Cod Report for 2/14

That sucks, they should have a least give you a 50% off or better a full fare coupon towards next cod trip. Thats the bad part about going fishing somewhere far away from home. A buddy of mine was out in Montauk last week and some of the smaller boats turned away their customers to the Viking Fleet because it was going to be nasty out there, they sailed but came in early from bad sea conditions, it had to be bad for that boat to come in early. It could have been worse for you if they sailed, taken your money,get beat up and catch nothing maybe. Thats a thing to keep in mind for next time, 2nd options if your going on a questionable day, since the Frances Fleet is the only game in town there's nobody else to go with . I know Eastman's Fleet in N.H stated on their website last fall that if they told you they were sailing that day and you came up and they decided to cancell that morning they would give you a free trip.

If your looking to get out on the cod grounds again check out the post here for another cod charter, there's still room.

RIBASS said:

:thumbsdown: After dinner we hit the road at about 9:30. Called the boat office at 10:00 just to see if a message had been left regarding the trip - their fax machine picked up. Tried several more times will in route - still got the fax machine. Got to the boat at around 2:45. Another person showed up at around 3:15 (also from NJ). He said that he talked to the Captian at 8:30 and was advised that the trip was on. Loaded our stuff on to the boat and hung out. Another 5 or 6 groups show up during the next hour. Mate show up at 4:00 and heads into the office. Comes out of the office at 4:45 and gets on the boat. Minute later I see a guy carrying his stuff off of the boat. Asked him what is going on and h says that the captain canceled the trip. Went inside to speak with the mate and was advised that the trip was canceled at 10:00 by the captain and that we should of called the office to make sure that the trip was still on,

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And the following is the copy from other post...

"A perfect storm is what happened over the weekend. A lot of technology that all went wrong at the same time. It is unfortunate that we had to cancel Sunday's trip late Saturday night. As soon as the trip was canceled we took the machine off and started to answer the phone from approximately 8:30 PM until 12:30 am. When the answering machine was turned back on the tape stated that we were not sailing. Not sure what happened but some how between two different phone companies and 5 different phone lines our lines were crossed and somehow a fax line was crossed with our main number. Anyone that called after 12 am got either no answer or a fax machine. This was brought to our attention by customers that drove to the docks after they called. We thought we had made every attempt to let people know that we were canceling the trip due to 30 knot winds. Instead a computer glitch somewhere made us look like we had little or no regards for our customers. I wish I could make the phone company apologize but instead I guess I need to it for them. To make matters even worse we were notified this morning that our web site was down. Oh well. I miss the old days where we had no Internet, no answering machine or computers. We just went fishing

Captain Frank"

Well... seems to me something does not add up. If they were answering from 8:30 PM to 12:30 am as they posted, I really don't see any problem. It does not look like it happened. :naughty: