duncan

I told him to pop on here and say Hi, offering his services, but yes, give hima shout if you have bodies that need beds. I never even realised he ran a guest house too! http://www.alderneyangling.com he is a registered forum user - but he's been a bit busy I guess! we tried to meet up last Sept but the weather conspired against both trips.

I'm gessing the hurd deep is the place ........... I have no numbers other than the charted wrecks so if anyone has any suggestions for my (our) chartplotters please post or pm ta

not a whole lot of ling get reported in the catch reports............and I have never caught one! I struggle to relate the current club record to the fish out there either, in the way I can with the existing pollack for example. Do the ling on the channel wrecks in club waters go much over 22lb ? back to fitting the new doors and dreaming.........

some good advice , and I also think that quality is better than quantity! my preferred reels are 975LD with 30lb braid calcutta 400S with 14lb braid these always get fished on a rod onboard - the latter for drifting or light gear only of course - whilst the other gear gets varied by whim. over the years the penn 25gls has been a star at delivering without complaint about the odd time I forget to clean up properly - similar to the tlds. get yourself a couple of good ones rather than a load of others would be my view - it took me 7 penn reels before I finally bit the bullet and got the 975ld; cheaper to have got it early! (it does need care though)

following weekend is good for me too - better tides as well. as for plodder - I usually cruise between 18-22knots but it doesn't take a whole lot of planning around anyone wanting to cruise at 15 as 15 minutes mackereling is 4 miles of catch up! lets see what the weather brings.......

looks like a proper boat Dave - I am sure she will give you hours of pleasure (and a little pain!) can see you in that cockpit fighting a conger already.......... ******************************** Harry, To post an image 'as is' you need to have the picture hosted somewhere on the internet already and then you click on the IMG button above the box when you are posting and copy and paste the address of the picture into that box. You can upload images into your PBSBAC gallery by clicking on the Photo Gallery link at the top of each page - extreme right - and following the upload instructions. Best upload file at around 600 x 400 pixels up to 800 x 600 and saved to a quality to give about a 100kb file size. Dave's are at 800x600 each above. When you are copying the url (address) of the picture to put in a post make sure you have it open at the size you require as it will offer you 3 different sizes in the gallery by default. pm me if I can help at all.

not really as they are small and extremely omnidirectional. you could make a mini radar refector out of them I suppose. radar doesn't show on radar - racon's do and you can also get a device that will read radar signatures and give you rough distance and direction. some blue water crusing yachts like these as they don't draw much current and when they chirp into life (audio) they announce the presence of another boat (if it's transmitting with radar of course!)

putting aside the practical differences in use between yachts and small powered fishing craft your own practical solution 'in play' seems much more sensible. as a small powered craft I am always active/defensive when running under radar and passive when at anchor. In fact I am toying with a circular black radar reflector to double as an anchor ball for mounting on said post etc I too had to make the decison about mounting my radar in an optimum for usage or with regard to Poole Bridge - I am no longer able to run under the bridge except at low water.........

"I tell you it's a fish, and I'm claiming a club record......"

I hope you are joking? As you highlight you are going to create a huge blind spot doing this. Whilst you may not be able to avoid a support post a few feet away I wouldn't want a reflector anywhere on the same horizontal plane (or working plane) as the radome.

Alun This is a really simple one, jumping to the conclusion! All 'normal' competitions should be open to be fished on either day. The only special rule that you need to implement this is that you must fish the competition on the first day of the weekend you are actually out fishing ie you can't go out Saturday if you are planning to fish the comp Sunday. As an example we ran all our regular competitions at the golf club over Fri to Monday, and the weather and conditions played a potentially much bigger part in the results (rather than comfort) than they would for fishing! What we found was that extremely few people were actually able to take advantage of that for exactly the reasons we implemented it in the first place - they were restricted by external factors either regular or from time to time. Numbers taking part in the competitions gradually increased over the first year until it stabilised at about 3x the initial numbers. Clearly this doesn't help things like Burnham, or the Open & 48hr. Should be fine for the F&R and bream although I would personally like to see the F&R move to a second 48hr comp basis to give people more chance to target flatfish such as dabs and sole etc rather than the current 'Ray comp' that seems to have developed - one for another (related) discussion! Presumably this would all have to be presented as a proposal at next years AGM?

