"SAPPHIRE" Chartered Fishing Boat,Sunderland.

[BAZACODBASHA]

My answer to the problem of people "not turning up", would be to CHARTER the boat. : ie set a total price for a day's fishing say for example £200.00. If anyone want's to charter the boat, this would be the cost between the whole party. So if the boat was licensed for 10 anglers, then assuming whoever books the boat wants to bring 10 people, the cost would be £20.00 per head. However, if more room is required, then whoever books it can say for example only bring 6 people, but the cost per head would then be £33.50 each (or thereabouts).
The point I am trying to make here, is it should be left up to the "booker" of the boat to organise his or her party for numbers, and make sure they get the money from them first. That way the onus is purely on the "booker".
Now I know people are thinking :"individual anglers could miss out here, if the boat is run on a charter basis"
The solution : If someone books the boat for say 8 people, the skipper could then ask him if he would be willing to add two other outsiders to his party, if anyone else was ring up and ask if there is a place on that particular day. This would keep the parties cost down, but would compremise on room. However if the booker wanted to keep the party down to 8, then that would be his choice, but obviously the cost per individual in his party would be more.
Sorry if this is long winded, but I used to charter a boat from Berwick, which was licensed for 12 people. However I always kept the number to only six. This doubled the price for each of us, but everyone agreed the massive amount of extra room was worth every penny. I also took the money from everyone who said they wanted to go before the trip. If someone then wanted to "drop out", it was up to them to arrange for another individual to go, so they could get their money back.

[sapph33]

sapph33

like i said billyturbot it"s got sod all to do with you bout what i do and how far i go, its bout time you kept mouth shut on what i do, if you want"n to cause some thing again fire away you seam to have a lot to say bout evey thing and evey one on here, if i want to take my boat to 100miles i will sod all to do with you, I don"t need you to remind me of a prohibiting order it was you who neally got me locked up, Am trying to make a liven here i have bills to pay as well, I think evey one on here is sick of you butting in,

[Kartonkel]

like i said billyturbot it"s got sod all to do with you bout what i do and how far i go, its bout time you kept mouth shut on what i do, if you want"n to cause some thing again fire away you seam to have a lot to say bout evey thing and evey one on here, if i want to take my boat to 100miles i will sod all to do with you, I don"t need you to remind me of a prohibiting order it was you who neally got me locked up, Am trying to make a liven here i have bills to pay as well, I think evey one on here is sick of you butting in,

I agree

However...who wants to go out further than 20 nm

Most boats steam at 15 kn. Going to a 25 nm wreck and back means that more than 3 hours of fishing is wasted without any higher chance to catch

[Davey1970]

it is getting a bit predictable on here now,

peter goe`s about his business, doing what he can to get his paying customers on the fish,

only for his every move/post or thread to get scrutanised by people,

have you upset people in another life......? only joking peter, just keep doin what your doin m8, good luck............!

[sapph33]

sapph33

I don"t know m8 evey time i take anglers out they seam ok to me chat"n away then at the end of the day they tell me they had a good day 85% have been come"n back, even taken them out dueing the week now on even trips as wkends are full and they want to get back, Am a angler myself use to fish on chartered boats so i know what the angler is looking for and if they catching i"ll give them bit more time free,

[peeler]

billyturbot likes to bad mouth, he always puts people down, and should be banned from this forum there is a saying loos lips sink ships lol and people will not be happy , why upset and critisise others , you need to get a life

[billyturbot]

like i said billyturbot it"s got sod all to do with you bout what i do and how far i go, its bout time you kept mouth shut on what i do, if you want"n to cause some thing again fire away you seam to have a lot to say bout evey thing and evey one on here, if i want to take my boat to 100miles i will sod all to do with you, I don"t need you to remind me of a prohibiting order it was you who neally got me locked up, Am trying to make a liven here i have bills to pay as well, I think evey one on here is sick of you butting in,

You can't take your boat 100 miles peter you need to stay local other wise they will lock you up as you say ,its good that you know the score

[Kartonkel]

You can't take your boat 100 miles peter you need to stay local other wise they will lock you up as you say ,its good that you know the score

Lock him up!? What a nonsense.

In the worst case he would be fined.

However...all he needs to say is that he took a few friends out. Under british law every Dick and Harry can sail out to sea whenever he wants and how far he wants.

Might mean that he has no insurance but would never get him to jail

[sapph33]

sapph33

Well said kartonkel not as if i would take the boat out a 100miles with a party, But like you said if i have a few friends out for a days fishing non chartered i can go where i like, Just had billyturbot on the fone he going to sort me out now,

[codseeker]

pmsl ive just told me friends on facey hurry they missing the billyturbot show on BBC Nesa haha

[Davey1970]

wey, it`s like primary school now,

get ya dad, he`s bigger........!

[billyturbot]

billyturbot likes to bad mouth, he always puts people down, and should be banned from this forum there is a saying loos lips sink ships lol and people will not be happy , why upset and critisise others , you need to get a life

no got some crab that I was not happy with and made a comment,also saph what you talking about you have said yourself that you nearly got lifted why, en lighting us if there s not a problem,I rang you dont think so ,just come on a break ,any way have fun guys ,must go very busy

[BOSH]

Just show him that your flares work lol

[Paul_h]

another thread spoilt......... seems very persistent, obviously blatant victimization, i don't see similar comments/reminders thrown to the other charter skippers.............

I do not understand what all of this is about.............but everytime i open a Sapphire thread it end up like this....

FFS sillyturbot, sort your problems out and stop spoiling a good forum.
if you have gripes with the owner take it offline in private.

Now... anyone been fishin lately, have you seen any boats out there with a couple of trekky's hoyin pink shads about...? just wonderin
Paul

[harry barker]

another thread spoilt......... seems very persistent, obviously blatant victimization, i don't see similar comments/reminders thrown to the other charter skippers.............

I do not understand what all of this is about.............but everytime i open a Sapphire thread it end up like this....

FFS sillyturbot, sort your problems out and stop spoiling a good forum.
if you have gripes with the owner take it offline in private.

Now... anyone been fishin lately, have you seen any boats out there with a couple of trekky's hoyin pink shads about...? just wonderin
Paul

Agree with you totally mate,spoils a good thread.....every time.