Maverick Martin

Happy birthday Greg, hope you had a relaxing day

Happy Birthday Mike and Rob hope it was a good one............bloody cold though

The ladies are lovely Tiling is ok, decorating is crap, my advice don't employ them

Yes he Does, I have sent him a pm to look in on this thread again

Careful

Goes someway to proving we pick the best training school for our members That lady can come and embarrass me by parking my boat anytime

Thanks Paul. I saw that on wsf and have been trying to get dates of must attends out of the other half . When I have accomplished my mission I will be in a position to confirm or not

Met you at the club and now welcome to the forum, we'll have to stop meeting like this Seriously jump in and make the most of your membership. Is the boat 17 or 19'? I used to have a Pilot 520 which looks almost identical to yours even the colour safe stable craft

Happy birthday Paul, not heard from you for a while, what you up to?

Thanks Tony was good to share a beer with you

Thank you all for your birthday wishes I really do appreciate them. Today was but a normal day, get up, go to work, come home, read the forum and wait for my lovely wife to do the fillet and chips I love normal days

Nice pressie, where you going to moor her? and where's the photos

Happy birthday Jamie

Happy birthday Brian have a great day

Happy birthday Ian, I guess you'll have a fun day in Ian's world whatever happens but that said I hope the family also look after you

When and where? talk tomorrow?

I probably will not be going over the channel this year but am looking at alternative long weekends away

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Well today saw Madness come out of the drink for approximately 6 weeks I made sure I was at Cobbs to witness her coming out and take a look at any fouling. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the hull was clear of weed growth and barnacles with just a thin layer of slime. The iron work had a few tiny barnacles but nothing much. So this coming year I will be using SeaJet 033 Shogun antifoul paint again. The rear anodes were well worn although they still had some meat left on them. The propshaft anodes were all but gone in fact one had totally gone with the remaining one barely visible. Last year I had rope cutters fitted. These were fairly expensive to buy but after picking up my own anchor rope just before 2015 Christmas I thought they would be a good investment. The only minor problem I found after fitting them was a reduction in top speed by about a knot or so. Well having used them for about 10 months without incident I was thinking I may remove them, efficiency and all that however, when the boat came out there was the remnants of a rope on the port prop. I have not felt anything happen during the year and have no idea when we picked up the rope but one thing is for sure I am now glad I had the cutters fitted. Needless to say I shall be keeping the cutter on for the foreseeable future

Good to see you're still lurking Paul

Nice report Nige sounds like a brilliant day. Mal re pic 1 I've told you before no tongues

All the best Rich and many happy returns

Happy Birthday Ian

Good or I would have had to separate you to

Happy birthday Jon