Graham Nash

Thank you Mike. That sounds something like i do already but the anchor rope gets stuck in the roller arrangement from the initial "lift". When i try it with the lazy line i get in all sorts of mess. I will check out what Mike (BassCodandwhateverelseicancatch) has to offer and see how i get on. I really must get one of these RNLI safety checks too.

I have your number Mike, I will call you one evening and pop over and see how it is done and what I'm doing wrong. Thanks.

That sounds about the same as my "problem" Greg. I thought the lazy line would be a perfect solution but i get in sich a mess every time i try it!

I have used the Alderney retreaval system since being shown by Tony & Dave at last years training day and have had good success with it apart from ..... the rope occasionally getting trapped in the front roller arrangement meaning having to hang out of the front hatch to free it. I read up on a "lazy line", which i beleive to be a line attached to the mooring point on the front of the boat which reaches back to the cabin. I then drop the anchor off the side and allow it to settle before attaching it (via a loop tied in my anchor rope) to a carabina on the end of the lazy line. Chuch that over the side and hey presto it should all swing round to face into the tide and everything should be good. To retreave I just drive as normal towards(ish) the anchor buoy, pick up the anchor line and retreave as normal. All sounds ok, but it never works that way for me! No matter how strong the tide, my lazy line never seems to swing me into the tide and gets all loose and knotted around the anchor line? To those of you that use this method .... help, what am i doing wrong from the description above?

you're half way there already

Well done Dave .... it looks like you might now be our resident "mechanical expert" I wouldn't even know where top start on a job like that!

loved it Martin .... the gps and sonar were great, the in hull transducer worked a treat. The radar ..... i think i need more practice .... It shows up boats and channel markers great but i was disappointed with the definition of pot buoys etc. I adjusted it to minimum distance and increased it to 78% gain and i could see marker buoys, buy i also saw seagulls flying at low level, which in very poor visibility would have put the fear of God into me (seeing unknown obstructions moving around in front of me)! As I said I think i need more practice but it was good.

Nothing at all today mate but was great to be out again on such a beautiful day. I was really just out to play with my new electronics but was amazed that you were completely invisible to my radar !!! Maybe you need to carry a radar reflector

he stood up almost the whole day PJ .... he will love the seat now :-)

can i join you to Alderney now Adam

yes thanks Martin .... I have it now (but am sure i will forget by the time i want to try it again :-))

i think its beginning to look like a propper fishing boat now so i thought i should treat her to a new cover ..... hopefully the next pictures will be of fishing trips and fish!

Having had her for a season there were a few things we knew that were needed to make her better so first of all we gave her a well needed clean. next we realised we needed to reduce the likelyhood of some scumbag emptying my fuel tanks again so we built a lockable seating arrangement in the hope that "out of sight would be out of mind", this will also give my dog somewhere to sit rather than having to stand the whole journey when we are out :=) Radar arch and new electronics came next

I hope this works!

ha ha ....nearly there .... not sure how i managed to get the writing at the side :-)

Ive forgotten how to do it so gonna try again :-)

I have just bought a "Snowbee Charter" for

I dont think he is saying the verdict is unfair or accurate ... I think it's the reaction he is referring to. I am sure most are only referring to the inconsistancies in our judicial system .... I doubt anyone is comparing it to others.

I was wondering if anyone is intending on attending any of the meetings concerning this? http://www.enecowindoffshore.co.uk/news-de...aspx?newsID=317

I am out to play with my new electronics on Sunday.... but if the weather is good I might see if I can find a fish as well.

I would just like to add to this thread ..... I checked out the "boat cover" threads on here before contacting one of the names recommended ..... I waited for his quote then contacted him again and waited .... and waited. I returned to this thread last Thursday and spoke to Wayne at Cut n Cover. He was at my boat the same day and gave me a quote there and then. A small amount of haggling later we agreed a price and he promised to have it done by Friday of this week (within a week). I was down there today doing some finishing touches to the electrics and Wayne turned up with my new cover. He fitted it and it looks a treat. He then removed it to take it away and add a couple of bits of reinforcing where the rod holders touch the cover a little. He has promised to drop it back to me on Friday as originally promised. Credit where credit is due .... First class friendly service and a reasonable price. I will put a couple of pictures up once it's back on Friday. Graham.

TBH Newboy, I have an "agreement" with the local ones ..... I leave them all my scrap and they leave my doors and windows intact .... it seems to work well

well done peter

Forty gypsies arrive at the Pearly Gates in their Transit vans and caravans. St Peter goes into the gatehouse and phones up GOD, saying: 'I've got 40 travellers here. Can I let them in?' GOD replies 'We are over our quota on Pikeys. Go back out to the Pearly Gates and tell them to choose among them which are the 12 most worthy, and I will let just the dozen in.' Less than a minute later St Peter is on the phone to GOD again. 'They've gone', he tells GOD. 'What?' says GOD, 'All 40 of them?' 'No, the Pearly Gates'.