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    Sunny Solent Sunday

    in Catch reports

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    Out with @Saintly Fish, Leo and my daughter Emily this morning on Tarlach Too. This was Em's first boat fishing session and we were hopeful of a catch or two to keep her interest levels up.

    Skipper delivered us to the mark and bites began from the off. Before long the first fish came to the boat, courtesy of Em's rod - a lovely late season bream.

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    Leo was into a fish next, a conger of reasonable proportions.

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    Swiftly followed by one for his dad...

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    Em was up next with another nice bream.

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    And before you ask... yes, I managed a dogfish or two on the sly in between baiting up and unhooking for her 😁

    We moved out into the channel proper to practice our MOB drills with @Saintly Fish's anchor buoy when it decided that it would prefer to jump ship and bob off downtide. A sticky snap-shackle seemed to be the culprit.

    The tide was pulling hard by now, but we did manage to boat a few more fish, including a nice little smoothound for Em.

    Headed back home about mid-afternoon and saw a Spitfire flying over us just before we left. More drama as we retrieved anchor - the windlass was clearly straining this time and the reason why quickly became apparent. The anchor had picked up an old pot rope which gave Neil some grief until a sharp knife was found to cut it free.

    All home safe and sound though and massive thanks to Neil and Leo for helping to make Em's session such a success. 👍👍

    My 'Unknown' Project Boat

    in Project boats

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    5 hours ago, suzook12 said:

    pit balls in the voids is a common one, as is plastic bottles with the lid sealed on. You may be cutting panels out etc to get them in. Many are done when putting a new deck down after replacing rotten stringers and the like.

    Play pit balls lose their air over time. We had a load for the kids and quite a few of them went soft and mis-shapen. Plastic bottles with lids siliconed on would be a better (if more laborious) option in my view.

    GRP Hull Restoration

    in Project boats

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    3 minutes ago, James78 said:

    Hi Andy, 

    Yeah it was patched after the boat broke free from its mooring and ran aground, presumably as you say there’s perhaps a hole underneath.

    Advice on how to best remove the patch would be appreciated. It would be nice to do a fix that is a little nicer than CSM which while functional, doesn’t look great.

    Cheers..

    James 

    Hi James,

    In theory it should be possible to remove the patch, grind back to clean grp then apply some matting and gel coat to the top, but @Geoff would know better than I on all things to do with glassing. 👍

    Teignmouth Saturday

    in Catch reports

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    1 hour ago, thejollysinker said:

    Something like that.

    needed to finish setting up the trailer, sort those pesky spark plug caps out, rake the mooring, give it a scrub, blah blah blah…..all in advance of advertising it for sale 😪

    Hopefully to upgrade??

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