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100% agree. Don't have kids to enter this but would hate a bit of rough weather to turn them against it for life ! ! ! Rough weather is not good. We like it warm & calm please Mr. weatherman

Happy Birthday to you. . . . . . . .Happy Birthday to you. . . . . . . .Happy Birthday to Lofty Happy Birthday to you. . . . . . . . There! You didn't know I could sing did you ?

That's an old picture ! I was still slim in them days !

Well done Hooky. You sure ain't a quitter !

I gave up coarse fishing about 24 years ago so I'm behind in what's current. We had to use barbless when I fished the carp pools.

Both sides of this argument carry weight. The Bass will be hammered by illegals whether boat or shore fished. The poor old sea fish never get a chance to learn because we catch them and eat them ( not doggies though ) Barbless hooks would mean they get that chance. ( good for the fish but not good for crap anglers like me ) I don't know what's best but we need to be careful not to destroy our seas.

And Me

Happy Birthday Graham. Hope it's been good. Too windy for boating so cake and beer would be required. Jim

Gimp is a free photo editor similar to Adobe photoshop. It was Rob who posted info on it on here a few years ago. Yet another learning curve that requires Doombar ( or equivalent )

I had a smaller but similar style boat with that type of window. Previous owners used to sit on the roof. That broke the pillars and the windows were forever falling out. I plated the pillars with thick stainless and glued & bolted new windows. Sorted. Glad you got home safe ! Did you have spare underpants on board ?

Naughty !

Found this: What is HEIC? HEIC is the file format name Apple has chosen for the new HEIF standard. HEIF stands for High Efficiency Image Format, and, as the name suggests, is a more streamlined way to store image files. Using advanced, modern compression methods it allows digital photographs to be created in smaller files sizes, all while retaining higher image quality than its JPEG alternative. So ! Cool old Grandad's got a modern iphone and the rest of us CODGERS need to catch up. I'd never heard of it as I'm an android If it's any help I opened with GIMP and then exported as a .jpeg so the rest of us could see it. Hope this helps. Jim

Cheers Kev.

Well Kev, I had never heard of .HEIC files. Got it sorted. Hope this is what you wanted to achieve. Well done Grandad. Glad you managed to get out.

Yeah Jacqui doesn't get much free time but she really seems to be enjoying it. I'm just happy to be out on the water in lovely weather with the woman I love. ♥️