Well, the barge is getting ready to, to dock here.
The, trading post ran out of gas,
that powers our generators and skiffs
and really can't survive around here without it
so pretty much it'd bring everybody to a standstill.
We live a very secluded lifestyle out in the boonies.
99% of our stuff comes from the woods or the water but
we still need certain things from the outside world.
It comes around the corner and it looks like somebody is
shoving a football field across the water.
It gives us the green light to do everything again
now that we got gas.
It's almost like Christmas.
See that junior?
Hopefully I'll have something similar works on the same
basis as the crane on this fuel barge.
Me and Sam and squibb they're gonna help me erect a,
a hoist so I don't have to pack everything uphill anymore.
Gonna be a huge relief on my body I'll tell you that.
Feels like a good day for fishing.
- I'm ready. - Heck yeah.
I'm setting the gear and it's just a continual like counting,
I'm just always counting spaces.
One, two, okay, put another lure on and then...
It's enough to drive a guy bonkers sometimes all this counting but.
Power trolling in southeast Alaska is
really unique fishery.
I'm allowed to put four lines in the water and anywhere from
like two to 15 or 20 hooks per wire depending on the species
we're targeting.
All right.
Lines are set.
Come on fishy, fishy.
I started fishing when I was like three years old.
All through my childhood,
every chance I got I went fishing.
Commercial fishing is the economic backbone
of my lifestyle.
All right, here's a bigger batch of feed showing up.
There we go.
The summer troll season is very important to us.
That's good.
I like fishing around feed.
Yeah.
And hoping that we can entice them with our lures.
I got about three months to make bank basically
so financially we can go through the rest of the year
with a bit of comfort.
Probably time to go check a line and see what we got.
Our primary target this time of year is king salmon.
All right, lines coming up.
They're the money fish,
they're a big healthy robust fish,
and there's a good price on them.
Come on fish, let there be a fish.
And we are fishing for coho's as well.
Well, nothing on that one.
All right, nothing on the second one.
Okay, looks like we got something coming.
A coho salmon.
Sweet!
Hope there's more than one.
Come on.
All right.
Well, we got something on the bottom.
Something coming up.
Look at that.
But not a salmon.
Well, we, wow.
Whoa.
That's black rock fish.
Not our targeted species really but they taste good.
I think I'll probably keep that one up and
we'll have some dinner.
Well, that line wasn't great Gail.
I got one fish on the line.
Well, one fish and fish tacos.
Not exactly as many as I was hoping for.
Back in the water, I'll try again.
Keep looking around.
That's fishing.
So.
Gotta figure out what we're doing here.
Yeah.
Trying to, I got, I think three-ish lines.
We gotta take this yellow line off of here and leave that
connected to the dock.
I think it's as simple as just uncoupling it,
hooking up and towing it out of here.
Okay.
Well, do you want to get started on just
getting this stuff taken care of and?
Yeah.
One of the things that's really important for me this
time of year is putting up fish for the winter.
Man.
And one of the issues I've been having lately is every time
I want to deal with a fish I gotta pack it up to the front yard.
So I really want to set up a work float in front of the house
and get a, fish cleaning station built on there.
Just gonna save a lot of time and effort.
Okay.
That should be clear, I think.
Jeez.
Hopefully.
Instead of building a whole new float, we already have
an existing one from our old float house.
Right now it has the hot tub on it.
But it's about the perfect size for what we want to do so
we'll just tow it over and we'll get it rigged right.
One step at a time.
Yep.
I'm gonna put the skiff on here.
Okay.
And get it tied off and as soon as we pop that I can
just grab it out of here.
'Kay.
The best way to tow something like this is
actually to push it.
Just park the bow of your skiff whatever end, you know,
you want to push from, preferably narrow way and
not wide way less resistance in the water.
I'm gonna just gas it up on there, watch out.
Park the skiff on it
and you tie it down, two different directions
so you can't wobble and you can't slide up or back.
You sure this is gonna work?
It, it, it should move pretty good.
It is gonna be a slow ride though.
I think we're ready to cut this loose.
And then you just drive.
You just create a much bigger boat.
