Albatross on the Boat
NALU KEA is a very cool boat, the last haole sampan of its kind made in Hawai‘i. I get calls and letters from lots of people who remember and yearn for the experience of fishing on the beautiful old sampan hulls. This is the account of one such guy, George Mills, who in the late ’70s traveled here from Washington for another sweet lick at the lollipop.
The experience of big-game fishing is both unique and complicated. It is an odd hybrid of individual achievement and teamwork. In Kona, there is always the shadowing presence of the world’s most violent creature, the Pacific
