Maverick Martin

Hope it all goes well Alan

I had similar closer to home. Dean and I were returning from a day out. Coming past the chain ferry our radar arch was struck by a lead. I immediately aimed our boat at the small pier that the trip boats use, jumped off and instructed Dean to stand guard whilst I went and saw this chap to give him some verbal abuse. Afterwards I was so pleased that this guy was submissive as he towered above me in all directions and had he decided to lamp me one I would probably not have got up. When I got back on our boat I was still shaking, the Adrenalin was really making me buzz. Sorry for the fred drift

Hopefully Gary didn't do the brickwork lol Belated birthday wishes Gary

We were at Portland this pm and were looking out onto a smoothish looking sea close in but with large rollers crashing up the rocks. Looking out at the boats fishing both the race and the shambles they looked to be rolling and pitching a lot

This time of year anchor and big baits

Wishing you the best Birthday Terry, I hope Dilys Amanda and Mike spoil you rotten,

That's not the attitude Mal, what the hell are you up to that's more important than club comps See you in the morning

I guess this comp runs along the same lines as most of our competitions Competition rules So a continuous 7 hour period prior to the finishing times would sound about right?

That's the way to do it, a bit more punchy than what the uk does

Flybridge/screen You could ask where to buy one on HERE

Hope it was a goodun Oli, Happy Birthday

Well done Tom, any fish is better than no fish

I nearly called you this am, not that I was interested in your outing but you had the bloody bridge up and stopped me going to work. Glad you all had a reasonable day both fish and weather wise. Tony and I are out am tomorrow but looking at the weather suspect we will be back early doors for a Doombar or 1,2,3 or 4

Wishing you a very happy birthday Alfie

Now I know what you were on about at the meeting Trev lol

Happy Birthday Pete

Sorry we can't make this one

Happy birthday Steve

Wishing you a very happy birthday Mal, hope you haven't been working and that you have had a great day

Wishing you the very best of birthdays Stuie

Belated birthday wishes to both Andy's

Done, let me know if you want a different title or moved elsewhere

But how far were you out? they do not necessarily have the radar systems at full power constantly and definitively not when near to port/shore

It has but only for a few short hours lol The story was that we were fishing a mark called the rips which are about 26 miles out from Poole. We had got there ok with all our electrics working normally however the weather suddenly deteriorated so we decided to about turn and make our way back. At this time our plotter X2 went down and left us with a totally blank screen we also couldn't use the auto pilot. I didn't have a clue what was wrong. Checked connections which were ok, checked trips which were ok and being electrically illiterate at that point I gave up and made a heading at 150 knowing we would hit land and find our way back. Looking around we spotted a naval ship in the distance, it came, it went. After it had gone 3 or 4 miles all our electrics came back to life and back to normal. I can only assume that the amount of power their radar emits blanked out our electrics.

That said don't get in the immediate vicinity of a man of war when they are using their radar on full power, I could tell a little story about that but I have had a couple of glasses of wine