duncan

so have you sorted out the CG 66 as well now? I always thought that the concept of marks, and fish specific rigs, was overplayed - what happened to anchoring where you feel like and feeding the occassional dogfish with overpriced bait?

you put a label on it "Tope" and packed it away for Alderney ......

Mike, When I first read your post I got he impression that the t'leaves had nicked Anya's name as well!

Absolutely, but Barto said he's buying a new unit and surely it's less likely any of those will still use CF, which is a "dead" format to all intents now. I think new Garmin and Lowrance units (2 most likely options for a combined plotter/ff) all use SD cards. Duncan fair point, although I don't think Garmin have used Navionics cartographu since they ported it to their G-Charts many many years ago. Come to think about it a new Lowrance plotter would probably use microSD now. Anyway, I think we all agree it's plotter first!

true - but then again a number of plotter use CF rather than SD....... as someone's pointed out it would help to know which plotter! from memory Navionics used to have issues being used in more than one plotter, or maybe more than 2, is this no longer an issue?

what do you want to do? generally we will drift, and on the banks I use a light 6ft rod with calcutta 400, 20lb braid and a 40lb fluro leader - 3oz lead. tope on the drift too - your choice of gear weight for them, did hook what we thought must be a porgy once off speedy though....and the possibility of drifting a few wrecks on the way back. turbot rigs are anything designed to drift with a strip of mackeral or a live bait on or near the bottom - running ledger or portland rigs do this well. bait presentation is the key (from cutting, hooking, trace length and 'working it' - plus being in the right place at the right time) er....basically no of course not!

yep - Chris's fish, Charlie's sea and Rob's sky all seem excellent! if anyone has the original file and wants to email me.....

there are 2 reasons to drift IMO - one is that you don't have to anchor but the other is that you can (generally) fish appropriately light... sounds like it worked for you here! Excellent!

but you can't legally put that in your boat for anything other than heating surely?

mike, if they are holding 12.6 over a reasonable time, say a week, then they sound pretty good; your charging system may not be getting 'everything' into them as well (but I suspect that yours will be smart and matched).

only know one (Hamworthy) and it's not far off the price of white last time I looked, remember you won't be able to buy it at marine duty levels......

they all sound dead to me - unless they have been recently left attached to a load and 'just gone down that low' I wouldn't personally trust them on a boat for anything beyond the cabin reading light. as to testing - you need to top-up, fully charge with a proper charger then - 1. leave 24 hours and re-check the voltage should hold 12.8 2. if the above it good then maintain a voltage test under load for a few seconds, and re-check voltage afterwards. Shouldn't drop too much under load and should recover to previous voltage reasonably quickly. if you have a hydrometer you can test the SG after trying to charge instead.

my apologies for the risks associated with a poor attempt at humour. I was only really highlighting a legal way to 'avoid paying pump prices' in the context of the orriginal post; I fell short of 'steal it'... I was not trying to suggest that home made diesel would be cheaper in the long run for all marine diesel engines. Thanks to those highlighting some of the risks

"I'm told that the 60/40 rule is being scrapped -" No - and it's not a rule... "also that the 60/40 can be claimed at a different ratio if one is using it predominantly for heating a long term moored boat" Yes, basically you can claim at a rate you consider appropriate to the usage. If you consider that Rev and Customs can ask you to justify the latter, but are extremely unlikely to do so in the case of someone claiming 60/40 in boat size quantities, you pretty much have the situation. Now the 'new bits', from 6th April the purchaser (of red diesel)will be making an additional declaration when purchasing, but things are both in flux and somewhat confusing about this! Suffice to say that you should keep fuel reciepts for when visiting France or Holland, but avoid Belgium completely. No point in a long post about it at all so I won't. "Seems daft to be paying pump prices for marine diesel, there must be a better way?" - can't answer this 'cos I don't really understand the question; logically you would make your own and benefit from the 2,500l personal allowance under UK legislation I guess, and not put any dye in it!

thanks for posting, and with pictures too! the Sky can be a funny wreck to anchor and fish, despite it's overall size. well done to end up on some fish!

I suspect he has no issues with spending your (and my) money Paul, and sleeps well at night.

have a good day Tony....

right product, right weather, right price - you just needed the first customer to view! if you are short of a boat to clean let me know.....

Terry many thanks for sorting this for the members. 1. Tony D 1,4,9 2. Martin B 1,4,9 3. Craig 2,4,8 4.Ashley 5.Ben 2,4,9 6 Alun J. 3, 4, 8. 7 Peter 1,4,9 8 Rob F 3,4,9 9 Paul D 2,4,7 10 Steve S 2,4,7 11. Paul F 3, 4, 8 12, Duncan 2, 4, 9

generally there will be lugs and the need to press in in a couple of opposing positions to release the top/motor - but I don't know the specifics to yours

cheaper electricity? what I find amazing is that this project is planned to be between 50 and 70 times larger than anything that this company has got up and running before........bluntly it's huge funding is open ended because of the political benefits of the theoretical CO2 savings in the wider EU and international negotiations; particularily scary because it means that other savings are less likely because of the theoretical benefits of this project - the equation therefore becomes where are the theoretical maimum CO2 savings for the minimum investment available ie short term economics

Thanks guys - appreciated

Mike, think you wil find that the individuals 'got out' shortly afterwards (2005) and the firms involved were 'washed' at the time too. I agree with your implication that this was a cold calculated commercial venture - sadly, here in the UK, this is encouraged by a system that permits crime to pay (and this applies to a huge range of crimes!)

found out yesterday afternoon that the yard had not done my trim tab anodes as requested. grabbed new before the shop shut and went to do them this morning, stainless bolts into aluminum anodes which had corroded solid - to the point that you could not get the allen key in! half an hour to find some electrikery then half an hour upside down with angle grinder, safety glasses misted up, in wind and rain down the back of the neck to get the old ones off, 2 mins to get the new on, cut em off and replace. boats who would have em! good luck and hope it goes better than the above I'm confused - it is normal to use stainless bolts to secure anodes (aluminium or zinc) to steel; do I take it your trim tabs are aluminium (which would make sense re the bolts but less with regard to the anodes ) duncan i dont pretend to understand the details but the boat yard told me to use aluminium because that was what the anodes on the drive were made from- and they are presumably (looking at their placing and shapes) tailor made by Yamaha for the leg yes - aluminium anodes fine on Merc B3 and Yamaha drives I was just questioning why you thought it wrong to have them fitted with stainless bolts. However, re-reading your post it's possible you were just making the observation that you had had to cut your old ones off before installing new ones - presumably with stainless bolts/fittings. If this is the case then miss read your post and apologise for the confusion; which was just mine. I see Charlie has posted effectively the same thing.

Sorry Jim, my confusion isn't about galvanic corrosion; it was specific to Ospreyman's post.