4:14 pm Daily Log
Richie and I met at the boat at about 4:45 this morning in anticipation of the first day running the boat and catching shrimp. On the way out, we found that the throttle control wouldn’t push past 1200 RPM’s. We generally drag the nets at about 1650 RPM’s so 1200 RPM’s was going to be slow going. Regardless, we set the nets out and while we were dragging we started to troubleshoot the throttle. We got the throttle control to finally get up to about 1700 and we were very pleased until we realized that we couldn’t slow her down. We had to haul in the nets at 1700 RPM which can be very dangerous and potentially damaging to the winch, but we got it done and started to head in early. On the way in, we got the throttle to go back below 1200 RPM and docked the boat safely. Needless to say, we spent the next day at the dock fixing the throttle control.