Graham Nash

Ha Ha ... mine was no where near 30lb. Thank you for clearing that up Martin.

Good point but I doubt it because elsewhere in the policy wording it does say that I can travel in the shortest route to get to my destination even if it takes me beyond the 12 mile limit and I will still be covered.

The area I caught the blonde from was definately South East of Old Harry possibly between 3 & maybe 5 miles out. Could it be "The Spoils" then? I hear all these names but aint got a clue where they are!

I too am with Towergate Mardon and I have just phoned them. They have set limits which they will not exceed on certain size craft and unfortunately they wont exceed the "Non tidal and coastal" 12 mile limit on mine ..... but they WILL ALLOW THE CHANNEL ISLANDS!!! (which I am sure is more than 12 miles)! So I can travel the 72 miles to Alderney???? So we have to make sure the wrecks are somewhere between here and the Channel Islands I have the paperwork being sent to me for the extra.

I caught a blonde on (what I beleive to be) the banks off Old Harry. About 3 or 4 miles out.

absolutely crazy!

I got a 13.8 Pollock a couple of years ago off the needles. Mmmmmm tasted lovely :-)

I like that idea but need to speak with my insurers first and see if we can increase my coverage beyond 12 miles .... unless you all promise not to sink me till I am within the covered area :-)

I am heading to the Boat Show on Sunday and gonna make my decision whether I mate a new HD head with my existing setup or whether to start again with a complete new BB setup. I am hoping to pick up a bargain from the traders not wanting to take stuff home again after the show. Whatever happens I expect to be radar compliant by Sunday evening :-)

Many thanks Duncan. My 7200 is already wired through a "network hub" with spare outputs so it sounds like this may be a route i should be looking at? What a fantastic source of information this club can be. Worth the membership in information alone. Well done PBSBAC!

I have just realised that my Lowrance 7200c will accept radar reading on t'internet it would seem that it is not Broadband whatever that means?? Does anyone have any info on this? What do i buy and what will i get? or do i need to go broadband?

Went out, water was realtively flat but not as flat as the fishing .... 3 doggies all day nothing to add to my species hunt I'm afraid

It is looking like the windguru site over estimated the winds. Looking at the "Liver weather in Poole" the winds are force 1 with gusts of the same. Game on :-) .... hopefully see ypu out there Mike.

I am out tomorrow for a while. Weather permitting I will head East of Poole.

wowwww I like that V2 card that goes in it. Another couple of hundred quid but rather nice!

With all this talk of fog, I have been looking at this one just today! http://www.mesltd.co.uk/furuno-1715-radar-p-7350.html

Good luck and happy hunting in her Mike. I would have bought her myself if Gordon had been selling her 6 months earlier.

Exactly Rob; My plotter seemed to be doing its job very well, it was ME that was not doing MY job so well. When I looked back at my trail, it was like lots of quite tight S bends!!! I could not beleive how disorientating the fog along with such a slow speed could be. The fact that we "should" be passing Aunt Bessie by now but were actually still in the lee of Rockley didnt help at all.

Both my crew have come down with illnesses so its looking like I am gonna have to miss this one . The window was getting smaller and the rain looked like it would have been a bit of a spoiler anyway

Bitter sweet feeling I am sure Gordon. Hope all goes well for your move.

I bought an almost brand new outboard from Wrasster early part of last year which he had covered the cowling in carpet tape. He had done it purposely to make it look like a "bag of nails" to deter the little urchins from targeting it. Took me an age to get it off!

That window is getting smaller

I will probably be popping to the chandlers tomorrow to get another 10 met length. Not too worried about the crew pulling it in as i normally end up lifting it myself anyway!

I will not purposely go out in fog again. I found it quite scarey although my plotter did seem to keep me something like on direction. It was the fact I could not see anything till i was on top of it that scared me.

I upgraded my anchor setup recently but had to cut it free when I came to grief on my first trip out after upgrading And it looks like someone else has retreaved it Anyway, I struggled to hold the bottom the other day with my remaining 1 met of chain so I am off to the chandlers in the next day or so to get some new chain but thought I would see if anyone on here has any they are looking to get rid of. Obviously I am happy to pay and collect. Many thanks Graham.