Originally Posted By: Hankster
Back in the early '80s my dad and his cousin-in-law bought a commercial salmon boat. They docked it in Sausalito and one day I went over there to have lunch with my dad and look at the boat. There was a 12ga in a corner of the wheelhouse and I asked him if that was to repel boarders. "No," he said, "that's for the f'n sea lions".


Twin brother and partner Gary Duffy used to dock their commercial salmon boat in Sausalito too. 12ga. was part of their gear then too. Used to refer to it as "Takin' a sea lion's picture" Lots of muffled reports on those cold Nor Cal days I was told smirk