hey folks, search bar still isnt working so new thread it is.

 just wanting your thoughts on skid trailers with keel rollers  V's  full roller type trailers for ali boats.

 i like the simplicity and maintenence of the skid trailer but minor concern is do they get a bit sticky when launching - retrieving, having to go deeper into water etc. 

 i wouldnt think this is a huge problem with my 5.5m plate ali due to being pretty light weight.

 what is the life span of the skid material roughly? 

 do many of you guys have similar ali boats on skid trailers and are you happy? 

 BONUS QUESTION. if you had a choice of single axle (1600kg) or tandem axle (2000kg) what would you take? both are plenty for the weight of my boat.

 my current trailer is a single axle full roller trailer and every keel roller is seized and side wobble rollers have seen better days.

 came like this from previous owner as well as the rust. 

 so after all this dribble im leaning towards getting a c chanel galv dipped skid trailer

 appreciate any thoughts as ive got to the point of to much research is getting confusing

cheers Gilly

 Hi all, just putting out feelers for a young friend whose just had a bit of bad luck with her 24ft yacht she bought 2nd hand in January.

Moored in Blackwall and got a call that it was semi submerged today.

Been pulled out now but shes unsure what next best step is regarding insurance (which she has) and repairs as she just had the hull cleaned not long ago and isnt sure if hole caused by that (not covered) or from recent storm on mooring maybe.

Just doesnt have the knowledge to be able to identify what likely cause was. 

Can anyone recommend an honest repairer that might be able to advise her without ripping her off before she goes to insurer.

Cheers in advance for any helpful advice.

 In another life I am a volunteer at Rockingham Volunteer Sea Rescue Group.

Recently we have had to have our main rescue vessel "Jaimee Lee" undergo a major refit at a cost of $85000.00 that we had to bear ourselves from our sponsors donations.

Luckily some of our sponsors assisted with this, but it seriously put us behind.

And now this:

Back in the water for 10 days and some bottom feeders decided last night (Sunday at about 11pm) to jump the security fence on the mooring pontoon, cut through the back locked cabin doors and help themselves to our 2 x Furuno Navnet 3D chartplotters that were dash mounted. Total stolen and damage caused around $20000.00 to repair.

Cut all the wiring with cutters and then helped themsleves to all the life jackets on board and the flare kits.

In their rush it appears that at least one of the screens has been damaged as they left the rubber finger pad behind.

So this vessel is off the water now until we can get the necessary repiairs sorted. Luckily we have a 2nd vessel we can use.

We do have some CCTV footage of the incident which Police are reviewing.

We have had really good assistance today from DFES, Police, Gregs Glass (back doors), Taylor Marine (Furuno) Servitech (Life jackets) Midway marine (Flare kits)

We would appreciate any information whatever from you guys and that can be as little a a phone call to our main HQ number 9527 9988 and you can remain anonymous.

Thanks

Doug

https://www.soundtelegraph.com.au/?news/sound-southern-telegraph/volunteers-distraught-after-rockingham-rescue-vessel-theft-ng-b88814934z

Geez there really are low life's around!

All good sorted

 Has anybody got a link to a relable 2018 tide chart for Tantabidi? 

Cheers

 wifey and her best mate were of to victoria , on flight No jqp81 as were a about anouther 150 eagles fans at 145 am they are told there is a delay of an hour , thats ok will still be able to make the eagles carlton march , an hour later sorry there is anouther 25 minute delay after 40 minutes can every 1 line up for bording , 10 minutes later flight  has been delayed untill 3pm this afternoon "quote can you all go home and come back this arfternoon " uhmm no we needed to be in victoria well before the start of the eagles / carlton game at the mcg , refund me the flights acomm and tickets to the footy ,  speaking to the girl from the' philpines that is customer relations for jetstar said " sir if you realy want to get to the game why dont you drive to melbourne you have 10  hours to get there' , i just said do you know where perth is yes she said do you know where melbourne is yes she said , me well your a stupid stupid girl try 3 days to drive from perth to melbourne clunck i hung up, the older i get the less i can not tolerate idiots and fools  any more   

been getting inundated by phone calls and they come up on the screen as London, but they can be anywhere in the world. The numbers will start with +44 203. After doing some research, the 203 is the London part of it and there are companies who sell these numbers to the scammers for £30 a month or similar. There’s a heap of these numbers out there and I’ve blocked over a dozen on my phone. Don’t know what the scam is and not really interested anyways. 

 A few games of interest but looking like a week where most of the fav's should win....

Coin toss anzac day, thinking Grundy might be too much for the Bombers talls...

Sydney

Port

Bris

Hawks

WC

Coll

Rich

GWS

Freo

I'll be interested to see what Melbourne and Carlton bring this week.

Also the spotlight will start to shine brighter on the Crows if they dont give Sydney a nudge...

I have a 2015 200 series and tow my boat which is about 1800kg. What do i select ?? leave it in drive , shift it across to select and whatch the taco go up and down as its scrolling between 4 ,5, 6, gears on a reasonably flat road.Or do i select 4th or 5th gear. Any advice would be greatly apreciated, its a badly programmed auto from what i understand and i was hoping someone has worked out how to make the most of it with towing.

cheers Todd

https://thewest.com.au/sport/cricket/justin-langer-replaces-darren-lehmann-as-australian-coach-ng-b88810537z

 Ford Australia have given approval for DJR Penske and Tickford Racing to race the new V8 Mustangs in Supercars next year. Yee Haarr.

