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Turns out I’ve got worldwide charts on my phone not jus Oz. Just been looking at the amazing detail of the sea floor around the areas I used to fish around the IOW, almost makes me want to fish it again. Some of the detail of the wrecks is pretty impressive. A couple from St Catherine’s IOW.

I was told you have to upload them all again on both the Active captain and the Garmin head unit. Certainly a pain.

Turning it back on the phone is the top right section where there’s three boxes inside a circle. When I mentioned some of the tiles were 300mg, that was just an average, some were far bigger to the point I had to buy a 256gb phone specially for the charts. Also when there any changes to the charts you have to remove all of the downloaded charts from the phone and plotter. I was going to leave my updates for when I get the 12ins screen but having waited 4 months already I’m not holding my breath on getting it soon.

Its not quite as simple as putting a card in and selecting the card unfortunately. The actual charts are so large you have to load them to a phone or iPad (after you've purchased the card) and with card in the head unit then transfer the more highly detailed charts to your head unit. When I did mine I loaded the entire east coast of Australia which took around 9hrs to transfer from my phone to my Garmin. You are able to transfer what Garmin call tiles, each tile can be around 300 meg, this allows you to just download tiles for where you wish to fish rather than the whole coast like I did of several hundred tiles. This might help a little on transferring but there's also a Garmin tutorial on YouTube showing how.https://chsmith.com.au/news/how-to-access-relief-shading-with-garmin-bluechart-g3-vision-mapping.html?f=cmnewsletter&fbclid=IwAR0gTUgkqovuyOsJIv0iKLJ_FYJh2Rn357LzPxKojELQVfiCkWLjPiyrpY4

Another glamer day offshore today. Mostly deep dropping in 500m of water for more edible species than sport. We did have a very large mako destroy several rigs with fish on as they were being retrieved. I did run a large dead salmon down deep in the hope of getting a look at it, the teeth mark spacings in one fish we pulled in we’re wider apart than any I’ve caught before. Must admit I’m getting keen on having a mako day out there soon. I’ve still not used my boat for a while but been helping a mate out with his new outfit so he can fish with his boy’s. I must admit I’m pretty nervous driving his new truck.

Few more pics from the glammer day. Apologies for no noodle story.

One of those rare days with virtually no current of wind. Had been wanting to try some deep jigging over some gravel ground in just over 200m of water. Was able to get away with jigs and plastics of around 30g on the light tackle. Managed a fish each drop until a mix of razor teeth species started to mess things up. Several makos showed interest in the boat but I really didn’t feel like messing with them after the last few trips where we targeted sharks. Also two marlin followed fish to the boat, might focus on those tomorrow if the weather remains good. Some very big gurnards were a surprise with two going 45cm and around 4lb, the biggest I’ve seen or caught before.

Don,t remember the model but it was 18ft and had a 55 evinrude which was considered a big engine back then😄

Just found a pic of this old boat I had some 40yrs ago. Had it out of the water to do a rebuild of the transoms and floor at the time.

Yamaha and suzuki have full test bulletins with various boat and engine setups https://www.yamaha-motor.com.au/discover/outboard-tech/performance-data, unfortunately Honda don't. What I have found from various reports is how the vtec dramatically increases fuel after 4250rpm which is what Im finding. Ive had these same hulls before, first with a 90 merc 2 stroke then a yam f70 and now the Honda. The Honda up to 4250rpm wins hands down in terms of fuel range but above that its about the same as the old mercury. A friend bought a new boat with the Yam f90 at Xmas but has only managed to get a short river trip so far this year with the crazy weather. Its only that secondhand values are high and new prices haven't really changed that much.

They've up the displacement and dropped the weight, improved economy increased midrange torque with the Yamaha. The honda is ok but jumps in fuel use above 4250rpm and drops my range by 1/3. At 4500-5000rpm its great but this adds to much fuel for the remote trips where I need to take extra fuel drums.

Anyone got one or had any experience on boats with them ? considering replacing the honda 90.

Kill and grill 👌 Three freezers full at our place and even the fridge is struggling for room from all the venison and goat meat🙂

I don't think that's a very good promotion of panoptics. The p30 Panoptics transducer that I use clearly shows small soft plastic's falling and individual fish swim and take lures (even very small fish). Live baits and downrigger baits are also clear to view and make fishing so much fun and quick to see what's lures are working and which ones only get looked at.

Im using Garmin G3 vision in my Garmin unit and Camp reveal in my simrad, both much the same and both fantastic detail of the sea floor. Offshore canyons and the continental shelf drop off are better with the G3 vision. The files or tiles as they call them are pretty huge, most need downloading individual tiles as they are simply to being to get on a card. I upload them to my phone then share over to my onboard units. I would imagine the UK waters would be completely scanned, showing every detail around the coast. You also need to then go through the menus to turn those charts on.

That’s in the centre of the bar, to sides is better to surf.

No wind but still to much swell to cross the bar today. Best leave it to the surfers.

Yes that's correct, we have 56 invasive animals introduced by early settlers which cost around 3 billion in agriculture damage as well as damage to native flora and fauna. Feral pig numbers were starting to head down with an estimated 24 million last year but the change in wet weather this season has seen an explosion in their numbers. Its a hard call as we are also an invasive species but at least we are trying to save what's left of the native wildlife. Im not a fan of animals being killed in the thousands only to be left as even more food for feral foxes, dogs and cats which are then baited with poison dropped from helicopters, so taking them for food is actually better than taking fish in my opinion, which are native and under pressure. Its a case of people let their emotions influence diet, some have no problem eating mackerel but when the fish is larger and more spectacular to look at such as marlin, tuna or even sharks they then want them protected. If lambs, calves and piglets stayed the way they were when born most people wouldn't eat meat at all and then there are those who eat meat but don't consider how it was raised and under what conditions. With the feral animals, these have roamed free with very little restriction on when the mate or where they travel until the moment they are killed with a well placed bullet, which is far better than any farming method in my opinion. Who eats chicken or eggs, even our backyard free range hens have restrictions, for a start they don't have a rooster with them and eat the same layer pellets everyday and never leave the same garden. There was a show on tv here where they showed the giant chicken farms and how the daily dead birds were used for chicken stocks and pot noodle flavourings to mention just a few. It's all preparation for when China invades.

