Inside The Book...
"I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea...All of us have, in our veins, the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat,in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whetherit is to sail or to watch it, we are going back from whence we came."
President John F. Kennedy
Newport, Rhode Island
September 14, 1962
"Got 'em!" Knee-deep in crab after Nesika fish hold was full - 1988
Bob and Michele in front of their home at the beach in Newport,
just south of Yaquina Head - Summer of 1998
F/V Michele Ann crabbing off Point Reyes, Northern California
Dylan with halibut on the Michele Ann - 1999
Dylan and Ben with tuna cautht for fun during sablefish season,
aboard the Michele Ann - 2000
Ben getting sablefish pots ready for the season - summer 2001
Bob, Dylan, Michele and Ben - Thanksgiving 2001
The Nesika beached with coast guard personnel aboard
December 12th, 2001
F/V Nesika memorial at dock 5, Newport bayfront, Newport Oregon