Paul D

Studied the ray and I go for it being a Spotted Ray, on grounds that it doesn't have spots which run right to the wing edge and it having bristles in the centre portion just behind the eyes and at the leading edges and on the tail. What do you think ?

My crew for tomorrow has had to cancel due to family illness. Was planning on taking out Neo for first trip of 2013 for a stab at the bream. If anyone is interested,give me a call on 07887 875964. Will be out of Christchurch either early and back by 1200 or 1200 to 1800 ish

Well pleased with mine. The decals though have started peeling off. Mine has been sitting on the drive for best part of 6 months, hopefully will be reporting that it starts first time after such a long lay off ( it did last time ). I had a leaking gasket between the lower leg and the powerhead, this was replaced under warranty ( I didn't even know there was a problem with it until I had it serviced, ) The worst thing that has happened was the clips on the cover broke so got these replaced under warranty. I would definitely get another one.and PJ forgets to mention that he bought his second hand.

I do the same with a Battery 1 -> Both -> Battery 2 -> Off switch. I steam out with both batteries in parallel charging and then when anchored switch to one battery to run radio / lights etc. If switching for say Battery 1 to Battery 2 it is important to not move the switch through the "Off" postition if the engine is running. ( It risks destroying the regulator diodes ) Switching from Battery 1 to Both to Battery 2 is fine.

A guest posted a report to this post. As follows :- This boat i think is a TEAL, i have the 22ft model, and the Hull is like mine.Hope this helps .John Bell ex charter skipper. This should hopefully answer the question.

Neighbour should be happy now, as Martin has sorted out the bit I messed up. Can well recommend as usual.

Have arranged with Martin to get his painter to sort it out.

Do any members do house painting ? I have painted the majority of my house but need to get the dividing part between our house and the next door neighbour's house to have a nice straight edge ( I messed up the bit at the back and need someone to do the job properly ( as neighbour not happy !! ) ..... ). Also need to get the top of the wall done ( by the edge of the coving ).

