jerry.shutter

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!!!

Great report Steve, we got to Southbourne today but did not find a honey hole just a Pout plughole!!!!!!! Well done you had a great day.

Sugar!!! might be throttle by hand then

Other than heading to Golden Arrow does anyone know where I might find a control box to change a 25hp Yamaha tiller steer to steering wheel and throttle? Any good local mechanics who might help out if it proves testing to fix (hope not but mechanics not my strong point)

There is something good regards the abstraction from the river Kennet down from 13millon litres to 6 million!! All a bit sad

Thankyou, I thought I would get a name wrong some where!

Thanks Stuie, I heard the end of this this morning. Let's hope it's the right way forward, I certainly think it is if it's policed.

After an introduction to match fishing by Dave and coming 5th last year in his comp, I decided to put a crack team together. This was helped by the fact certain people were in Norway and Dave needed a boat to fish on!!!!! This also reduced the opposition greatly!! With bacon butties on board and the promise that a defibrillator was at the end of c pontoon we coaxed Neil on board!! So with myself Jerry 2,Neil, and Dave we made the 8.30 bridge, what I did not know was Dave had a very secret weapon onboard, with around 2 minutes before the lift he called for the net, this immediately fell apart!! (Great start skip,what sort of boats this!!!)was all I heard, some quick thinking had a plump 1lbs+ Flounder hit the deck. Happy days. Pushing out through the harbour with Martin on Madness leading the way, Jim taking some great photos and Mal looking half naked with out his pink pinney we parted company heading east. We fished around 5 marks in the day all producing what was expected from them except one. The secret weapon was used when conditions were correct and no other boats were within view, Dave nervously announced something strange and special was coming up, and low and behold the Tope mark prouduced a plump Dover Sole!! I think with Neil and myself prouducing a large shadow on the water it thought it was dark and was on the feed!!! We moved to the secret Ray mark as the wind dropped to absolutely nothing and also unfortunately the tide, hot sausage rolls and bacon butties kept the team going, and after struggling for a bass and a plaice Neil just mentioned a certain secret plaice mark so onwards and upwards. Skipper had not even got a line in the water and Neil had a double shot bass and Plaice!!! After a stunned silence Neil got a round of applause. Happy days we were up and rolling again. Off for a Pollock at the castle after the wind had decided to really pick up along with the tide, mmmm skipper had to try a bit harder here to hold station, I had just discovered Dave's past life was coxswain of a life boat in the Solent, it must of pained him as we struggled to stay on station. Unfortunately Pollock did not play ball so even though early,we headed to the famous secret Tompot mark. Within a couple of minutes Dave had hurtled us into the lead, though we didn't know at this time. Eel and mullet eluded us in Holes, but half the crew disappeared when we got moored up, I thought nature being the reason, no Dave sniffed out a Peroni aboard a fellow competitors boat!! Scrubbed up and in the bar for 5.45 Doonbar flowed and a great curry or chilli was consumed.Only 9 boats had taken part but suprising seeing the prizes on offer. I was delighted to hear we had managed first place ( due considerably to DD VERY secret weapon and Neil's local knowledge) Second was Crazy Fred on Beowulf SeaWolf Third Martin on Madness Fourth Greg on Marlin who had a junior team to watch out for,one of whom had a 8.5lbs Bass on July 1st Hope all the above is correct. We had a really great day thanks to Dave and Kerrys had work. It takes a lot of hard work to put something.ike this on so many thanks. PS Those in Norway can stay there giving us all a shout in various comps!!! Hope your having fun.

Poor Mal

Ooooh it's so good people like the VC make mistakes too!!! Thanks Martin makes me feel huuuummmaaannnnn!!!!!!!

Thanks Mal your a gent!!!!!!

As old as I am, you would think meeting some good Dorset folk in the pub the night before going fishing, I would know not to over indulge. WRONG. I was taking out a friend/landlord from the shoot and Neal had offfered his ghillling services. Blowing till 10 then levelling out was the forecast, this was broadly correct, however my brain and body decided it was not!!!!! 7.30 bridge too early so dropped aerials and other bits and easily cleared the twin sails bridge. Horrible dirty sea through the Swash and past Old Harry to Peveril but the ghillie got it right and Mackerel were found and after an hour we headed out to 50/50 to drift for a Tope. After no time a fish hit a bait but was missed, then a Tope around 20lbs was boated much to the friends delight. I missed another 3 hits using circles, mmmmmm something wrong, then another smaller Tope. It was still pretty unpleasant so after much amusement to the crew the skipper decided we should get out the mucky stuff!! Thanks Neal you were fairly understanding😩😩😩😩😩 With a herring and scad to add to the species list we looked for a Ray but caught every LSD in the bay😂😂😂. Back for the bridge which didn't lift so juggled the aerials again. Fun day but never been bad on my own boat before!!! It's all a big learning curve😂😂😂

We had organised some friends months ago to come and visit us and the boat. They kindly invite me fly fishing every year and a return invite required. I did not know there capabilities but they were keen. We did the 2.30 bridge and we're heading out for some Mackerel then hopefully a Tope, after a couple of fruitless hours off Peverel and Durlestone I decided to put the hook down on a bank and try some frozen Mackerel and leave the feathers out. After an hour we had a nice female undulate around 12lbs and 9 Mackerel!!!!!!! So a gentle return as BBQ seemed more important than Tope!! After far to much enjoyment the night before, and a banging head we made the 10.30 bridge, same plan. This time thankfully 4 Mackerel put in an appearance and we headed out and had a beautiful long quiet drift down the Jurassic coast with Tope to 40lbs for both friends, they were delighted. Headed in to Dancing Ledge for a last hour with nothing to show for our efforts. Absolutely unbelievable weather and very happy friends, and wife!!!!😎😎 I now have even more respect for skippers like Ryan, I am shattered after a day and a half keeping people happy on board!!!

