Odyssey

I know! If they were playing in Cardiff I’d drove down, put my boots on and help them out 😡😡😡😡😡 No secret ingredients..... just chocolate, cocco, flour, eggs, sugar, butter and hash.

Hi all, Dows anyone know how I’d I go about importing fishing gear from USA/Aus? Im after some big game stuff and there is very limited choice in U.K. and what we do have appears expensive.... so wondering if import from aboroad maybe cheaper but not sure how to work out the duties etc? 🤔🤔

We get similar (albeit on a vastly smaller scale) when coming through the heads at Milford. The swell funnels up between the islands and you get some move lumps even though the underlying swell offshore is small. It’s why it’s nice knowing I got lots of power on board... I just wish boat builders in UK looked at Aussie boats, saw the technology and got with the times! We are 30 years behind you guys!

There is a guy in north east who makes them o eBay. He’s also happy to customise. I’ll see if I can dig out his details. Otherwise try Pete Watts at breaksea. I’m sure if you took some photos/measurements to a fabrication house on south coast you’d get it done cheap 🙂

Get it made! Breaksea boats or stainless Steve. if you’re going chsnnel you’ll want a radar reflector (that works) and maybe Radar too.... may as well make room for it now 😁

No fishing due to lockdown so got back in the kitchen 🙂 Fruit loaf brownies Honey roast gammon now for a few beers and watch the rugby 😬😬😬

I used to live in Chippenham 🙂 nice place. Not too far from Cardiff if you ever fancy a trip 🙂

PB for me, I was too excited to take it in 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Id caught it slack water at eve of day, didn’t know it was on until I saw this mouth. It then decided to try and head back in. Was rather relieved to see it in the net

I’m thinking you’re lucky it will start.... let alone run.....

Hi Jon, Nice of you to pop over and say hi 🙂 If you dns hold off the fish pics for 2 weeks that’d be great, I’m in lockdown in wales so no travel, boating, fishing, gym or anything.... 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬

For £25 you’re going to want to put a spark plug, check the impeller and clean the carb. Chances are it’s clogged up

I agree with Zook, you’ll get an bargain

£25 for the outboard?! 😍😍😍😍😍😍

I try my best to find a few fish 😉 Just want to get boat back to Cardiff now, loads of big cod in channel.... not on the big cod marks.... so hopefully I’ll get more than 4 doubles like last year (slow year that 😞 )

Dunno.... 130idh for blue I think? Porgie was 200+ I think? more concerned with getting it back TBH and GF out of cabin and stopping panicking 🤣

Mmmmmm chips and peas go nicely there

Yep! 24lb that one 🤣 Xmas day 2 years ago, had an 11lb cod on my other rod at the same time

It was on Facebook but too good to miss 😉

Clonker!

Get plenty in the channel if you go after them 🙂 can be a pain when chasing tope

Was just about to post the same thing 🤣🤣🤣

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Here is my guide 🙂 TOOLS EXPLAINED DRILL PRESS : A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it. WIRE WHEEL : Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, 'Oh sh*t' DROP SAW : A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short. PLIERS : Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters. BELT SANDER : An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs. HACKSAW : One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle... It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes. MOLE GRIPS : Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. OXYACETYLENE TORCH : Used almost entirely for lighting on fire various flammable objects in your shop. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race.. TABLE SAW : A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity. HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK : Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper. BAND SAW : A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge. TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST : A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER : Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads. STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER : A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms. CROWBAR : A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part. HOSE CUTTER : A tool used to make hoses too short. HAMMER : Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit. STANLEY KNIFE : Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use. ADJUSTABLE WRENCH: aka "Another hammer", aka "the Swedish Nut Lathe", aka "Crescent Wrench". Commonly used as a one size fits all wrench, usually results in rounding off nut heads before the use of pliers. Will randomly adjust size between bolts, resulting in busted buckles, curse words, and multiple threats to any inanimate objects within the immediate vicinity. Son of a bitch TOOL : Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling 'Son of a b*tch' at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.

Started to serious shore fish at 11 years old in Knab Rock Swansea. My folks had a caravan next to the beach so in school holidays would fish every day..... surf beach fishing for flounder bass and mullet... stopped shore fishing at 16 as I became more and more into surfing to a high standard. I used to crew out of mumbles as a teenager in the winter for cod. You turned up, asked around a few times and helped out launching retrieving boats until you got offered a trip.... had some nice catches around Swansea. only got back into shore fishing when I moved to Cambridge, went to see the sea at Aldebrugh, saw them catching cod and old the spark was kindled! shortly after moved to Birmingham and went back to South Wales on the shore and charters out of Cardiff and Swansea on Rob Rennie’s boat. We used to leave Cardiff at 6pm so I’d bunk off work at 4, leg it to boat and then we’d get back into Cardiff at 4am before I drove back to midlands and get to bed at 6am..... I also did Saturday trips on another charter called Benjoma Too. Sadly the skipper Paul Crossman passed away yesterday. Top skipper, bit crusty but once you got to know him was a gentleman. Later on I moved back to Wales, first thing was buy a boat.... ran an Orkney Pilothouse for 4 years before wanting to go bigger..... Having separated from the ex the idea was an offshore 25 or osprey 26/28 for weekends and sharks.... Somwhow I ended up with an Evolution 30 from Rob which was the first boat I had fished off for 15 years.... She was a tip but a summer of fixing up and away I went! Later that summer it was a trip down memory lane fishing and the same marks I used to within out of Swansea and in the winter from Cardiff. She now follows her larger cousin in Milford. Rob always gets excited when to see her..... I left the keys with him to refuel for me. I noticed on my AIS track that he had a little run around the haven too 🤣🤣🤣 It used to be fishing first. These days I love to tinker with boats and boating but I prefer the fishing. However the boat is great to sleep over, weekend on around Swansea/Milford, go sharking/reefing but still go snorkelling in the haven before a nice pub meal and a pint in Marina..... I almost called my boat Wanderlust as I have a real sense of adventure always wanting to know what’s around the corner, but there was a sail not called that so she was called Odyssey instead as that’s what I’m on. An odyssey to see what’s next on my travels 🙂

These guys had a lucky escape, makes me glad I carry a liferaft https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/royal-navy-rescues-two-fishermen-from-capsized-vessel?fbclid=IwAR2JHYeAC5FmVMtWRcgrDLWCWNCL4x59Rjt9EUHxiTLGQE1cbeoQntGXBD0