ASH Wednesday

G'day All, Itz now Wednesday again and for the past week I've had Big Ash aboard for fishing , fun and frivolities.Ash haz now returned to Perth and Galleycat passed the week without major incidentz or breakdowns.
Every other boat we spent thyme with waz having engine troubles! We put it down to a bad batch of Opal fuel. It seemed the Yot went from Mothership 2 Hospital ship as more vesselz tied off with engine issues.
As you may have gathered I still can't download pictures to the computer.These fotoz come thanx to Ash'z phone. A new puter haz arrived itz just not funkional yet plus my digital camera haz now died.
I will get on top of the technikal issues sooner rather than later.
 Big Ash arrived last week for a weex R&R aboard. This was the first real test of Galleycat as a fishing destination (wkoa). We ended up with countless species of phishes with lotz of trophy'z amongst them.I won't list the species but several nice coral trout and a few pelagics made up the tally.
Many night thymes resulted in more phish than our daythyme trips. throw in a few oysters and the occasional squid and you have the makings of a superb seafood banquet.
2 chefs aboard the food waz alwayz going 2B good but
Galleycat definately shone, during a week of culinary feastz. Fresh pickled Queenfish (nummas)  and fresh coral trout salad wrapz were a few of the stand out dishes.
We spent many hourz fishing around Chasm Island with a 1 night trip to "Waynes World" in search of better bottom fishing. Chasm Shoal won out though with some amazing phish coming aboard. However it was the tripz aboard Blackoutz boat that yielded most of the trophy fish. Huge Mulloway (black jewfish), Cods, Mangrove Jacx  and Nannygai filled the kill tub.(200 litre drum)
As expected the on board alcohol supplies took a hit but it made for some memorable moments.
If only I could remember them!
Just kidding, my alcoholism proved tame compared to my visitorz. But that comes with the lifestyle.
   The seasonz have already begun 2 change heralding the coming Cyclone season. Itz crunch thyme! run from the cyclones or ride them out.
I still need at least 2 months to complete the fittout plus the arrival of Hanni and the boys iz just 5 weex away.
With any luck I'll have many of the projectz finished B4 itz thyme to head towardz the relative safety of Darwin and itz marina berth safety.
Galleycat iz in need of some professional help with the Genset and Water maker on the list of things needing attention. The Anchor winch has burnt out itz reversing solenoid so another haz been sourced through Ebay.
Dadz been busy back in Perth with the Coffering (timber worx) finished in the new house.
The led lighting makes the coffering look sensational after dark.
Yippee! I've managed to download the busted camera 2 the new puter so we have some thing to look at.

This weekend will see me back at the top of Chasm Island for the Ladies fishing comp. Once again Galleycat will act as the mothership this thyme only 2 boats are due.
A further unexpected surprise was the arrival of my good mate Andy from Townsville, he's here  to run the sealink ferry for the next month so I see large quantities of drinking during the coming weex.

My missing dinghy has been spotted in one of the rivers south of town with a crew of locals aboard. They've been told by the elders to return the tender but still no sign of it. They may of sunk it or hidden it in the scrub to use later.
Still only thyme will tell if I'm going to get it back.
In the meanthyme I'm preparing another dinghy to use in the interim.
Galleycat iz now in a "state of limbo" as I await the arrival of many ebay items to repair on board damage / faultz.
New solar regulators, a new winch relay plus a replacement paddle for the kayak are all due shortly.
We  have returned to Chasm Shoal and recovered the anchor and chain we left behind during the ladies fishing comp.
Repairs to the genset are also underway with a new control board being sourced from Power Equipment Australia, it turns out this  model of genset has always had a bad control board and  a replacement version is available.Once the new board arrives I should be able to run the air con and fridges again.