Maverick Martin

But will probably last longer after a coat or two

They looked better in the first piccy Jim

Tigerfish: Alun, Terry, Stuie, Steve Reel Magic Dave, Kev, Paul  Alfresco Charlie and Ian Fisheagle Allan, Coddy and Dave L. Kingfisher; Chris and Blake W. Marichelle , Mick & Chris Madness, Martin, Jim Endeavour3 with gummage, mike hall ,david cotton( non member) mike halls guest( non member)

I will be taking Madness out on Sunday and have a space for crew. Post her email pm or phone me to claim a space

Madness will be fishing on Sunday Martin Crew required post in other thread if interested

Good call (I think) good luck with the upgrades. If you need putting off ask for advice here

I love the look of the Barracuda 9 and at one point I thought of buying one. The biggest downside for me was the cost and inconvenience of fueling a petrol boat. Petrol on a mid size boat is an issue. If you are doing inshore trips and using 70/80 litres per trip it's either eye wateringly expensive from a marina assuming you can find one that stocks it or will take a lot of toing and froing with jerry cans then transferring via a syphon tube of funnel and all the fun that entails. The fuel used on my Rodman would be similar in amount but less than 2/3rds the cost and convenient as most marinas stock red diesel. If you want sea a review with details of fuel consumption watch the following vid: http://www.boattest.com/review/beneteau/3014_barracuda-9

Madness is 8.7 metres at over 5.5 tons and has a 10kg Delta look alike with about 12 metres of 8mm chain with 220 metres of rode which works well for us

Lazy toe rag!

How very dare you Niggle, there is nothing normal about our Madness breakfasts

But that is not the main job of the chain Rob. The main job is to weight the shank of the anchor so the angle between the anchor and the boat is shallower therbye assisting the anchor to get a grip. The bigger the boat you have the more important this is. A Longer/heavier piece of chain also helps reduce snatch. The secondary job is to act as a counterbalance in the Alderney set up.

Dean and I will be taking Madness out on Saturday and have space for one other. Not sure what we will go for yet but it will be a leisurely day leaving for the 7:30 bridge returning at the latest on the 16.30 bridge. If interested post here pm or phone first come and all that

Happy Birthday Alun & Bob

Had one of those intrepids in my shore fishing days

Well done Adam great result for you and Tigerfish

Got talking to Diane on Sat and she said you might be up for a trip, just shout mate would be more than happy to have you for company, I'll pm you when we are going out

Did it an faceache but will duplicate for a mate, hope it was good Charlie

Dean, Neil and Martin will fish on Sunday

Good luck with the sale Nigel, she's a cracking boat

Nice one Trevor

Happy Birthday Trevor, have a grand day matey

Sorry response now sent

Dean and I decided we would go out on the boat fishing Sunday so arrangements for food and bait were made . Down the boat for a later start at 8:15. First stop was at Cobbs Quay fuel berth to fill Madness up after our Alderney foray then out into the harbour. We had a conversation about what we should do, breaming was on the agenda but seeing how flat the sea was along with the combination of small tides we plumped for mid channel wrecks. On our previous trip over to Alderney we lost all our pink look alike eels which had seemed to be the colour preferred by the fish, a quick call into Poole Sea Angling got us something similar then off we went this side of mid channel to see what we could find. The trip out saw a flattish sea which gave us a comfortable cruise speed at 20+ knots. Got to our first wreck which had fished on previous occasions but unfortunately not today with just a couple of hard won fish appearing. After giving it a good length of time the decision was made to move to the next closest wreck which was about 1.5 miles further west from the first mark. This small wreck fished slightly better but was not blistering sport with just the odd cod. Off we go again another 5 miles west to a reasonable sized wreck. This move was well justified with Pollock to 15lb and a splattering of small 5-8lb cod. Coming home was interesting with visibility down to 50 metres at one point, the fog was really quite thick and a total change from the morning. At one point Dean said look up I can see the sun to which I replied unfortunately we were not going that way and still couldn’t see more than 70/80 metres ahead, really strange. Close inshore (within a mile of land) the fog cleared to hazy sunshine. The point of making an issue of the fog is that if we did not have radar we would have been travelling at about 6 or 7 knots and bricking ourselves but with all the navigational aids on Madness including radar we were able to not only keep up a reasonable cruising speed of about 15 knots comfortably but we were able to see boats on the screens that were around us . Had we not had radar we would have came straight over the wrecks off Swanage where several boats had divers down. We could see these on radar 6 miles ahead so could take a slightly different course giving them a wide berth and not spoiling there (or our) day. I know that most of the club boats that go offshore are very experienced skippers and have all the kit and more. If less experienced members want to take their boats well offshore please take the time to talk to those that have been there and done that. Your learning curve will be greatly reduced

It's amazing the difference different props make. Are you now achieving that max or near to rpm specified by the manufacturer? You should be able to achieve this or very close to it with your standard load onboard. if not there is room for even more improvement. As well as being more fuel efficient and giving better performance getting the required revs is also kinder to the engine

A Very happy birthday to you Sam