Okay, I think we're untied, right?
Yeah, we're loose.
Supposedly.
Wow, this is weird.
See if anything hangs up.
Yep.
Holy crap.
I should have brought you a lawn chair.
Yeah.
Ride in style.
Bush bougie.
Yeah.
We're going up to the dam now.
It's a bit of a climb, it is not fun to do this in
the middle of winter, a little treacherous going through here.
Here we are.
So, this larger pipe here, this is our drinking water and
this smaller pipe supplies the pelton wheel.
Today is chore day.
I'm gonna check the source of the water that feeds
the pelton wheel which is a water turbine,
it's connected to the stream
to utilize flowing water as a source of energy.
Yeah, I'll leave it.
In the winter, this dam will be overflowing,
it would just be flowing over here
but right now there's only a small trickle coming out
over the dam so I think we'll shut off some of
the pelton wheel nozzles to restrict the flow.
I don't rely on the power company or the sewer water company
when some issue arises.
My neighbor and I are directly responsible
for fixing it ourselves.
All right.
This is the pelton wheel as you can see its spinning and
there's a bunch of copper coils underneath there and,
the electricity is generated somehow it's
brushing on something and then going somewhere and it ends up
in our battery.
I mean, it's all very new to me.
Didn't know what a pelton wheel was before I moved here.
I'm gonna shut off three of them, really carefully.
You don't want to do anything fast with this much water flowing.
There has been a huge learning curve to do all this stuff and
repair stuff when it needs fixing.
All right. That covers one of them.
You can hear the pelton wheel speed decreasing as I do this.
All right.
Pelton wheel maintenance complete.
I didn't have to do barely anything but turn a nozzle so
I'm going to head over to the community center.
Well, this is gonna change your life I guarantee it.
Hell yeah.
Well, we just gotta start harvesting junk.
All right man.
Okay, let's just fish one of these out of here, Dave.
Yeah, they got some stuff on them.
Don't hurt yourselves.
There's crud everywhere.
Got some phone lines and.
Yep, stuff everywhere.
My only thought getting into late summer, you know.
I need to be bringing wood home, stocking up on propane
and everything else I gotta have to get through the winter.
That's what's doing it.
There we go.
I need that hoist to, to help me out.
Let's just move it ahead a little bit, Dave.
Okay.
Just prop it up on that log.
All right.
- There we go. - How's that?
Perfect.
Let me flip this over so we can cut bolts out of it.
- Okay. - Yeah.
The hoist that we're building for curly is just gonna be
made out of junk steel.
Basically, I'm turning what looks like just debris into,
into something that's, gonna be quite usable.
There we go.
One for the money.
All right. All right, number two.
- Watch out. - Watch out curly.
I don't know what the we're doing.
Three people doing this type of thing.
Well, I've managed quite a few projects with
Sammy over the years.
I think this might be one of the first adventures curly's had,
up close and personal when it comes to,
a fast moving Sammy trying to get a project done.
Pick?
'Cause things tend to move fast.
There we go.
It's an enter the shop at your own risk and,
keep your head on a swivel.
Dang.
- Don't cut your arms off. - This is dangerous here.
Gotta, gotta keep an awful straight line with them
cutting wheels or they, they tend to, tend to shatter.
- Sam? - What's that?
He needs another wheel.
Yeah.
We don't have the tool to get it off.
I've just gotta go down and take that off of there.
It, there's a little tool
you're supposed to keep it taped to your cord.
Right.
We'll get it cobbled so that it's nice and safe.
The community center is a wonderful privilege to have
out here in the middle of nowheres.
This space is used for community gatherings,
got a foos table, basketball court.
Get in a little bit closer and
I'll just eye ball it.
Get it, baby.
- There it is. - Woo!
Now that we have the hot tub float up at the house,
I'll just tie it up here and then,
but I have to figure out the anchor.
We're secured.
I'm a big girl. Okay.
I'm going to fulfill my obligation at the community center
which involves adding fuel to the two fuel tanks.
God, don't fall.
One for the stove that heats the community center and one for
the generator that supplies electricity to the center.
I'm flexing all my muscles so hard right now.
