Work progressing toward launch day! An early spring continues to help our forward progress on the Gath and India. Over the weekend Captain Whit and I traveled to Patton's Boat yard in Elliot to pick up our new keel coolers for "India", we then made a quick stop @ Dave's boat shop to see the old crew and pick up our yearly allotment of Popsicles sticks. Yesterday Frank and I spent most of the morning getting brochures ready, and filing out necessary licensing paperwork, then we set off to visit our friends at Jackson's Hardware and Fasteners Warehouse to pick up material this weeks project lists. This afternoon, I was able to prep and begin painting the bottom of Whit's "Gath IV",while he was busy helping the kids at his High School. What a difference a year makes! Tomorrow morning it's off to Portland to deliver the life rafts for there annual inspection. No shortage of things to accomplish. I'll be working on the boats almost every day for the next three weeks, if you'd like to come by on a nice spring day and lend a hand, I have plenty of extra sanders and paint brushes ready to go.

If you like to follow our Captains log adventures you might also want to consider becoming a Satch and Sons fan on facebook. Just click on the facebook box on the left. You have to give them your name, date of birth and an e- mail address to join..No other info is required. It puts you in touch with many of our other friends and guests that fish on the boats, info on open dates for offshore trips and other fishing reports are updated daily, you can ask questions and one of the crew will fill you in on the latest scoop, there are literally hundreds of guest pictures that I've posted, any fan can share their own pictures, videos or comments on our wall. It's fairly active and pretty cool. Hopefully it will get even better as the season progresses and more folks participate.Tech savvy folks can post the most current pictures and info right from their cell phones, so you can show that guy who missed the boat exactly what he did miss..post haste. You've just gotta keep up with the young folks if you want to keep young at heart. If you've been putting it off like I was over the last year, it's probably a good time to check it out and get connected.. Best Satch

Spring arrives early in Southern Maine.. Captain Whit and I took full advantage of the beautiful 68 % weather Saturday spending the entire day working on the boats at the harbor. In this picture you can see our dog Fisher waiting patiently in the truck, while Whit prepares the skiff for spring launch. We had an enjoyable day pressure washing both Gath and India both inside and out. Bilges, engine rooms, topsides and bottoms, this little extra step makes everything smell like new, and cleans the salt, grit and grime off all the surfaces making the paint preparation so much easier. It saves us many hours of paint prep work and makes the finished coats on the topside so much smoother. Painting has begun in earnest on the cabin houses, and I hope the bottom painting will begin this week. Kieth is designing a modification to cabin house in the new Gath IV. We plan on removing two windows and a hard panel section on the cabins port side, and replacing this section with a side curtain that will roll up to provide additional access for our guests to cast a line. This will make even more fishing room for our guests to enjoy. It's little modifications like this that my crew thinks about every winter, that keep us a step ahead of many other charter boats in Maine. Your continued confidence ans support gives us this ability.






Sunday was spent at the Derry, New Hampshire.. Rebel Classic wrestling tournament. This is the largest youth wrestling event held every spring in New Hampshire. My youngest grandson McCarey "right" and his teammates, Emery "center" and Jake "left" our shown in the picture below. McCarey came in a strong third place in his 74 pound weight class, winning three out of four matches against some very skilled wrestlers from Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. This qualifies him for the Eastern regionals in Oswego NY, as well as Mid-West Tournament in Columbus Ohio in late April. We'll see, if I can get the boats and all the licenses ready for launch on time, I'm considering taking him to one of these events. Again, thanks so much for sending your deposits on time, it makes a huge difference in getting everything ready and shipshape. Best Satch

Another Rainy Sunday! Spent another day in the office helping my youngest son Captain Den rework his Construction Co. website. Den is quickly gaining a fine reputation for designing and building real nice home additions. The site is www.McMahonconstructionco.com In this picture his crew is busy building a 2nd story on a cottage he designed overlooking the Rachael Carson reserve @ Wells harbor.




