Anyone secured any black friday boating bargins?

Bias Boating and Boating & RV both have 15% blanket discount. I picked up a 9" Simrad Go for $1100.

Great to see Freo draft 4 WA players and three of those of very high quality at the top end of the draft. A midfield that contains Brayshaw, Serong, Erasmus, Johnson etc in the years to come should be exciting and such a young group with plenty of belief and purpose. Amiss, Treacy, Darcy, Young, Clarke all so young and hopefully gel well together in the years to come also.

West Coast did extremely well to drop a couple of spots for a future second rounder and still get a top quality player, unfortunately someone thought he was an XXXL in juersey size. The other draftee's have plenty of AFL family history too and well done to Greg Clark for finally getting a crack.

Exciting times ahead.

For the non Freo and WC folk, are you happy with your haul ?

 My mid week session wasn't too bad. Ended with some thumper whiting and 3 small sharks. All still good for a feed

Any recommendations for servicing a small Yammie outboard NOR?

Cheers

So I’m making the switch to Lithium for the house battery for the Caribbean.

Its a minefield of black boxes claiming to be of a capacity but anywhere from 80-50% of that is actually delivered.

I've spend hours of time researching (onsite) all of the lower priced brands and settled on EnerCore. They are an Australian business and design and service the batteries here. 3 years warranty. 100amp continuous discharge, 12kg total weight. They also are cutting out the nonsense of the lithium guessing game by providing the battery in a clear case so you can see exactly what you are getting.

You can buy them from a few places but rollingcart have a $100 off back Friday special ongoing so they are under $500 each. Code: BLACK2021

www.rollingcart.com.au/shop/enercore-clear-cased-12v-100ah-lithium-battery/

Few reviews seem positive about them with decent capitiy tests.

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I have no links to either of these business but thought i would share my learning on the cost effective lithium market.

I'll report back once i have it installed/setup!

 Full respray in and out, new canopy and clears, new seats, new carpet and flush mounted the electronics ...happy with the final product 

 Got a mixed bag today. Started with the nice golden trev that went 700 . Finished up with a nice feed of whiting

 Another good man down...

We need a referendum, it's like the Olympics, you should be able to performance enhance a few times at least... That's actually the whole idea of competition, to see what the human body is capable of... Exactly like having coolant or lube in a race car...

Politicians, priests, captains of our national team should be able to dick pic freely like the rest of us...

Get the vax and get your tackle out fellas, make a stand.

Boon

 Dropped pots in few days back and now have something to open the account  after many years not being in an area suitable to drop pots

3 southern crays isn't to be sneezed at.

 Hi all I need to get some minor stainless work inclduing welding done for a bait board on my boat. Boat is at Hillarys Yacht Club. Anyone have any suggestions?

Cheers

 i saw the fisherys resarch vessel out on the sound today , pulled over to say hi and ask how the cabs were ( they were pulling massive crab pots) , they said the crabs have come back  but the  crabs are very small    , asked any chance the sound will be opened up for crabbing , they said nope not for a few years at least , oh well we got a feed of squid any way 

 Got my feed today in a few hours . Most were caught about an hour after high tide. 

happy birthday john ,

hope you enjoy the day mate !!

Only way I could find to post a pic of my soon to be for sale boat 

Anybody know of a boat detailer in the Rockingham/Kwinana area, it seems they either don't exist or those that do don't bother answering the phone

Gday guys, looking for recommendations for a builder and if/or you have gone through the process yourself.

I have a triple garage setup at home and would like to convert the nearest carport to the house to a bedroom.

Have looked on the Joondalup council regs and looks quite involved with the only setback that I can see so far to be the minimum 2.4 height as my triple garage is at 2.2.

I really do like to do most things myself but being time poor getting a builder to carry out may well be the best option.

Any help or feedback would be appreciated.

Cheers

Scotty

In a few weeks I will be selling my 20' kingcraft Ranger, (the kingcraft hull where formally Pacemaker) I don't realy fish anymore so it's time to go, it's in excellent condition, 2011 140hp Suzuki 4 stroke, lowrance sounder and chart plotter

there will be a new targa canopy cover on all stainless bar work, the rest of the details I'll list when I put it up,

the main reason for this post as I've been out of the loop for so long is to get a feeling for the price I could expect to get ( not looking for offers right now just  a guide)

Cheers

Fishy fingers

 A few bits left over if anyone wants? It's the 5mm stuff.

