@Steven - i'm glad you seem to have settled in and will soon be pullin the big 'uns there too..
@Malgas - i also remember my first time out with my new boat 5 or 6 years ago: the day i collected it, i went out at Sards, straight off the main beach, with predictable results: got nicely dumped, had a long swim back to the beach after my boat. i recall lying on the beach totally spent, next to a boat full of water going "Dear Lord, i'd please not like to have a coronary now.." The price of admission to king Neptune that day was my wife's polaroid raybans and a silver ring off my finger...Experiential learning at its best!!
@Malgas - i also remember my first time out with my new boat 5 or 6 years ago: the day i collected it, i went out at Sards, straight off the main beach, with predictable results: got nicely dumped, had a long swim back to the beach after my boat. i recall lying on the beach totally spent, next to a boat full of water going "Dear Lord, i'd please not like to have a coronary now.." The price of admission to king Neptune that day was my wife's polaroid raybans and a silver ring off my finger...Experiential learning at its best!!