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The wear groves in the prop shafts were repaired with a molybdenum thermal coating. The process consisted of grinding back the shaft, spraying on the molybdenum thermal coating, then grinding the shaft to size. The photo below shows the finished shafts. It was not necessary to remove the bearings etc on the shafts which saved additional expense. The repair was handled by Sam Cobb of landtosea.co.uk, he uses a local factory, I don’t know which one. It took 3 weeks in all. I was charged £290 plus VAT per shaft. Ropewalk were very happy with the quality of the finished shafts. They have been refitted and are in use and my boat launched yesterday, yippee. I was told the repair should last longer than the original shafts, since I got 1500 hours out of them it should mean I’ll never have issue again. Sam told me the process is used to repair wind turbine shafts, IPS drives among many other items. Also a big thank you to Charlie for letting me have a reconditioned steering ram to replace one I found leaking on the night before launch, it got me out of a hole.

April fish of the month. 1st Place; Dave Evans Pollock 16lb 0oz 100% Specimen £25 Voucher 2nd Place; Chris Witheford Plaice 3lb 05oz 83% Specimen 3rd Place; Dave Evans Garfish 1lb 0oz 80% Specimen Please add photos if possible.

@Gazza, bumping this up as I took a side-scan screenshot of bream nests over the weekend and thought I'd update this thread. Here you can clearly see the bream nesting sites showing as circular, honeycomb-like structures on the right hand side of this sonar pass. I was scouting around for a new mark on the weekend as my regular spots were already taken. As soon as I spotted these I dropped a line over and bingo! Fish first drop. Full report over on Outlaws in case you want to read it: https://www.offshoreoutlaws.co.uk/topic/2357-may-14th-on-the-bream/

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