our boat
Submitted by 01dusty on Tue, 2006-09-26 05:20
we are lucky enough to own a stabi craft 759sc we fish out of onslow where we have excelent results i have an article on the boat on the stabi craft web site in the news letter coloum sep 2006 will do more on this site once i get the hang of this thing
cheers salty
Daniel
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Date Joined: 05/08/05
Gday Salty,You'll have to
Gday Salty,
You'll have to post some pics of the excellent results mate! Are you going over for the comp in October? Looking forward to it.....should be good.
Cheers
Dan
01dusty
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Date Joined: 18/09/06
hey you dan from tom price
hey you dan from tom price and yes going to onslow for fishing comp cant wait just sorting out spots now on the lap top we are going to go out bloody wide
cheers salty
Adam Gallash
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G'day Salty
Hey Salty,
Welcome to fishwrecked mate. Look foward to seeing some of the pics of the stabi craft. If you have any problems navigating around the site let either Andy Mac or myself know and we will help out where possible.
Cheers,
Adam
Site Admin - Just ask if you need assistance
Fly
Posts: 485
Date Joined: 04/02/06
Dusty & Salty
Welcome Dusty & Salty - sounds like the name of a band from the 70's! ;o)
Could this be them?
Dusty Dave and salty Kim?
Goodness me - the last time I saw a mugshot like that Dave was on "Australia's Most Wanted"! ;o) LOL
Hey thats a good article on the Stabicraft website and a lovelly looking boat! (Three Thumbs up)!
Would be very keen to hear some numbers of that rig, such as weight Fuel capacity, range, nm/g & top speed GPS with what pitch props your spinning...Are they twin Suzuki 4 strokes on the back?
Would make a good comparison as I run a alloy 7.5 meter with twin 115 Hp's myself, always keen to hear how similar craft perform!
Also pretty keen to hear what you think of the Stabicraft when you get some hours on her in snotty stuff.
Looks like your already catching fish!
Pretty smart looking boat I must say!
Sounds like a hell of a long trip for a service tho - you sure you couldn't do it yourself? Usually it's just oil and filters - plugs etc - not exactly rocket science - & I do all my own servicing - least I know it's done right!
Might be able to point you to some how to's on this board if it'll save the drive!
Course 800 odd klicks in one day in the Pilbara is just a Sunday morning drive really!! :big grin:
Looking forward to hearing more David - have been thinking about a smaller RIB type boat myself around 5.8 to 6.0 meters...as a auxilliary tender to the 7.5 for fly fishing out of...and was thinking about stabicraft type vessel!
Cheers n beers!
01dusty
Posts: 11
Date Joined: 18/09/06
stabi craft 759sc
we run 16s on twin 115hp 4 stroke yamahas top speed of 67kms an hour she carries 300 litres of fuel and is very economical the good bits are a furuno gps7000 plotter also a furuno fcv 582l sounder.a 100 litre trail blazer fridge freezer from queensland toshiba lap top and a hewlett packard printer
cheers salty
sherbert
Posts: 4717
Date Joined: 10/09/06
stabi
Hi salty she looks a real nice boat and sounds great well done, happy fishing
steve
Assassin landbase fishing club
Daniel
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Date Joined: 05/08/05
Tom Vegas!
Yeah Salty,
I live in TP. Ive been out a couple of times on Toddy's boat.
Looking forward to the Comp, should be good. Hopefully the weathers good for it.
Catch ya round mate
Fly
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Date Joined: 04/02/06
3 thumbs up!
Salty Dave
They are some really good numbers out of twin 115 HP's - you would have to be happy with those numbers! Possibly you could spin 17 inch pitch props maybe??...as long as your rpm's didn't drop.
Mine must weigh a lil bit more than yours (2800KG's lightship) (with 320 litres fuel, 2 x 160 transverse tanks), I run ~30 knots at 5500 rpms spinning 15's on the 115 Honda's!
Your a good 5 - 6 knots ahead me @ WOT, by the look!
I use about 2.5 - 3.0 litres/Nm - giving me a "safe" operating range of about 80Nm (40 out & 40 back) with 40Nm in reserve.
I suspect being a bit lighter / faster, with taller pitch props, you might be getting closer to 2.0 - 2.5 litres / Nm giving you say
80 - 100NM (40 - 50 out & back) range with 40Nm - 50m in reserve!
What do you consider your "safe working range" in Elapsed Nmiles? (1/3rd out 1/3rd back & 1/3rd reserve)?. (Would my guess above go close?)..
Just curious - when you talk about going waaay wide is all, coz of course once you get there - you have to use a bit to troll for hours!!
For what it's worth, I take spare gogo juice in 3 x 60 litre metal drums for long offshore runs (one lashed into each back corner, one in the footwell of the cabin) - like the 54 NM one way, to the Wallabies group @ the Abrolhos Ils etc. Effectively this gives me almost 50% extra range again!
Imagine if your stabicrafts sponsons were spare fuel tanks....you could go to Africa (and back) and still have the bouyancy safety factor since fuels lighter than water! ;o)
Just thinkin out loud!
Cheers!
"Piscator, non solum piscator" - "A fisherman, not just a catcher of fish"
http://www.flywest.com.au
01dusty
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Date Joined: 18/09/06
sinkers
just making a heap of sinkers up.ive found it easy to go to the tip find a few bits of old tube round or square cut them to length depending on what weight you want grab an old bit of wood drill holes in it put a welding rod in each one sit your cut of tube over each rod and pour lead bloody easy weigh the first few to get your required weight 30 or 40 beers later you have enough sinkers
cheers salty
01dusty
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Date Joined: 18/09/06
saltys sinker workshop
[img_assist|fid=56397|thumb=1|alt=saltys sinker workshop|caption=[img]sinker workshop[/img]]
[img_assist|fid=56397|thumb=0|alt=saltys sinker workshop|caption=[img]sinker workshop[/img]]
here is a photo of the sinkers I make at home.