Odyssey

He’ll of a scrap in a fast tide 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It came home, got sold for a fiver 

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.

Too many to list 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’ve had loads of 20lbers, best went 27lb.... here’s a few pics 🙂 
 
 

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 🙂 

Was just about to post the same thing 🤣🤣🤣

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

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.

Just dogfish...

You can’t see the other 8 in the rocket rack on the roof either.... 😬😬😬😬
So you’re in good company 😉 

He’ll of a scrap in a fast tide 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It came home, got sold for a fiver 

He’ll of a scrap in a fast tide 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It came home, got sold for a fiver 

Too many to list 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’ve had loads of 20lbers, best went 27lb.... here’s a few pics 🙂 
 
 

You can’t see the other 8 in the rocket rack on the roof either.... 😬😬😬😬
So you’re in good company 😉 

You can’t see the other 8 in the rocket rack on the roof either.... 😬😬😬😬
So you’re in good company 😉