Tele Aadsen

writer - fisherman - listener

Trading One Deck for Another

by | Sep 27, 2012 | F/V Nerka, Family | 10 comments

For those of you who respond­ed to Hooked’s last post by vot­ing that it was time to take pity on Bear the (long suf­fer­ing) Boat Cat… Good call.

From super­vis­ing the run south, mak­ing sure the bow was point­ed in the right direction…

 

…to reunit­ing with the Bobs, our res­i­dent Stel­lar’s Jays.

 

(She sends her thanks.)

10 Comments

  1. keneumey
    keneumey on September 27, 2012 at 5:03 pm

    Sor­ry, Bear, I was the lone vote for stay­ing at sea. But you’re back! Hooray! Can’t wait to see you. You brought the Ner­ka back with you?

    • Tele
      Tele on September 27, 2012 at 9:54 pm

      Don’t apol­o­gize, dude… When I’m too broke for writ­ers’ hap­py hours in Feb­ru­ary, you can tsk-tsk and remind me that we could’ve fished anoth­er week. 🙂 Yep, the Nerka’s here, look­ing appalling­ly ragged around her edges. The past six months def­i­nite­ly wore on her, as they did the rest of us.

      SO excit­ed to see you, too!

  2. karlalovesfish
    karlalovesfish on September 27, 2012 at 5:55 pm

    Wel­come to the calm!

    • Tele
      Tele on September 27, 2012 at 9:57 pm

      Thanks, Kar­la! You would­n’t have believed what an amaz­ing­ly beau­ti­ful trip we had. No sta­bies from Sum­n­er Strait all the way to B’ham, except for a brief time across Queen Char­lotte. Hard to believe one of our best trips south took place in late Sep­tem­ber! Hope all’s good for you, Al and the kids.

  3. Norm Pillen
    Norm Pillen on September 27, 2012 at 6:27 pm

    Glad you’re back safe and sound Tele, hope the trip went well. Maybe we’ll see you two at expo. Norm

    • Tele
      Tele on September 27, 2012 at 10:02 pm

      It was an amaz­ing­ly beau­ti­ful, enjoy­able trip, Norm. Real­ly glad that we decid­ed to leave with Mar­tin, had a good time run­ning togeth­er. Was such a good time vis­it­ing with you and your crew our last night in Sit­ka, too — thanks for that! We’ll def­i­nite­ly look for you at Expo. If you go on Thurs­day the 29th, there’ll be a Fish­er Poets show mid­day, be great to see you there. Hope you’re home and hap­py, too, friend!

  4. Patrick Dixon
    Patrick Dixon on September 27, 2012 at 7:30 pm

    Wel­come home! Glad you’re both back safe and sound.See you at Expo, if not before. If you get down this way, let us know!

    • Tele
      Tele on September 27, 2012 at 10:03 pm

      Thanks, Pat! I’m super-excit­ed for Expo and join­ing the Fish­er Poet crew again. Can’t wait to see the bunch of you.

  5. Karolee Joel
    Karolee Joel on October 1, 2012 at 7:41 pm

    Well, I’M SORT OF JEALOUS. Talked to Greg and Amy about their trip down. I’m glad it went well for you too. Still in Ore­gon, the weath­er has got­ten rat­ty NW and the fish­ing has got­ten spot­ty. Ran over a crab pot and it got into the star­board side, lost the inside deep and stripped the tip and float, lost a 60 and a 50. Jonathan just slid into New­port from tuna. He had an expe­ri­ence to quote him. Nice on the beach, was at least 68 today. Got to go to Juneau next week­end for ATA board, not look­ing for­ward to cold rain after this long long summer. 

    Is there a fish­er poet at expo gath­er­ing? I sup­pose I’d bet­ter fig­ure out if I can attend.

    ciao!

    • Tele
      Tele on October 1, 2012 at 8:43 pm

      Oh man, Joel… I’m sor­ry to hear of the mis­ad­ven­tures! No bueno; sounds like you need some fur­ry time with Lucy and Dinghy. As for Jonathan, “an expe­ri­ence” is nev­er good.. Glad he got some tuna, at least.

      In more pos­i­tive news, why YES, there IS a Fish­er Poets Gath­er­ing at this year’s Expo! We’ll be 11:30 to 1 pm on Thurs­day the 29th, and the line-up is Pat Dixon, Dave Dens­more, Dano Quinn, Abi­gail Culkin, Tom Hilton, and me. It’d be WONDERFUL to see you there. Until then, big hugs, best wish­es, and grat­i­tude for your board work.