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Colin and I spent a week out in Bretagne returning last night. Viz was fantastic.

We got Sargos, Black Bream, Bass and a few other species.

We dived Pont de Raz, Ille de Sein, Ille de Glennan.

I have attached a picture of Pont de Raz. The waves in the pic is formed by the tide. The tide runs like a mad thing; so much so much so that it was
hairy taking the boat through the current. Much more than Portland.

Plogoff was a good area.

Ille de Sein was an area of pinnacles running 13km out from an island.
Too much area to go fishing blind. We drifted kilometers in the current and saw only a handful of bass.

Ille de Glennan was similiar to Ille de Sein with masses of area. Lots of it is in a marine reserve. We have the marine resrve info for Bretagne if anyone needs it. We did see big shoals of Sargos and Black bream. A
15pound
Bass sat on Colin's shoulder.

Water was cold and there were not huge amounts of fish about as expected. Locals say August is a quiet month. Late September, October is better.

Fish were generally in the shallows but we did dive some pinnacles that
came up from 23-16m. There was a big shoal of Black Bream on one but all
small.

Paul Maxwell

Hi all, I am the lucky owner of a C-SKI 440.

I just thought I would share a story or two about these phenomenal big little boats. Dave Joyce and myself decided to go out fishing off Cape St Francis one day as the water was too dirty to dive. We were anchored amongst a few other boats trying our hand at catching some squid to use for bait. Dave noticed a big deck boat approaching us and said he thought it was going to pass fairly close to us. Me, being familiar with most of the squid fleet assured him that it was common practice for the boats to come close as sometimes the patch of squid is quite small and the boats anchor close together to try get a slice of the action. The huge vessel was approaching quite slowly from our starboard side when suddenly the captain decide to turn and all of a sudden we had a 90 ton deck boat bow on top of us! It left us with absolutely no time to pull start the motor or pull anchor and the only choice left to us was to abandon ship and swim before we got mowed over. The squid boat smashed square into the transom and pulled my C-SKI 440 underwater submerging it for several seconds. I looked on in dismay as my boat disappeared underneath the surface. Once the deck boats momentum had carried it past, I looked back expecting my boat to be smashed to match box sized pieces and imagine my surprise to see my boat wallowing on the surface still up right with water pouring off the deck! Dave and I swam back over to the boat and started bailing out all the water from the hatches and tried to assess the damage. The C-SKI 440 seemed to have survived the ordeal relatively unscathed! My outboard motor however didn't fair so well. It took the brunt of the impact and as a result was smashed off its mounting bracket and hanging sadly by a few pieces of twisted metal. Fortunately my cell phone was in a waterproof pouch and I was able to call a friend to give us a tow back to shore. Once on the trailer I could have a good look at the boat for damage and was super surprised to find only a scratch out the gel coat on the transom and most of the foam on the hatch covers ripped up from the barnacles on the underside of the deck boat!! I don't think I can give enough praise to the workmanship and construction of this C-SKI 440 and its phenomenal to think of the abuse my boat took and still survived.

Since the ordeal I have repaired the superficial damage and continued as if nothing had ever happened! I have a tiller-operated setup and recently had the opportunity to test drive a C-SKI 440 with the new consol setup. To say that I was blown away would be an understatement! The performance and maneuverability of the craft has been improved 10 fold. Using a tiller has its advantages due to simplicity however standing up and steering is the way forward! The consol is compact and simple yet practical and well thought out. I have had my boat in every conceivable sea condition and am proud to say that I haven't encountered a sea that this boat doesn't handle effortlessly.

To anyone looking for performance, durability and simplicity, you would be doing yourself a disservice by not putting to sea on a C-SKI 440!

Marc White

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