great white

1) Fisheagle Allan Green, Jan Triska and John Stephenson. 2) Alf and Martin on dream drifter weather permitting 3) Dean & Martin on AWOL 4) Alfresco Charlie Dan Will

Nice day to be afloat and well done on a few nice fish

Nice Brian Very neat I like the look of those wide screen combi units, I have had a combination Lowrance set on the boat from launch and it has proved to be very good. I record the sonar of when I am hunting aound new marks and wrecks, playing them back later on the PC at home I get exact Lat Long of the main features Have fun learning how it works Charlie

Hi Steve I too have started looking at this issue I do not have any problems with the one fitted to the fore deck of Alfresco, regarding hauling the rope through the gypsy. The problem is stowing the rope in the locker as quick as the rope is recovered by the capstan, so that it does not jam on deck. Because of that I only tend to use it inshore.when I have a crew or two. I have started to look at the side deck capstans, Muir had a smart one at the boat show and another 1000w unit is available from boatgeardirect, but they do not look like they would accept chain arount the drum and it would take a bit of modification to the boat to keep the motor dry, I have started to look at the ones used on commercial boats. The CJ Capstan has a self contained motor but they only use a 750w motor and recovery speed is quoted at 14mtr/min, which is a hell of a lot slower than Dan or Sam recover the rope by hand, after we Alderney ring the anchor LOL. Tom has just had one fitted to Illusion, so I have emailed him to ask him about that question. One small point about your direct swap from a 700w to a 1000w unit. Have you checked the spec of the wiring on your boat? I had to use very heavy cable on mine because of the total length of the cable. You do not want hotspots inside the boat while you recover your warp and chain. Charlie

Nice trip stuie Well done skipper

Thanks brian I feel much heathier now I will try my best to keep taking the medicine

Well done guys Sounds like a great monday

Weather permitting we are in but my crew would revolt [i mean revert to other things] if it goes harbour only

My brother another friend and I all owned dory, s with cabins After I removed the bulkhead from mine and made it into a cuddy, so did they. All three boats were transformed into much better fishing tools, we could duck into the cuddy out of the elements, but still see the rods

Nice one mate See you out there soon Look out fishes

Happy birthday Paul I hope that you had a great day Charlie

Thanks guys Would be good to see what others use Especially when attaching thin braid to much thicker nylon leaders We tend to find equal strengths do not work to well tight to the wrecks, we step up from 30lb braid to 60lb leader when congering Charlie

I have just been having a closer look at this sight and it gives some interesting data I used to use fireline, but it is a bit bulky and I heard that it tests very high, so I changed to a thinner braid (whiplash pro) From this site it looks like 30lb braid is about a third of the diameter of fire line and line tests show it breaking just over the stated line strength not about 50% over like the fireline. Glad that I changed, just need to be confident that I am using the best mono to braid knot. I believe that the one I use is the double grinner knot, but it could be a double uni knot. The grinner/grinner gets a good test result and I believe the uni/uni less so. I changed from a knotless knot a couple of years ago after it failed a couple of times, I started to suspect that I was not tying it well enough, when I needed to replace a leader while fishing. Confidence in tge knot had gone, so I changed. What knots do others use? And who knows the differance between a grinner/grinner and a uni/uni Charlie PS Rob I seem to remember that you ran some tests on knot strengths, what did they show regarding the various mono and braid joining knots??

Well done mate I bet that was a tireing trip 7 sleeping onboard is a bit of a squeeze, but it sounds like you enjoyed it

In my experiance it is best to ensure that the batteries can not move within the boxes. Mine are standing on non slip rubber matting, with rubber blocks stopping them sliding around in the box Charlie

Thanks for sharing your warning Allan Any idea why the battery split?

Not sure about whiting bait, but they make great conger baits so they must have a bit of scent. Nice to see you back on here Craig Must of been a fun trip with all you west country boys onboard. Charlie