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