As of yesterday the Sea Lion was doing better and improving. It is not totally in the clear due to infection and stress. Thanks everyone for the good words and it was the only thing we really could do concidering the circumstances. We had some thoughts of trying to remove the net but then realized that successfull or not the sea lion ( a male) would have left the boat and it would have been the last time to be able to save it. It was very docile and trusted us to some extent so we decided to take it in rather than stress it out more. Besides my wife is a wild life biologist and would have killed me if we did anything other than that.
Chuck Skewes
Ullman Sails
Thanks for the update. Hope the critter makes it.