After doing some maintenance on the boat recently, my old man and I decided to give the old girl a run and drop a line out behind 3 mile at the same time.  It was a leisurely start from Hillarys based on Seabreezes prediction of the easterly dropping off late morning.  Well, they were wrong again weren't they!  We had a north easterly at (my guess) 15-18knots from 9.30am until we headed in at 2.30pm.  Was pretty sloppy out there.  As usual, the wind dropped once we had the boat home and were washing it down - how often does that happen!  No joy on the fish front.  Plenty on the sounder, but only one undersized pinky and a few wrasse brought aboard for a fair bit of ground covered (couldn't help but cover a fair bit of ground at the speed we were drifting!).  I had my old man at the wheel (he usually prefers me to skipper) and he was having some trouble putting us on our GPS marks with the wind as it was, and was busy concentrating on the plotter and while heading east, punched the bow of my 8m Pride through a really short, steep chop (only doing about 5 knots at the time).  Lucky for me, Dad (not me) was under the partly unzipped "hatch" in the canopy and he copped about 10litres of icy water on his head. That will teach him to take the wheel!

Peter