Topic: The $10,000 fish

[piersdad]

The $10.000 snapper

Years ago a friend was building a Ferro cement fishing boat. I helped him with the electrical wiring
Every cabin and crawl space had some sort of light and fitting even the bunks had lights
A labor of love with  no effort spared
The launching date was set but the transporter would not fit so delays
The second transporter arrived and the 40 foot boat traveled to its destination alas the boat was now too high for the overhead wires and every crossing for the 30 miles of highway had to stop and maneuver the wires over the boat.
At the slipway the crane would not lift the boat off the transporter   so delay for the next day.
THAT was Friday the 13th  ok bad luck got us to here but its was just another day
Launched the boat on Friday and all went well
The first fishing trip was a poor catch  with  just a 100 lbs of snapper
Owner and I shared 4 snapper between us and sold the rest
The next fishing trip was a disaster as the boat hit a rock at a low spring tide that no other boat had hit in this oft used channel as they probably not so big and not sailing over  it on low spring tide
So it sank and after tremendous effort  it was   floated again after 3 months salvage  and was carefully tied up at the wharf
Some how the mooring lines got snagged and the boat was held down under the wharf during a high spring tide 
Again the boat sank and a costly refloat and eventual abandonment

So 4 snapper return from $40.000 worth of investment 
A $10.000 snapper anyone (btw it tasted really good)

(Edit)  this has been rewritten and now under the heading
the worlds most expensive fish

read the updated  more detailed version

[Cran]

I think I'll get my fresh fish from the market... same as usual 

[sandycampbell]

   That's some expensive fish.