We are in search of “Wicked Tuna” which is a TV show hosted
out of Gloucester, MA. Dave loves the show and is looking to see if he can see
the boat – tuna.com and it’s skipper Dave. We hate to break it to him but this season
they are filming further south in a north versus south fish off.
We set out from Plymouth Brewer’s marine at 5:50am knowing
that with an average speed of 4 kts we would make Gloucester at about 4pm. We
set out early to get to the destination but also to make sure that we could
leave before low tide. As we were disembarking the depth sounder read about 5
feet. With a 4.5ft draft I didn’t want to wait a moment later. Rather than get
everyone out of bed, Dave and I disembarked on our own.
We sailed along the narrow channel from Plymouth and could
see lots of very very shallow water which only 18 hours before looked very
different at high tide.
Once out of the narrow channel we turned east, raised sails
then as we entered Cape Cod Bay and turned north we ran dead downwind and got
out the trusty Spinnaker. As I type its
been flying for the past 4 hours and we have the spinnaker and main,
wing-on-wing. We continued with the Spinnaker all of the way to Gloucester
harbor and arrived at Brown Marine Yard at 3:30pm. After a beer, or two we
headed over to “The Studio” for dinner.
When on the launch service we learned that one of the Wicked
Tuna TV series boats was docked next to the restaurant and that another boat is
our fishing at the moment, returning Friday. Our waitress told us that they
frequently eat and drink the Studio bar. Today we head up the Annisquam river
and will pass Cape Ann Marina which is the home port for three more of the
wicked tuna boats. We are in search of Dave from tuna.com.
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