[quote=Edchris177][quote]it has to be sweltering and zero wind for me to jump in but i ain't skerd - (well maybe a little bit of shark)[/quote]
Ha Ha. Statistics show that 99% of shark bites occur within 200 yards of shore, (maybe the fact that 99.9% of people in the water are within 200 yards of shore accounts for that), so theoretically you are safer further out.
However, I'm also of the ilk that it's scarier when a few miles out.
On hot light wind days i have lowered the trap ring & hung over the leeward side, getting slowly dragged. It's a bit harder on the H18 because of the wings. I always go over the leeward because if I fall off the hook, as long as I hold the tiller the boat will head up. And we have no sharks.[/quote]
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