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Kam if you are really stuck for a crew get back to me I don't want you to miss the fishing. As long as I don't have to do any heavy pulling and we don't go wave jumping I will fill up on Co-Dridamol and do the trip. Actualy not wanting you to miss it is bollocks I am really missing the fishing so go on put me in a position where I can't let you down Mad Mike PS re picture Can I use feathers She's such a nice girl?

Martin, What times am & pm? I will try and make the effort to come and be jolly Mad Mike

As I can't fish for a bit (back and hand prob's) I may as well come down and be a bloody nuisance on Sunday(?) morning. I mean if I can piss someone off then my day will not be in vain. (Listen if I cant go fishing I don't see why any one else should enjoythemselves. So if someone wants a hand at the start or finish of the day from a morose, miserable, maudlin. fat bloke with a grudge and an attitude problem please let me know where and when. Mad Mike

Paul I HAD forgoten thank you for reminding me. If you will put a price on it I will pay and collect it (next club meet?). As it's an older one I assume it only transmits and receives in black and white not in colour. Or will I need a colour licence for it? Mad Mike

Too true mate!! Mad Mike

Kam I am just about to PM you. Mike

Hiya Terry (plaicemat), jump in and have fun........... By the way if you go after the bigger speicies will you change your name to Skate-ring or Halibut-oil? Justa thought? Mad Mike

Would any of you guys who know about such things have a look at #4505912030 on ebay and tell me if you think it's worth buying and at what price please? It's OK to say one can get a new one for about

You wait untill the stitches tighten as you heal, that'll take the smile off your punim. Mad Mike

Well done Kam, I am delighted for you All you need now is a looooooong thin frying pan!! We also need more details like how, where, when, with what, and who with. You will certainly catch bigger ones but this is the one you will always remember. Mad Mike

QUOTE From Rich...... Can almost hold a rod now, but the winding hand is koofed......but I guess you have to hook fish to wind them in!!!!!!! You must be some sort of carrier of hand problems!! I learnt to day that I need an op' to decompress the sinues on two fingers(no lewd jokes thank you) of my right hand. Going in on the 9th December! Mad Mike As it says in the bible ...... The moving finger writes and having writ drops off

QUOTE........... Thanks for the tip on getting around, begining to get the hang of the road system! It's not the road system mate it's the bloody Bournemouth drivers (of a certain age). Having said that I have just realised that I too am of 'that age', however you will soon come to admire how they can take up all three lanes at once, leave their right turn indicators on for 4 miles after which they then turn left, drive in dim dusk light without even side lights on (because it wastes electricity), and sit in the out side lane at trafic light but only indicate right after the lights change to green. You'll come to love us I sure......... Mad Mike

Quote.......... now working on the seals and have a bit of work to do They can be right obstinate little buggers too. If they don't want to balance that bloody ball on their noses you can get through a whole bucket of mackerel bits before they do it right. Mad Mike

Well done Coddy so it's all round to yours for a drink is it? Mad Mike

Bitch! Mad Mike Age and cunning defeats youth and enthusiasm!

I went up the Andes mountains once to see a hermit that knew everythig.... I asked him "what is life all about" And he answered, And I replied "what? just a bowl of cherries?" Mike PS if you don't get it your too bloody young to remember '50s crooners!!

Am I being thick (OK who said as usual?? Eh ? Eh?) but isn't our Dan already a member? If you click on his name up pop the membership details........ I bet our membership sec' is on the ball and noticed that Mad Mike

Well blow me down Bob. I was going to make a joke about the solar panels glowing in the dark sorta reverse osmosis thing. I never even thought that they could actualy do that without a blocking diode.. As the man said ........"you live and learn" Mad Mike

Some time ago there was some talk about crab/prawn pots and thier use. I saw this on e-bay and it might be of interest to some one......... Item 4505417933 Mad Mike

I am not an electrical expert so others may come up with more esoteric answers but............ You may have a small leak to earth which has drained the battery. If leaving the boat for some time I would disconect the battery entierly from the boats system. Also I do think that the more SUN light the better the panel will perform. Indirect light may not create enough power to break the battery's natural resistance to current flow. Mad Mike Ps What about a mains powered trickle charger on an extension lead?

Make a post claiming that you caught several double figure cod at Xray on say a Thursday. Next go out fishing on Saturday. Go to the area with LOADS of boats fishing away like mad . That'll be Xray....... Mad Mike

QUOTE partner and his painkillers(back and shoulder pain) Bloody hell!! He and I ought to make a club for ourselves. We can compare operation scars and drugs Fancy looking after two cripples on the same boat? Mad Mike

No it's the wife one throws overboard and hangs on to!! Seriously one can easily make one by threading 8M of 8mm rope through an old tennis ball and filling the ball with building foam. When dry and set, paint the ball day-glow orange. tie one end to a ring in the boat and have the ball end coiled and ready to throw. Mad Mike

What a stonker! Weight ? And what a beautifull fish too! Well done indeed Mad Mike

I have a friend in South Africa who's husband (Geoff) is a government appointed marine inspector. His (part time) job is the renew via inspection each boats annual licence to go to sea. As we had some talk about licencing in the UK I made some enquiries. And this is the pertinent part of her reply....... Ski-boats & inflatables have to be inspected once a year (Marine regulations) and have to comply with safety regulations relative to their size & the distance offshore they are travelling. They all (except inflatables, obviously) have to provide the boat surveyor with a buoyancy (flotation) certificate from the manufacturers stating that the craft has the correct number of plastic bottles or polystyrene to keep it afloat bearing in mind the number of crew, the engines etc, if it is holed. (I'm a little vague about this - the bottom line is the boat has to stay afloat & not sink to the bottom). The boats that Geoff surveys are all 9 metres & under. The bigger ones have to have a qualified Marine Surveyor - one of the professionals from the Dept of Transport & I think this craft is slipped for survey. The motors are checked that they are working, the hull is inspected, transom etc. Then each category of boat has a certain amount of safety equipment which must be carried. The length of the boat governs how many are allowed on board - basically it works at one metre equals one person. Petrol inboard engines have to carry all sorts of extra equipment, like blowers & a sprinkler system. Certain of them have to have a life raft - this depends on the flotation, I think. ....................................................................................................................... Issued by: GEOFF HAWKINS: SAMSA AUTHORISED AGENT REGULATION NO 23345 : 2002 CATEGORY C Power Driven Vessels operating more than 5 nautical miles but not more than 15 nautical miles from shore 1 APPROVED LIFE JACKET PER PERSON