Newboy

Sorry, I'm no expert, but isn't mpg a bit meaningless, as distance isn't a true representation of work by the engine. For example, wind and tide both affects the friction/resistance of boat going where it's going. I hear some of you say 'But it should equals out as getting there and then back like they do in speed runs?!' Yes, and no, wind direction changes as well as tide. You could well be against tide out on way out and way back. Maybe how much fuel it uses in an hour at full throttle is a better representation?!

If I was anti europe, then I would say the euro coffer If I was tory I would say whitehall bureacracy and labour's fluffies.

Say if I was out and didn't have any 2 1/2 lead, can I rig up 2 weighs to make the weight?

Call yourself lucky, it's 83p for a litre of diesel this end of Hants and rising

Any crabs or lobsters in the pot?

Apparently bass were caught not far from hurst using pirk on feathers. Most good size too.

Sounds like a 4some to me ......

If he set the horn at max db, maybe the sound wave can 'blast' water off the windscreen?

A normal car one should work, shouldn't it?

Don't you get 24v by joining 2 x 12v batteries in series? or is it in parallel? It's been a little while since my CSE physics Anyway, wouldn't the cost of the batteries outweights the saving you made on the 24v wipers? On the other hand you can always change everything on the boat over to 24v ...........

Just weigh my trailer as Codfather suggested, it is bearly 20kg, so can it be right? I suppose I ought to add about 5 kg on it since the trailer is on a slight slope. However even 25 seem quite low. Thw boat net weigh is 340kg, plus the outboard which is about 50kg (but is right at the back therefore that actually lessen the hitch weigh), the anchor warp is approx 25 kg which is right at the front.

You mean like this one http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...2477846273&rd=1 Duke of hazzards, wicked.....

better not tell the missus then ......

The prices on leisure batteries have came down so much over the last few years. I remember a few year ago, a leisure battery for caravan will cost in the region of

I'm a little confused now. I was told present day electronics on board draw very little power from the battery. So if we are only fishing for the day, one battery should have enough juice (before it's recharge when we get home) for the eleronics and the only should cope with starting the ob, or shouldn't it?

Can we use a mini pennel rig for bream? I was out on Tuesday catching bream (tried without success ). There were breams about but they were very good of stripping the squid bait strip upto the hook. I was thinking if we use a small hook for the top and a even smaller one at the bottom. Does it make sense or not?

How about those s/s tubes, sections and bits we can get from chandlery, then it's a matter of screwing/securing them together and you can have any design you can think of?!

On my boat, the rubbing strip has shown sights of its age by a couple of splits and a handful of small cracks. What I want to know is that whether it affects the safety of the boat or not? The mechanic who did my ob said it doesn't but I would like a second opinions.

The short range radio ... something something ... licence runs forever and it costs

Not sure if this is allowed as we were on board a chartered boat. Anyway, six of us went out from Lymington on board Tomkat skippered by John Skeggs. We first stopped off Hurst castle to see if Mackeral are here yet, the answer is no. Next we moved to the west of the needles to target the breams. Fog and mist hampered visiblity, down to about a mile. Caught some doggies and one bass with squids strips as baits. After about an hour things quiet down and with another 30 mins no fish, John move again to just outside Christchurch. Here we caught 7 breams in about 2 hours, largest was bout 3 1/2. Note breams here are very cleaver. We had lots of small bites and the big one never comes and when we reel in, the bait's gone. They must have hands. Anyway a good day nevertheless.

I agree with you about taste of big fish. Generally, fish like bass and bream are only good for eating if they are fairly small, say up to 3 lb max, (bream I'd say 2 lb) anything bigger taste tough and bland.

It cost me

Strictly speaking I've only passed my VHF exam and will get my licence in about 4 - 6 weeks. Btw, did I mention I got 100%?

How many litres are we talking about? Or more to the point, is one large tank enought?