Anecdotes from Stingo is back

[Deleted member 478]

Despite all the spam, and mainly because of your messages and emails, I have decided to continue with <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.stingo.co.uk>Anecdotes from Stingo</A>.

Newsflash, Newsflash. Stingo is for sale Read all about it in the lastest Anecdotes.

Regards

John

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[tome]

John

I wondered if you'd get any stick over the slaughtered pig! Pity they chose to stay anonymous, says something about them.

So it's now 2-boats Stingo (or should that be 3 hulls Stingo). And after we went to all that trouble to establish the stability of the existing hull for you.

Glad to see you're keeping the site going. Interesting observation about a lack of simple guides to fish. I saw an odd looking large fish crossing Biscay and only discovered weeks after my return that it was a Sunfish.

Good luck and keep it coming
Tom

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[ChrisE]

Well funny you should mention that...

....regarding a simple guide to catching fish whilst cruising because I came across such a guide in a London chandlery the other day. Its called 'The Cruiser's Handbook of Fishing' by Scott and Wendy Bannerot.

I'm a fisherman and was very impressed by the book which is geared towards catching fish in the Tropics whilst crusing, funnily enough.

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[Rowana]

Nice to hear from you again John, but what's all this about 2 hulls, 2 fridges, washing machines and dishwashers? Are you going soft? I thought this round-the-world stuff was for ruffty-tuffty sailors !!

Best of luck with the fit-out and the sale of Stingo. Way out of my price range, I'm afraid. Keep up with the Anecdotes. They give me some sensation of warmer climes.

Jim (from a very cold and snow covered Aberdeen!)



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[AndrewB]

Why are you selling?

From (choice of five):

(a) Been there, done that, got the T-shirt;
(b) Miss the grandchildren;
(c) Running out of dosh/wife divorcing me;
(d) Found a new partner;
(e) Want a different yacht.

If (e), what are you looking for? I remember you had last-minute doubts as to whether Stingo was best suited for what you planned.

 

[kilkerr1]

Glad you've kept it up, great stuff.

Mmm, black pudding, one of my favourites. That looks like my tiny old Croatian great grandmother (5 foot of pure muscle and sinew) who would have seen your piggy pics and gone "Pah! Why all those men to kill one little pig? I coud do it with one arm tied behind my back. Here, I'll show you." Small Eastern European peasant women. Truly scary...

Are your eardrums still ringing?

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[Jools_of_Top_Cat]

You have turned to the real darkside now, no more contrived 40° helming photographs. Just wait for the double bills, simple things, this winter I finally fitted one way valves on my bilge outlets, £8.00 is really quite cheap, but no, to me £16.00. Oil filters x2. Fitting the new engines and gear was a real wallet cruncher. Nice now it is all done, but hell at the time, though redundancy is nice, losing an engine is not the worst fear.

One thing we have, unlike many cats and twin engined craft is a single fuel tank, the pick up for the stbd engine is about a gallon and a half lower than the port, this gives me approx 3 hours on a single engine should fuel get low, which happened to me once, saves having to try and bleed the engine at sea should you miscalculate your fuel left.

Thank you for the cruising budgets, I have found this very re-assuring, I am just waiting for them to announce redundancies in work which will allow me to pay off the mortgage and leave us some reserve. Do you happen to know which is the prefered option the renting properties back home, i.e. using a renting agent with or without a guarenteed income, or having a close friend / family member be the landlord?

Fair winds....

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[MainlySteam]

I have been stung by Stingo and have enjoyed following in your tracks.

If anyone wants source material for contributing to the cruising sailors' fish database, which is a great idea in my view, a good place is <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.fishbase.org>http://www.fishbase.org</A> but has the problem for cruisers that it contains both the comparatively few fish one is ever likely to see plus the millions (well seems like it when one looks at the site) that one will never see.

John

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[cloudnine]

Well done John, good to have you back. Keep it coming.
Brian

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[zefender]

The problem with fishbase is that you need to know the name of something before you can see a picture of it. I think what would be useful is a series of thumbnails to enable you to pinpoint whether what you've caught on the line is edible or not! Maybe I'm missing something..

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[MainlySteam]

I believe in my post I actually suggested Fishbase as a source of information on species for the other suggested database, not as an identification source.

However, putting that aside, you are indeed missing something as Fishbase has an excellent tool for identifying species.

If you go to the "Identification" menu in Fishbase you will find that it provides a method for firstly identifying the class the unknown fish is in from its general characteristics, then in a similar manner from that the order it is in, then the family, then finally that leads to the identification of exact species that your unknown fish is.

John

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