Okay, mission accomplished.
I got a bite, I got a bite.
I'm gonna see if I can match you or maybe even better you.
I think you should run your line, absolutely.
It's not looking too good.
I've only got two more chances to beat jiggy.
Dear only one more.
A rock fish.
Dear, he's bigger than yours.
Is that possible?
Well, that's not what we wanted.
We're gonna have to find a better spot.
No! So close.
It's easy to forget with all the work we have to do around
here to, to play, it's easy for me to forget anyway so.
All right, once more into the breach.
Spin.
Looking good.
Yeah!
It's incoming tide now.
Maybe that will bring in some fresh feed and some fresh fish.
It's a box of chocolates,
never know what you're gonna get.
Just peer over the side waiting for something to come up.
Besides an empty lure.
Wild one on board.
We got a cohoe.
Keep them coming, keep them coming.
Possibility for more.
Summer season is definitely our most important season.
We miss that, there's no income for the rest of the year
so it's long hard days.
There's a nice one.
But it's very special to me to do this,
it's not a lot of people that get to do it.
Wow, look at this, woo.
And when someone asks me what I do,
and I tell them I'm a commercial salmon fisherman and
I say that with pride and a smile.
Got a bite.
I had three.
You gotta beat that.
Come on baby.
Don't fail me now.
Go for four. Ooh.
Nice coho.
Got something.
Wait, what?
Gail and I have a friendly competition
on the boat.
I got number three.
It's a rock fish.
Show it to me.
You know, we each run a side of gear and
then kind of jive each other back and forth
'cause we're, catching or not catching.
There's another one for you.
Love it.
Thank you Alaska.
Got another bite.
Flying fish.
You got another one?
I do!
She's got another one, wow!
Okay.
My favorite part about fishing with Gail
is seeing her catch fish.
I got another one!
You go girl.
You go get 'em, get 'em.
This is the most we got.
Gail is fishy.
And I love that about her.
I'm still doing one at a time.
Look at you, five at a time.
Woo.
I'm trying to teach the otters to wave at me.
One time they waved back, it could have been an accident
but I'm pretty sure it was on purpose.
Now that I've done the chores that need to be done,
we're going to a great field of sea asparagus that's
in the back bay to go harvest some sea asparagus.
It's for jarring and I found it last year during the winter to
be a great a resource to have when we're cut off from the road
or the grocery store and the only other option is to
fly groceries in which is ridiculously expensive.
There's a bear.
Hello, bear, just stopping to admire you for a minute.
What an opportunity.
I don't judge anyone that hunts bears I know it's a way of life
out here but I won't be one of them,
got a right to harvest the berries as much as I do.
Well, guess I'll let him be and head on our way.
Last time I was out here was last year so I'm not as familiar
with the rocks, I gotta keep a close eye.
To make sure I don't run into one of them.
Those big rocks creep up on you.
Slow down a little bit.
Whoa.
It's a rock!
That got shallow real fast.
Yee!
Okay, so yeah, this big fat rock right there.
Man. Okay.
I didn't wreck my propeller try to figure out
where the deep spot is over here if there's one to get in.
Being a new skiff driver in unchartered territory where,
where I'm not sure where it's too shallow it's,
it's probably stupid to go backwards like this because
I know if I, if I come up on it, I'm jamming my propeller into it
and that's not good.
We might have to paddle in.
Yeah, we're just, we're just gonna do that.
Now.
A seasoned Alaskan might, might not be so cautious and
scary but I just like to give the disclaimer that
I don't know what I'm doing.
But I will get it done some way or another.
Working with a little bit of a current here.
Ooh, come on.
Don't fall over.
It's okay if I do fall over, it's shallow.
So close.
Yeah, that'll work.
We're probably gonna get our boots wet today.
Since the tide's still going out I think I'll just drop anchor.
I made it!
Well, we're gonna get to harvesting.
Well, I know we have enough pieces and material here
so let's get some grinding done.
Crank up the welder and slap things back together.
All right.
I'll grab this piece here and start,
scalloping out the, the end of it there for you.
Then I'm gonna cut this piece here off.
