First day, I had no help from the mothership so I was on my own, 15 miles offshore. Second day, I used the boat as a deterant against homeguard seals. We used two methods, 1) If I was hooked up the boat would come by and distract the seals. 2) Would get fish to swim under boat , thus seals would follow then boat would stay on top of seal to prevent him from getting air and releasing fish (if seal had fish in mouth). Worked great.
