Rob

Hero status maintained!!!

Enjoy!

Ian with the first fish of the day

I was shown to double it up, esp with thin braid. Just make a 6/9" loop of braid and wrap that thought, up, down and back through instead of single strand......has worked for me. R

Never had an issue myself, are you doubling up the braid when you tie it? Is the mono you are tying to, too supple? R

Cracking trip today, not the best forecast and pretty windy and sloppy!! Bass a plenty out there. We had multiple 4-way hook-ups. Mind you, the bass were highly concentrated. Miss the spots and blank drift, fortunately, those were few and far between. I've never been on a boat where the faster you head in to slop, the smoother the ride, awesome! Cracking first use of the oven, Adam made moussaka and we shared a bottle of red once back in calmer waters [emoji108] Thanks chaps. R

The tender is a cat too! They don't do things by halves! R

What version of navionica is it? Gold / platinum etc please? R

Happy Birthday Jerry! R

Maybe that should have been the name!!

I can't claim all the glory for the wiring, Adam did much of it. Having both watched Bob on the last 2 builds, he would be proud!! The schematics Adam drew up on the "Belgian" wiring made no sense. It turned out, the schematics were correct, the wiring was horrendous. Biggest 3 issues (other than the mess), were: - black battery cables in use for positive (some negative ones had red heat shrink on the tips too) - unnecessary runs of cables where spitting them was more efficient - a 3rd battery that was assumed for windlass, doing absolutely nothing, except being charged underway, yet no option to throw a switch to bring it in to service All sorted and satisfying to get some dangling time on her! Thanks gents! R

After spending many an hour on Kodiak on shore, and having missed the launch on Saturday. Adam invited me to reignite out Tuesday evening fishing club! I meet him by the fish and chip shop , grabbed our dinner and took it to eat on the veranda at North Haven. Load up the dinghy and out to Kodiak. She looks cracking on the water! Out to the patch for bream, bass, mackerel, scad, undulate, dogfish, pout & conger. Busy evening in the light drizzle. Constant rod rattles. And Adam adding more upgrades/improvements!! A few bream, macs and bass in the box (best bass 5lb on the nose). Off home in the dark. Cracking venue, boat, fishing and company. Fresh mackerel for dinner tonight and plenty more for the rest of the week. Rob

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Hope you are keeping well Dave! R

Anyone knows who owns this ?

I have a bag of these, anyone want them FoC of course. Or they will head to tip. R

Happy Birthday Charlie!

Enjoy!

Bow repair, the dark showing through is part of an old repair. I can assure you, this a baby bum smooth!

Dale who is a reasonably new member and friend of mine, called for some advice regarding his Orkney 520. He was asking about the screws holding on his sounder transducer. When I saw the photo of the 9 screw hols...........I knew I'd need a bit of work. He keeps the boat on the water and therefore was looking for something that was appropriate. On initial my thoughts were, if we can plug the holes and fill with resin, we could be good. Thanks to Adam for the materials as he has plenty hanging about with all the work his is completing on Kodiak. I met Dale through Adam as they move in the same shooting circles. When water started to pour out of the screw holes, I was wondering what else was impacted. Thoughts of soggy tansome wood etc. however, drilling out the holes, there was.notbing there. Just a gap and some water flowing out. Not much but more than you want to see from a sealed compartment. On advice from Adam, I called Orkney who were very helpful. The wood they install sits 5" above the bottom of the keel and a few inches short of the gunnels. Red area. Phew, this means there has been no wood sat in water! So, flap disc off the AF, epoxy layer and gel coat. Then fill holes with sikaflex and get glassing. A few hefty sheets of glass, some flowcoat and it's looking good. As a solution to keep all holes above the waterline, I made a bracket from chopping board. This meant, we could use physical fixing nice and high, and sikaflex the lower to the hull. It was 3 boards thick, to give some meat to screw the transducer to. Happy days! With some mixed flowcoat (not colour matched but better than nothing), I repaired some old repairs on the bow. Plus, got rid of plenty of chips that were inherited. Beggeds can't be choosers!!!!!!!! A few extra jobs like some sikaflex around a drain, there was a cracked compartment lid (which had too much flex and had cracked). This was again patched with glass and flowcoated. We attached some rubber strips to reduce the flex in the lid if stood on again. Overall, in a good place for her to be launched in the near future. Just needs some anti-foul and good to go.

Enjoy Tony! R

He's too busy to look on here, he is currently built the catering hub on Kodiak!!! Hopefully he will do a write up of what's been done. The classic "just needs a little love", well, that turned out to be slightly off. As Ian and Adam can't have anything below par.......so, she isn't now! Can't wait to be out and enjoying her with the guys. R

Enjoy mate

Enjoy! R

Enjoy Dean! R