Panzer - yer actual catch report

Charlie_Thompson

Charlie_Thompson

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Set off at 6:00am after a night on board - steering seems to be fettled for now ;) Nice to meet Luckylady and crew who rafted up agin us on Sat evening. I was feeling a tad didgy (bad pint) so didn't dare open the good eye until we got across the bar (the pier one). Tooled about for a while listening to charter skippers on the FHM talking about ****poor catches. Had a couple of drops over a wreck and picked up a few mackerel, 1 sandeel and a lickle coalie. Had a go off the yellow can with no luck - holding ones rod and putting the liney end in the water helps, I choose the snoozing on deck option.

Decided to "leg it" back in for the top of the tide instead of staying out and having to moor up outside Pete's and get her in tomorrow afternoon. Skipper done good this time, we didn't hit a thing on the way back in. Although we may have scraped the wall a bit on the way out , shredded a few fenders and ripped a cleat out. Some idiot left loads of electrics on over night so no bilge blowers working in the black hole which was nice for mark and the electrical toilet was struggling to chew up the fantastically comical poo poo I had first thing in the morning. Grown men wept, ropes were tying themselves in knots while I giggled myself daft and tried to wipe me bum in the pitch dark.
 
hmmmnnn. mutinous behaviour today.

got mesel down the for stupid oclock, bit of hot bunking going on as 1 crew member crawleed out of his pit Mr.Thopmson crawled straight into it, I even opened the foreward hatch and wee'd on him but the only response that illicited was 'mother its raining in the shed again' and off he went back to the land of nod

an hour or 2 later he crawled topsides just long enough to sort the comfy seats out and go back to kip. bit of a lump, and the water the colour of what was later deposited in the lavvy so we pushed offshore, 8 - 10 mile wrecks very quiet, some big clouds of mackeral on the sounder out there though

Mr T rose from his slumbers long enough stagger to the privvy to gas the woodworm and all other lifeforms within a 50 yard radius, we did discuss quickly reversing the polarity on the posh bog so it would go into 'blow' mode rather than 'suck' but time was against us, I reckon he's had his rusty sheriffs badge replaced with a small hatch fitted with velcro fasteners such was the speed of movement, mind you with the hum created down there, I'd of been out of there sharpish as well

after trying the lying down with your eyes closed method of fishing, the rest of the crew then practiced the 'have another lie down in the wheelhouse in order to build up sufficient strength for a full on snooze' method of navigation

I nearly called the coastguard for advice or someone to just to talk to but they were on strike today

little does he know, I have photos of some/all of todays inactivities on my why aye phone, will upload them later!

more of a sea trial than anything else, with a potential life saving invention thrown in. if anyone ever needs to navigate the lower tyne in thick fog/darkness, it will now be possible to steer by magnets as there is several tons of Iron laid at 3 metre intervals. This was more for Frank than any one else, few coils of wire around his neck, connect to a battery and strap him to the prow and you have a foolproof autopilot
 
Seen you coming back in about 12ish and thought marks been out by himself today:o hahaha now I know ..was very impressed at the way you meandered past the small boats on your way back in mind should have had ell at the wheel mark and just bould straight through them :D:D..excellent report as usual lads:)
 
I was very discreet whilst dumping the huge bits of metal overboard - hands in pockets, whistling and kicking bits of dirt around then a quick heave ho - followed by an absoultely mahoosive kersplash:red:. Mark mentioned depth charges at one stage but I was still technically asleep so didn't hear him.
 
My mate Joe who's a skateboarding, parcour running, adrenaline sport, scary fairground ride addict was looking a bit rough bless him. I nearly bowked and I don't do bowking :red:
 
conscripted adrenaline junkie:
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synchronised not feeling very well
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the excitment of the adastra proving too much
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the excitment of getting out the piers proving too much
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the strains of a hard days graft proving too much
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drifting some other wrecks
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on a more positive note, the bridge at st pete's is fixed, new cards coming out this week so we'll be able to actually get in and out, although, there's a distinct possiblity the bridge might end up coming with us

nearly had crossed words on saturday, went out tied up on the fuel pontoon.

"you can't tie up there someone might want diesel"

"oh, OK, actually, we'll have some fuel while we are here"

"sorry we've got none, but you can't leave it there, someone might want fuel"

(go figure :confused:) )

"you'll have to raft up alongside the boat on the waiting pontoon"

yes they seriously wanted us (all 30 tons of us) to raft up along side 14 foot of plastic (all 2cwt of )with a B&Q tarpaulin for a roof

its great in our world really
 
Err forgot to mention our additional boat moving adventure skipper :red: we moved 2 boats around with ropes and everything and we weren't wasted at the time at all. One of them might have been the marina owners RIB he uses for training as well. It was in a bit of a squashy type place for a while and we were quite concerned so for safety reasons went back to the pub. We had to do it so Dave the Chiropracter could get his family off the boat.
 
Is it always such an adventure every time you chaps go out , I'm glad you did ,it's made great reading .

And as for magnetic navigation ,it may well be worth a try ,just gimme a holler if you get stuck. :D
 
one day, the Pans' will see a cod, we can now steer in a straight line and turn corners, where previously even the tyne wasn't wide enough to do a U turn!

would of made trying to set a drift up a bit tiresome - drift a mark, go have a lie down while we turn around for the next go.

just as well really, we'd have caused major carnage in the channel on the way back in with all those teeny dinghy's crossing in front of us

Still can't work out why the previous owner stuck so much ballast in and in such wierd places, with what we removed from up front, which was maybe 2 tons, she's sitting 7 or 8 " higher in the water!

according to the survey there's still another 6 tons littering the bilges, ad thats on top of what she was ballasted with when she was built

answers on a postcard please
 
I`d go easy on ballast removal mark, better to have ballast weight below than sleeping sailors above :) ............... then again you could alway put the sleeping sailors below to replace the ballast :) :) :)
 
Norman said:
I`d go easy on ballast removal mark, better to have ballast weight below than sleeping sailors above :) ............... then again you could alway put the sleeping sailors below to replace the ballast :) :) :)
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good point, one of the sleeping sailors may have seriously affected the centre of gravity. should of made him sleep in the bilges (would need a snorkel though at the moment)

still puzzled about why so much though, it would never have been there when she was fishing/working :confused::confused:

one thing I do know is that a lot of what is there is/was badly position up above the waterline right up the forepeak and right over the prop cut out in the henjin room. Should be as low as poss over the keel and in the bilges shouldn't it??
 

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