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BTW it is mostly shingle and a prop eater

Apologies from me too - we have family visiting. Have a good one

Sorry I can't be there with you clubmates, thanks to the chairman and hard working committee who toil on our behalf. Hope you will all stand in your elected places for the coming year, best wishes and congratulations to those receiving awards. Colin.

Apologies from me also.Hope the meeting goes well and you get a good turnout

Apologies for AGM Meeting. Sorry but I can't make it. Don't know the rules but . . . . . . If any of our fantastic committee wish to stand again then they have my vote and my thanks.

I'd love to and generally try to make this one but my usually accommodating B&B is unavailable due to renovations so, an apology from me. 😢 😀 Terry.

I would have sleepless nights if I had to negotiate that each trip!

First trip out over the sand bar, well I got over it ok. It would have been better to travel a bit further beyond the last yellow marker on Starboard side. say 80-100mtrs past and then head straight at the Needles. The Harbour is very shallow at the moment, I only had 2.4ft in places, we need some cruisers drawing 1 mtr to stir it up. This was a shakedown trip out at Sea and the Auto Pilot is not playing ball, "go to Sea they said and it will reset after a couple of turns" oh no it didn't. You sure miss auto pilot when it is not working. I gave the Rays a good go and managed 1 spotted, to catch that I had to wade through 30 plus doggies, they are really wide spread out there, on every bait as soon as it hits bottom. Managed a few whiting that I could see on the sounder, then back in over the bar. I had to jump out of the cabin whilst on the way in by the first yellow and stop an idiot steering directly over the sand bar, just saved him by 50 yards otherwise he would still be there. Auto pilot a bit disappointing means more effort to get it sorted. Then the marina wanted me to go on another berth while they work on mine, what a pain setting up all new ropes on a fixed pontoon. Big wash down and home absolutely shattered.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16FbBYkAcu/ The channel has broken through the huge sandbank

Come and support your club AGM tomorrow, meet you fellow members and watch the Trophy presentation. Grab a raffle ticket and have a drink. We would like to see you.

Very true. If we go down the route of a radio upgrade, Karl recommended the M330GE which would be about £300 I think; not sure of the cost of a dedicated gps antenna ; and I don’t know if the old kit would have some resale value to someone starting out equipping a boat ?

Brilliant day out Jerry, it doesn't get much better than that, apart from the fog desending , that was a bit disopointing for you, it proves making the effort can get the resaults, a long treck but well worth the effort.splendid fish well done. Colin.

The only reason for asking was, although I recommended Lowrance kit, unfortunately, the Eagle line are what they call their 'more accessible' series. Although somewhat cheaper than the alternatives, they are built as very good sounder/fish finders but save on some of the other features like the chart plotter and connectivity options. I went for the Elite FS9 and am absolutely delighted with it BUT, it comes in at probably £300 more than your option. As they always say, you pays your money and makes your choice. Terry.

Yes Karl did a good job and pointed out the issue. When one of the guys in our boat share proposed upgrading the plotter/fish finder I had this partly formed thought in my head about connectivity to the radio emergency button but dismissed it thinking that newer had to be better. Wish I’d asked !

I assume Karl fitted the option you chose? Terry.

Nope, because until today it was on my iPad so I could sit at home watching the ships go by!

Hmmm, I downloaded the manual, doesn't look good. I remember seeing something before on this forum , where there was a cut price unit that was a standalone unit so didn't have the connectivity of more standard units. Annoying! R

Any modern plotter should have a nmea 0183 output (that's from memory so might not be quite correct). Maybe you need to set the plotter to broadcast this data ? R

.......and did you remember to use it? 😉 Terry.

We got caught in the fog on Wednesday and had to make a very careful return from Dolphin Sand back to Cobbs. Like wise, saw no forecast of the fog. Great advice ref using mobile app I’ve got Vessel finder on the phone.

Hi we installed the Lowrance Eagle 9 Tripple shot with the UK and Ireland CMAP card. It works very well and is much easier to use as the screen is so much larger. However we now no longer have location information to the radio for the emergency red button so we now need either a separate antenna or new radio, typical boats!

Vessel Finder app will show you who is where......if, they have an AIS beacon. Smaller boats tend to have beacons, if you have a receiver too, often your plotter will overlay the data of boats on your chart. You can tap the vessel and get speed and direction. R

Automatic Identification System. Basically it is the Radar identifying a vessel's name, so when you are in dense fog it can identify what the vessel is called on your radar system. Therefore, allowing you to avoid it and also giving you information on the name of the vessel. I believe that is correct??

Excuse my ignorance but what is AIS?