My zodiac had 24.5' v and the tube sit in the water, so gives stability and soft ride. I think my daughters zodiac has 24'v . Do you know what degree yours has ?

As mentioned in another post the bad weather has stopped the sea fishing action. With my daughters charter bookings cancelled she's headed into the the mountains again for a few days of hunting and fishing. First day she had a her first try at Murray cod fishing and managed two at around 70cm. She's now about 700km away hunting in a remote location where she's just shot a megaladon sized deer, which is going to take a fair amount of work to butcher in the field and get back to her 4x4. We've been eating venison all week and looks like we will be eating a fair amount more!!!!...Another feral pest removed, was hoping for a goat but she's still got time for one with all this bad weather.

I like those, had to move a snake from someones property yesterday and got bitten by a spider while in bed last week. They make life interesting.

I loved my rib but as above they are limited on space so you need to be more organised in regards to gear. In saying that I loaded my 550pro with enough gear to stay offshore fro more than a week at a time, which meant extra drums of fuel and water as well as camping gear, fishing, spearing etc etc fro 4 people. Yep even a guitar was onboard for that trip!!!!...80km offshore dropped onto a remote island. This was our first offshore island hopping trip, after this we cut the gear down by a huge amount, also only done it with two people since. Got caught in winds over 30kn on the 80k run home, which was interesting!!!! We never had any issues getting in and out of the rib from the water but there is a technique to doing it and you need fins (flippers) on to get that kick of thrust to almost swim up into the boat as you pull on the rope. Plenty of folding step options if it is a problem. Getting in couldn't be any easier or more fun, simply roll in or bounce and jump like an excited 5yr old!!!!. Even with dive gear we had no problems, if it was scuba gear it was a case of slipping out of the bcd and passing the weight belt over the tubes onto the floor. I had a lanyard that I could clip the tanks and bcd's to which I could pull in once settled back onboard. Our weight belts are weighted without weight at the front, so more at the back and sides, which helps when getting in the boat and also assists in tilting your body backwards at the surface if you blackout and are correctly weighted. Guns should always be unloaded before getting back into a boat and only loaded while in the water, also passing a gun to anyone from the water should be done handle first. Spear tips pointed towards the back of the boat with covers over the tip is a good idea. The boats themselves are vastly different from traditional boats, they simply punch well above their weight in rough conditions. You still need to be careful as you can launch off waves and get head winds under the front making you land stern first if not careful, or perhaps let an overly keen youngster behind the wheel who love pushing the throttle down!!!! Mine didn't rock at rest as it simply only moved with waves, so putting 4 -5 adults on ones side barley made any change to how it sat. You will get people who say what if you get a puncher!!!!...well depending on what boat you have you will most likely have 5-7 seperate chambers and if its anything like our Zodiacs it will still remain afloat if all chambers were punched or removed. What happens to a glass, wooden or aluminium boat with a hole however is they sink!!!!!... Also getting a hole fixed is often something you can do very quickly and if its a very small leak, its just a case of lowering the air pressure and putting a small spot of superglue over the hole, leave for 10 mins and blow it back up. Fishing from them is far different, you don't have anything to lean against during a fight, so it's more you and the fish (more fun). My concern was always big species like tuna that do circles under the boat, where contact with braid and tubes was something to be careful of. Releasing sharks never seemed a problem, though I did always keep the boat moving so they didn't thrash about alongside. I do miss not having my rib but the fact my daughter bought the 500pro means I still get to head out in hers. Worst part for me was anchoring, mostly because of a stuffed back. Im sure I could of fitted an electric drum winch but went the easy way out and bought a different boat for anchoring. Hypalon would be my first choice and try and get in a few different boats to see if they are wet in the chop, my one was very dry but earlier models were wet I believe. Ive been in Gemini ribs that handled very well but were so wet that I don't think I could live with one!!!! Sold mine 2014 model for around 12 grand (English) with trailer and 12ins hds gen 3 etc. Bought my daughters for 7 grand, also 2014 with 38hrs on the motor, like a new rig, trailer looked like it had never seen water.

Physical and mental. Having it there on your doorstep but with back and neck issues that make it to hard does my head in!!!!...hence why I normally take other people and as soon as something to big hooks on I make sure Im not the one left to pull it in.

Its become a bit of trend with some chefs as the food takes on a a slightly different flavour and texture, holding more of its moisture than other cooking. Its always been popular among the travellers, especially caravan owners. Yes that's right Andy and you can do smaller one person meals using the dumpy wide mouth little vacuum flasks also. People who head into remote locations can take healthy dried foods like beans, lentils, chick peas etc and just add boiling water and perhaps some jerky or other dried meat for a more balanced meal. I find when Im away somewhere remote I tend to eat what I catch but getting to the location you often fall for junk food for the convenience, which isn't so good as you start clocking on in years. Lots of different pots and sizes available, some better than others.

Thought the same looking at some of the deep gutters along the beaches. Trouble is its way to much like hard work given the amount of sharks that are around these days.