All right.
I got a pretty good idea what I want,
just basically a hoist that'll reach out over the water.
Good and sturdy so that I could pick up
1,000 pounds or so.
And this hoist is kind of a necessity 'cause if I keep going
the way I am I'm gonna cripple myself.
- Curl. - Yeah?
Can you, can you give me a square?
So I gotta get the bottom of it.
That's gonna, now drop it down it'll...
Take off this nub and see what that does for us.
Good old Sam Carlson dropped a lovely Pearl the other day.
He said, bush alchemy, I really like that and
that struck a chord with me.
There it's looking a lot better.
- That's pretty close. - Yeah, it is.
Getting somewhere.
So I think it's that way, it might be the other way.
It's the marriage of science and art,
it's the ability to turn the extraneous into the essential.
It's the transmutation of rubbish to riches.
- That look okay? - Yeah.
You might even make it a little more acute.
- Okay. - You know?
Clear everything off the bench,
we'll lay the long pipe on there and then
we'll put the short pipe on this.
All right.
And usually it's not a straight line.
So it's like that.
But, we've got some pretty,
pretty good imaginations around here and,
put a couple heads together we can usually make a plan come
together and make life a little easier for us and our neighbors.
Man.
This is gonna help you out a lot when it comes to
humping stuff up the beach there.
Yeah, this will be slicker than though man.
Half the distance to the goal.
Now we just gotta attach the winches to
the whole rest of the Mary Ann.
Well, this is gonna be the hardest part of the job
is getting this on straight 'cause it's gotta be straight.
Yeah.
So we gotta come down 30 degrees.
That's perfect.
Sam and squibb, them two are like a couple of mad scientists.
Looks good to me.
Feel pretty lucky,
you know, to live in a place like this.
There you go.
And not only they give me a hand I mean they just more or less,
you know, hey, this, watch out.
Well, I think we're just about there, curl.
Serious bit of contraption, but,
seeing as it's only one I.
We should still be able to get it out of here pretty easy.
It's not too heavy.
This is gonna be fun.
A lot of junk.
There's a lot of good stuff too, though.
Whoa.
As long as you don't fall through it and die.
I have most of the mounting hardware
to hook the dock up to an anchor.
But I have to figure out the anchor still.
This is a badass engine; It was cool in its day.
Kind of the ideal thing is an old engine block somewhere
in the weight range between like, you know,
two to 500 pounds.
It'd be cool but it's bigger than I need and
I have no way to move it.
I'll find something somewhere,
one of these beaches.
If you were to go to a store and try
and find an anchor of the weight that I'm talking about,
you'd be looking at thousands of dollars.
And that's just silly.
What's up, cat?
This, I think, looks more like the right weight,
about the right size, the frame is still solid.
If I can get it down the beach, towards the low tide line,
I could definitely get the float
over here and pick this up.
All right.
Well, let me think.
This is gonna suck.
Always moving giant heavy things, it never ends.
One of these days I'll figure it out.
I don't ever really go into a project with a,
a dead set idea of what I'm gonna do.
Just need to get it up and turned just a little bit.
It, it's, it's a fly by night operation.
This big ass legs on it.
And sometimes, I surprise myself what I come up with.
That's the thing, you can spend a lot of time standing around
thinking about how to do something and, you know,
maybe you figure it all out but chances are it's not
gonna go according to that plan.
Holy.
So, yeah, I, I...
It's a little haywire the way I do stuff but generally it works.
Ripping my hands to.
It's digging in, come on baby.
Man, it weights a lot.
Might just go see if I can borrow Dave's rock bar.
I definitely could move it down the beach myself,
not really in the mood for a hernia.
This thing's heavy.
See if this does anything.
That's what we needed.
Makes life so much easier.
Slow and steady.
I think I'll leave it right here;
this is about the tide line.
Yeah.
This is our, this year's crop of sea asparagus.
Sea asparagus, it grows right here in the tide line
in these mud flats.
Tastes almost like a cross between canned green beans and spinach.
I really like the flavor.
So, I think we're good.
We've been out for a few hours now,
I'm real starving.
