As the sun sets on yet another year hopefully everything will go according to plan without any troubles coming your way. 

Happy New year to all on here and here is a big cheer for the upcoming 2022

I've got a 12y old gas storage system. Pilot light went out and the bottom of it is full of water so assuming the tank has corroded.

Worst time of year for this to happen but can anyone recommend a plumber who can sort me out with a new one sometime in the next week?

Cheers JF

 Just before last summer I started keeping my boat on a property at the back of Margininup. I had not used the boat for about a month after dropping it off there. When i went to use it I found bees had made a hive in the storage compartment under the bunk in the cabin. It was a friggin nightmare trying to spray them, remove their nest and clean all the hundreds of dead bees that were stuck in old honey etc it was a fukn mess. Cleaned it sprayed it all with baygon surface spray, disinfectant and thought that would stop them from coming again.. Anyway.........I didnt use my boat during the 2 month ban and went to use it on monday. Now  2 HUGE hives and thousands of bees buzzing in cabin faark!.  My mates a hobby beekeeper so he suited up, sprayed flyspray removed both hives , couldnt find the queens and now ive got a huge mess of dead bees stuck in honey everywhere. Gonna go out there and clean it this weekend. What spray / chemical can i put in there to stop them from coming back and making more hives ? 

 Flew back up Tuesday night , did the work I needed to do and had most of the arvo with nothing to do so fishing it was. Got the usual nice haul of whiting with a couple of lizards thrown in. A couple of small sharks and a 6 foot shovel.  

 A young bloke fishing out on the bank had one hook up and got busted off . An hour later hooked up again. This time he held on and the fight took him up and down the beach for over an hour ..end result was a big bull I estimate around 200 kg (after helping move it )removed the hook along with someone else's big shark hook and a few pics then released back to the water with a bit of a struggle by 2 of us and it swam off. Great results for the young bloke who has been trying for 2 years to land one. 

 As I came home for Xmas we decided to head out from Rocko to hit the deeper water trying out our new simrad sounder with the 1kw tranny . Very impressed so far , even reading ground sitting on 30 knots . As we hadn't fished out from. There for at least 10 years and had lost all our spots we were flying blind. Headed out to the 90s . We found the fish , well some anyway. Nothing huge but they are tasty . Sandy got the legal size pinky after 3 under size ones. 3 of us out and we all bagged out . 

 Wishing all members and onlookers a very merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year.

May it be a bloody sight better than the one we are about to end, but when you sit back and take a look at the whole picture of Australia , we here in WA haven't done too badly compared to the other states.

Hey guys, does anyone know where I can get 2mm 316 stainless steel tig rods ? Just after a small amount around a dozen or so. Plenty of places in Perth have other sizes but 2 mm seems to be difficult to find.

No time for postage as I need for a job.

Cheers Scotty

Any installers in the Rockingham area- Wife bought the unit but our sparky doesn't work anymore.she was hoping to get to hooked up before Xmas. 
got the unit powers there and the hole is in the wall

 Hi.  Looking for recommendations on gearbox rebuilders .  Ive blown my toy gearbox in my 78 troopy.   Is there anyone in perth who rebuilds these r151f gearboxes with upgrades. There is a number of builders on the east coast but cant find any in wa.  Also 360 gerboxes over east do some fully upgraded versions of this box and trany case but there prices are covid crazy. Anyone had a box by them ? and if so do you think they are value. Cheers.

 I eliminate then process for a feed. Doing my bit to cull the sharks and get a feed while doing it

Got another easy feed and had some fun with a 5 foot shovel nose on the old Shakespeare reel. Was a good 20 minutes to get it in . 

 All the best and 

 Went down for a few hours after work . Nothing else to do . Trevally and Queenie all swallowed a whole whiting and bleeding so couldn't waste them . They will be eaten 

Anyone on here know or can recommend someone or a company that is capable of food grade stainless welding at a fair price ?  pref NOR.

cheers

mark

 Got this monster off the bank mid arvo. Went absolutely nuts. Was stoked to see this one come up the beach

 Had a couple of hours to spare today so took advantage of the incoming tide.  Got a couple of small sharks and finished with a Queenie that went 90cm . Also got the usual feed of whiting to top things off

 Ok driving up the coast last night my spotties gave up the ghost halfway on the trip, wasn't happy as it's a roo infested road at times and like all the light I can get.

Anyway took a look under the hood today and found the fuse for them, it was basically melted but not blown. I pulled it out had a good look and plugged it back in, the spotties worked again but I could feel the plastic fuse body getting hot so have pulled it out until a remedy.

It's strange as I've run these spotties heaps of times and for more than 2 hour stints along Gnarloo track. 

It's 40 amp and the wiring looks heavy enough but I'm no expert.

It's running two Narva LED spotties and a light light bar.

Will more than  likely get an auto sparky to look at it but keen for some thoughts on here. 

Cheers 

 bloody hot out on the water today  my dingy has no shade big hat helps but , went to my usual KGW spot  of rocky and it is bombed with cray pots dozens  every where ,i couldnt drift over my favorite lump , all good in the  end

*edited for Pete's sake. Adam 

And we are away at the GABBA.

England win the toss and bat.

Mitchell Starc cleans up Rory Burns around his legs with the first ball of the series.

Poms 4/43.

Go Aussies.

 Evening All ,

                   I am in Mandurah and having trouble finding XD 100 oil . Does anyone know who has it in stock .

Anywhere between Perth & Bussleton .

                                                          Cheers Ray

 Great days fishing out on the spoil bank today . Got a real mixed bag along with a small shovel and a 100cm Queenie.  Unfortunately the 2 Queenies I got both swallowed a whole gardie and were bleeding quite bad but they won't go to waste. The 2small sharks were taken after harassing my live bait net . 1 took a bait that I dropped right in front of it , the other was too interested in my bait net so I just walked up behind it and just grabbed it with both hands . It wasn't happy at all. Couldn't believe I managed to get it bare hands

 Tides were all wrong with only 2 mtrs between high and low . By the time I got to the bank the tide had already been on its way out for over 2 hours but with the temp over 40 I thaught the beach was better than sitting at home. 

 See on the news yesterday and in the paper today that a pair of marron poachers got almost $100 grand in fines and their car confiscated for taking hundreds of marron out of season from Harvey dam.

Serves the greed bastards right, shame their names haven't been released.

It won't open or close   Any recommendations on a repairer NOR ? cheers

I am having dramas geting my  brand new dingy back on the trailer , never had this drama before with my past boats as they were drive on , and i have had a few whinch on  , wifey is good at controling the dingy at the the ramp but it slides of the new trailer , 

Ps thanks to the young blokes that lifted my dingy back  on to trailer straight  at point peron ranp 2 days ago with a 40 hp yamy hanging of the back who said aussie kids were week these days 

Took my boat out Saturday fresh from a service and antifoul. Running as sweet as can be and suddenly the engine sound changes and bilge pump and overheat alarms come on. Visual inspection showed nothing other than a bit of water in the bilge.

Drifting a few hundred metres north-west of Hillarys. Left it for some time but still too hot to run so I called a mate who came out and tied me up and took me back in. Haven't heard from the mechanic yet today but one of the raw water hoses under the engine is split from end to end. Hopefully that's all it is and he can replace it without taking the engine out. It's a bastard to get to.

Whinge over.

 Another couple of small sharks but only a few whiting.  Biggest whiting went 290 

Anyone got a good phone holder for the boat? Don't need a charger, just looking for something solid to handle the lumps and bumps. Preferably removable.

thanks 

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