In Thornlie

The biggest piece is full length x full width with the middle cut out (2m x 1m)

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 Just had a quake hit up here . Between hedland and telfer . 314 k from karatha

 Fish didn't want to play but these guys did

Well that was a mission.

After using a hole saw to dig into a soft spot on the deck uncovered rot and catastrophic delamination in my 3 year old deck, I bit the bullet.
 

Over the past months, I made a replacement deck out of the boat and consolidated lots of glass and resin. It still wasn't enough but we now have a new deck. 18mm ply with two layers of 600gsm uni directional glass mat on top along with 10 meters of 400gsm thrown in there for good measure.

Also thrown in is 16kg  of expandable foam to stiffen the heck out of it. Under the deck we have jarrah on top of the frames glued and glassed. Lots of epoxy glue, q cells, sikaflex and 316 screws.

Instead of carpet, I opted for udek. A kiwi product that I saw in a post by Ranmar. It is denser than Seadek/deckarmour. The Deckarmour rep wouldn't return my calls so no idea the cost there but the Udek cost me $250 for a 2m x 1m sheet. I used 5 so it is a bit more expensive than carpet at 30 per lineal meter...

Anyhoo, she is stiff and solid again with quality timber under the glass. Next year will be time to paint the outside then get her ready to sell.

Bring on Aluminium plate!

Hoping someone can help me. I am building a deck using 45x90 joists and have a whole bunch of joist hangers and dad's framing gun. I went to Bunnings to get some nails to fasten the joist hangers and I can only find 50 x 2.87mm nails which are too long for the 45mm joist.

Does anyone know where to get some correct size nails as the fella at Bunnings was not much help beyond reading the boxes of nails.

Cheers JF

 So what did you lot get up to over the long winter? 

I decided to build myself a new mancave, complete with a fully insulated wine storage upboard (still doing temp checks) 

Pretty happy with the outcome, wider, higher and more light. Had LED fluro's installed, and put a personel door on the main door for quicker access.

More room for the boat now

 This one is a first for me and going to hard to beat as a p b. Land based out on spoil bank 

 Hi guys, I've just brought a new boat and was chasing some recommendations on a good wet dry vacuum to use on the carpet. I've seen the karcher tradie vacs at Bunnings does anyone use one of these?

The missus wasn't too happy I used the Dyson stick vac! Haha

Renewed my boat rego at DOT yesterday and they provided TWO stickers and we were told one is now required on each side of the boat......didn't sound right but wasn't going to argue.....are there new regulations  

 Just a question .......... got a acer laptop that screen went black within the 12 month warranty period... so back off to the large retailer

 Handed it in and was told the back lights gone , so bout 4 weeks turnaround to fix ,, all good i thought ,,

  Yesterday the retailer called me back and said ,, the backlight is deff covered by warranty but they wont fix it unless you pay for a new case because theres 

 a small hairline crack in case ( that i never really noticed to be honest) for $220 thank you very much... 

  no problems i say , tell them to fix the light , i will put up with a small crack ,,,, sorry they say it dont work that way ,, 

  they will only do warranty work if you pay for new case ,,,,,, so by my thinking the black screen has turned into blackmail... thoughts.....

Police have rescued missing girl Cleo Smith alive and well after smashing down the door of a locked house in Carnarvon.

WA Police Deputy Commissioner Col Blanch said it was his “privilege” to announce the little girl, who went missing more than two weeks ago, was found in the early hours of the morning.

A man is in custody. and is being questioned by detectives.

 They love to jump and go bloody hard

 Well some of you may remember that I rebuilt the internals of my boat three years back. Well it turns out that I got completely screwed over by the Marine Ply supplier and got a product that is beyond useless. Unfortunately Isupply, whom I got it from in Willetton no longer exist so there is no one to chase so it is up to me to do it all again

Careful to anyone out there.

One pro is that there were a few things that I did last time that I would do again. the deck is going from 12mm to 18mm and I am going two laters of 600gsm mat as a top layer as opposed to 4 layers of 100gsm. It will be strong like tractor...

I am throwing expandable foam in every under deck compartment this time instead of just along the keel as that seems to be where the flex and eventual degradation has come from.

Learn from my mistakes...