That doesn't look really good but it's gonna be okay.
We'll just plop that in, into our oven.
We won't even put any spices.
I'm not gonna make a big fuss.
Troy has been bitching about how cold it is diving and
I told Troy that if he ever dives over here for me or does anything,
I will attempt to get the hot tub fired up for him.
So I'm holding good to my promise.
At one point in time, this was my poo bucket on the boat
it's been bleached plenty since then,
don't tell Troy that part.
Filled the hot tub with my bucket, Troy.
Gotta clear that, roll that.
I'm thinking we're, we're gonna be golden.
Come on.
Guess it's off to your front 40 now, curly.
Roger that.
Like on that side more?
No, this looks pleasant right here.
I can't hear you over my outboard yet.
I can't hear you over your outboard.
There you go.
Thank you for coming down and helping me with this, Dave.
Absolutely, man.
Let's try and get that on here...
- Yeah. Yeah. - Get the hell out of here.
Troy's supposed to show anytime.
Okay.
Take down that side.
That final roll. Sweet.
Thank you, Gail.
We're eating on the fine cutlery today;
I don't have time for dishes.
It's so fast and furious fishing.
It's just grab and go.
This is good.
It's very good.
Hey, you just got a bite too.
You just got a bite too.
Jiggy, I got a little king salmon.
He's too little though.
- A little one? - A little one.
Heck no, that's a keeper.
Keeper king salmon.
No, he looks like a small one to me.
Yay!
There he is, that's the one!
Yeah!
To get the king is really the topper and
I think if there's one, there's more than one.
Holy cow, you got another something,
that's another king.
That's another king salmon!
- My god. - Yeah! Two in a row!
- Woo! - Is he a keeper?
- Yeah. - Whoa, two.
Wow. We got a jumbo.
He's a big fatty.
Good job, sweetie.
Too many to ask for.
Well, you set your line up great.
I feel like I need some music then I can get
a little jiggy with it.
- Okay. - I got a bite.
I moved to port protection and my neighbors were many of
them were power trollers.
And I just really fell in love with the idea of dragging a hook
through the water and catching a fish and
then being able to sell that fish.
Boy.
You might have a king salmon.
I got a king, he's laying right there.
Whoa, that's our biggest one.
And so I bit the bullet and bought a power troll permit
and bought a big boat.
What's that?
- Yeah. - It is a king salmon.
I knew it.
- Thank you, fish. - You're beautiful.
Yeah.
We had to work our ass off and here we are 15 years later,
still loving it, living the dream.
Wow, that's a pile of fish, Gail.
Yeah.
Might be time to call her a good trip and
go find a tender.
All right.
I'll go speed us up a little bit and head us down in.
- Yup. - All right.
It's been a good start to our season.
We're happy to have the chance to be out here and
catch some fish.
Trying to make a living, you know.
One fish at a time, one fish at a time.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
You're turning too sharp.
Too sharp, go the other way.
You're gonna wrap us all up.
Turn that way.
Which way?
Whoa!
Okay. Put it on auto pilot.
That's a good idea, okay.
That was a close one, Gail.
Gail got distracted up there with something and
she was turning the boat and
she just kept turning the boat and
the wires are getting closer and closer here to the propeller
and crossing, almost crossing over.
And, spooked me up.
We're out of here.
So, we have our sea asparagus right here.
I am rinsing off all the salt water and
muck that it was covered in.
Some of it anyway.
It's kind of a tedious job but you pick it out and, man,
it is worth it.
When you're sitting there in the middle of winter,
you've run out of produce and you're wondering what the heck
kind of Greens you're gonna eat so you don't get constipated.
I make myself laugh.
I am ready to take this first batch in.
Whoa.
Get it blanched and then see how many jars we can fill with it.
Yes! Okay, finally.
So I didn't know anything about canning
before I moved to Alaska.
I have never canned a thing in my life until this past year.
Anyway, it's important here because
we're out in the middle of nowheres in
the remote wilderness and sometimes we get cut off from
the real world whether it's because of weather
or inability to travel or whatever it might be.
All right.
I'm gonna bring that back to a boil and get the next bit.
