The Bounty Hunter is back in it’s slip but not quite ready to go charter fishing Destin just yet. Capatin Mark and Eric brought the boat back early this morning. Scotty got to drive the truck back. The dry dock stuff is all packed up and back in the storage unit where it will stay until next year when we go through the same thing.

Florida Detroit Diesel is coming on Monday to pull the clutch and take it back to the shop for a rebuild. That will take about a week and then we’ll be ready to start taking trips. It will be great not to have to worry about the clutch going out in the middle of the charter fishing Destin season.

So, another dry dock has come and gone. We did well with the hull inspection and in a month or two we’ve got  topside inspection. The guys will work hard to make sure we pass that one so that we’re ready to go charter fishing Destin.

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Today was cold and windy at the boat yard but the boot stripe got painted, the letters went on, the bottom got painted and tomorrow one of the finest charter boats Destin comes back to it’s home at the Marina Cafe. Captain Mark, Eric and Scotty have worked hard and almost every single day to get the Bounty Hunter ready for fishing. We still have topside Coast Guard inspection to get through but that isn’t something that will keep us from fishing and we’ll talk about that in another blog.

We still have one big thing to address before the fishing season begins and that is to get the clutch rebuilt. It is working but Captain Mark does not want to take the chance that it will break in the middle of the season. Now is the ideal time to get it fixed and we have Florida Detroit Diesel coming to do the work. Those guys charge a lot but you get what you pay for! They come when they say, they do the work right, they guarantee it and get charter boats Destin back to fishing fast.

So tomorrow morning our 3 guys will head to Freeport to the Fisherman’s boat yard and wait for the boatyard people to fire up the sling and get them back in the water so they can start on the journey back to Destin. I guess Scotty and Eric will flip a coin to see who rides on the boat and who drives the truck. It’s been a great dry dock for the Bounty Hunter charter boats Destin.

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It was a really good week at dry dock. We have been very lucky with the weather and are very close to being able to bring the boat back to Destin. The Coast Guard came to inspect the boat on Friday and were very pleased. We got a clean inspection with no “gigs” so we can leave when we finish. The guys are doing some touch up paint work and as soon as it dries the stern letters can go on, the bottom gets painted and into the water we go.

We are really looking forward to the upcoming season. There are already some trips on the books and we’re getting quite a few phone calls on a regular basis so it’s looking good for 2012. We’ve been doing the usual winter chores like going through the tackle catalogues and ordering for the season.

There are going to be some big changes on the Destin fishing docks this year. The city of Destin is building a boardwalk all the way from the Lucky Snapper way down past the Boat House. It looks like it’s going to be a big constructions project with lots of parking disruptions.  We like being on our docks down at the Marina Cafe. The other folks with businesses down there are great and we all get along well and help each other. It’s a nice little quiet community and we like being a part of it. Best of all we won’t have the construction turmoil that all the other boats will have to deal with this year.

Well, we’d sure like to hear from you and look forward to booking your trips so give us a call and we’ll get you on the books for the day you want.
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It’s that time of the year when we head over to Freeport and take the boat out of the water. We left on a freezing cold day last Monday and made the long run into the bay rivers to the Fisherman’s Boatyard. The boat got taken out of the water without a hitch, the weather turned warm and Mark, Eric and Scott have been working everyday except the one they took off to go “fun fishing” with Captain Art.

Captain Mark is very pleased with the progress so far. Scotty and Eric have the bottom sanded and Mark is doing some fiberglass work on the scrubshoe and transom. Very few blisters in the fiberglass which is great news and something you always have to be concerned about. It’s also one of the things the Coast Guard looks for when they inspect and they will be there on Friday. We are confident that they will be very happy and send us on our way but we shall see!

We will be having a clutch rebuild before the season begins and were hoping for Florida Detroit Diesel to make it out to the boatyard to do the work but they’ve been tied up and probably won’t make it out before it’s time for us to leave and head back to Destin. It sure would be nicer for them not to have to pull all that out at the Marina Cafe with all those stairs but looks like that will be the case.