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New terror threat !!!!!!
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Sounds like a cracking day Rich. Do you feel spring has sprung?
Mad Mike
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I needed one of them last year, a member (Mac I think) very kindly send me one on the post. At the time it was suggested a cheap alternative was a similar cone used over a ball joint in a car, pick them up next to nothing from scrappy.
It was me that said I had used car bits...
It's its steering rack covers that you need I found Fiesta ones did a good job. Or Escort rubber gear stick gaitors were perfect if you need to fit a larger hole in the GRP.
Mad Mike
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Can't admit to ever hooking a garlic prawn...
Mind, I seem to recall groundbaiting with them once. I blamed a dodgy pint at the time.
Mike
Mad Mike
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Sounds lovely Mike....... I can see it as an easy BarBQ dish, sorta one pan cooking
Roll on summer
Mad Mike
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The trailer place in Barrack road Christchurch. Ambrose trailers? I think
Mad Mike
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Bob a decent strong pedestle will cost around
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This is one of those damned if you do and damned if you don't things. On balance it is far far cheaper to have your prop refurbished by one of the many small companies that do this, than have to buy a recon' gearbox.
The big problem that an out of balance prop causes on an Out Board is the damage caused by high pitch vibration you may not feel. The wear caused by this vibration is on the O/B's gearbox thrust bearing and shaft bearing or even worse the bearing seats in the aly' internal web mouldings. You could well be talking many hundred of pounds.
On the other hand a prop recondition is about
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Nice site and I like the air pressure forcast very much.
It looks like a very fair weekend the 11th and 12th and quite warm too.
Boat prep'ing weather. Time to discover the 100 ragworm you left in the bait locker last November
, and discover 2 green fuzzy ham rolls in another locker Mad Mike
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I watched a Discovery prog' last night, it was about a special police unit that tried to trace missing persons. The crux of this episode was about two guys, well off successful business men in their late 30's who bought a Phantom 21 power boat with a 200hp outboard, trailer and all. Niether had any boating experiance at all, but they promptly took the whole lot (4 days after they bought it) via ferry cross channel to France. Some week or so later after being reported missing their tow car (new Merc') and trailer was discovered in a French boat yard. The boat cover was inside the car.
The men and boat have never been found. However the French yard reported that they had launched and taken off for England. The boat had 1 tank of fuel, no compass, no radio, no anchor, no life jackets and the men were dressed in shorts and T shirts.
The conclusion was that they must have had no idea of the rate a 200HP O/B would guzzle fuel and that somewhere in the shipping lanes it must have run out of fuel and been run down by another much larger vessel whilst adrift and out of control........................................
Mad Mike
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Sam says..........its proberly the best thing i have made and it even turned out level.
Bloody well done Sam, I can tell you are justly proud of your efforts
Isn't a great feeling to look at something like that I say "I made that".
Take plenty of photo's of what you do because when your an old geezer you can show your grandkids and tell them what is was like in the old days!
Mad Mike
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Having had several open boats over the years I
can say they are good to use in the summer months, You can anchor drift as you wish. A cathederal hull is probably the best bet over all due to the fantastic stability and carrying capacity, but you do need to wear suitable clothing as even on a summers day an open boat gets quite windswept and cold.
Mad Mike
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Charlie says.....
That although 1 million tons of mud have been removed, none of the area was drying ground, and the rise and fall will be the same as before [all above the new depths..................................
So would the volume of water moving through the entrance not be the same as before and therfore also the speed of flow?
The removed sand/silt would have been static at all states of tide. Its volume having being removed will be replaced by water which is not static. Therefore more water will have to flow into the harbour to replace it BUT ONLY ONCE. Once the water has replaced the volume of sand/silt removed it becomes part of the total water volume at any given state of the tide. Ergo..... There will be a greater volume of water in the harbour than previously.
Will it affect the tidal FLOW in terms of velocity? Basicly no although a purist will insist that there will be an increase in flow speed in the choke point of the Haven it will be minute.
Will it affect the time taken to fully ebb or flood? Yes. As there is more water (notionaly) and the venturi (The Haven) remains a fixed width and depth then the increased flow will take longer.
