Posted by: davidstevens
on Sep 30, 2008
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The QE2 passed us up this afternoon on her way back to southampton she looked majestic in the bright sunlight and set against the calm ocean. For anyone who has never seen her at sea she is one of the most impessive sites to see and definitly the best looking cruise ship ever built, I always think how nice it would be to be onboard her rather than rolling around on our
Posted by: davidstevens
on Sep 06, 2008
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We sailed early this morning after a windy night we shot west of lands end and towed out towards the seven stones reef the swell was huge and when we hauled half a mile from the reef we saw huge waves crashing over the submeged rocks, they must of been 35-45feet and as they crashed down the white was bouncing back up at last another 15feet quite spectacular and the fishing was good.
Posted by: davidstevens
on Sep 03, 2008
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Hi all the catch was landed yesterday and I have to admit to being dissapointed the price of haddocks was well down on what they should have been, we averaged 93p kg which is quite poor for a goodrun of haddock, it should have been 1.30kg at least average and as we landed just over 5tonnes that is a huge loss. As always the team at plymouth trawler agents tried there best but they said it was just
Posted by: davidstevens
on Sep 02, 2008
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With the big tide coming up we had to head else where so it was safer to work our gear, for tose of you who are unaware how tide effcts us imagine the sea flowing like a river and trying to work a boat and the gear and keep in a straight line so we avoid wrecks and nasty hitches. It does help though at times as if we keep heading with the flow of tide we can save fuel as the vessels speed is helped
