Right down below the ‘SUBMIT’ button at the bottom of the page, there’s a link “Restatement of Goals” – that’s the subject line of post #2 on the site. Each page will have a link to the next post in the same position.

Glad you like the site!

your awesome

btw never keep an outboard upside down , bad

The beam is misleading – because I have such a huge deck (heh!) the beam above is a full 23 feet, but the actual waterline of the three hulls is more like 2′+5′+2′ with big tunnels between the hulls, and her grand total weight is around 5 tons (gross tonnage is 11.5, but . A following sea breaking on the transom rushes through the tunnels with a fantastic noise, but the TIE Fighter just bobs right up on top of the waves. So far we haven’t had to deal with following seas big enough that the electric auto helm couldn’t handle them, but I’ve heard reports that the Searunner trimarans recover very quickly and naturally to broaching…

Weeeeell, actually that was mostly Miya that took care of the killing and cleaning, I helped out a bit but it really was all her – if you’re interested, she also blogs over at http://www.thenomadist.com

What she did was bring the tuna aboard, then make three cuts, one into the brain and two into the sides near the tuna’s um… side fins, whatever they’re really called. The amount of blood that came out of the head was surprising! She then tied a rope around the tail with a slipknot and threw the fish back overboard for ten minutes to bleed out. We rinsed down the deck with a couple of buckets of water at this point, but the places where the blood had already started to coagulate were a little harder. We really had to scrub a couple of small spots in the antiskid paint later on!

Once the tuna was bled out, we cleaned it in the cockpit, on one of the benches. We definitely noted that this wasn’t optimal, and started talking about ways to improve if we plan to fish a lot in the future – I had already planned to add a high-pressure salt water wash down pump up on the bow to wash the anchor and line, but running a wash down spigot into the cockpit seems like it would also be a very useful thing. Also a large cutting board – like, at least three times the size of our current kitchen cutting boards – would be handy. Furthermore our knives really, really need to be kept much more sharp – I have a SpiderCo ‘Triangle Sharpmaker’ which is awesome, but I just haven’t spent the time with the filet knife yet. Lastly, Miya is shopping for a pair of those gloves that both allow you to grip a slippery fish (say that three times!) and protect your hands from the knife blade.

Overall, it was an intense experience – my favourite part would have to be the amazing fresh-grilled tuna chunks we made immediately afterwards.

I would love to sail the weat coast some day but do not think it will happen.
Take care both of you .

Currently I’m living in Carlsbad, a small town north of San Diego. If you’d like, and have any extra time when you make it down to SD, shoot me email. My boyfriend (Kirk) and I would love to meet up with you for a beer and talk sailing.

Cheers!
Lauren