Saintly Fish

nice parking  right on the beach

Same here, I'm away til 2nd August when UK hurricane season will no doubt start! 

Same here, I'm away til 2nd August when UK hurricane season will no doubt start! 

Same here, I'm away til 2nd August when UK hurricane season will no doubt start! 

I was left doing duties helping out transport for old people I somehow ended up volunteering for 😐
While once again my daughter headed off in search of some more tuna for smoking. I bet the wind will blow its bum off when I get chance to head offshore. Hopefully some big tuna heading up the coast behind the first run of smaller ones. 

 


 

I think the main purpose is to stop internal fading to materials and wood finishes etc. 

Looks like an internal sun shield I reckon 

Felt like a long time since Ive been out on the water after stuffing my back but back at it today. Must admit I struggled with breath holds on shallow 8m reefs.  Added a couple of extra weights to my shoulder harness which eventually helped, strong current however didn't help. Took a couple of youngsters on one of the boats my daughter skippers and it wasn't long until we all had our bag limit of 3 lobsters each and 2 abalone each. 

Just had a plate of crumbed lobster and lobster, even enough for our spoilt dog!!!!!

Decided not to do anymore commercial fishing work as its that which stuffed my back again. 

Hi Jon, yeah over seven and a half foot beam, that's what sold it.
As for whether it's a keeper, we will see. If I get on with it ok, it'll be around for a while, if not, will move it on. Like everything, if the right price is offered, it'll go..... But not until I've christened it
I have seen some real horror stories when it comes to wiring, bikes too, and inevitably, what starts as a tidy up ends up as a rewire, just because it's ultimately easier

Bit of rewiring, new nav lights, live well leaks, plumbing in toilet, lift and anti foul.

I don't believe you're that pretty in real life! 

Maybe we will see you with fish now!!

All setup for new adventures. 
 

 

The net was probably 5 or more square metres, way too heavy for me to lift. The bit I kept is the bit that I cut off to free the prop. It is a very heavy duty nylon net.
On the boat, I have a divers knife on my belt, so always to hand. It is SS non pointy, locks into its sheath, and has both flat and saw tooth edges, not cheap, but it does the job quickly.

Cheers mate, I would love to say 3 weeks time, but, we'll see what it throws at us yet. Would rather have it right and miss the tope than in the water and dangerous faults

Today will be back at it, hoping to get everything wired to bus bars and fuse box. I also have to make some short wires from busbars to switches as well, need to run negatives for switches to illuminate and positive feeds to the fuse box. Hoping to have the wiring nailed today. Then next task will be concentrating on drainage.
Still not received the tyres yet, so no point doing the trailer yet, may well be a next weekend job, then can arrange getting the boat on to it......

no filters on these pics
 

Finally the stars of work schedules, weather and the boat not being broken have aligned and I should be out Sunday

Out on Tims boat with his son Jamie, aim was for fresh mackerel at the entrances and then onto the Shambles to fish for flatties, then try for bass in the building race off of Portland Bill.
Mackerel were hard to come by - but we managed 4 decent ones and a scad.  
we were soon off to drift the shambles - first couple of drifts nothing - but we were getting pushed more by the wind than tide so we repositioned and i hook a lovely turbot. 

not long before Tim lands a lovely Brill. 

fishing was slow so we moved closer to the Bill and tried with Lures - i thought Tim had snagged the bottom until he said get the net...... and up comes a monster 6.2lb Wrasse! his PB and well over specimen size.

His son then bags a lovely PB bass at last knockings!

Not many fish, but all special fish, and fresh turbot for me for tea!! 
 

Had a free afternoon before the Euros finals and it was lovely so i took pugwash out solo to see what was about. Just a simple potter about with some feathers. 
not much action - just 1 Small tub gurnard - 

lovely afternoon to be out though!

 

What you need deleted? @JonC can do it for you seeing as he has nothing to do these days !! 

Busy old day today. All the old shot ripped out, consul repositioned, radio repositioned, started to install fish sinder. New busbar fitted along with a fuse box, main battery lead reterminated and all the lights on fresh wire that was rerouted..... Also bought a new cabin light and fitted it. Everything tested ok, lights are far brighter than they were before too.......
Tomorrow will hopefully see the cabin end sorted, with radio, search light and bilge to wire. Also we have no horn, so that needs to be sourced. All the hardware can then be final fitted and sealed where necessary.
Will drag the throttle/gear control down and get that fitted up too then can check the harness length.
Will grab some stills later to post up

That's not quite what I meant but hey... 

Do you stick to buying the same labeled ebay braid or shop around ? Maybe its just this part of the world but everyone Ive known to try ebay braids have ended up binning theirs. Maybe being so close to China we get way more fraudulent braid. Ebay even shows this when I looked to see what we have on offer https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Buying/BUYER-BE-AWARE-OVER-RATED-STRENGTH-RAITINGS-ON-BRAID-LINES-amp/td-p/1729155

Some of the department store braids can be cheaper than Ebay and at least people have a bit of warranty if it doesn't perform as advertised. I saw a conversation on another site where dry and wet strengths also changed on some of them.
We might only get 1 or 2 days (nights) opportunity to target broadbill, which can be in excess of 300kg and found offshore in water depths of 3000m. I'd prefer the confidence of knowing the braid on my reel when I have 1200m out that it is as advertised. 

Tomorrow, will be off to AED to get some supplies, then get the wiring at least tidy.
Will need some terminals, waterproof connectors or terminal box and some wire and poss some switches. Some gauges would be nice at some point , but that'll keep for now. There is enough work to be going on with and keeping this a quick turn around.
At some point, this boat will be a major project, but for now, just want it on the water and safe.
A box of trailer parts landed today, was going to do that tomorrow, but think it will be get the wiring sorted and dash back in kinda day.