Weather has improved slightly.....W-NW 5 to 7 but still a big ground swell. Last day tomorrow, going home tomorrow night. Can't wait to see Jax and the kids.....off on our hols next week for a fortnight......normally can't afford a holiday but we one it in a spot-the-ball competition.....nice to be blessed by Lady Luck sometimes but fishing has slackened-off a bit, me, Jon and Gervasio have gone our seperate ways searching for the little bambinos. We ended up with 74 fish 

14 August. This is it, the last day. We are towing north to shorten the distance for steaming home. When you are the skipper/owner of a 20m boat like the Nova Spero you maintain it yourself. She needs constant attention so you aint got much time.....it's in tomorrow, land fish, a nights sleep, down to the boat on Saturday to get her ready for the next trip as i will not be here. Due to insurance reasons a chap called Tom McClure will be skippering her next trip and he will be in the wheelhouse running the show up there....radars, plotters, echo sounders, sonars.....navigating and communicating. Quincy will be running the deck, Ian will be running the engines, machinery and fuel transfer pumping systems, good old Dicki will be running the fishroom.......I'm just trying togive you an insight into what goes on. Its not just a case of throwing lines over the side and pulling them in, everything has to run smoothly and sometomes it does and sometimes it doesn't. Tom's a gent...a real nice fella....nothing is too much trouble for him. He has done a trip here before so it will not be unfamilair surroundings for him.

Anyhow, we've got a trip......1250 fish on board at the moment. Hoping for another 50 fish today but I think that its wishful thinking as we are towing north. RGDS, CAPITANO