Happy Birthday , hope you catch a birthday lunker over the w/e!

Great idea Dave, should get a bit of fishing done between the banter!! Count me in.

It's yours Chris, I am down at Cobbs today/tomorrow cleaning the boat if your about?

A superb condition Avet as above, mistake on my behalf bought off eBay it's LHW and I am RHW!!! The reel is in superb condition and I was gutted it was not listed as LHW, the seller did offer money back but it all just went wrong!!! Happy to bring to a club meeting or meet at Cobbs as I get there hopefully most weeks. £140 ovno

A phone call last week from Dave Wilson,Dogfish Dave the manager from Cobbs Quay bought a smile to my face. His usual top team of anglers from Cobbs were on holiday or busy, so could not join his team to fish in an annual species competition for the Poole Chater fleet, and most of the England boat squad to practice and look for selection, along with many other well respected and well known anglers. Well out of my league but a very kind invitation and I knew I would learn lots. Our boat which we were drawn on was Ocean Runner skippered by Ryan a really enthusiastic young skipper who could not of tried harder for us on the day. The other team of 4 on the boat for the day were from IOW and Brighton and obviously serious match anglers, there boxes of rigs were unbelievable!!!! Our team comprised of Dave, Neil Sturt,Kev Cousins and myself, with some cracking bait supplied by MDL and flat seas we headed out to a bank to fish for rays. Things were slow to start with but by a miracle I managed to put the first fish on the boat, a small blonde which settled my nerves a bit! Kev followed with a doggie, every type of fish counted for either 1 or 2 points and the first thing was to try and beat the other team on the boat. The other team were using very long continental boat match rods, something I hadn't seen before but soon learnt why they used them. After about an hour around slack we tried a few drifts on The Sadler but things were still slow. Odd fish coming on board for both teams but with a fair amount of weed in the water Ryan decided off to the Patch to look for some mini species. Both teams managed to get up to around 9-10 species after an hour at the Patch and we were pretty even, a short stop at Lobster Rock prouduced nothing and Ryan was really pulling out all the stops to try and put us on fish. Off to the secret Ray mark which for the first 30-40 minutes was also very quiet, then Dave had a Smoothound way back off the stern. Neil and I were both up nearer the cabin and struggled a bit with shorter rods how the boat was sitting in the tide, well our excuse anyway!!! Kev had a nice Undie around 12lbs I think and pretty much next drop had a Turbot !!!!! Top man! While this was happening the other team were creeping up and overtaking us buy 3-4 fish then 4-5, they were using very set tactics and had one angler fishing solely for a Mackerel and Garfish all day! It took him all day but he succeeded in the end. We were just not getting the luck/roll of the dice, or were the other team just better anglers? We moved to the chain ferry to look for a bass and a pollock, with 15 minutes to go, the other team had a member fishing 3 baited feathers off the stern and within five minutes had caught a bass and a pollock!! 5 minutes to go, off to the Castle, I hooked a Pollock before time up and landed it as our last species. After adding up species and numbers I THINK we had 16 species opposition had 22, we had 26 points they had 36. Quick scrub up and followed Neal to somewhere in Poole!!! for the prize giving and a beer and some food. Winners were the other team on our boat!! I THINK we were about half way ish down the teams of around 25-26 teams. It was a great experience and a big thankyou to Dave for inviting me and the other members of our team for helping me on the day. If any one is looking for a charter boat to try, you would be hard pressed to find a more helpful, enthusiastic, nice skipper who made a damn good cup of tea! Another day they cannot take away from the memory

Happy birthday Sam

Thanks Guys, I am still fairly new to this type of boat/engine but know if I push up the revs and get around 20 knots I am burning around 65 litres per hour, if I am more sensible at around 14 knots then I burn around 52 litres per hour. Rounding up figures and saying Shambles are 20 miles, then you would burn 80 litres there and back Nigel? So I am burning more than twice as much as you? Yes mad Rob had a 300 on the boat which had minimal hours but I felt I didn't need that many horses, on his new cat he has twin 300s and it flies, he never seems to worry about fuel!!!!! It's not a major worry/problem I love the boat so will keep on learning and using the tides to my advantage. Has anyone in the club any experience of Diesel outboards? I know they have been around for a while but assume not perfected as not popular or widely available. I might go to Seaworks and have a look as there are a few going to be there.

Hi Charlie, 248 litres which is a lot less than last time, going to look at diesel outboards when the 5yr Yam warranty runs out!!! I did say look!!. It was much better thanks, and the auto pilot made things much easier now I've got that one sorted. Love to know what you diesel boys use down there and back?