Another storm casualty
Submitted by sea-kem on Mon, 2012-12-03 11:26
Was up at Seabird on the weekend scoping out some fishing spots when we came upon this washed up cray boat. Speaking to a local they were going to bring in an excavator last night to dig a trench and hopefully pull it out on high tide with a tug. Luckily no damage to the prop or rudder. I think the storm surge was so big it just washed over the reef on the right of pics.
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uncle
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finders keepers??
bugger
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
carnarvonite
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Same mob
The same group of owners lost another boat down at Hamelin about 10 years back when it dragged its mooring and got holed from the old jetty piles, was a 65 foot Conquest, ended up taking it away in skip bins after snapping a major tow rope and breaking a divers leg in the salvage attempts.
Nimbin 157
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Thompson boat isnt it ?.They
Thompson boat isnt it ?.They got plenty more. Should be a fair bit lighter than a 65 conquest but beached a fair way up
carnarvonite
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No not a Thommo
No its not a Thommo boat. Owned by John O'Byrne and Tony Lukatellich, was skippered by Mark Bonser.
Georgejungle
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nothing a backhoe and a shit
nothing a backhoe and a shit load of digging cant fix prob best to try dig a trench and get the water closer to it before pulling in . Lucky its ali
deepwater
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Not good at alll
Now that is just heart breaking I worked on that boat for 2 years with Mark Bonza one of the best fisherman i know ,i think Sam Oburns has the boat now ,a really good bloke and just really sad seeing the old girl hight and dry ,not a good start to the season
jeff
sea-kem
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Pretty sure Bonza sold up in
Pretty sure Bonza sold up in town. I know most the cray boats were way down on their quota's last year. At least the boat was un damaged Jeff. Will give you an update when I'm up there next.
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meglodon
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sad to see
it's sad to see any boat l;ike that
scottscurious
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hahahahahhahahaha
i used to work on all torque for this mob. last i heard john had high voltage but sold it to get another boat, sam had quick flyte, josh had all torque and cant remember tonys boat. think bonza got his ownboat years ago?
carnarvonite
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Vagabond
Mark's got Vagabond now.
Georgejungle
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Vagabonds been up for sale
Vagabonds been up for sale for about two years. Boys must be hurting and wanna get out completely. Hope they get Quick flyte back on the salty stuff soon would be cool to watch the process.
carnarvonite
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Gone
Mark owns Vagabond not John and Tony, he has been on his own for the last 4-5 years.
scottscurious
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yea thats right. its 60ft
yea thats right. its 60ft with a salt water purifier on it aye?