Saintly Fish

No neither is mine, I was just expanding on what @daio web was suggesting. 

I've just seen the price of octoplait, anything between £400 and nearly £600 for 100M !
As for your last sentence, that's exactly what I'll do
I have to redo the splice, so will turn the rope around as it's a bit chaffed at the anchor end
BTW, I've patented my design so if it works, this time next year I'll be a millionaire
If it fails miserably, I will of course deny all knowledge

Looks like a great day out lads 
well done , fine weather for it too

update

If you’re fishing on Jon’s boat there’s a greater chance you either spend the day doing donuts with his autopilot or breaking down🤣🤣 and because I won’t be fishing out of the river he has no one to follow! You will be catching whiting all day in the stink🤣🤣

Same T-shirt, same fish!! 

Hi guys, I made it back and the delay was because I had no notifications of your responses which are most welcome.  It hasn't helped that the weather's been so poor and I'm working 6 days a week.  I had my first proper fishing trip recently and made a short very amateur video here:  The camera wasn't set up properly but will be better next time.
 

That's not a pop at one of your countrymen is it Nick? 🤣

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That's not a pop at one of your countrymen is it Nick? 🤣

That's not a pop at one of your countrymen is it Nick? 🤣

Targa came out Monday for a bit of TLC and an arse wipe, surprisingly just a bit of slime underneath
A few jobs on the list (apart from the usual clean, polish and antifoul)
When I fitted a replacement radome, as well as running a new power cable to it, I ran a new cable to the horns (that didn't work) in readiness for lift out time, all tinned cable I'll have you know too
Connected at both ends and gave it a try, you'd have thought a freight train was in the yard, success, then 1 horn failed and sounded more like Brum
All connections good, so must be the horn, I'm claiming a 50% success rate for this
Then fitted the new temp gauge, turned on ignition and needle went straight to zero, which I would expect
Haven't got a decent enough water supply to run engine up to temp, so will claim 50% on this as well for the time being
Have to resplice the warp to the anchor rode, so dropped it all on the concrete ready for when it dries (the rope) a bit
Thought this would also be a good time to remove the gypsy and give the shaft etc a good clean and regrease
All went well until I tried to remove the stainless steel prong thing that is supposed to stop the rope from staying on the gypsy and divert it into the anchor locker (it never does on it's own, always needs someone pulling into the anchor locker)
First stainless screw just spun in it's threads (aluminium, never a good idea) the second was pretty much welded in and I rounded the Phillips head
No problem for an engineer like myself, I simply swore loudly and drilled the bastard thing out, I have now bought some new 6mm bolts (or screws as I called them earlier) and will tap out the base to suit. I've called this a fail for now, but is completely fixable
Next was the prop, no dings or hairline cracks that I could see and popped right off on the first request
All boxed up tonight and will be winging it's way to Castle marine by end of play tomorrow, 95% on this exercise just incase it wants more than a polish
Also what seemed like a few areas of osmosis, were nothing more than water between the antifoul and the gel coat, as the gel was solid and not blistered or raised underneath it
Cleaned the grime off her ready for some chine shine tomorrow and a good mopping when the weather allows
As we had the jetwash out I thought I'd try and get the lichen/algae off the wood bits on the gunwhales, not easy when the water pressure isn't great and next door is trying to antifoul his sailing boat
He was pretty good about it though
Anyway, I'm rambling again
TBC
Chine shine = Oxylic acid
 
 
 
 
 

It wad a great day out. @Odyssey's bacon butties were spot on, he organised amazing weather for us and even convinced the fish to be where he wanted them to be. Top skippering 👍

I slipped on the deck there was so much oil on it from your engine start up🤣🤣

It probably lost a bit of moisture too by the time you got it to land. That can make a difference. 

Great day fair play 👍

great day out with excellent compony cant wait to do it again 

Of course, but that wasn't part of the ever changing comp regulations! 

Id say it was close, but yeah we just tipped it! Your partner @jonnyswamp let you down near the end. He started strong but tailed off. 

Oh yes, I forgot about the evolving rules 
I'm obviously not as equal as you 3 🙈

Weather looked good all weekend - but my fishing buddy was in Benidorm until Saturday night - so plans were made for Sunday - however the wind was freshening and turning more easterly - so not ideal. 
After a failed attempt to get mackerel in Portlands entrance we opted to seek shelter under White Nothe - East of the Bay. New ground for us - but worth a go!
It was slow - i only managed 4 doggies, Tim managed doggies, Smoothounds, Bream and a thornie, his son had dogs and a blonde ray. wind was fresh all day - but the sun was out and we were afloat - so all good!
 

 

 

 
 

Not that I’m aware of… but you never know what colour pants the crew had on. 
 
Shout out to West Wales Marine. I sent them the photos, agreed it was due to a stress fracture and that it cns happen with stainless steel props…. They’ve got a spare prop in stock and another on order asap. Can’t be helpful enough to get me back on the water… 
Its hard enough trying to run a boat buisness, but when stuff goes wrong you appreciate a good supplier to get you back up and running and they have been great 🙂 Definitely recommend!