SPQ13 Miles

The weather has been great up here in comparison to the past years. Sunny and a little wind to keep the bugs off. My crew and I have been working hard to prep the boat and get everything ready to fish without interruption. I dont have any big projects to do this year but a lot of small maintenance projects such at paint touch up, tidying up lines, corrosion prevention, and annual service tasks. I have also been making up a substantial number of hydraulic lines for customers and a couple for my self. Our fish company we are selling to this year isn't buying till the 15th or so of this month so we will launch this weekend.

Going dry in 2012. My vessel is the Nancy O. II

 Beautiful mountains outside the Anchorage airport.

 Panorama of the Naknek city dock

 Our messy hydraulic container

 The remote mount oil filter setup had barbed hose fittings for connectors and last year we blew a hose so I replaced them with hydraulic lines with JIC fittings.

 My fresh water piston pump was having a hard time priming so I took it apart and didnt find any rips or tears in the diaphragm nor were any of the check valves stuck. I concluded the rubber could have shrank slightly over the harsh winter and spread a light layer of Vaseline over all the seals, reassembled and it seems to work just fine.