Rob

Looks like a Small Eye to me! "What about the crab I caught at the family day ?" The less said about that the better - after all it was a family day and children were present!!

I assume you have put it on boats and outboards? If not then it will sell their at the right price. If you have and it is not sold then you will have to adjust price accordingly. I coul have sold my dory 4 times at least on Boats and Outboards and I got my asking price! R

Man you are having bad luck! First the boat packs up then the GPS! There was a thread last month re. repairs by some company in Wareham - Here: http://www.pbsbac.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=8994 R

Might be worth a shot of compressed air in to the carbs to clear the jets (just worked a treat on a friends Mercury 2stroke 115) - or take them off and soak them in carb cleaner to remove the gunk. Rob

Get an Icom - I have a fixed one and Handheld (for 5 \ 6 years and still battery is great). I can't comment on Navman but have no complaints re. Icom. BTW there are 2 types when talking GPS compatiable. There are DSC only ones that have GPS data input and then the second type have input AND output. This is where you can plot your mates MMSI's on you gps and see where they are! (if they authorise it!) - as far as I am aware no one in the club is stuipd enough to do this yet!!! HTH Rob

Is anyone going out later? I see the sea state is predicted to be Smooth to slight - small tides and all. Rob

Some guys have these Olympus waterproof cameras - they are good cameras anyway and being tough and waterproof in a bonus - + they are suprisingly small. Alun J has one - he could advise. Maybe this: http://www.parkcameras.com/Search/waterpro...igital+Cameras/ Or Pentax: http://www.parkcameras.com/Search/waterpro...igital+Cameras/ Panasonic, canon and Fuji also do versions. I have a sony normal digital compact camera and have a waterproof case for it (3m\10ft). This is because at the time the tough cameras did not have an AF assist light, but the case was expensive but I got it in Canada which was much better for the wallet! I find this site a good place to start for reviews: http://www.trustedreviews.com/digital-cameras/ HTH Rob

Nice to put a name to a face. Let us know when you are all bakc home (if not already). Cheers Rob, Jo and Olivia

In your Avatar you show the boat on a trailer - can you not pull her out at Baiter and fix in the car park?

Good film and interesting to learn a few things. Some people got more excited than others:

Well done Frisky and her crew. Once again doing well. For new members who may not know - Frisky Fox is a yacht. (don't worry if they do too well in the species comp we can amend the boat classificatrion rules at teh next AGM!! ) Rob

Sounds like a bad earth to me. Also, trace all the wires and see where \ bow they connect to the battery - then ensure that the cable size is up to the job. Especially if the cable run is long. Good luck Rob

You guys are really scratching the bottom of the barrel!!

Jim - is Small Fry OK? Looks like you may have buoyancy issues. I would expect her to lean to your side!!!

I assume that cutting and rejoining the wire has changed the resistance and maybe a new one is in order. Rob

Why not buy a round bit to start with!

Get Navionice Gold XL9 28XG - this is the whole of the UK and Northern France. Very useful is you are ever to trail to West Devon and Cornwall \ North Coast you will not have a suitable chart. I think I paid

Sunday I found that my drag was a bit jerky when fighting Mr Spikey! Having recently cleaned the cork drag (the cork was black and I used Isopropyl alcohol so not to disolve the glue in the cork) I was suprised. Then after some quick research I found that fly reel cork drags are lubricated with grease! I thought that was worth a try and bingo - drag still works through the range and is as smooth as silk. So I did the same to my second reel all in less than 20 mins. (the reels in question are Abu 6600 Lever Drags) Rob

Like anything - practice practice practice! You need to get to know your boat and trailer - My old boat had a bad relationship with it's trailer until I added a could of fat rollers at the back and a guide bumper on either side. Rob

Indeed, practice builds confidence and will enable you to launch easily by yourself. A number of club members launch trailered boats on their own, including me. Wick, Mudeford and Lymington are particually good places to lauch single handed. And Baiter is possible with the use of a rope if you don't fancy dunking the car. Often you will find depening on the crew you take it can be like launching on your own!! Going out with others just to see how they launch and recover will give you a great insight on how to (and some times not to) do it. Even better, take a picnic and go to a slipway on a sunny weekend guranteed entertainment and an oppourtunity to learn! Rob

On saturday I launched for the first time at Lymington with my fishing buddy Nick. We had the solent in mind due to the weather and smoothies were on teh cards. We got out around 9am and headed in to the Solent. We searched for some features and found a lovely gullly so dropped the hook, I ended up 12m above the target area. Why doesn't it always work like that!!! Down went the first bait and bang, fish on before Nick had even attached a hook! The fish swung against the boat and fell off! But hey I touched the hook length! So a small Starry Smoothie to me! The tide was no really pushing through and the amount of weed was becoming annoying so we moved closer inshore. Well a couple more fish (4-5lb I guess) and a small bream to double squid on a pennel and the conditions were worstening so we had a nice wet jaunt around the solent (conditions were just as bad across the otherside of the water) and back in to Lymo. Overall, target species was landed and we had some sun (nice and warm with the spray dodger up). Will be out again soon - oh - maybe in the morning after the BBq on Gastronaught!!

Thanks Trev but i'm out of those at the mo!! Unless you have a plague of them you need me to remove!! Mind you I have found they do go well on the BBQ!!

Gents - if smoothies were the target down that way what bait works best? Squid? Hermit Crab? Peeler? (

If you are an RNLI member call the RNLI College at the HQ in Poole and se if there are any rooms available - cheap, clean and great breakfast!!! Rob

Any idea of size Adam? because it is difficult to judge how big that Redgill is! Rob