Oli

Well done chaps, excellent report, I'm green with envy!

Haha brilliant report - made me chuckle! Great pics

Excellent stuff - congratulations on a good day's fishing and the new record!

It looks pretty windy offshore to me - force 5 all day mid channel Sat and force 4-5 all day Sunday on xcweather. Be careful those venturing out

I get that problem in Mozilla Firefox but they open fine in Internet Explorer...

Ah god not again! Well I guess there's a slim chance. Do you mind if we wait for a really bad forecast for the crossing? Anything less than a 5 and it wouldn't feel normal

Welcome Adam, you've joined a great club

Welcome to the club Andy!

I can't bear it - it's driving me insane, I'm checking the weather every half hour!!!

3 of the 4 Sweet Chariot crew will be present on Wednesday. 4th man can't make it from Somerset (no excuse!). How will we know who you are? Maybe someone should stand by the bar with a big bunch of flowers or something?

Another promising report from Alderney: http://www.alderneyangling.com/latestreports.htm

Dad and I will do our best to make Wednesday. It's quite tricky midweek as we live in London but do really want to get down for it. No doubt I'll be lumbered with the drive back! Edit: Please put us down for 200 Litres

Adam that sounds ideal. Would be great to aim to meet you at the yard bright and early and set off together. Will you be stopping mid channel (weather permitting)? We're hoping to factor that in to the trip as there's a few numbers I'm desperate to try...

Thanks very much, it would be great to join you. I am on the case with the chart studying, must get on the boat and see if the card in my plotter contains detailed Alderney maps though. Regarding bait do you usually feather launce and use that along with mackerel? It sounds like an excellent trip and a great opportunity to meet everyone - we can't wait.

Welcome to the club - very new here too but from what I've experienced so far, it's a great place to be! Oli

Well that photo has pretty much sealed the deal - just need to sort out the accommodation. How sympathetic are they to cancellations if the sea isn't crossable? Tom you are more than welcome to join us if you think it will be comfortable with 5? You sell the boats so you know best!

Charlie/Duncan, Thanks so much for getting back to me. Both extremely helpful. Our hope is to catch some nice flatties more than anything else - I would die and go to heaven if I boated a nice turbot/brill. Not too bothered about targetting Tope as we seem to do fairly well for those over this side (famous last words). Definitely would like to stop mid channel though for a wreck/brittle stars. We're an Arvor 230 so I guess would cruise ideally at about 15kts.

Is there still room for Sweet Chariot + 4 crew? Being Alderney virgins I do have a few questions... Humour me! Presumably there are plenty of places to tie up once we get to Braye - do we need to book a mooring in advance? Will we all travel over fairly closely together so when we reach the other side there is (hopefully) someone who knows the waters? What sort of speed do we travel over at? Is the 'Visit Alderney' website accommodation section accurate as judging by that there does seem to be a fair amount of B&Bs with space? For the fishing days would we be likely to go out as a group of boats again as I would have no idea where to fish over there? How bad will the forecast be for it to be called off and for the return journey, if the Monday was looking terrible would we be likely to return Sunday instead? I realise I must now sound like a total boring b*****d. Cheers! Oli

Just a casual 70 mile round trip then... Though if you are talking about the wreck I think you are, it is one I have always wanted to try. Is it as productive as legend has it?

Thanks for all the messages - we've been made to feel very welcome. Roll on the summer!

Just wanted to drop by and say hello to everyone, my dad and I have just joined the club. We keep Sweet Chariot, our Arvor 230 at Parkstone Bay and were told about the club by Tom Bettle who couldn't speak highly enough of it - so here we are! Looking forward to many enjoyable trips and comps in the bay, we don't need much of an excuse to get out there! Tom also mentioned a certain Alderney trip which sounds fantastic. Thanks for the emails we received welcoming us. Oli & Nick Maingay