

captain — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:08:09 +0000

I am finally getting to the Blog after so much grief from all my friends and family.”Hey Fixe, what’s going on ? When are you going to update the Blog?” (fixe is pronounced ‘fish’ in Portuguese and translates ‘cool’)

Well here I am at last and will do my best to give you a brief summary of 2010 so far. This year did not start out very well for Madeira.

February ; Catastrophic floods and never ending rain. I must take my hat off to the local Maderians and tell you I have never seen any people work so hard and with such determination to get their island back together and have the town of Funchal repaired and functional. The destruction was unbelievable and more lives were lost than we will ever know about. My admiration and Deepest sympathy goes out to all the people of Madeira.

The Dry Dock next to the marina closed and there was nowhere to haul a boat. The two small haul-out facilities left open were full. So we all had to wait. For me it was a blessing in disguise. I found an artist in Stainless work who built my roof structure as good if not better than anyone in the world. I dont think I have ever been so happy with any job on the “Katherine B”.

Strong SW winds all winter, full of moisture and malice. This Cocos Palm is my weather vane right out my kitchen window

WAHOO off MADEIRA average good size.

chris — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:29:37 +0000

The Wahoo this year are averaging 40 to 50 pounds with the big ones over 60. Thats great fun angling on 20 lb gear.

OCTOBER gets BETTER

chris — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:16:31 +0000

Dirk and Danny with a whopper Wahoo. This was one out of for that day.