Commerical Fishing and Summer's End
August 25th 2008 A break in the monotony of commercial fishing--our steering went out suddenly, yanking the boat to the left, before coming to a dead stop. The wheel had frozen, locked in place by who knows what.
Mom and I ran out and jumped in the cockpit to pull in the gear before the steel wires wrapped themselves around each other...or worst case scenario, the rudder. The lines hung straight down, weighted
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