Gummage

No tackle. Bags……just weights 12 oz and blingy feathers The boys were apprentices of the Molotov boat yard. They decided they wanted to take up fishing so they found some scrap aluminium and built a boat..like you do!

So Swindon Paddington , Paddington Edinburgh,meet up with lifelong friend , now captain Andy Powis and offto A.Bardeen and the overnight ferry to Lerwick to meet his twin Sons Jamie and Callum. we have a bit of rough shooting and fishing in mind.. Todaywith the windin the north was an ideal opportunity to get after Cod and Haddock. Fished deep water on the Bressay side of the channel south of Lerwick

I can relate to that. Where is this place?

Hooky, lguess your scales may still have somebody second hand value.

Yep , I do cows. If yo want to get Milking a cow off your bucket list, I’m your man.🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄!

Already got one! Don’t need any milk either thanks.

Well done, that’s just my kind of adventure. I tried for plaice off the Lincolnshire coast a couple of years back. Took the daughters Airedale terrier,who got bored and wandered off up the beach. In the end I finished up blanking but the dog came back with a Plaice. Suggest you get an Airedale! Gummage

Hi Mark, we are practically neighbours! I tow a Dory down fromMarlborough and generally launch at Baiter. Joining the club was the best thing I did. Folks have certainly been sociable and generous with their time, advice etc hope to catch up you and Skipper anon Gummage

Great to see you made it down there Jerry! Did they let you come back?

Congratulations Hooky. I figure it must be your turn to tow me home now.😉

I've found him!

The outboard Jerry?.....I was using it for bait.

went voodoo fishing yesterday.........oops I forgot my life jacket!

I've been looking forward to that report and, boy, what a report it is. Glad you all had a thrilling trip and thanks for sharing it with us!

It took until last Wednesday before Endeavour3 made it back to the water and we gave it all a good run. Hydraulics all worked fine! We had some starting problems as the electric choke wasn't functioning. (Why did they put the manual choke under all the cladding on these? Are all outboards like that?) Anyway it's another little thing to investigate and hopefully not such a big challenge. Obviously this is a fairly minority interest thread, but I'd like to thank everyone who showed an interest and helped especially Gonorm and the people that run this site and club......it really is a powerful information exchange. and the fishing.........we and all the undersized specimens in the bay practiced hard for next year and had fun doing it.

looksasgood as new. so good ive uploaded it twice! 20190613_094049.mp4 20190613_094049.mp4

.......no I won't. Enginerr/Welder Graham checked it over with me. neither the ebay photo nor gonorns service manual show this second hole. Its a bit rough roundthe edges because it is a sea corrosion hole. luckily Graham is a qualified aluminium welder. If i could get the unit off and back to his shop he could weld the hole up. Gonorm, your workshop manual was invaluable in its description of how to strip the unit off first undo the large crossbar nuts...despite its age they swung undone easily!undo the three bolts on the side of the unit.... they yielded except the last one which sheared undr the head ....knock the sides apart.......reluctantly they wiggled over and after stripping the wiring...out it came. over the Graham's and.. and he worked his magic. now.... hoping the welding hasnt wreaked havoc with seals etc and i can remember how to pput it back together....the weekend project.

surely it would be worth a very earl start. Wouldnt want to go up there and miss ir.

Ive always fancied a morning in a fish .market. Brixham london or grimsby. im well up for it.

Great hospitality hooky. what it lacked in fishy action it made up for in relaxation.

Thank you Mikey B. Hope fully we will proceed along lines like that. I PMed Gonorm the following which explains where we are at with it..... That's really decent of you Mike, much appreciated . It will be a handy resource as we try to get a year or three more out of this old equipment. About this repair, I'm going to look at it tonight. My engineer mate Graham says we can use so called chemical metal to plug the hole if all else fails. Well on close inspection the hole looks a bit beaten up as in a hammer and chisel job has been used to extract a rounded Allen plug. I suspect the the original plug would have been a steel taper plug with Allen drive . This one is not Shown on the exploded diagram but another one like it is used elsewhere. Anyway I recon a previous owner has had to resort to a bodge repair with chemical metal. I'll let you know how we get on. .........ill try to get a threaded plug in there if I can....

Thanks Mike, that would be helpful. Getting that plug out will likely be a bit of an ' off piste' procedure. It will be useful to get a part number and picture of it. Graham is handy on the lathe and given a pattern might be able to make one if it is not available. We will look at it one evening next week.

Finally got the motor off. looks like the plug has corroded away. I went to clean it with a scrubbing brussh and oil started rolling out. Now when its stopped draining ill have to get the remains of the plug out without forcing it on inn. Hmmm?