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Junior comp, macs for everyone!

Steve, you dont mention primer? I assume you do use one? Perhaps we should have a comp for a weedy winter blast, I might get in the prizes for that!!

As with mostly everything with boats used for essentially leisure, the more you use it the less problems there are. This is certainly true for fouling, I aim if at all possible to take Tigerfish out at least once a week even if I just go for a blast round the Solent in rough weather, great fun if you have that kind of mindset... For stopping fuel consumption rising through the year aside from regular use I find the most effective thing is cleaning the props, I do this with a brush and abrasive pad while kneeling from the swim platform, generally twice a year, fairly quick if they are not too bad to start with. For the rest of the leg I've found a single good thick coat of Trilux is just enough for the way I use the boat but then again I'm not berthed in Cobbs so can't compare. Interesting that you use Interspeed Charlie, I didn't realise that is ok for aluminium.

I painted mine from new, as do most if not all people with out drive legs at the Yacht Club Initially Primed with primacon and then I used Trilux anti Fouling which I was not that happy with I now use International Interspeed, in a lighter colour than the hull so I can see when they start to weed up. You will see a massive difference in performance and fuel consumption when the hull and legs get weedy

I can only assume his boat is not a rocket ship like Looby! R

Jerry, a guy in the wsf forum has been singing the praises of a light coat of marine grease smeared all over the legs of his boat. Got to be worth a try for a while before painting them !! Neil Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Jerry clean them off, very lightly abrade the paint then apply a coat of trilux. I use aerosol for all the tricky bits and brush for the flat bits. Saves money on the aerosols, it's just ok for a season, just.

Blake with his first conger on his new rod set up.

Jacob with a nice Undulate Ray in kids comp. 9lb 12oz.

Myself and two friends raided the waters 6 miles south of the needles yesterday. Great tips from a couple of club members made the day, thanks guys [emoji1303]. We arrived around 1pm after steaming from Hamble and stopping at Yarmouth deep to feather for mackerel , we found 3 or 4 to add to the bait box. First drop for the tope produced a feisty 15lb example After that we had another 5 between 6-12lb, one brill A small thornie And of course the standard LSD (not deemed worthy enough for a pic)!! Weather was amazing and Tarlach Too behaved impeccably . All in all a great day out and loads of fun had !!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hi Jerry My previous boat had an out drive Leg and it too used to weed up even though I used Trilux right from the start. Cobbs is bad for weeding up and I am afraid you may have to clean your legs every so often as I used to. Now I am shaft driven as Chris said it is a lot less hastle.

Hope yours is not quite like this one I saw last week [emoji6]