Will one be able to notice the extra time? No due to all the other variations like air pressure, wind direction that affect the times of low or high water one could not say that a late low was a result of the dredging.
Conclusion..........
It's a done deal.......Get over it!
Mad (but not always) Mike
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OK here's a prediction, all channels inside the harbour will silt up except for the middle (main) channel which will be further dredged and straightend and become known as The Poole Ship Canal. The silted up areas will be grassed over and turned into a huge travelers encampment and the sand that was pumped onto Bournemouth and Poole beaches will be ripped away in a gigantic storm and form a small island just outside UK territorial waters. This island will be taken over by Tesco who will open a huge tax free shopping center accessed by a 6 lane motorway bridge funded by the EEC and the Lottery Commission.
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No one will actualy be able to notice a bloody thing but go round kidding themselves that yes indeed the tide is .004873% faster than last year!
Mad Mike
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Perhaps I have missed something here. Are you keeping a boat on moorings or are you trailering it ?
If kept on moorings for more than say a month then some sort of antifoul is essential as weed growth in this area is profilic. If however you are trailering it and return it to the trailer at the end of each trip then there is no need to antifoul at all.
Mad Mike
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Kam,
From your to do list of uses for the boat you can immediately eliminate the Dejon 14, it's only suitable for rivers and Poole Park boating lake. My father in law used to have one and as already mentioned, this design has some serious issues with lateral stability.
Gordon H
I must agree about the Dijon, downright dangerous if used in coastal waters.
I also agree that if top speed is not too important an Orkney is a very good boat.
However I can thouroughly recommend the WITH (pronounced Wit) group of boats. Unsinkable, very fast with low HP engines and excellent sea boats.
A Scandenavian design, and built to their very stringent safety and construction rules. They also hold their price very well because of all the plus features.
Mad Mike
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Damn it Sir you are a bounder!
Mad Mike (not jealous at all
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Tom jibes......... girly old whimps who can't take the cold
Tom me ol' fruit cake, you got me to an exactitude.
However I 'spect come the balmy days of summer when the world is a warm comfortable place you wont give a toss for us girly old whimps and invite us then, will you? Oh no then you'll have long legged lightly tanned blond young real girlies begging to come along and us ol' gits wont get a look in.
Mad Mike
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Terry,
Boast !!....... moi !!
Just enjoy my food......... esp. when most ingredients are caught and / or grown locally.
And we are so lucky 'cause there are so many beautiful & tasty fish out there for 10 months of the year
Alun.
Rich admits......or grown locally.
That includes odd fungi and some herbal leaves whos smoke makes you want to eat huge curries or Picnic Bars
Rich is easily recognised as he walks along about 6" off the ground and has a permanent smile
Mad Mike
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Hi guys
I have "acquired" a builders bucket with off cuts of lead flashing.
Guess it weighs about 16lbish and it looks reasonable stuff.
Anyone want it for a fiver?
If you do I'll have it in the truck for Thursday's meeting.
Cheers
Tom
Yes could I buy it please?
Mad Mike
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no april 2007 but a friend of mine is going may
I will try and remember to contact you at the end of April. I just want to send the guy some hooks.
Mad Mike
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I've tried Boatinsure, Craftinsure and Porthcawl and all have said they require a survey.
I have done these all as online quotes though, so perhaps I have told them the wrong thing. Will have to try the old fashioned telephonical method...
Blimey! perhaps things have changed.
Personaly I would pursue exacly what 'they' mean by a yard report or survey and to what purpose do they need it or want it to say. It may be that say Charlie in his capacity as Dock Master at PYC could give them something that reads what they want. Or even some other member with a Yachmaster certificate could do the do.
Or what about an RLNI safety report?
You could get one of them free?Mad Mike
Cod Farming
in In The News
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The great heard of cod lazily swims in the North Sea, men wearing aqualungs, check shirts, leather chaps on their legs and Stetson hats on their heads kick the dolphins they are riding into life and a bubbly voice commands them to "Get ubble them blulble up ppopl and ride dubble them out ubbble. Yes this is fish farming on the wild edge of the bad lands.........
Mad Mike