love your forecaster m8 - mine unfortunately suggests a SSW 3, possibly bottom of 4.
coming of the back of lighter Easterlies there shold be little or no swell however.............
Good luck to all club members who are fishing this competition. Go on win it for our club 
I may well fly by you on my trip from Lymington to Poole bringing home the new Boat "AWOL"
Tight Lines
Martin
2 club members got amongst the prizes, unfortunately, I caught my cod a week too early 
Gordon Holt on Fugazi and Mark Bessant on Nipper had cod which with only 9 fish weighed in put them amongst the prizes on offer, so an Abu Elite for Mark Bessant and an Abu 7000 for Gordon were well worth fishing for.
( Apologies to anyone else who may have been a winning club member that I havent recognised ).
Rich managed to spawn a raffle prize of a fishing Rod which he kinfly gave to Dave who had been fishing with Duncan.
I managed to blank and Mike caught a solitary dogfish.
Neo's trip started off at Lymington and we headed for the needles "car park" escorted by Nipper. The bridge was "interesting" and dropped anchor on the mark we had waves of around 6 foot ( Nipper anchored nerby kept disappearing ).
Fished the start of the flood and nothing showing - wind picked up, so decided to head for the shelter of the solent. 26 knots cruise through the Solent and off to "mark2" where agter a while we met up with Gastronaught, Nipper and Fugazi.
4 attempts to hold anchor, then re-anchored alongside Fugazi where Gordon hauled in a codling almost as soon as we had stopped.
Left at 3:20 and retrieved boat, off to home to drop off boat and then a dash to the weigh-in to see if we could have made it ( and we would have ).
Excellent spread of prizes available and well worth fishing for ( with unclaimed prizes being raffled off ). Congratulations to Andy Robbins and Poole Sea Angling Centre for a superbly run competition.
Gastronaught and crew knew what to do in the conditions and turned left out of Lymington at the outset.
Unfortunately we couldn't contact the , widely spaced fish despite a selection of cod-proven baits.
All I could tempt were pout ofd various size ......... and had to laugh seeing a 6" fish hooked fairly on a 6/0 hook, where even the remains of squid was bigger!
Gordon managed 1 doggie [almost ..... saved unhooking!] and quite a bit of shouting as the two fish caught were from boats in 'spitting distance' from us.
Again, again......I am impressed with Gordon's crewwing skills. Given the slightest problem, this man has it sorted!! Useful suggestions, practical solutions, fearless at hanging over the backend to sort tangles! I must get him a new wooly hat! but am wary of some superstition with hats??
Despite lack of success, I enjoyed my day out [ and the good company] and looks unlikely to get another before back to work, looking at the forecasts. I'll console myself by saying 'I've got plenty of tackle', some will say 'too much'!
Happy New Year to all members,
Alun.
Thanks for the opportunity to crew again Alun. Company better than the fishing turned out but it was just good to be out and fishing new marks.