Reading back over my log, I remembered what a mischievous creature the Sea Wolf could be. Sort of like a horse who will throw you if he senses you aren’t paying attention…the Sea Wolf could bite you on the ass. She was a big, brand new Rozema bow picker …marine aluminum , twin engines…a real packer…we put 24 tons of herring on her in one go..of course that was when we came within a cat’s whisker of sinking her…or rather she nearly took us down with her. Big Ron and I leased her in 1988 and 1989 while my Sierra was being built. I didn’t take it personally when she tried to drown us with her booby trapped bow compartment on the Togiak herring grounds…However, several weeks later while we were running to Egegik for a June 20th opening..that psycho boat set my mattress on fire while I was sleeping on it…Ron was running the boat…I was catching a nap in my bunk…We were 30 miles out from Clark’s Point headed for Egegik when I simultaneously smelled smoke and my right butt cheek made contact with my smoldering mattress…we caught it in time …pulled the smoking mattress on deck…and noticed the engine bulkhead was glowing red from the exhaust overheating….No harm done…the bulkhead didn’t melt…the boat didn’t catch fire and we made the Egegik opening…had 5,406 lb. for the period on June 20, 1988….It had one more trick to play on us….a couple of days later the steering arm on the transom plate broke…we were dead in the water..floating off Coffee Point with no steering to speak of..Ron got on the radio and put a call out to the group….Stubby showed up and gave us a tow into the Egegik River….after a 48 hour goat show..we had the steering repaired and made the 12 hour opening on June 27….delivered 3,980 lbs…After that the Sea Wolf settled down and we made good money with her…and we always paid attention to her whim’s and eccentricities.