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Worra load of photons! Mad Mike

Living dangerously Kam, livin' Dangerously Mad Mike

Re- you two and Trevor (wedger) and me, how about setting up a Fat Blokes section of the club? You gotta be over 16st and under5' 10" (?) to join and we can form our own 'sub' comitee. (That is we order bloody great long french sticks loaded with edible goodies and don't share them with no one!!) Mad Mike

Same with wimmin? Mad Mike

Mad Mike Special Statement Moi? It's about as acurate as weighing ones anchor and chain to see how big a bouy to buy Mad Mike PS I once rescued a bunch of blokes who were drifting ashore with a dead engine. Their anchor was a 56lb coalmans weight! They could not understand that if the bloody boat was holding them and a 100hp engine up on the surface then a 56lb lump of iron would have no affect at all. It aint the weight it's the grab that matters!!

Hi Geoff and welcome. By the way Tom, I see you have gone all metric!! Tonnes of advice!!! Let me tell you young fellah me lad us 'old duffers' are firmly imperial with our advice of which we give tons (whether its asked for or not ) Mad Mike

Quote........ Weigh your anchor and chain, then work out what buoy you need........ I'm afraid not too acurate advice. Things weigh a lot less in water than they do on dry land. Therefore 10lb on land would only weigh about 6 lb in water. Also and mainly, it is not just the weight of the anchor and chain that you need to lift, it is the break out pull that needs to be sufficient. Now without going into physics and the other sciences involved let it suffice that the indications of the size you require is one that is a bit bigger than a football and a bit smaller than a space hopper. By the way the colour makes one hell of a difference the red ones lift much more than the orange ones. Mad Mike

Using the Alderny anchor and retrieve method that most of us use, one needs to be conscious of how much deck space a large bouy would take up. The whole idea of the Alderny method is to stop the need for tricky manouvers on small foredecks and the need for anyone to leave the safety of the cockpit. Mad Mike

A short answer is nowhere as big as you imagin, the lifting power of even a football sized bouy is immense. One the size of the school gyms medicin balls is about right. Too large and they get in the way and are impossible to stow. The boat jumble season is about to start, and one can buy at a lot less than chandlers prices. If you enter 'Boat Jumbles' into Google it will give you sites showing where and when boat jumbles are all over the country. If you go to any of the local ones every second person will be a member of this club Mad Mike

It is strange how a collection of metal, plastic, and wood can create such feelings. Who amongst us can not remember their first car in detail? However Charlie you and Sam are truely in every sense building a relationship with your new craft, and what memories will Sam pass on to your grand children eh Charlie? Mad Mike

Andy, it is sorta bad manners to use upper case letters all the time when on group messaging, that's why some folk have been asking you not to SHOUT I know getting used to a keyboard is not as easy as it looks, but we've all been there mate It is after all just practice, and practice makes perfect Why not give it a try? Mad Mike

Quote.... i can see how simone became a shark chaser .... Simone? A new lady member? A sexy French Mam'sell by the sound of it? Mad Mike

Picky! Mad Mike

Alun.......Re ..NOW>>>>>>>> What do I do with the bucketful of nice big lug I dug this afternoon [ missing the rugby !!] ??? No Mike......... I'm not going to cook them up! Somewhere in the back of my mind is the memory that one can salt lug down. Tray, newspaper,layer of salt, lugs well spaced out, more salt, leave in a cool place for a day or so. Salting removes the moisure and toughens them up making a better hook bait. Mad Mike

Paul J sugests....try leaving your old tobys and spinners in to soak Now I can't get out of my head the visulization of Paul D soaking his old toby I am gonna need therapy now and I'm sending Paul J the bill Mad Mike

As a thought, after recovery of the boat to the trailer, tie the bow down and then release the winch hook, run it out back towards the car (Using an extention rope from the tow hitch if needed) and then winch the trailer back towards the car. Mad Mike

Carol the Mrs gets it, I believe from the frozen food cabinets at the far end. Mad Mike Ps I did mention this last year but when yousgetstomyagenobuggerlistenstoyouitsthesamealloverignoretheoldunswhinesnivelsnivel.

Rich, I didn't know about the Bream, and fair comment to you, but I was quierying the measurements. In as much as, less than an inch of fine silt in collodial suspension didn't seem enough to cause harm, and as the fine silt would be in semi liquid form it would disperse over a short time due to tide and current. But I am no biologist and stand to be corrected on any of this. Mad Mike

quote..........Poole Patch was an average 20mm deep, the PHC report that their was only going to be a maximum 4mm build up Just as a check we are talking millimeterers here not centimeters? 20mm is slightly less than an inch 4 mm is about 3/8th inch I wouldn't have thought that 20mm would make too much of a difference and if it is nutrient rich silt it might actualy encourage the growth of smaller members of the food chain. Mad Mike

I can see that now Charlie, it's so bloody obvious now, and I feel duly ashamed for not thinking of it my self. It's one of those wonderful ideas that come along every now and again. The club has proved it's worth once again. Mad Mike Got my builder mate round for a coffee at the moment and I passed this tip on to him, he too thinks it's a great idea. Naturaly I have claimed it as my own original thinking

Quote........ Fill these with a dab of hot melt from a glue gun, position the item and press firmly for a minute or so until the hot melt hardens. It'll then hold the whole plot in place overnight while the Sikaflex cures What a bloody good idea Steve, thank you. Previous to seeing this I had made all sorts of Heath Robinson devices to enable me to jamb what I wanted fixing in place overnight. Brilliant, and so obviuous now you have pointed it out Mad Mike

Not really, as the nylon has such a tight molecular structure there is no surface penetration by the adhesive. Roughing the Nylon up will only destroy the flat contact adhesive force of air pressure at 15lb per/sq.in. Mad Mike Blimey Mike You really need to be let out of that hospital more often! As my good friend Scotty would say about me in Star Trek 1.............. He's life Tom but not as we know it! Mad Mike

Depends on how many people you want to kill and how quick you want them to die . True answer is......... I would start by making up a mixture of a pint of warm water and a weight of Oxalic acid, making sure that you keep a record of how much acid you use. Try this, it will either work fine in which case try a little less acid next time to economise. Do this with separate pints untill you find a dilution that does not work well, Then go back one step. If it does not work well first time add more acid but make sure at each step you keep a record of how much you add so that in the end you can make up a larger amount by keeping to the same ratio. Once you have the correct ratio and you want to mix up a larger batch add some cheap wallpaper paste crystals. This will make the mix thixotropic (it will stick to a surface and not run). You need to leave the mix on to give it time to work, once again experiment will guide you to the optimum length of time. Mad Mike

Not really, as the nylon has such a tight molecular structure there is no surface penetration by the adhesive. Roughing the Nylon up will only destroy the flat contact adhesive force of air pressure at 15lb per/sq.in. Mad Mike