Joe,

Of course we will take you up on the offer of the margarita machines! Those were awesome on Cinco!

K Im in and may have a few more tagging along. Willie I'll get ck in mail manana..
k

Done Deal,

The Margarita Machine will be there. Come on folks, lets make this happen.

Joe

i am gonna be out on the next few. gotta make babies with the wife.... couple years of that, and I should be back...

Got one more, San and if our trip to Venice this weekend gets cancelled I should have one more guy. I'll wait till Monday on those guys and then overnite checks to Too then.

Kerry

Hey Skeeter,

There will be more top water tuna for the rest of us. Man you made me tired watching you throw that topwater on the last trip. You didnt stop and it paid off for ya. You made short order on those tuna. Maybe you can squeeze a trip in. Enjoyed fishing with ya on the last trip. I think you redeemed yourself from the prior trip. I don't think anyone will mess with ya after the last performance. Great job and hope to fish with ya again soon.

Joe

Dang, Ronnie, how long does it take? I accomplished that in about 15 minutes each time!

15 minutes!! You trying to kill me!!! Man- you must run marathons!!! 2 minutes and I am asleep!

confidence Joe, thats all you need. Captain Kieth asked me why I was gonna throw topwater... I told him politely... I HATE chunking.. he said "thats whats gonna work".... I told him I know it will work, but I get bored too easy.... and I put on a dark colored popper(dark colors are easier for the fish to target at night).... and went to town... I probably had 10-12 blowup on it that didnt hook up... so I had my own little secret going in my corner

Now that we've got SKR's Planned Parenthood calendar mapped out along with knowing his stamina level, let's get back to the proposed TFF Seite Tuna charter for 2008.
We are at 15 stating they are in and one possible.
1. NTF
2. radicus
3. SpecialK
4. SpecialK
5. Magarita Mojo
6. Walleye
7. lite-liner
8. FWM0103
9. FWM0103
10. Bazztex
11. Bazztex
12. Gigabite
13. Gigabite
14. KerryNeal
15. KerryNeal
16. TxGrizzly
17. Gimmedeal
18. Gimmedeal
19. Beyoung
20. Kil Song (deposit sent,tentative depending on another trip)

20 for this charter is better, but we expected to be into the standby stage by now.
A spot on an open 52 hour charter on the Big E with U.E. cost $650 per person.
At 39 paid spots the cost per person is $667 or $17 more than a open charter per person cost, that is a great deal, especially if considering everyone will be on the same page and know or have knowledge of each other as well as have being able to work together instead of a "everyone for themselves" attitude. Thast is very important on a big charter trip in our opinion.
We're not sure why more folks are not committing to the trip. Is it the short deposit payment time? The reserved dates of November 21st-23rd? Overall cost?
This does concern us and has us wondering why we're not seeing more commitments.
We got until March 14th to be able to tell U.E. yes or no on this charter.
One other option would be to move the charter to Nov. 1st-3rd, which would be a Saturday-Monday trip as to not interfere with Halloween for those with kids.
If this date change would work for everyone and allows others to commit, we will ask U.E. if we can move the charter to that date time frame.
If the issue is payment, and if any folks looking at this charter need to pay in installmnts, then contact us and we can work something out. If we can go to U.E. with 35 committed folks, they'll work with us, but if we have 15-20 committed only then we don't have anything to offer to them.
We have to have a fianicial commitment from everyone, that's just good business.
So let's get going if folks want to commit to the best deal on a 52 private charter on the Big E.
One last thing, we are holding one spot for a special guest. That is why we are basing the cost up to 39 people, and not 40.

any word on Fuel surcharge?

Cost: Price is total cost per angler. Fuel surcharge will only occur if fuel cost is above $3.20 per gallon.

I'm gonna go. It's scheduled for the best time of the Texas YF season. Me +1 and I'll send Willie a check tonight. Next fall you'll be wishin you threw your name in.

Fred

how many gallons of fuel does the Big E hold? anybody
know? nevermind. went to gulfcraft's website.
6745 usg
fuel consumption @ cruise- 110gph
cruise speed 24 knots/28.8 mph, avg 20 in good seas
150 miles +/- to redhawk/boudreaux
Best average I can come up with for the trip is 3000-3500g.
does this sound right?
if it does, and diesel hits, say, 3.80 by then......
$0.60x 3500= $2100>39= $53.84 per angler for a fuel surcharge.
sounds totally do-able to me! that is, if my calculations are right.....
I'm not trying to stir the pot, just pointing out that unless
Diesel hits $4.00+ @ the dock, the fuel surcharge is nothing but chump change.
Let's get some people on this boat! I cancelled 2 other trips to do this one!
tight lines
-Brian

Willie,
i will send a check in the mail tonight. i shouldnt but i guess i will...i hate this hobby by the way...

Considering....

I REALLY want to, but it is still awfully close to the last trip to be telling wifey that I'm going to pony up more money for the next one. We'll see how well I can negotiate.