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6th pic down.

 

got some other shots we took as well, but they're not so clear, and mostly of the fin and tail on the surface. That's been cropped but you can see Alum Chine in the background in the original.

 

Drifted with it on tickover in gear for about 20 mins, being very mindful of distressing it (especially seeing as we didnt want it to go away) and at the end of the encounter we were around 10ft off it, on idle, having got ahead of it and come around in front of it's seemingly straight path (although it did meander a bit). As it was alongside we got it at between 1/2 & 2/3 the length of our White Shark 205.

 

Lost it in the reflection of the sun as it turned a tad towards the shore just after passing an 8 knot marker. We were in 6-8 ft of water by then off Alum Chine, perhaps Brankesome, but I wasn't really concentrating. Spent about 20 mins looking for the dorsal and tail fin that we spotted first in the netted area just west of Bournemouth Pier, but to no avail.

 

Seemed to be behaving like a basking shark, but never saw the characteristic mouth open, or nose on the surface. We thought it might be following the gutting trail left by a netter sorting his catch in the shallows... that's when we thought it might be a porby.

 

Still not sure if it was either a big porby or a small basker... we were close enough to see a couple of welts on the tail, but we never saw the mouth open.

 

Still, made for an interesting break in the skiing

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Thanks Robf.....Always nice to see it first hand or get a report from one of the forum boys...

 

Dave