jonnyswamp

The old ball and chain likes hers either filleted and skined, with salt and pepper,  garlic, butter and dark soy. Foil wrapped lightly and in an oven at 160 / 170 for 20 - 25 minutes depending on size of fillets. 
The other method is head and tailed foil wrap with salt and pepper, garlic, ginger drizzled with olive oil.. depending on the size of fish rough guide being 160 for 40 minutes.
 

I'm not a huge fan of bass to eat, but I occasionally do it shallow fried for the kids, who love it. Tried it in a foil parcel years ago and it was ok, but we didn't enjoy it enough to cook it regularly. Probably just my terrible cooking... 🤢

Foil wrapped 20 mins in oven, serve with green beans and new potatoes (pref home grown) 😋 
However, I do feel it’s over rated. Mackerel tastes good As long as it’s fresh. 

Top job that 👍

Too many greasers on here
Try something different 
 

Will be going down tomorrow to refit and do the tests you mentioned 👍

There is a site Bob the oil guy, that has lots of oil sampling results on it, both new and used......
Now, it's supposedly all about the spec and some will also tell you there is no point going over spec. Admittedly, you have to be careful with some long service life oils as they can destroy seals in older engines....
 
This argument has raged within the bike world also. But a while back when I first got in to rade accounts etc I ran some tests. Basically, my 13,000rpm gsxr 750 was the test donkey. With a cheaper on spec oil, I was using a litre to 500 miles. The best (Silkolene Pro 4 fully synthetic) never needed topping up between oil changes, in fact, I even managed to extend service intervals by almost double (until the oil went black) and it worked out cheaper in the long run.
So, would I run fully synthetic over semi, hell yeah, would I use "marine" oil over known good stuff? No. as boat engines generally dont get run while submerged, I don't see the need for extra "corrosion" resistance.........
 
The obvious answer is use what you are happy using, after all, if it does go wrong, it's your wallet that is repairing it
 
As an aside, £8/Litre is cheap

Hi there again, Dave from Pompey here (as the username suggests!). I'm sure I just did this 12 days ago on the old site 🙂. I've just finished a four month refit on a 2003 Raider 18, and it went into the water for the first time under my ownership three weeks ago. Couple of issues to sort out- the Garmin 2010C fish finder is very tired and is being replaced over the winter.  The Teleflex steering is also very worn so I'm upgrading it to hydraulic. Had 35 Mackerel last Sunday so the boat does actually catch fish! 
 
 

I think he's actually the oracle and plays his superiority down while on here with the utmost of modesty

Got the posting bit sorted, just have to reduce every photo before I post it

Daughter and I went out early today to scratch some species at Bullocks Patch. She had a great time. "Faster Daddy, go faster!"

Fish weren't playing ball. Just a solitary "bull huss" again for our efforts at the Patch, so we dashed west to Sandown Bay for a drift or two. I got some cracking sonar pics of the Camswan which I'll post up later.

To top it off we put the hammer right down on the way back after she kept on asking to go faster... 31 knots over Culver Spit! Woohoo! 🥳🥳 I ran out of balls before the rpms did! 👍

Picture the scene... Sunday morning 5am and I'm gently shaking Thomas awake as it's time to head down to the Hamble for a tope and conger session on Tarlach Too with Neil and Leo. Thomas wakes slowly - it was a late night for us all as we returned from France the previous evening. His eyes are red rimmed and he looks dog tired still. As soon as he comes round and remembers the plan for the day he grins and hops out of bed.

A quick bite of breakfast, the bait is loaded into the coolbox and we're into the car and off.

Neil has a coffee on standby for me when we arrive - very much needed and appreciated! This is the first time Thomas and Leo have met in person - they've previously waved to each other from respective tubs at Browndown - and they click straight away.

We finish loading our kit onto the boat and then we're motoring gently off the pontoon and down the Hamble. As we reach the Solent they boys are talking nineteen to the dozen and sharing jokes and gags.




Even the skipper gets in on the act... this is a dab apparently. Who knew??




We spot some gulls working as we pass Lepe so we make a quick detour in the hope of some fresh bait. The boys get feathering and find a handful of school bass plus one solitary mackerel, which Leo quickly names "Monty". Monty is slipped into the coolbox as we head off to the Needles.




We headed for Freshwater Bay to drop the hook and down went the first baits. They soon came back up covered in thick clumps of weed. Not good. The next baits suffer the same fate. And the next. No hope of a fish here, so we pull the anchor and head a bit further south and drift. A couple of bites that don't convert and one decent bass that followed my bait back to the surface is all we get.

The kids are getting cooked in the midday heat so we decide to head back past the Needles for a couple of drifts on the Shingles before heading home. Despite seeing a few other boats drifting in the same area we find no fish and call it a day. But on the way back up the Solent the fun really starts for the kids, who are having a whale of a time getting soaked in the spray.

Thomas seems to have a knack of taking a wave in the face




but it's all smiles apparently!




As we moor up and unload the boat, Thomas says he's had the best day ever and asks whether we can get a boat like Tarlach Too... I finally clock that this was all part of Fishy's cunning plan to turn me into a ferry owner!

After his late night and early start, Thomas falls asleep within 5 minutes of getting into the car. Big thanks to Neil and Leo for a great day on the water - Thomas really did have the best day ever!

I've just saved this forum straight to my phones homepage, so no more typing into Google to access it 
Clever fucker I am 

Easy that, only took me half the bastud night

Was going to upload some pictures after she was cleaned and all the timber work done, but the pics are too big again
Anyway, with a clean bottom and a refurbed prop, she did 24.8 knts in Cardiff bay with 2 on board and full tanks, may have squeezed 25 if we didn't have to stop to avoid the norwegian church
 

Maybe not this weekend but I’ll be aiming for the next one for sure !👍🏻

A 2004 Arvor 250 pictured when I bought her about 14 months ago, before I did any cleaning/upgrades etc
Struggled to get 21 knots flat out

Seems a better site layout
I'm gunna try and post a pic off my laptop
 
 

No? yeah

The "after" pics are on my phone, the "before" are on my laptop
I'll go all techno in a bit and post them on the boat pics thread
May have to have a bit of advice of the grumpy scaffolder though

Did it work

Having an hour spare yesterday whilst the family was out I seized the opportunity to make up a batch of jellyworms and sandeel bodies in preparation for Fisty's Alderney trip in May. I reckon they turned out quite well. Let's hope the fish like rhubarb & custard flavour...

Sounds more like a lonely hearts ad!!🤣