The SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE is S.O.L.A.S. rated to travel anywhere in the world. She is equipped with the most modern safety, navigation and communication devices. Her schedule includes not only the Pacific region of the Baja Peninsula, but the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) as well.

Her design provides for excellent stability and an average cruising speed of 11 knots. Her range encompasses 2500 nautical miles on self-sustained voyages of up to 16 days. On board, state-of-the-art safety, navigational and electronic communications equipment ensure safe, comfortable and convenient ocean travel.

Owner/Captain Mike Keating has more than 25 years of ocean fishing experience on the waters off the California and Mexico coasts. Together with his friendly and knowledgeable crew, he is committed to providing you with the very best in attentive professional service.

From KGO TV, San Francisco, CA:

East Bay boxing champion Andre Ward has survived some tough battles, but he knows they’re nothing compared to the ones fought by soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. He heard their stories first-hand Tuesday when he visited the Veterans Administration Hospital in Palo Alto.

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Huge thanks to Mike Rivkin, who has generously offered to provide 400 copies of his book BIG, one for each attendee. Awesome!

Mike Rivkin is a veteran offshore angler and past president of the venerable Tuna Club of Santa Catalina Island. He is also a retired catalogue publisher and has written extensively on the history of angling, including five widely acclaimed books. On the water, Mike has caught every type of marlin that swims, most notably a 1,226 lb black marlin taken off Australia in 1984. He splits his time between La Jolla and Catalina Island, California and continues to fish the Pacific waters nearby.

Thank you Mike!

It’s Memorial Day Weekend, a great three-day holiday for many of us who live free today thanks to the many men and women who died preserving our liberty and the millions more who have served this country.

Christopher Montera was doing just that a few months ago when he came as close as anyone can to giving his life for his country. But he survived a near fatal blast in Afghanistan, and today Army Sgt. First Class Montera is still healing in Brooke Army Medical Facility in San Antonio from severe wounds he had from the mortar blast. His family hopes to return him to San Diego, where he will continue his healing and therapy at Balboa Hospital.

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The family of Army Sgt. First Class Christopher Montera, who was critically wounded in Afghanistan last month and now is recovering at Brooke Army Medical Facility in San Antonio, Texas, has established a bank account for those wishing to support San Diego Sportfishing’s own wounded warrior.

Christopher Montera, who grew up working and fishing on sport boats in Point Loma, faces a long recovery, and his family plans to spend as much time at his side as possible. That will require them to eventually have to pay for flights and other expenses. Christopher Montera faces his own expenses, too, once he recovers from surgeries and treatments and is released from care. Those wishing to contribute are asked to do so through the Christopher Montera Support Fund, Wells Fargo Bank, Account Number: 2606136782.

Montera, 32, was on his first tour of Afghanistan last month after three tours in Iraq when he was critically injured. He was securing the perimeter with another soldier, SPC Jordan Gerald Houghton when “an 82M mortar ignited a 400-pound section of C4,” his mother said. Houghton was injured, but he was able to pull Montera to safety and saved his life, April Montera said.

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On Sept. 11, 2001, Christopher Montera was attending San Diego State, but like a lot of Americans, he felt outrage when terrorists attacked U.S. soil in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

Like a lot of young Americans, Montera decided to do something about it.

“We watched it all unfold on TV that morning together,” his mother, April Montera, said. “Next thing I know, he’s telling me he is joining the military. I said, ‘No,’ of course. No mother wants her son to join the military. But he went and joined the Army.”

Sgt. First Class Montera, 32, was on his first tour of Afghanistan after three tours in Iraq last Thursday when he was critically injured. He was securing the perimeter with another soldier, SPC Gerald Houghton when “an 82M mortar ignited a 400-pound section of C4,” his mother said. Houghton was injured, but he was able to pull Montera to safety and saved his life, April Montera said.

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