Ms. Jeanette and I made our first annual spring trip to Jackson's Marine and Hardware in Kittery Saturday morning. Janet and her family have always treated us like family since we began rebuilding the Gath III years ago. The care, special service and expertise you get at Jackson's makes it worth the trip. We purchased enough painting supplies to complete the cabin houses on both boats,once the weather clears on Wednesday. I wasn't to surprised to find the younger generation in the office busily linking the Jackson Hardware website to a facebook page as well.

Our fishing reservations for the 2010 season continue to go very well. I''m very happy to have heard from so many of our old friends and a few new folks as well. A good sign that the economy really is improving and just in time. Thank you kindly. We've also had over 213 folks sign up on our Captain Satch and Sons facebook wall in just it's first week.That's really cool. You can check it out by clicking on this pages facebook icon on the left.

Not just me but any of my fishing guests that join as fans are able to comment and list important info, special events, post their fishing pictures and video's and finally all our guests can find and contact each other if they so desire. My son Dennis horsing around with my goddaughter Monifa shortly before she kicked his butt.

Our first Spring like weekend... A really beautiful week end. I spent most of Saturday finishing up the new website w/ Laurie and her husband Mark who is diligently cracking the code on my laptop so I can make these updates on the ride home from the fishing grounds. While we were stuck indoors, Captain Whit, little Dennis, and Eric enjoyed the spring weather and worked reinstalling India's Marie new Rudder bearing assembly at the boatyard.

Jeanette was kind enough to gather all the necessary little hooks, and various color tubing for little Eric's latest project. He's busy tying a hundred or so custom made fishing rigs that Captain Whit has designed for his summer guests aboard the Gath IV. Earlier in the week Frank, Jeanette and I got it all together and began pouring our 1st batch of "Burkett 16 oz jigs" for the 2010 season. Nice pic of Whit and the Bobinator with the finished product.



For those interested in my youngest grandson McCarey's wrestling progress. We got up Sunday morning at 5am and traveled to Thompson Me, just north of Bath for Sundays wrestling tournament at Mt. Ararat High School. McCarey took a strong 3rd place finish in the 75 pound class. losing his 1st match 6 to 4 on points, then cleaning up his next three opponents with a pin @40 sec, a 15 / 0 tech fall/and a pin in the 3rd round. Best Satch

Linking... Fair Weather Fisherman's club page to the new site..

Hey folks'....Sure am having fun with the new website. Thanks for your interest. Today I joined all the young folks and opened a Facebook page. It's my intent to link it to the web page this weekend. My intent is to have a club page where all our fishing guests can chat, bump, jive, and ping each other...I think we'll have a lot of fun with it. The page is already on Facebook and is titled, Captain Satch and Sons..by joining as a fan you can get to participate in the blog, keep abreast all the latest updates, including open spots on our Friday offshore trips. I've been dreaming about finding a way for all my guests to communicate with any other folks you may have met on the boats over the years. Once I get the bugs out I think this is the answer.This is real exciting stuff, jump aboard and have fun. Best Satch

Excited about the new Web page...Thanks for your interest in the newly designed web page. We've had so many of you compliment us already about content as well as how easy it is to navigate. I've tried to e mail many of you, concerning joining our follower's link. I believe its something like a face book type friends page. You would be able to email or contact other folks who fish aboard the boats. that members signs up to send you and e mail. You still have to approve the link. If you wish to remain unanimous you still can receive notice whenever I update it with the latest fishing news. I'll give it a few weeks and see how you like it.


I again want to thank Eric's mom Laurie for all the effort to give us one of the very best charter fishing websites on the net.

Ms. Lisa Anthony(NY) with her 2.25 pound Maine State trophy Red landed on our October 2009 trip aboard "India".

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Hopefully, the crew and I will begin pouring jigs tomorrow morning. We were blessed when Jeannette's mom.."Marlene" thought so much of us that she presented us with her late husband Fred's 16 oz famous jig mold. A professional engineer and avid offshore fishermenThis is the mold that Fred carefully designed and made himself. It's movement through the water is superb and must truly resemble a herring in flight. A real attractant to tacticent cod and one of the reasons for our fishing success on our offshore trips aboard India.Well anyway tomorrow we hope to start the process making our goal of 100 for the 2010 season.. I'll post a pic or two.

Best Satch