Panzer - yer actual catch report

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

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.

[Norman]

lol cracking stories , who needs to fish with entertainment like this, nice one lads

[mark]

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

[Norman]

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

[mark]

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

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

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??