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Wow 30kts from an 80 is good. My boat is the same length with a Suzuki 140 and a top speed of 30. Yours must be a fair amount lighter and far less v in the hull. 
Good luck in the sale.

One word..... C**t!!!

She hasn"t got shoes either.
Poor girl.

I think there are still a few Wimpies around. A few years ago (1986ish) our works booked an Xmas party for the workers young children. The venue was an upstairs room at the Peterborough Wimpy bar. I was asked to dress up as Santa and attend the party (they knew that I would then provide gifts for the kids) Anyway we knew how many boys and girls were attending and Joyce wrapped up something (mainly sweeties) for every child, blue paper for the boys and pink for the girls. That was of course normal behaviour in those pre PC days. I entered the Wimpy (market sqare P'boro) in my full Santa regalia and was directed upstairs by the staff. I think that was one of my most embarrassing moments as unbeknown to me there was another kids party going on and I (Santa) had to go through that room to get to our party. Had I known that would happen I would have taken a few gifts to leave there, but I had to scuttle through the room with a few HO HO's. What a miserable Santa I was!!! Geoff.

He's got to earn his own shoes now, one of the guitars was $4000, so we will be going without shoes too!!!!

He's got to earn his own shoes now, one of the guitars was $4000, so we will be going without shoes too!!!!

Some other items to have at hand when tackling a wiring job.
Heat Shrink. An absolute must and not that expensive, can be bought ready cut in various sizes or as a length/roll to trim yourself. It comes in various different colours so you could even have a colour code system going on with the heat shrink. Remember to put the heat shrink on first!
Fuses Always have plenty of fuses of each and every type you use, keep a good stock on the boat as well
Tape Several types to consider. Harness tape, the non sticky stuff tou wrap around a loom or spur from a loom to protect it, held in place with heatshrink. Self amalgamating tape, again to wrap around a harness for protection, bonds itself together to form a more reliable sheath. Insulating, or insulting tape as I often refer to it, ok as a get you home temp fix, but better suited for taping wires together when harness making
 
Gas Soldering Iron These things are brilliant, can be used for shrinking heatshrink to soldering multi wire splices. Just remember to carry a lighter and a gas can

I sold my wife's car Friday to downgrade to a smaller vehicle. The plan was to use some of the money to upgrade my 16yr olds gigging guitar with something a little better than what he's been using. Well the budget well and truly blew out with a new PA system and two guitars, one being a very sweet Taylor.
 


 
 
 
 

A new Jack Johnson in the making ?

I sold my wife's car Friday to downgrade to a smaller vehicle. The plan was to use some of the money to upgrade my 16yr olds gigging guitar with something a little better than what he's been using. Well the budget well and truly blew out with a new PA system and two guitars, one being a very sweet Taylor.
 


 
 
 
 

We are so out in front of you living in the ice age . We have this great new band called ABBA playing on the transistor.

We are so out in front of you living in the ice age . We have this great new band called ABBA playing on the transistor.

Used to play in a band years ago.... We were crap, but we cou;dn't half drink lol
Stopped playing a few years ago as working away all the time....... Now things have changed, decided to pick it up again

Well, couldn't help myself.....
Just bought this
 

I do around four 100hr oil changes per year and always do the gearbox oil on each (as recommended in the service schedule) but replace the impeller every 200hrs. Anodes on the powerhead are lasting an easy 600hrs on the Yam but not even half that on the Suzuki. External anodes were only replaced once over the two years (950hrs) of running the Yam and that was when I sold it. 
Like Sidfish mentions, it all comes down to how much the engine is used and if its kept on the water or not. Any outboard service mechanic over here will agree that engines that run most days and are run for long periods out last outboards that are simply used for a quick run out to the fishing grounds every other weekend. We can expect 6000-10000hrs out of a commercial used outboard to around 1500hrs out of a recreational one.

That's interesting Jon. I may give that technique a shot, particularly as I have a Point 1 on order.

That is exactly what I am thinking of doing for next season, using a MinnKota with i-pilot ............ I have used one on a quicksilver 590 and its station keeping over a wreck in 200ft was pretty impressive, with a max of about 1m drift ............... to deploy and hit the 'spot' was about 50 times quicker than dropping the pin ............
The rolls royce would be the auto deploy Ulterra model, but that is the thick end of £4k ................ the  manual deploy models with I-pilot come out at about £1k -£1.5k
All it needs is a battery stowed in the anchor locker and judging by a boat that has one her, you can get about 7 hours battery life in a modest wind and tide, which is plenty for most of us ...............