Posted on old forum by Charlie Annear --------------------------------------------- Hi All My reports are generally reproduced within the minutes of the club monthly meetings, but I thought it might be an idea for them to have a thread of their own, to increase visibility. So, here's the February report. It's pretty long this month- a lot has happened! Conservation Officer Report- February 2013 Big news, European Fisheries reform: -502 vs 137 MEPS voted for ambitious reform of the CFP, including a ban on discards and limits based on MSY (Maximum Sustainable yield) with the aim of the restoration of fish stocks to be achieved by 2020. A last minute attempt by the EPP (European People’s Party) to weaken it were rejected 418-220. But, of course, this isn’t a done-deal. This will now need to be debated by the Parliament and the Council before the European Commission has a new stance. The Council’s position will be negotiated at the end of February with the debate to follow soon after. -MCS Summary -BBC Story PDSAA (Poole and District Sea Angling Association): (I had to make my apologies to this meeting due to a family bereavement) Angling Trust: (Reproduced from AT Bulletin) 21st January 2013 - For Immediate Release Public Consultation On Marine Conservation Zones - Act Now To Make Your Views Known As you may be aware, the Government is currently carrying out a public consultation on the 31 Marine Conservation Zones that are to be considered for designation in 2013. These sites have been chosen by Defra on the basis of the benefits they offer, how much these benefits outweigh the costs of designating the sites and the evidence supporting the reason for protecting them. The consultation will close at Midnight on March 31st 2013. This is YOUR opportunity to comment on the proposed sites and highlight your support, or concerns, over the areas under consideration. The consultation documents can be found HERE along with all the supporting information (there is a lot). The Angling Trust will be responding to the consultation but we would encourage you to send us details of your response to the consultation so that we can include the views of our members in our response. Amongst other points the Angling Trust's response will include: 1. Disappointment that only 31 of the 127 recommended sites have been proposed for the first tranche. 2. Concerns about displacement of commercial fishing effort 3. Concerns regarding the lack of interim protection for remaining sites that might be reconsidered for protecting in future tranches. 4. Concerns about the socio-economic impact on coastal communities of any restrictive measures on recreational angling activity. 5. Highlighting that the value of recreational sea angling (RSA)has only been included for a handful of the proposed sites, despite there being substantial RSA activity in most of the proposed inshore sites. This short-coming needs to be corrected (especially as RSA forms the large percentage of total cost where it has been included). 6. The decision not to include management measures in the current consultation makes it very difficult for respondents to know what the outcome of designation of the 31 recommended sites will be on recreational sea angling. 7. A re-emphasis of our long-standing position that there is no need for restriction of RSA activities in the proposed sites. The sites considered good for designation in 2013 are: Within the Irish Sea Conservation Zone regional project (North West) Cumbria Coast Fylde Offshore Hilbre Island Group North of Celtic Deep Within the Net Gain regional project area (North East) Aln Estuary Swallow Sands Rock Unique Within the Finding Sanctuary regional project area (South West) East of Haig Fras Southwest Deeps (West) The Canyons Lundy Padstow Bay and Surrounds Isles of Scilly The Manacles Upper Fowey and Pont Pill Whitsand and Looe Bay Tamar Estuary Skerries Bank and Surround Torbay Chesil Beach and Stennis Ledges South of Dorset Poole Rocks Within the Balanced Seas regional project area (South East) Stour and Orwell Estuaries Blackwater, Crouch, Roach and Colne Estuaries Medway Estuary Thanet Coast Folkestone Pomerania Hythe Bay Beachy Head West Kingmere Pagham Harbour No Reference Areas (where recreational angling would definitely have been prohibited) have been put forward. However, the possible management measures of the recommended sites have not been made public. Therefore, while we expect the impact on recreational sea angling to be extremely small, any such impacts will not be known until after the public consultation closes. A response form is included as annex H to the consultation document. Responses should be sent by post to: MCZ team, c/o Post Room, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London. SW1P 3JR Or by email to: mcz@defra.gsi.gov.uk Please remember to copy your response to us so that we can reflect the concerns of our members in our response. Future Designation of More MCZs Annexes A.2 - A.5 list the conservation zone sites requiring further consideration for possible designation in future tranches. We urge you to include comments on any of these sites in any response you make to the consultation. In selecting sites for designation in any future tranches Defra will consider: •The responses to this consultation including any suggestions for alternative sites for MCZs •The contribution needed to achieve the UK's obligation towards establishing ecologically coherent networks taking account of sites designated by neighbouring UK administrations and neighbouring EU member states •The review of Reference Areas •Costs of sites to both industry and the public sector. Sites not suitable for designation: Where a site's conservation advantages were considered not to outweigh the socio-economic costs then the MCZ was not considered appropriate for designation. Remember, this is your opportunity to make your views known. We encourage you to do so before March 31st. MCS (Marine Conservation Society): -Mackerel has been downgraded from list of sustainable fisheries: Story and Listing -BBC: Article -The Guardian: Article -The Independent: Article -Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall/Fishfight: Response -Microplastics. ‘Lush’ have now stopped using microplastics in their products. -Microplastics. Wider appreciation of damage cause by balloon and Chinese lantern releases are starting to result in releases being cancelled: Article -MCS will be protesting in Westminster re MCZ’s on 25th February: March -Help to protect Manta Rays by signing this petition: Sign DEFRA: -Nothing to report MRC (Marine Reserves Coalition): Protected areas in other regions. This is important as demonstrates desire to create protected areas internationally, not just in the UK. Follows successes in protected areas in countries such as USA, Australia and Ireland for example. This will be important in demonstrating whether these areas work. There is no reason that they shouldn’t (other than if they are too small and too isolated), just as protected areas on dry land have become so important since WW2. What would our native UK wildlife be like today if we hadn’t had the various forms of protection in place since the 1950’s, such as protected areas (Wildlife Reserves, SSSI’s, Country Parks, National Parks and Forestry Commission to name a few) and controls on pollution and chemical use.: -South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands: MPA -Chile protects all seamounts from bottom trawling: Protected -Portugal nominates seamounts for protected areas: Nominated -Phillipines has 34 MPA’s. We are supposed to be a forward thinking ‘green’ country and we are only proposing 27. Dorset Wildlife Trust: - A quarter of a million people called for greater protection for the UK’s seas and coastline. 250,000 signatures on the Wildlife Trusts’ Petition Fish were presented to Natural Environment Minister Richard Benyon at a Parliamentary reception at the House of Commons. -A number of Auks (Guillemots, Razorbills etc) have been washed up on South Coast beaches (both alive and dead) covered in what has been identified an oil additive used in ships engines. The scale of the impact of sea birds is unknown, but the quantity of birds which have ended up on South Coast beaches are likely to be the tip of the iceberg. What is this substance? Where is it? How long will it have an effect? What impact will it have on other marine life? Will it enter the food chain, i.e. will it effect fish? BBC News story Maria Damanaki (EU Commissioner responsible for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries): -Its a historic day: for 1st time elected representatives of #EUcitizens, shape future #fisheries policy and bring about ambitious #cfpreform -I am pleased with @Europarl_EN support of #CFPreform choosing #sustainability #MSY & #discardban with clear dates to end wasteful practices -I congratulate @EUParl on #CFPreform vote success and I look forward to their work with @EUCouncilPress to ensure the adoption of #CFPreform Pew Charitable Trusts: -Decline of Bluefin Tuna Down 96% BBC News: -Sale of Bluefin Tuna reaches record highs Profiteering -Interesting photos following a study of Hammerhead sharks. (Sharks overseas are part of the international ocean food-web. If a top predator is removed it can have a huge effect, i.e. explosion in populations of Humboldt squid and jellyfish): Photos -The unquantified threat of microplastics: The unknown effects -Another reason why species must be protected; we don’t know what we can learn from them. Shark immune systems may hold clues to cures for cancer.Research The Guardian: -Associated to the microplastics issue is the continued use of plastic bags: Broken pledge -Microplastics in fish in the Channel: Local waters The Scotsman: -Microplastics in the Firth of Clyde: Research. This could be the same in our waters if steps aren’t taken to reduce use of microplastics, if it hasn’t already reached this level. Midway: -This film shows the impact that plastics are having on marine ecosystems. It is entirely likely that fish species are also suffering in the same way: Full bellies but starving If the birds are like this, the fish probably are too Navitus Bay: -Latest round of Public Consultation is underway: Windfarm B.A.S.S: -Following a campaign by BASS and other environmental groups, I emailed local MEP’s regarding the Wednesday 6th February vote on European Fisheries Policy: “This message was also sent to: Sir Graham Watson MEP, Trevor Colman MEP, William (The Earl of) Dartmouth MEP. Sunday 3 February 2013 “Dear Trevor Colman, Sir Graham Watson, Ashley Fox and William (The Earl of) Dartmouth, On February 6th you will all have the opportunity to vote on fundamental reforms to the Common Fisheries Policy that will be a major step in restoring European fish stocks, ensuring a sustainable source of healthy food for generations to come, a future for fishermen who rely on robust stocks and a properly functioning marine environment, and a healthy recreational sea angling sector important to the quality of life of millions of Europeans. Please ignore the appeals of those who would gamble the prospect of short term gains for the few now against the long term needs of so many both now and across future generations. Yours sincerely, Charlie Annear” Response: “Thank you for your email on reform to the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). Please be assured that I fully support ambitious and radical reform to ensure both a sustainable ocean and a sustainable industry. I completely agree that the current CFP has been a failure. Two thirds of EU commercial fisheries are over-fished. Discards play a big part in this over-exploitation. The Conservative delegation voted in favour of an end to discards and an implementation of the discard ban. We must now ensure that this discard ban is workable and does not end up with us moving from discarding at sea simply to discarding on land. Instead of finding new markets for the extra 1.8 million tonnes of unwanted catches, we should firstly aim to use more selective gears to keep these fish in the ocean. The discard ban should therefore go hand in hand with a tougher approach on selective gear to ensure that the unwanted catches are not caught in the first place. I am also a supporter of maintaining stocks above maximum sustainable yield (MSY) by 2020. This will ensure that all fish stocks will have recovered to sustainable levels and fishermen will have had the necessary time to adjust to the new approach. We must work with scientists and stakeholders to come up with workable legislation that conserves fish stocks for future generations and which provides for a sustainable fishing sector. MSY will be an important factor in this scenario. I hope to see an end to the micro-management from Brussels that has bedevilled the sector for decades. We have a real opportunity here to ensure that we get the radical reform that we have campaigned so hard for. Yours sincerely, Ashley Fox” END OF REPORT

