Maverick Martin

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CODDY AND BILLY Martin

Hi Malc welcome aboard, keep visiting and posting, You know it makes sense Martin

Mark Your in for some stick from us tonight at the dd but a good call on the family front We'll miss you Martin

Welcome to our website Martin

Whats more important, wife birthday of fishing ummmmm tough call oowww oowww

I think Bob means the 7100 Try here: http://marinestore.co.uk/Merchant2/merchan...tegory_Code=esv

Bob You bully leave little Rob alone, someone needs to record fish. Martin

Maverick will be their with Dean as crew if hes not working could possibly take one more Martin

Newboy I have two 85 amp batteries on my boat, they are switchable i.e. bat 1, bat 2 or all on oh and off. I have never had a problem with my batteries except when I forgot to switch the electrical system off when leaving the boat for a period of time (couple of weeks) that spoilt a days fishng but thats another story. Modern electric toys dont drain much power so a 110 amp battery on a small boat is up to the job and will cope with your boat electrics easily. BUT I would never have a boat of mine with one battery for safety reasons. With two batteries you should always have plenty of power to start your engine even if one bat goes dead on you. Most outboards can poke out enough power to keep batteries charged up and trailer boaters have the benefit of being able to charge them up at home. Mine are on a trickle charge now. If you are thinking about it you are obviously concerned so dont think it do it, fit two batteries. Martin

Hi Ben I agree with Mike, we can help but more info would be nice re: boat size, gear etc. Firstly register in this forum. It costs you not one penny piece and is really easy to do. There are areas that none registered members cannot access which will then be available to you. Secondly join the club. Membership of the club is just

Dont forget to use the calendar feature. You can find out what is happening within the club at the click of a button, its on the top right hand side of the forum pages. If you want anything added to the calendar let a member of admin have the details Martin

Hi Adam Week-end of the 29th sounds good 2me but will fish either Martin

Hi Billy You can submit your fish via the link on the front page of our main site, this goes directly to Charlie Chapman our fish recorder. Alternatively you could phone Charlie to register your fish. The committee members contact details are in the new member pack I sent you. I will email you a membership list so you have all the contact details of the club members. Cheers Martin

Hi Billy Paul J informed me that you have paid your dues and I have forwarded your details to Bob Fuller our membership secretary. I look forward to meeting you during the course of the year. Cheers Martin

Sounds like you had a cracking day, lucky boys I was building up the brownie points I have been like a bear with a sore head today all that sun and flat water and what am I doing .................. fix the shower, fix the patio door dig here, dig there you get the picture. Never mind boat jumble tomorrow, fishing next week-end and summers coming bring it on Martin

BRILLiant I am getting really excited now, you have wet my whistle nearly as much as Dixie did in Wessex Angling whilst I was stocking up on consumables. Only got three more shops to visit to pick up those just in case items Adam Do we have a full itinery with times etc, would'nt want to miss the boat. Also have we a list of must have items to take. Dean is really worried about food, do we need to take snacks etc for during the day or can these items be purchased on the island? Fingers crossed for the weather Martin

Was that on Tara James and hows the engine performing, did it start ok Martin

Newboy That would have done nicely. I actually use a fold up anchor and a load of chain, the anchor is dragged by the bottom so it wont take hold. This does me until I find something more suitable Where did you throw the lead greapefuit? I could do with that Martin

Hi Newboy In simple terms wattage equates to distance your set will transmit. A hand held unit usually has 1 or 5 watts output. You would select 1 watt for talking to boats that are close to you and 5 watts for all other uses. A fixed unit has settings of 5 watts and 25 watts so you would select 5 watts for talking to boats that are say within 1-2 miles and 25 watts for all other uses. Why bother to change your output you might say, well if your friend is in close proximity to you and you have your set on full power the signal you send out may get blasted pass him and he may not hear you, on low power he will hear you no problem. Also when you transmit others in your area cannot use there radios so using low power for close work allows others to use there sets. Obviously if you are talking to your buddy who is more than a couple of miles away you would select high power. As a rule I leave my set on high power until I need to transmit, I will then either select low power if talking to someone close or leave it on high power for all other work. When I have finished my conversation I switch the set back to high power, the reason for doing this is so that if the radio is needed in an emergency it is already on high power ready to use to call for assistance. DSC is an automated distress calling system. You simply press a red button and your set will send out an outomated digital distress call. If your set is linked to a GPS it will also transmit your position. I would reccomend that you go for a fixed unit on your boat purely because of the power which equates to distance your signal will go. In an emergency the further your signal goes the more people can hear your call. You should be able to get a reasonable VHF for under

Cheers Paul Martin

Hi all Have just stumbled across a very useful site for the servicing of reels loads of links to all the main manufacturers service centres. In short a one stop resource for reel info. Its in my favourites: http://www.reelvalue.co.uk Martin

Newboy As You're a fully paid up member of this club you are not allowed to just sit and watch ! The best way to learn is by doing, so if you come to the slip with us you can assist in launching the boats, you can then ask all the questions you like and get some hands on experience at the same time. You could then if you like come out on one of the boats (mine if you like) and fish for the day you would then be around when the boats are retreived which is a whole new ball game with lots to take in. It all seems a bit daunting to begin with but really most of the skills involved are common sense, a quality a lot of boaters seem lacking. Martin

After a bit of a calamity start for us (dont ask) things went on to get worse, it rained and then it rained and then the wind got up, oh and then it rained. The best bit of the day was the bacon butties Our final tally for the day was Dean=1 dog and four wrasse me=2 pollock 2 wrasse and 2 bass, not great but a start i suppose. Martin

Adam Another way to get the wires through is use stainless steel welding wire,(I have some if you want it) its stiff enough to push through yet pliable enough to go round corners. The only problem is the tube is narrow with some of the bends a bit tight, can be done but you'll need to be persistent unless your very lucky Martin

Capacity 22.7 litres = just under 5 galls