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Happy Birthday Dave have a good one

Happy birthday Kev, have a pint in the Green Tree for me!! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Happy Birthday, hope you have been chasing a Flounder!!

Watching the weather and trying to work in a days fishing at this time of year is always tough. Today looked hopeful for a week now and everything came good, all except Mal was enjoying himself in the sun celebrating the fact he had caught all the Cod!!!!! Left Cobbs at 6*45 and crept under the bridge with 2-7m clearance scraping the aerials, with such a good forecast and pretty big tides we stayed our end of the bay, after a couple of hours Kingfisher appeared and anchored close by. At this point we had only had, not a strap but a bootlace!! a Tope and a pollack around 8lbs. Everything was slow. I called Kingfisher who, as usual was struggling to keep up with bites and fish!!! He kindly suggested to move and join him, after a slight struggle to retrieve the anchor we discovered the stainless good quality D shackle joining the anchor warp to the chain had completely twisted and broken. This basically meant an end to our day, after much struggling with mulgrips and adjustables, I called Kingfisher to see if he had a hacksaw, at this point Charlie on Alfresco heard our problems and called to check we were ok. We collected the hacksaw from Chris in a sloppy sea and strong tide and proceeded to first cut the galvanised chain and then the stainless shackle ( I am sure I owe you a new blade Chris) after replacing the d shackle we found it would not pass through the windlass so some muscle was required for the last 10 meters when retrieving the anchor. We returned the hacksaw and made a pigs ear in the strong tide and breeze of coming along side but no damage done. We tried two or three more marks to no avail and came in around 3-15. A really big thankyou to Chris for having a proper tool kit, mine is being sorted out and replenished. Thankyou Charlie for keeping your ears on. Slow day but still fun, and big thankyou to above club members.

I feel really sorry for all you guys getting so much fishing time in,hope you have a great w/e weather wise and Cod comp happens, tight lines.

Hope you all were out today, it was stunning, very happy birthdays!

Have a good one Stuie, I hope the sikaflex worked!

Hi Matt, No promises but I live in Wiltshire and hope to fish a lot more next year, send me a pm as to where you are and telephone number and I will see what we can sort.

Even more belated happy birthday!!!

Well done Stuie, email sent, it is pretty depressing that common sense does not prevail.

Well done Brian, look forward to seeing you at Cobbs, boat looking very smart. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Well done Chris not really jealous

We have people like this that arrive in the countryside on bank holidays, especially sunny ones like this one, unfortunately it's us that lose out rather than the gentleman who lost his boat above!!! Do hope there were no casualties. Muppetry

Brian are you moving north? Welcome if you are!!!

Welcome Mel, I am fairly new 4 years I think, but a brilliant club and really friendly members who just want to help and see everyone achieve what they want. Have fun this week.

Very smart Nigel, though I do think you could of had your toe nails manicured as the engine looks great!!! Tight lines

Happy birthday for yesterday!!

Martin, A very well put togeather eloquent post, in many respects. Unfortunately you are correct, Robs figures are WAY out, I wish you were right Rob!!!!! I want a new engine on the boat, it's mad, I am SO lucky being in a position to do it but it's all a balance, with the actual figures Rob a few trips to the Shambles and hopefully the Skerries in the future and even Alderney the figures will get back in my favour, after I think around 18 months. It's all useful information from everyone, many thanks.

Don't confuse me chaps!!!!! It's taken a long time to come to my decision!! I believe that present charter skippers on registered boats get a lot of help re tax on petrol, I looked into registering the boat to gain this advantage but apart from probably being illegal the costs did not work out for a private boat----not surprisingly. Changing to inboard diesel over outboard petrol will save me nearly 45% per trip out on fuel. A really big investment, but as I am retiring next year I want to use the boat as much as I want to,and not feel guilty that a trip out round the bay and back and hopefully some further a field is costing mega bucks each time. It's all in the head!! But having spoken to others in the club and many other experienced skippers THINK this is the way forwards. One wise man in Monaco told me if it flies,floats or f--- rent it. This is true but I love my wife and my boat and don't have a pilots license!!!! Thanks for all the comments guys.

Thanks Charlie, Rob it's a Breaksea 25, basically an Offshore 25. I have confidence in Pete Watts the boatbuilder, and he has fitted many inboards to this size boat, and as he built it knows what has got to change from ob version. At the moment I have a Yamaha 225, I could be wrong saying it's 300hp it could be 250, all I know is performs very well in this boat from figures stated!!

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All great advice, many thanks, all the above is what I have been told and believe to be correct. Mechanics are certainly not my strong point but enjoy learning and time should be available fairly soon I am a good apprentice Steve! so after February 2018 give me a shout and I will come and pass spanners when you service your legs if you need help. I have looked at the new boat scenario and had a buyer for mine but to spec it to what mine is, and what I paid,it is worth it. I have a buyer for the engine and pod so it is about as good as I can get it I think. I will speak with Pete again Dave but know he is keen on the leg and VP. Thanks for all advice and help guys it's a big sea out there and just as you think you know a bit about something you quickly realise you know nothing!!!!!!

I think I have made the decision to change my outboard to an inboard. It has been suggested I put a Volvo penta D4 300hp I think, and a leg. The servicing I know will be more, but running costs will be dramatically less I believe along with better cruising and top speed. I believe Dave on Reel Magic has this set up on his slightly larger Breaksea? Any comments,positive,negative or otherwise greatfully received, other than I will require a second mortgage!!!