Now that the festive season is here, I would like to share a personal experience with you about drinking and driving. As you may well know, some of us have been known to have had brushes with the authorities on our way home from an occasional Christmas do over the years.

A couple of nights ago, I was out for an evening with friends and had 2 or 3 cocktails and a couple of glasses of Shiraz. Knowing full well I may have been slightly over the limit, I did something I've never done before ~ I took a taxi home. Sure enough, I passed a police booze checkpoint but, since it was a cab, they waved it past.

I arrived home safely without incident, which was a real surprise as I have never driven a cab before and am not sure where I got it or what to do with it now that it's in my garage.

 Got mine a day early since I fly back to work tomorrow morning, some nice surf type t shirts and a new 5 element yagi antenna for my radios. Woo hoo. Would love to go out for a fish, but no boat anymore :(

cheers

Dale 

Here you go John,sad to see it go lots of good old memories.

I recently had Chivers lift my boat, a 6.8 Seaquest, off the trailer and hardstand it whilst I did some minor work on the trailer.  It was showing minor, and I mean minor, corrosion on the guards and cross members with very light rust spots and white "greying" in evidence on the bottom edges of several.

After a close look I took to those minor rusted areas with a powered wire brush to clean it off in preparation for cold galvanising however I came across a ten cent piece sized lump in the glav finish which the wire brush wouldn’t shift.  It looked odd so I grabbed a hammer and gave it a tap only to have the hammer go straight through?   What the hell  !!……….beneath what appeared to be perfect gavanising was nothing, the steel had not rusted per se but had delaminated into grey flat pieces which were as brittle as hell.

Needless to say I then proceeded to hammer test all of the cross beams only to find three out of the four to be severely degraded yet to the untrained eye they looked perfect.  I regret not taking photos of the before and after but the after was a real eye opener.
It was almost as though white ants had eaten away like they do with wood which looks perfect from the outside but in reality is nothing more than a paper thin coating hiding the damage.

Back to Chivers with the now holey (appropriate for this time of the year) trailer – to say they were similarly shocked would be an understatement.  We quickly agreed that repairs were simply not an option and Luke arranged for a brand new chassis to be constructed minimising the cost to me by reusing all salvageable elements of the old trailer.  As you might expect the end result is brilliant – thanks Luke, on time and on budget but to those on this site just a note to look far more closely at your trailers as the hot dip finish might just be hiding a potential disaster in the making.  I was lucky and that is the only word for it having towed the boat only weeks before down to Dunsborough – had one of those cross members failed you could bet the rest would have gone almost simultaneously risking dumping the boat on the road or potentially rolling the lot and putting lives at risk

Have a great and safe Christmas and holiday period all at Fishwrecked

Hi all.

From all of us here at Xtreme coolers, we would like to thank the wonderful support of the FW members over the past year. We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas
this festive season. Thanks to Adam for the site and all of the members who have purchased an Xtreme cooler this year.

We look forward to continuing being a sponsor next year and meeting/fishing with more FW members in 2013.

Regards

Xtreme Dave

Will be hitting the road from Yanchep around 5:00 pm and driving straight through with a stop in at Jurien Bay,for fuel and to join up with Lindon. Will be leaving Gero Friday first light and heading over to the island for breakfast.Will be two days south group and two days middle group.heading back to Gero Tuesday.oh and looking at the weather we could not have picked it better .Bring it on.

 Trying to get used the WA weather and reading it, anyone got any advice on whether it would be worth a throw tomorrow morning off Ocean Reef area based on the forecast. Looks good mid morning but the rest is a bit dodgy looking.

hey guys just wondering if anyone uses the millpoint rd ramp to launch ? i know a few jetskis do but any boaties?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHoZRr1dvOo

Need one of those Hawaiian chairs for home, that way I will feel that I am out in the boat all the time.... LOL

I WISH EVERY ONE A HAPPY AND SAFE NEW YEAR

I have had to watch this twice (especially the end)

"here kids, you're bored try this game"  lol

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhqkxwJWR0w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ewLH0TVWkU

Gday,

I've managed to locate a pot lost a few weeks ago in the storm. Problem is its stuck hard on the outer reef in about 35 foot.

