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I noticed the platform down and was like, that’s going to help! 

Yesterday, while crossing from West End Bahamas to Florida, I caught my first salt-water fish.  It was a 6-foot white marlin! 

The weather was nice, so we decided to go slow and drag a lure behind the boat.  Nothing happened for the first three hours, then WHAM!  Now I understand why people love salt-water fishing so much.  We're guessing he weighed about 80 pounds.  Watching him jump and spin was an absolute thrill.

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Awesome! Was aware of them. Our friends who winter in Roatan hang out at Sundowners and the owner there runs a boat so went out with him. A great day on the water, but no fish. He was so upset that he didn't want to charge us for the day, just tip the mate, but we insisted that we at least cover his fuel and the numerous beer we drank......so everyone was happy in the end. Had a few hits but no sets on tuna and one barracuda that bit the leader off as we were bringing it in.

Lots of snow this year. I didn’t need a ladder to get onto the swim platform. 

Hope everyone is having a good winter. I just wanted to post an update on this and provide part numbers in case another member runs into the same issue. I finally found the part through Pompanette (Bomar). Members suggested I look there but after previous dealings with this company I didn't bother even looking into them. Going back several years ago with then trying to get a hatch and after spending several months of non callbacks ,emails not returned ect I decided to never deal with them. So I decided to try them again and to my surprise they have their **** together and have a great support crew. I had the proper trim ring in a couple of weeks. Part number is ST718-SS-1.375. I have previously bought a lot of parts out of the US and have had good luck, not sure how that's going to play out in the future with all the crap that's going on now. Hope this info might help someone in the future. Thanks for everyones help. 

You should come back to Key Largo.. wind was a little rough today, but it's going to zero tomorrow late afternoon! Was great to meet you! 

I doubt we'll make it another 300 miles south to Turks and Caicos, especially with how unreliable the weather is this time of year.  The wind will be howling for the next couple days, and again next weekend.  We might not get farther south than we are right now (Staniel Cay).
 

@PickleRick carb was full of water. Running great. Next i have to go adjust the fuel sender that's out of wack.