Throughout the second half of our trip, we have been trouble shooting a problem with the sea chest – it has been losing water. In addition, during the late afternoon yesterday, we heard a loud noise from under the hull that sounded like we hit an obstruction of some kind. At 10 am we anchored at Santa Maria Bay, just off Magdalena Bay, so Mark could put on his scuba gear and dive the boat. He cleaned the strainers and the through hull fittings and inspected the hull for damage.
The starboard side thru hulls were clean, the port side thru hulls were full of barnacles, the hull had not sustained any damage but he did retrieve a commercial hook and line wrapped around one of the stabilizer fins. After a quick lunch of tuna wraps, we were on our way again at noon.
We started catching blackfin tuna around 1:30 pm. Gale reeled in the first hit and as soon as it was boated, the second one hit. The day’s total was three blackfin tuna and one small mahi mahi. The mahi mahi was so small we didn’t even know we had it on the line for awhile – by the time it was brought in, it was pretty beat up and in no shape to go back to the sea.
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