A couple of options - if someone's going to be diving in the area i can provide the details or i can take some guys out there to check it out and do a pleasure dive?

Anyway, any help appreciated?

Cheers

How's the form on the bloke in the black ute ?
If I was actually able to compose my fury and refrain from getting out and killing the mad f#cker for the collisions, I'd have squashed him between the 2 cars as a panic "accident".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYm9vCPLoG4

The Driver comments from around 5.00 onwards are a classic

000 Operator : "Don't Go Back"

Driver : "I'm NOT going back - ARE YOU CRAZY ?? " 

lmao

bit of an unusual thread, but im trying to get in touch with guy , nicknamed spoon

he is a kiwi about 42 ? living and working in the northwest of wa, possibly karratha area in a mining fifo position  his christian name is andy 

i know him from another forum , but cant get hold of him there

any help in contacting him apreciated , send me a pm if you like

hezzy

 Hey all was going to get the kids IPADS for Christmas until that is we got ourselves one and they r crap. Kids cant do much on them other than play games :(

I need 5 laptops for them so they can do their school work as well as put in dvds/cd's etc.

They range in age from 5-8 and I need 5 of them.

I was looking at 

Is this one any good? Keep in mind they are very young.

Cheers all

I would like to know if anyone has posted or had posted fishing rods from the UK, if so could you let me know the link or sites.

The parcel is 195cm x 16 x 16.

Planning a trip next May/June to Karijini - Karratha May/June next year.

Plan on stopping at Millstream and have been researching - some site mention fishing and having Recreactional Fishing licence - is this for freah water fishing. What can you catch there and what gear/lures to use?

Also planning a few days in Karratha - is there any boat charters and what type of land based fishing in the area?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20XsaHpRQC8

Hey Guys,

i am considering a new car to tow the boat.

My boat weighs roughly 2.5T, but I would like to be able to tow 3.5T in the future (maybe I'm dreamin').

I have seen some good feedback on the Jeeps, and they can tow 3.5T, other vehicles being considered are Landcruiser 200, but they are a bit pricey.

The Disco4 specs look OK (would probably go with the 2.7L diesel).

I'm not interested in a dual cab.

I intend to take a Disco and a Jeep for a drive, but would be interested in any feedback on the Discos, good or bad. As they are a landrover, the reliability is a concern, and a few forums raise this issue, as well as there suitability to tow well.

Thanks

With the Freo Dockers apparent move to Cockburn, I was wondering if they will get a rename.

Cockburn cowboys

Cocker Docker's

Got any other sugestions.

 G'day, we need some minor plumbing work carried out NOR. If there are any FW members who are plumbers, happy to throw the business their way. Please pm. 

Decided to get a GoPro camera (secret santa from me!!) for the boat and have a couple of questions.

Is the GP3 silver better then the white (white doesn't metnion image stabilisation whereas silver does).

only looking at mounting it the the rocket launcher etc for a cockpit view. Any one else have the white or earlier models and if using in a similar situation is the Image Stab, really needed for that type of mounted use.

Any mounts that can be swivelled/tilted??

Would a fish eye lens be better for a wider angle or would a normal lens suffice??

Cheers Paul

just wondering if sea rescue is at cervantes , or do you need to log on&off with jurien sea rescue ch. 88 ?-73?

Just got a price to send a box to QLD for via one of the big guys ... + $300

Expensive as its a one time thing.

Wondering if anybody have an account I can go thru ?

Hi,

Does anyone know where I can get my esky repaired? It's a Big Chill Ice Box and the lid needs replacing.

 Heading down to myalup tomorrow for the weekend, any tips on where abouts on the beach is a good spot, and what is the best stuff to use?

With all of the hype going on about the imminent Nbiru / Mayan calendar / end of the world on Dec 21-22 is there anyone on here actually kissing their asses goodbye and preparing for it  ??

AND game to admit it ?  hahaha.

Some people are taking this sh!t SOOO seriously !

Then again, with the friggin weather we're getting I suppose anything is possible ! :P

Looking to get a snorkel on the missus car (05 prado). Anyone got any recommendations on where and for a good price? (nor preferred) Just dont have the time to do it myself.

While were at it, any good cheap tyre joints around.