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10/20/03 crab NWS::  F/V Exito crewmen Lee Fleury prepares to throw the grappling hook at a crab pot buoy off in the distance while Lyndon Yockey (rear) runs the hydrolics to manuever heavy crab pots to be stacked onboard. The season lasted 5 days and 2 hours and was plagued with gale force winds of 35 knots or higher almost everyday causing to seas to rise 10 to 15 feet (waves).