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W That's an interesting set of quotes Jim but I have no idea what it's referring to. My daughter rows for Reading uni and I have indeed been to watch Reading Head .... But how could you know that?......am I being yet dimmer than before?

Aha, thank you chaps. That's livened up the content a bit! Job sorted. I had to let your enigma machine replace my old 100 % secure password first though

That's a really good resource you put me onto there. Much obliged. They don't ship outside the US though. Would holes bay marine be the best place to get components or are there reputable online British suppliers?

Spent 5 th April prepping and cleaning Endeavour 3 and getting the motors run up ready for a trip out on the 6 th and intended to attend the AGM after. The six hp Johnson ran like a clock . Our old 1980's vintage Mercury 75 four cylinder 2 stroke ( clam shell type, whatever that means) started well after its winter break but then we lost the electrics. We looked for loose wires, found some likely candidates, tightened them up and away it went again. Problem solved or so we thought. We started by going to aunt Betty's for a few slow drifts..c and r a small plaice( hurray!) and motored on to the front of browsea castle to try for herring. We started the motor there and it started to play up. In neutral we could not get proper rev response. It wouldn't run idle. It stalled on full throttle. Not the best place for this to happen on a strong ebb. We just managed to limp in, conking out once or twice on the way. We tied up to a mooring and deployed our Johnson. We checked the carbs for water and debris. There was none. The tide had turned so we drifted and manoeuvred using the standby for a bit and ran back down using the merc which eventually went completely dead on us. So we came home, sorry I didn't make the AGM but Baiter isn't a very good place to leave a boat unattended at the moment( if it ever is). On our return we wanted to wash t through so we went all over it with a continuity tester ( that's tech speak for two bits of wire soldered to a light bulb) and eventually came to a small fuse holder on the right hand side of the motor tucked away at the bottom. The glass fuse inside was broken and th paper burnt but the two ends of fuse wire were still erect and I guess they were still intermittently touching. On putting a new fuse in all power was restored and the engine ran well again ...good throttle response and steady idle. I'm hoping this was our problem although all the while it seemed like a fuel issue. Hooky suggested that it sounded like a punctured pump diaphragm. Two questions then.....Has anyone had this problem before and are we likely to have sorted it? And also....what size fuse should that be?

Hi Greg, this club seems very generous. I was wondering what I could give back. That'll be a bottle For you then. And Jim when I'm sober I'll let you have my autograph. Martin, Charlie, Allan I appreciate your kind offers and encouragement and Allan nice to meet you at last after the superb guided trip to Durlston eighteen months ago. I think the boat is 19' 6"" bow to transom but I'll have to go out to the Ogbourne Marina and put a tape on her again. Hooky, good to be catching up again and glad to see as ever you've got a plan. Also thanks for the nickname and the spelling lesson. I'm spending time reading back through the threads. Loads of interesting stuff there.

Cheers

Hello everybody and thank you for the generous welcome I received at the club meeting last week. About five years ago my young friend Marcel persuaded me to go halves with him in a Wilson flyer type boat. It's actually plated GIP; a maker that went out in the 1980' s. Towing it down from Ogbourne makes every trip an adventure before we Even get to the coast. Our first trip was out of Kimmeridge and Hookie came along. We've also put in at Portland but we like the facilities at Baiter and have made seven or eight trips there. We are immortalised as the boat making ready on Google Earth. Once on the water we have only a limited knowledge of what to catch, where,when, and how to catch it , although it has to be said that Marcel can be an annoying fish magnet. On a personal note I'm married with four big kids and have business to run but I still hope to see more of you lot in the future and am looking forward to good times and safer fishing.

Sounds like a great crack! When do you reckon on doing it? Endeavour 3's other owner ( Marcel ) might wake up fr this. We'll have to convert his old double kayak into an oiler and tow it behind. Ps sorry about the spelling mistake!