Steve S

Nice cod boys. The fishing was below par for everyone it seems on Saturday myself included, i wouldn't read anything into it apart from being one of those days.

Tigerfish has rescheduled to Friday the 13th to Monday 16th May for the second attempt. Clive (live bait) and Graham (Bramble banker) are joining me but we are one down with Graham's Dad not being able to make it. Currently we plan to stay night one in Alderney and the next two nights in Guernsey. There is room for one more if interested please PM me.

Hmm, I can at a price.... [emoji6]

Any recommendations on where 3 fisherman could put up in St Peter Port?

Temping fate I know but the forecast is actually looking pretty good said the donkey looking at the carrot hanging in front of him...

Tigerfish: After a consultation with the crew we are going to spent the 30th on Alderney and the 1st and 2nd at St Peter Port Guernsey by way of a change, weather permitting of course.

Is anyone staying over in Guernsey for some of the time?

Looks like a Leech, a big one

Windows seals replaced by unbonding the fixed glass on one side; slow job sliding a razor blade along flat, this allowed the frame to be flexed enough to fit the sliding glass back in after fitting the seals. Used black Sikaflex 295 UV sealant to rebond the fixed glass and as a bed for the seals. All cured now and fitted on the boat sealed using Arbomask. Took 3 hours to rebuild the window, most of that was removing the old silicon. I think a professional would probably take 2, so much for 'up to 5 hours'. Whether this is an approved way of doing the job I'm not sure, it looks ok and the windows slides the full length for the first time since i've had the boat, oooo, the pleasure... So Graham, no getting chilly when we visit a small island near France...

Got quoted up to 5 hours to do the job by Jeremy Rogers, can't believe it will take anywhere near that long, So i got the window back and I'm having a go myself.

Wessex Marine, they were my first port of call, nice people, super busy with new boat deliveries, can do it but not for 2 months

Jeremy Rogers are going to take a look but have not promised to do it yet, I didn't think it would be so hard. There are loads of Marine Window company's but seemingly none round here, mainly Norfolk and Kent including South East Marine Windows, it is not something I want to ship.

haha, i didn't take you for a wimp!! Currently the hole is filled by a plastic sheet.

The seals are between the glass and frame allowing it to slide. I have removed all the old seals they were knackered. It is just the sliding glass does not come out from the frame. The fixed window is bonded in. I suspect the correct way to do it is detach the fixed window, fit seals and rebond fixed glass. Another may be to slide the seals in place in situ, however I don't think it will end up as a very good job. And I don't want to end up with a leak. Hence looking for an expert. I will call Dorset glass, any other suggestions?

Tigerfish has a teak cockpit, we don't find it hard work to maintain. We just use water with a little washing up liquid to wash as needed. Then apply teak oil once a year and twice on the high footfall areas.

Good luck with the refit Mike and Carol. I expect there will be other suprises in store hope some are good ones.

Here it is Mal

Just removed a large anodised sliding window, the seals had gone and it wouldn't slide. I have bought a new set of seals, and expected to do the job myself, however, it is proving rather tricky to do a decent job. Could anyone recommend please where/who I might take the window to get it repaired?

Lymington Harbour Commissioners are selling a number of dinghies and small craft that have been abandoned within harbour limits or have been seized because of a failure to pay harbour dues or mooring fees. As the Statutory Harbour Authority, Lymington Harbour Commission has powers to seize and remove craft and to sell them to recover costs. The craft offered for sale are marked with a lot number and will be made available for inspection through the Harbour Office from Tuesday 29th March (office hours). Interested parties are invited to submit tenders via a sealed bid process. The closing date for bids is 16.00 hours on Friday 15th April 2016. I've no idea on the quality of the boats, I would imagine some TLC will be required for many of them. More details in the link: http://www.lymingtonharbour.co.uk/news-article.aspx?page=S635942476984744860&ArchiveID=3&CategoryID=7&ItemID=293&src=

I'm going on Sat 30th for 4 days all being well if not the 13th if not...

If our UK politicians really wanted to stop commercial fishing for bass or any other fish in our waters they can, they don't want to sadly. Unfortunately.being politicians they they try to pass blame and generally that is on the EU as a convenient scapegoat, the result is all manner of problems are blamed on the EU when it is often not the case. Ireland wanted to stop commercial fishing for bass many years ago, they banded it and they are still in the EU, we can do that if our politicians had a will to do it, seems they don't. The French take the piss as far as obeying fishing regulations but the UK being out of the EU is not going to change that, in fact we will lose our voice at the table to even complain the French (or others) are not obeying the rules let alone trying to get the rule changed. It is all very frustrating, improved enforcement will help but budgets are tight and enforcement vessels expensive. There is the technology to improve enforcement, eg CCTV on commercial fishing vessels, automatically uploaded but it is not widely used, it should be. I would be pushing for that at EU meetings to help ensure regulation already passed are kept to.

Welcome to the club. Sorry to hear that you have blister trouble. Most if not all the Merry Fisher range are double skinned, I don't know that particular model. A good way to tell is look in the area where the sonar, hull speed sensor is fitted and often other skin fittings. That part won't be double skinned, if it looks different (lower, ie thinner) to the rest of the hull then the rest of the hull is double skinned.

It does clutter up the system especially if using lists of members to find the one you want but have forgotten there online name. I use the member spreadsheet to do that now, very handy. Oli could something automatic be added to remove unused accounts?

Totally agree with Martin, that's all I do when on the hard. If you read the mags you will end up with loads of jobs and expense when a sensibly placed heater on a stat sorts the issue. Of course if we were 'up north' it would be different.

Congratulations Sam and Eileen. [emoji127] [emoji176] [emoji183]