Just backtracking slightly, so that all of the 2013 Reports will be available in this section of the forum. Conservation Officer Report- January 2013 PDSAA: Next meeting is January 20th 2013. Angling Trust: - Angling Trust members who go sea angling are being invited to take part in a vital research project into how they value the UK's marine environment. AT would be grateful if you would take the time to complete the survey by clicking HERE. The survey closes on January 5th. Article MCS (Marine Conservation Society): -MEP’s have voted to strengthen MSY (Maximum Sustainable Yield) regulations and impose the discard ban with a binding timetable. -MEP's have also voted for an assessment of the EU fleet essential for managing the future of the EU fishing fleet. -MEPs have called for the industry to contribute to data collection and to freeze funding of illegal fishers. -MEP’s have reached agreements on TACs (Total Allowable Catches) and quotas. -EU "fisheries quotas are mostly in line with sustainability targets"- but many quotas set higher than scientific advice. MCS’s opinion on the quota agreements:Opinion -EU Fisheries- Total Allowable Catches The UK Government has announced that out of the 127 recommended MCZ’s, its current intention is to create just 31. The view of many bodies is that following extended consultation, and after the expenditure of a significant amount of money, this demonstrates a lack of ambition and would be a wasted opportunity to create the framework for a network of protected sites around our coast, (comparable to the extensive network of protected sites on dry land which we all take for granted), and that these 31 sites would be to isolated to provide the level of benefits envisioned by the scheme. As common with most government initiatives, the final decision has not yet been made. - Microplastics in the oceans: EU being pushed to ban. Dutch House of Representatives commit to ban. Unilever will phase out plastic micro beads as ‘scrub’ material in personal care products by 2015. Story DEFRA: -Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) update. The Government response to the MSFD consultation has now been published. This can be found, along with the final Impact Assessment, here: Response The final UK Initial Assessment and characteristics and targets of Good Environmental Status (GES), which will together form the UK Marine Strategy Part One, have also been published [More data] and submitted to the mission. The Directive requires Member States to take measures to achieve or maintain GES for their seas by 2020. GES involves protecting the marine environment, preventing its deterioration and restoring it where practical, while using marine resources sustainably. For the UK, the Directive is part of a package of policies, united by our vision for 'clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas'. The Directive's aims are consistent with this vision and current policies, such as the implementation of the Marine and Coastal Access Act, and the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy will play a major role in helping us achieve GES. The joint consultation between Defra, the Northern Ireland Executive, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government was held between 27 March and 18 June 2012. The consultation sought views on the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). We are grateful for all the comments we received. You can see further details on the Directive More reading. If you have further questions, please contact Defra: MSFDTeam@defra.gsi.gov.uk Next Steps. Future consultations will be held to cover proposals for the UK monitoring programmes for GES (Autumn 2013) and the UK programmes of measures for achieving GES (Autumn 2014). Also- Defra proposed Marine Conservation Zone sites announcement: DEFRA Announcement The Defra consultation on the proposed sites may be found here: DEFRA Consultation (The consultation site summary for Studland Bay- page 114 of annex A.5.) To take part in this consultation please using annex H and send responses to either: mcz@defra.gsi.gov.uk or MCZ Team, c/o Post Room, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3JR Any responses should be received by Defra by midnight on 31 March 2013. MRC (Marine Reserves Coalition): -California's marine reserve network now complete; including 9% of state waters designated as no-take areas LA Times -Cook Islands create world's biggest shark sanctuary - 1.9 milliom km2 Mahoosive Dorset Wildlife Trust: -South Dorset MCZ- Article -Fishing nets/ line vs. seabirds- In the Echo Maria Damanaki (EU Commissioner responsible for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries): “I’m happy that @Europarl_EN vote introduces a #discard ban with clear dates to put an end to wasteful practices that we can no longer afford” BBC News: -US towns ban the sale of small water bottles (reduce plastic waste, therefore reduce plastic waste in the oceans) Article The Independent: -Shellfish reef off Scotland World's largest... and it'll soon be protected END OF REPORT

