Dampier to Exmouth - Boat delivery

This is a rather old story, but thought would throw it up and get a heap of discussions going around long hauls in boats and also about the different locations along the Pilbara Coast that could be tackled with groups of small trailer boats.

 

April 2006 - The Ningaloo Endeavour rocked up on the Coastal ship in Dampier.

We did the sea trials in Dampier and use the North West Shelf Venturer as a chase boat for photos and the likes.

 

Once it was sorted was to be taken by water to Exmouth while the trailer would also leave the same day, almost sounded like the sort of Top Gear Race that you could have set up if you really wanted to:

 

The Saturday came and we couldn't have asked for a better day, had four members from Exmouth along for the ride and despite my pleas there was going to be no fishing on the way, just think all that miles of reef ignored on the way through (179.1Nm Trip).

 

Ended up doing the straightest route possible after discussing the trip with a few of the local commercial crew who recommend that we avoid the Mary Anne Passage due to the tide rips that can occur as well as can get rougher then the outer edge of the islands if you get a wind/tide wave occuring.

 

As it happened the weather was more then you could ask for, and seemed to get calmer the further off shore we got, anyways i'll let a few photos show the story and then also some final stats:

Yes we beat the trailer down, not sure if we informed the road crew that it was a race, as they left awhile after us. Travel time was extremely close.

Used 460l of fuel with twin 250 Suzuki 4 strokes on the 9.3m Air Rider - Full tank is 900L

 


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that's heartbreaking that

Sat, 2010-11-13 17:43

that's heartbreaking that you didn't stop for a fish but what a trip, what was the time and speed average for the trip? 470L isn't to be sneezed at for such a large boat

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Just under seven hours and

Sun, 2010-11-14 07:02

Just under seven hours and averaged 26Knots, though was also breaking in the motors still so did some high speed runs as well as some perfect trolling speed runs as well.