In the meantime, I could just stuff some jars.
Yeah, I don't have a refrigerator so anything
I can store that's canned is useful.
So now I am adding hot water,
once I do that, I'm going to lid them,
drop them in the pressure cooker
and pressure cook them for 15 minutes.
Once it boils it'll start steaming,
I'm gonna have a lot of sea asparagus.
You ready for this, Troy?
Ready for the hot tub part of it.
So, I want to get a buoy on the anchor for the outhaul
so we know where it's at for dropping this.
I'm gonna send this line with you, this floating line.
And if you can attach it somehow,
just wrap it around that anchor down there at all and
get it to stay, just so we have that point of reference.
That would be awesome.
My plan, one end, I'm gonna set this new anchor.
Okay, are you ready to gear up?
- Yeah. - Okay.
And then tie another line from the existing anchor
that's on the outhaul into this new anchor.
Just punch.
Right overboard.
It should prevent any sort of hard jolts to the float.
I don't know exactly where the,
the outhaul anchor is for my boat.
- Okay. - Look at you go, spaceman.
So, first thing I need Troy to do is I want him to go down and
put on a buoy just so we can see where that anchor's at so
we don't accidentally set this one right on top of it.
The water's definitely looking a little murky here.
The visibility is maybe three to five feet in most spots.
Last night's Carl's dinner floating around in that water probably.
So finding the anchor may be a bit of a challenge.
Awesome.
Can, can you pull some of that line to you so
we get that buoy over the anchor?
Yeah, go ahead and hold there.
If you can get that secured right where it's at,
that would be beautiful.
Okay. Awesome.
See what happens here.
Once we drop this new anchor,
you can't move it, it's not easy, so I definitely
want to get it as close to perfect as I can.
Let's put it right about here.
- Let's drop this... - Going over. - Going over.
Okay, here we go.
Yep.
Bam!
You guys ready?
Okay, now we can come up.
So, we've got all the pieces for the hoist over
to curly's front yard.
That's good right there.
So, we're gonna have to weld the,
the foot socket of the davit and this mass together and
that's gonna give us an extra point of stability,
then it's just, getting her mounted.
Lift up the top.
Before we can actually manhandle this piano into place.
It's tight on the bottom.
Tack it and we'll just level up this top side.
When you live out here the cost of freight and just finding
a company that's got the metal or the stock that you need.
Can be a real pain in the butt.
Hand me that piano very slowly.
She's a piano.
If I had to calculate I'd say that this hoist is
basically built with leftover parts and pieces from
at least four different people.
A couple of different boats,
stuff out of my dad's scarp yard.
Anything that is strong enough to weld to this
is basically, it's what it's made out of.
There you go.
I guess it's time for the big hump here.
We're gonna see if we can lift this thing up and
plop it in that hole but
we gotta grease the hell out of a whole bunch of stuff.
Sure.
And we want to keep you guys away from that edge too.
All right, just don't walk in between the ladder,
we don't need nothing,
no black cats throwing hitches in the get up here.
It's gonna be very dangerous getting this hoist up.
- Put in there all the way. - Yeah, all the way down.
It will.
Keeping it straight is very important.
There's grease all over the damn thing and I've tried
grabbing a greased pig in high school half drunk.
Raising hell at the fair, it's a hard thing to do.
Junior, you're in a bad spot, kid.
If something happens not only is the pipe gonna get
you but it's probably gonna knock you off the deck.
This is gonna be fun.
And hit the rocks down below or something.
I don't know if we're gonna be able to do this.
I don't see us doing this by hand, Dave.
We gotta come up three feet.
Are you gonna be able to press that
above your head straight up?
No.
Okay, why don't you come down here and press here
and I'll switch you out there Sammy.
Yeah, well... Come on down, give curly a hand.
Okay.
No, you're, you're... What's going on?
You're just twisting a whole lot.
- Wait, hold, hold... - Straight up and down.
This is not good.
I got nothing to.
Okay, down, down, down.
- Down. - Down!
Easy.
You guys are fighting each other.
I got nothing to grab hold of.
This is dangerous..
