Dave brought the Richard & Arnold back to Provincetown, not that he wanted to stop catching squid but because there is work to be done that requires his attention: he added fiberglass cloth and resin to deck to stop leaks from the top, there are no leaks from the bottom now! Dave will replace an old leaky muffler and some metal pipe as well.  A new net has been ordered form Levin in Fairhaven,MA for the up coming Fluke season and we just returned from a two day trip to New Jersey to pick up an aluminum net reel, along with two winches, and doors (the metal slabs that hold the net open). We borrowed our son's truck and a friend's trailer to carry the gear, I'd forgotten how stressful travel on America's highways can be, especially when towing a 20 ft trailer. We witnessed the most bizarre traffic accident on our way onto the George Washington Bridge: traffic was at a crawl - stop and go - lanes narrowing and funneling from four down to two, construction on the left, bright plastic orange cones forcing cars to the right and this small car squished itself against a big truck, literally ran into the massive truck going less than 5 miles an hour like it was going to push it out of the way -  instead of stopping and waiting for the truck to pass, or running into the plastic cone - the car pushed against a truck 10 times its size. Dave and I couldn't believe our eyes. We were able to scoot around it because we were in back of the truck. Some people just shouldn't be driving. We were happy to arrive in Pt. Pleasant, NJ where there still is a fishing fleet, anywhere there are fishing boats feels like home. Everyone was helpful and we had the trailer loaded in an hour. I spent a couple of summers with my family when I was a kid in our two week rental at the beach in Point Pleasant. We spent the night and walked the boardwalk along the Jersey Shore, the first time for Dave and a return for me - some sixty years later. My how time flies. Back home safe and ready to tackle the muffler, its priority. After that if there is time before Fluke season, Dave will cut the old net reel off and lift it from the boat. The new one will be mounted, bolted and welded in place. Sounds easy when I write about it but nothing about fishing or the boat is ever really easy, but I think Dave would rather be welding on a new net reel than driving Interstate 95.