PJ keeps his boat there. There was a spate of boating thefts a few years ago but not directly related to the compound ( it was through the whole area ).

I recall very well how it worked for you when we fished the rips on that memorable trip some years back now

That wasn't quite what I called them Pete, but, yes did warn you not to eat the ones I was scoffing on the last trip

Been checking your profile matt and I can't see anything obvious there. I don't get the same issue on the iPod. It should only change if you select the "use mobile version" button. S puzzling for me to be hoest

I strap down Neo over the cover with no problem, but I guess it depends where the cover is in relation to where the strap crosses. I also have a strap at the front which gives me a bit more reassurance that she wont come off the trailer until I want her to Not sure how / if you would want to do this with a Warrior.

I see they have moved on. It used to be the case that there was no flash player available for 64bit Internet Explorer ( as opposed to 32 bit IE running on 64 bit windows ). However there is now. http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-64-bit-operating.html#main_Install_Flash_Player

Other reason could be that you are using the 64bit version of Internet Explorer, If you select the windows button -> All Programs and you will possibly see 2 internet explorers. Select the one whihc is not 64 bit and flash should work, ( It doesnt in 64Bit IE - or at least didn't last time I looked as there was not 64bit plugin )

No stopping off taking nice pics on the way home though

Yes - that is exactly the method I use to resize. I am marking your solution as "solved" James.

I was just trying to clarifying the first question - "Is this a free trip for a club member" - as in I think I can safely say from past experience = No ! and it cant be an advert for a charter trip as I would charge him for putting on our new site !!

The only thing I can see that is near to that is the "Page 1 2 " at the bottom which takes you to the top of the post.

Sorry but doesn't read that way !! - Just amused me the idea of Tommo giving a free trip

Mike, Tommo would never take any club members on a free trip !!! Last time I looked I don't recall he was running a charity :) lol