Okay, let's,
let's bring the whole Mary Ann back down.
We gotta come up with a better plan
if you guys can't keep it straight up and down.
When there's no room to, to get a hold of it.
How about two ladders, two guys on ladders and then curly comes
over and holds it on there so it doesn't slid
slide off and both of us walk up the ladders at the same time?
Okay, I think we might be able to do it.
We know for a fact that this hoist weighs
a couple hundred pounds and it's top heavy so
there's no way in hell you can control something
that weighs that much.
The missing ingredient to get this thing up in place.
- I think so. - We will see.
So we're gonna need two ladders.
- Try this again. - Three, two.
Okay, I just don't want it to skip off of there.
Yep.
Yep, you guys hold it while I get up the ladder.
Okay, now Sam you get the other ladder in place.
Okay, we'll see.
So, you're on the other side of it.
That's a...
Okay, now hold on I gotta get up another,
another rung here.
I still don't like this Dave, at all.
- I don't either. - I don't either.
Okay, now if you can go straight up with it, curly.
Whoa, curly.
There we go, okay.
Watch that thing though 'cause...
A baby is born.
Dave your plan worked, thank god.
Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, thank you, Jesus.
- Holy. - Right on.
Came to mama.
Holy crap. Small acts of congress.
Yeah.
Now we just need to get you, a handle.
Right on.
I'm just so thankful to have this thing,
it's just gonna make my life so much easier.
Look at that.
The hoist is gonna be like a godsend to me.
- She's straight down. - Hell yeah.
My job from this point, pretty simple.
I'm essentially just going down and making sure that the,
the line going through the new anchor is now gonna go through
the old anchor and that's basically gonna prevent
a lot of movement on this, on this float.
Yep.
And just, like I said, pass that end through the cable.
Roger, Dave's ready to receive.
Always feels good to be able to help out anybody up here.
But always nice to help out a good, good friend like this.
Right on buddy.
Unlike my tinder profile,
the diving's in high demand.
Roger that.
The float's here, the anchor's set, we got
all the lines hooked up pretty much where I wanted them.
I think we're pretty good dude.
Quick and dirty.
Yep.
There might be some adjustments in the future.
But having a working float in front of the house
it's gonna be helpful.
Thank you, so much for that.
That made life so much easier.
Thank you for the warm hot tub.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
It's, it's not boiling hot but.
Cannonball!
We got some fish to sell.
To be a successful commercial fisherman
you gotta be half crazy.
All right, we're pulling up to the tender.
You gotta have the Patience and the fortitude to just get up at
4:00 am every day and keep fishing.
I'm just gonna offload my fish.
Don't go home, don't go to town and get a burger,
go fishing every day and then at the end of the season
you got a few bucks in your pocket.
Bam.
This batch is done.
Back home every minute of every day was kind of budgeted.
I knew exactly how long it would take to run to
the bathroom when I was at work.
I knew how long it would take me to drive,
ten minutes into exercise.
There we go.
And so coming out here that's not how things work.
If you try to do that for too long you probably would
become an outcast.
You have to be still sometimes, it's encouraged.
And my chores are done for the day.
85 degrees for you Troy.
That is freaking nice.
Just bring a little barbeque out here, hot tub.
A lawn chair or two.
Look at that, that's all sunset territory right there.
I know.
This would be a killer place to watch the sunset.
I had all these dreams and things I wanted to do.
I wanted to be able to drive around with a dock and
my barbeque and just go anchor it up
wherever I wanted and go hot tub.
I mean it's kind of a hillbilly dream, I don't know.
But just looking at the view, I-I really like it.
It may stay a hot tub float,
it might not be a work float anymore.
Woo!
Want to give it a, up to tension?
See if she'll, she'll pick it?
See how she spins with a little weight on it.
Suspend-o.
Living in port protection is very physically demanding.
Sweet.
And my back is messed up from, from living this lifestyle.
Boy, this thing turns like butter.
Greased lighting.
And so I work smarter not harder is the,
the name of the game with me.
That's a handsome piece of infrastructure
you got there curly.
It certainly is. Thank you guys again, man.
Thank you, thank you.
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