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    Jersey Girl's shakedown trip

    in Boat Owning, Equipment and Maintenance

    Posted

    Jersey Girl had her engine serviced today,

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    and after having been given a clean bill of health @Saintly Fish and I took her for her first run out on the Solent. Wind was 8-9mph from the NE, so not flat calm but plenty flat enough for a play.

    We took a couple of mackerel rods with us, more out of hope than expectation...

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    But after a couple of fruitless drifts we decided to move further up the Solent.

    Upon finding a patch of smooth water it would have been rude not to see what she could do, so we opened her up and watched the plotter as the knots climbed.

    After making north of 30kts we hit a rough patch and for a moment Neil gets airborne, floating like an astronaut in zero gravity 🤣. After coming back down to earth I give him the helm and we try another run - we make 35kts with rpms to spare but we run out of smooth water so back off the throttle. 

    Neil then has a play with the helm and turns her into a series of tight turns...

    ...at 25kts! She grips the water all the way round, and round, and round! Here's a pic of our trail.

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    Eventually we head back into the marina, stopping to fill up at the fuel jetty. A few little jobs identified (volts could be higher so need to check the House is receiving a charge, need to figure out the best place for the new rod holders, need to tweak the angle of the Active Imaging transducer as it was losing bottom above 10kts) but all in all not a bad way to spend a Friday! Massive thanks to Neil for being my wingman today and for generously buying lunch and celebratory beverages 👍👍 Cheers!

    boat piccy's as requested

    in Show us yer boat

    Posted

    On 10/15/2020 at 9:45 PM, ever optimistic said:

    with 300 horses strapped to the back surely it will do a fair bit more than 40.

    It's nearly 3 tonnes all up with full fuel tanks, which means only 100bhp per tonne. She was reviewed by a boating mag back in the day and they squeezed 41-ish knots out of her.

    hi folks

    in Introductions

    Posted

    Hi there - welcome! Good to have you with us.

    Outlaws is a new-ish site. I say -ish because the forum was started back in late 2019, but we've only recently (i.e. a few days ago) upgraded our forum software to this new platform. All feedback welcome. 👍

    What sort of fishing are you into? Bait or lures, shore or boat?

    A special welcome for PBSBAC members!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hello to all the Poole Bay Small Boat Angling Club members! Welcome to Offshore Outlaws!

    Your forum site was influential for us when we were looking for a new home for the Outlaws. We hope you enjoy our small but growing site. Feel free to cross-post your catch reports, asks for help, tackle tips etc.

    For those who don't know, PBSBAC is Poole's only club dedicated to small boat angling and their site can be found at pbsbac.co.uk.

    Tight lines all!

    Deja vu

    in Introductions

    Posted

    The Elite Ti version 1 or 2? I had a Ti-7 and the touch screen became unreliable in the top right corner where the Menu option was. The version 1's had plastic screens and I found them hard to see in bright sunlight.

    I also have an HDS 7 Gen 3 and it's so much better quality than the Elite is/was. Properly bright, glass screen. Had mine for a 3 years and still going strong. Not heard any reliability issues with the HDS range.

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