great fish!

summer like - hmmm that could be anything recently! I always work the size of the tide from the low water....what's showing on the Sunday at Poole? Don't worry found this dover tides - definitely a little on the big side.......... looking at it another way I wouldn't be fishing at anchor offshore in there tides either so I might as well head over to the banks! Generally I found the tides over the 2006 trip to be pretty good - they also help to posiiton the boat for the edge of the bank and show the secondary banks etc very well. The charts are fine for a general indication but it's all moving around down there. Big tides will also make dashing around between the banks a little slower because the tide alone kicks up a chop. I fly back in either late on the 1st so could look to head over on the 2nd and don't think I have any 'must do's' on the 6th either (like to have a contingency available). Overall - looking do-able if the weather plays ball and subject to Dave etc

I heard through the jungle drums that a certain person was so p1ssed that he didn't even notice how cold it was... come on Tom - that's a pretty low level step in the getting pissed stakes ............. Going right back to Charlie's question - the size of the tides affects 2 things over on the banks; 1. the drift speeds (obvious) and 2. the duration of slack (less obvious). From my little experience the bass come out to play at over 1.5 knots and the flats between 0.8 and up to 2knots. Obviousy this is only based on a small amount of experience and was a function of where and when rather than pure when. Less tide obviously makes getting around easier too. I have screwed up my diary in a right royal way and will struggle to make the islands over the 48hr this year (which probably means perfect conditions weather wise for others). On the other hand I will look for any other window through May and June and this is a possible option for me. Just how big is the tide looking?

the normal layout for you (and me) is port and starboard wired as 'nav lights' and an allround white wired as 'anchor light'. When steaming you switch them both on and when at anchor the nav lights are off. yachts tend to use a running light and stern light combination rather than the all round white because the mast gets in the way. If you put it at the top of the mast for motoring it 'blots out' the p/s lights. for positions of the p/s units take a good look at production models of your boat as they will have factored in reflections / stanchions / rails etc (well they should have done!)

glad you have it working NMEA-ve is not the same as Earth (although Garmin use the same wire) it's a different circuit hence the radio having a red wire for the purpose.

1. you haven't seen my turbo........... 2. I only ever post omages of the boat just after it's been acid treated and antifouled! all the best

hope it goes well - I gather it's going to be nicely spruced up though and I am worried Phaeton wil look shoody alongside............ looking forward to some nice weather windows

nice to hear the boats getting used - every hour aboard brings down the cost of owning a boat (per hour used!).............

love the hull colour and she looks really smart overall without loosing the seakeeping lines and functionality etc nice job

hyphose on the nuffield estate for primary fuel filters - everything else from the Yanmar agent in Cobbs Quay (Purbeck Marine) or the one in Lymington if I am passing who has also been helpfull for bigger issues!

I would add a supply of self amalgamating tape (for rubber pipe repairs), power steering fluid and even more fuel filters (p & s) to Charlie's list in respect of the engine. Also add a bit more oil than seems prevalent in the posts so far and having the oil drain pump on board so that you can deal with an oil leak many hours from home by 'recycling' - equally funnels of various sizes. Drive oil if you have a resovoir - if not it's not going to help a lot! If you widen it to electrics etc the list gets quite long and there are elements of 'craft specific' that creep in. don't underestimate a good torch or other illumination for the engine bay for work after dark and an intimate working knowledge of your fuel system!

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for the garmin I think it's the interface tab under setup - make sure it's set to NMEA in/out rather than the default Garmin data transfer. the default data settings should work fine. brown wire will be NMEA+ve and this connects to the NMEA in wire on th eradio unit. If this is the sx35 then that's the brown one as well. Black (earth) acts as NMEA-ve and should be directly conected to the radio's NMEA-ve wire which is the red one. It's not good enough to have them 'effectively connected' via mutual connection via the boats earth. apart fromthat the onlu other 'key' is that for some units you need the MMSI number programmed into the unit for the unit to display the lat long on screen - don't know this unit. I suspect that all of the above is only restating what you have already done but there may be something.

great report Dan clearly a great trip out and obviously a shame about the one that got away........what failed? Hook hold?