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Oh that's just warped thinking Paul! Mad Mike

That's a hell of a scope Charlie, 5 to 1! I thought the Wafi's used 3 to 1 for overnighting with no anchor watch. Or are you saying the ratio is not constant and that the greater the depth over say 60ft the ratio needs to be extended? I find that in 60 ft 3 to 1 is fine. Mad Mike

It's Microsoft Photo Premium 10. I got it with a software package with the Dell PC But I guess it will be on the Windows catalogue. I am quite happy to send it to you if only I knew how If you want to come over and do the do on my PC and send it to yours no probs mate. Mad Mike

Thank you for this, it is something I need to brush up on for sure. Mad Mike

My long dead Uncle who was in HM Submarines during the war told a terrifing tale of when he was a sub lieutenant on his first tour. First I must explain that 'Q' is the emergency dive or rise chamber, flood 'Q' and you go down like a stone. So there he is on his first patrol with a couple of look outs and the first officer all standing in the conning tower as the boat was on the surface running on diesels and charging the batteries. Suddenly one of the lookout shouts "Aircraft bearing 150" or whatever and in a flash the first officer yells "Flood Q! Dive off klaxon" he punches a big red button and from below comes the sound of someone shouting "Dive Dive Dive" at the same time as the klaxon horn going off at full volume. Apparantly all of that took about 2 seconds and there was Uncle Barry on his own in the conning tower with the sub already awash and tilting down. He froze for a second then with water flooding in through the scuppers of the conning tower he jumped feet first down the hatch and as he was closing the hatch water was flooding in over him. What a way to spend a war as they used to say. Mad Mike

Photos via a photo enhancement prog Mad Mike

Photos via a photo enhancement prog Mad Mike

That's a time of day no mans hand should ever set foot on!! Mad Mike

Thanks Alan, I was just guessing to see if I had the math formula correct. But do you recon I could take 2.4m as a constant for highest astronomical? Mad Mike

A whole new discipline to apply then! So someone check that I have this right please. If I was comeing back in and the tide chart showed a hight of say 1.5 meters at that time, I would add my air draft of 2.3 meters and get a total of 3.8 meters. Then add together the bridge clearance of 2.1m and the HAT which I am guessing is 2.1 m as well, this gives me a total of 4.2 m. Therefore I will have an expected clearance of .4 Meter? Mad Mike

Nice pictures, partic' the sunset one. Mad Mike

Don't laugh, I had already thought up a scheme and was planning to patent it!! A sorta floodable space between a double skin and then an HP air system to blow it out. Flood Q Dive off klaxon dive dive dive Arooga! arooga! arooga! Mad Mike

Anal Rich!!!! NO NOT AT ALL!! I too can not stand messy ropes, knots or bends. Mark, my fishing mate has what I call a washing line approach to our for and aft painters, and coils them hand to elbow Ahhhhhggg!! It has taken me a season and a half to get him to coil the damn things properly, that and not taking 63 turns round a cleat to fasten a rope Ex engineering officer in the RN too! It is suprising how many people do not lay a rope with the turn as it was called by the guy who taught me. Mad Mike

Doh! Knowing 'Sodd's Law' on the most intimate of terms I can tell you that whenever we go out or come back one of them will be at a highwater but not at a bridge time!! Mad Mike

35 years of boating in Poole Harbour and I have never noticed if there is a hight (overhead clearance) gauge on Poole Bridge. I have been going over the specs of the new boat and see that it has an air draft of 7' 6" (without a radar bridge or radio aerial sticking up). Having chortled in times past at motor cruisers gingerly approaching the closed bridge whilst I slid underneath in whatever I was in, I realise now that I will be in the same boat (no pun intended ) When I had the big Romany in the 70's I had to wait untill the bridge opened because I had a mizzen mast and sail so I never looked for a gauge. Does any one know? Or is it a phone the Harbour Masters office? Mad Mike

What diameter would you sugest Rich? I mean for ease of handling V's stowability. Mad Mike

What a lovely day. I hope you guys that got away out to fish had a splendid time. After the last couple of weeks windyblow and rain it must be marvelous out there today. For those of us stuck at home for one reason or other please fill up our minds with tales of humongous fish and fabulous exploits. Mad Mike

Well I think 110 meters is enough for any where round here so if you want to go 50/50 on some nylon sometime before April I'm your man. Mad Mike

Jack can you work a thin sharp blade under the panel and slowly slice it loose? Other than that find the Sickaflex web site and ask them what they think. I have removed Sickaflex mechanicaly (thin sharp blade) to replace the perspex in a hatch. Mad Mike

Believe it or not Martin they do not appear to have a web site. I assume we both are talking about Bridport Gundry? Their phone number is 01308 422222. However have a look at http://www.ropesandtwines.com/default.asp They seem to be competitive. I would be happy to go halves with you on a 220 meter lot. Mad Mike

I am not talking about the hard brittle waxy feeling stuff, but the Polypropylene rope used by crabbers and commercial fishermen. Although it floats it is user friendly and coils down well. Has any one any experience of this rope? The reason I ask is that I can source it @

It would appear from this Sam, that you also have trouble with capital letters

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This is a new one on me Adam, well I say new, now that you wrote about it I remember as a lad they used to cut a line in the flesh of flounders just before the tail so the'the blood came out'. Snip the gills out? Scissors? How long to bleed out ? Mad Mike