"NO-ONE actually said "it won't work, " but few think a boat just 45ft. (13.6 metres) in length is the tool for twin rigging (towing two trawls), " says skipper-owner John Sanders as he holds the Brixham Trawler Agents' ice chute to deliver 2.5 tons of flake ice into the fishroom of his newly-delivered Ocean Spirit .
We leave Brixham at 04.25 for Lyme Bay, the Furuno radar screen providing enough marks to show that the hunt is on and we can put the extra spread that two trawls provides to the test.
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