Friday, September 18, 2015

Lynn Keehn of Woodland caught her first halibut today, a 12 pounder. It bit a smaller-sized jacksmelt by Hog Island. Lynn and company decided to stay in the bay due to the fog and questionable ocean conditions. The forecast three foot swell  was actually six foot and packed a bit of power with it this morning, making for a bit of a break on the bar and other shallow spots. A few boats did head out this morning and one of them, following an old track line on the GPS in the thick fog, ended up too close to Tomales Point and got flipped over. From there their luck turned better as the boat righted itself and motor kept running. Kapulani Chong was able to get back in the boat and radio for help, as he couldn't get the boat owner, Tom Gerbi, back in the boat. The radio call was pretty garbled since the microphone was full of water, but Kerry Apgar understood "flipped" and "point" enough to direct other fishermen to the area. Rober Buckenmeyer and Helmuth Himmrich found them and were able to pull Tom into the boat between sets of breakers. Kapulani ended up driving the rolled boat home. They are lucky, lucky, lucky. 

4 comments:

Harvest Time said...

Tom very relieved you survived!

Anyway maybe this will help shut the mouth of the guy who was trash-talking Robert the entrepreneur and now hero.

Anonymous said...

Tom has just bout used up 9 lives...stay safe young friend, Sharon & Lawson's would certainly miss your humor

Anonymous said...

I think the real hero would go to kapo who keep his wits about him and took control of the situation. Kapo is a stand up young man that wouldn't have left toms side just luckily he had the assistants of Robert and helmuth who were in the area. Tom your definitely a survivor. Glad ur still with us.

Anonymous said...

The Hayes family was relieved to see them come through safely! We now call Kapulani; Phelps Chong!