Part of the difference is that they don't do perfect circles, they throw a different rotation pattern and eliminate swirls. They also have a slip or stall setting which eliminates to much power and heat to certain delicate paint surfaces. Theres also the trigger that can control the speed of the rotation and soft slow start up. As already mentioned, much has to do with comfort and vibration in the hand. When I looked into purchasing I asked a few car smash repair yards if they recommended the likes of rupes polishers etc and I didn't find any commercial user that actually used them as they claimed the Makita had several advantages over them, one being half the cost. The Makita has a setting where you can use it like the high end models allowing for slip or you can set it to not slip (which I tend to use most of the time). I only use the slip function on finishing polishes on our vehicles. Makita also gives a 3 year warranty over here on this model. Plenty of info on youtube explaining polishers better.
For a boat wrap to be fitted the hull will need to be polished if its oxidised badly. I believe here 3M products get the better ratings.
In regards to fitting while on a trailer, there are numerous videos on this. This is just on a small boat but there are videos doing it on far bigger boats.
 
 

Decent polishing machines are DA (dual action) rather than concentric action. There is also a vast difference in Quality. I bought an Argos version for about £55, but it was uncomfortable to use and vibrated a lot. The DA's used in the FG works cost about £300 each, but are far better, especially if using for several hours in a day.
The Argos one would be fine if polishing about once a year, but the professional machines are  faGeoff.r better. 

I mix it up with so many different types but just have a quick search under micro jigs and virtually every manufacture has a some in their range. There are octopus style to small bait fish shapes like the Shimano colt sniper style, the most common are wider in the mid sectioned weighted to flutter on their sides. The black magic flutter jigs have been one of my favourite larger jigs on the bigger pelagic fish and Im sure these would be good on wrecks in the UK, especially the black and lumo colour. Things change rapidly in this style jigs, a few years back Daiwa Pirates were all the rage, There would easily be 100 styles of these kinds lures in my small local tackle store and heaps of Chinese copies on eBay.

It is the slow fluttering drop that does the trick ............. there isn't many fish that will turn their nose up at what looks like a free easy meal with no effort  ............

Slow jigging can literally be a rod in a horizontal rod holder gently moving to the wave action. Lures tend to flutter and its this fluttering slow action that can turn a fish onto smacking a lure. Normally the action of the rod is a slow soft feel and reels can be either spin or multi. Line class is way more fun and better at getting good action out of lures with lighter line but you can still get away using heavier. The falling of the lure is when many of the bites come which is why light line makes it easier to detect a bite as the lure drops. A bit like slow mackerel feathering up a few turns of the handle then back down a little, constantly trying to mix up the action.
A few years ago we were targeting yellowtail with the fastest reels possible and using actions that looks more like you were trying to not let a fish get the lure, this made the fish aggressive and worked well and still does. The slow action also works a treat, which is way more up my ally in terms of fishing. People around me will often do 4 or 5 fast drops to one of my slow jig drops. The verdict on which is best can be tricky but generally slow jigging will catch more species and most of the time as soon as one person hooks a kingfish everyone else in the boat hooks them too. Ive mentioned many times before that I believe this would work well on UK wrecks and am now seeing more and more people doing it with great success.
 

I have a good fishing buddy who is an advisor on oils to different oil companies and motor industries around the world. When I asked him if I needed to stick with Yamaha's own oil or could I use a different manufacturer with the same spec, this was his reply. There's also a link in his response for compatible oils for other engine manufacturers.
Sorry about the way I copied and stuck this info together.
He has since helped me out in regards to some auto gearbox oil which the particular manufacturer was going to charge $1200 to replace, he pointed out the exact same oil from Mitsubishi would cost $300, simply same oil but different manufacturer label.
So these are all the oils my old Yamaha could use, not simply one that my local dealer had tried to push.
 

 

 

 

No corks, I like the taste of fly's. We actually don't have the fly problem in this area, seems to be a big issue further north where it gets much hotter. We do have several species of tick that are a pain locally though, with the paralysis tick being the worse, one of which got me a few days ago while out exploring a freshwater creek. I now have a red balloon leg!!!
Back on track with the haves and not have, I must admit not having electricity and internet over several weeks of the bush fires was exceptionally nice. Shops had nothing due to no transport getting through and empty backup power generators. It was good seeing a small town pull together to help each other out, many of which lost homes and friends.
It was kind of like the beginning of a zombie movie but different in a way we have food swimming in the lake in front of our house. I also had enough fuel to cover at least 30 trips out to the kingfish ground giving us a healthy supply of fish to share among the community. You've had a little taste of this sort of thing when people panic bought food from shops over Covid, which can soon turn pear shaped in densely populated areas. If that supply was to stop totally