 Hey new user here. Ive been pickling octopus over the last 6 months and was after your guys advice or recipes. 

I currently boil the octopus for about an hour then remove the skin and leave in a jar with a mixture of italian and french salad dressings (which have vinegar and oil in them) along with chopped chillis , onion and capsicum. 

Im fairly happy with the results but would like a more authentic italian/greek/mediterannean recipe if anyone would be willing to share. 

Thanks in advance, Sam 

 Looking for a couple of 1000 or 2500 size reels for the boys, what are the Siennas like?

There are 2500's for $40 online
Or any other recommendations, boy proof and wallet proof  

 Thinking it wasnt going to be too bad out wide today we decided to head out to some ground about 22nm out. How wrong was the forecast. It was slow going getting out there and the fishing wasnt much better. 

Fished for about an hour and got 1fish in total which was a foxy. Moved out a bit further to some ground that didnt look too bad on the gps. While slowly cruising the area a nice lump of 5  mtrs popped up with a showing of fish. Set the drift and sure enough Sandy hooked up . Landing a size bauldie shortly after i hooked a size dhuie . Reset the drift but the wind had changed a bit and no longer on the same drift but as usual Sandy hooked up again this time a decent blackass. Reset the drift and this time not to my surprise Sandy hooked up again . This time it was going real hard and with her bad shoulder then passed the rod over to me . All this fish wanted to do was get back tho the bottom so im thinking nice dhuie . After about 5 minuits struggling to keep the fish off the bottom i managed to raise it to the surface to see a nice size shark. Turned out to be a whiskerie. 

Called it a day as it certainly wasnt calming down as the forecast said so it was a slow day comming in and lucky to even get the boat up on the plane. Only took about an hour and a half to get in . In the end we were successful looking for new ground and getting a feed. Finished the day off  with a feed of beer battered bauldie and chips. 

Hi Trades

(since the search functionality no longer works I will need to ask here)

Are there any roof gutter installers here.

I have technical question and possible work on new home

PM me pls

Thanks

 Hi all . Got a shark out there today but not sure of species. Have caught them before.thinking whiskerie

 I know i should know this for sure, i was sure pink snapper had a size of 500 out of metro waters and i threw one back that was 480. get home and a friend said the size is 410 . 

Some of these regs are confusing or am i just getting too old 

Can anybody tell me where I can buy some 30mm stainless steel tubing , needs to be at least 1.5 mtrs long. Thanks Vince

 Hi all

can anyone confirm if the river is blocked off at the new stadium bridge. Was planning on dropping boat in at Maylands and running up to rocky bay. 

Well , I remember touching on this last year, and now it’s happened, channel Basil and Foxtel have all the cricket rights.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-13/seven-and-foxtel-win-cricket-tv-rights-battle/9652964

 Anyone on here have anything to do with patenting something before.

I have designed a product that I believe to the best of my research has not been made previously and I would like to patent it before I go any further I will call a lawyer next week to discuss with them but would love to have a chat to someone who has gone down this path before.  

Cheers

Rod

 Toughish week for tipping me thinking....

Crows should win easy enough 

GWS should win easy enough

Richmond should win easy enough

Then it gets a bit tougher after that...

You'd think Sydney should also win easy enough?!?!

Nth and Carlton seems a coin toss but surely if the Blues want to break the trend it starts by beating Nth

WC were pretty good against a team that were 3 down at the finish line but will the GC be better or worse having the opportunity to play two games in a row at OPTUS?

Essendon have had a bit of bite taken away from them but i expect it will go down to the wire with Port

Hawks have trouble with the Dees and i reckon Melbourne are going to take some beating until they think the are playing finals

I'd love to say the Saints are a chance ( i think they are one of the few who have won down there in recent years ) but they are a bit of a rabble but i expect that game to be pretty close also........

Buddy to go on a tear against the dogs and kick a bag.....

 So I've just scored a shit ton of work and am looking for a boilermaker/welder with some pipe work experience. If you guys know of anyone who fits the bill, is motivated and can work alone shoot me a pm. 

Cheers Andy 

So I've got my 10th wedding anniversary coming up next weekend and we're going to ditch the kids and stay overnight in the metro area. We're looking at an apartment in East Freo near the river but does anyone know of somewhere on the river where we can stay that has a boat pen or even a mooring available as part of the accomodation as we may look at going to Rotto the next day depending on the weather or just cruise on up to Lizzy Quay for dinner that night etc (and chuck out a couple of sneaky minnows on the move). 

I've flicked an email to Pier 21 so keen to see if anyone knows of anything else. I know there's a public mooring in the area but don't want to rely on that only to have to take the boat all the way back home if it's taken.

Cheers

JF

Howdy all

At the end of April my work is cutting back hours I work Monday to Thursday Afternoon shifts as a machine operator in a factory in canning vale, being a single income family this is going to impact us a bit, especially as I live in warnbro it costs a bit in fuel every week.  I know a lot of people are out of work but anyway I have Friday's off so if anyone needs a lacky or knows of any work going on a Friday please let us know, it doesn't have to be permanent a few shifts here or there would be handy.  I have my HR drivers licence, fork lift ticket, intermediate boiler ticket and f class bus licence  I would be most grateful if any one can help me out at all.  As I live in warnbro sor would suit better but can't be to choosey these days thank you. 

                                                          Darryl 

 Hi all,

seen as though there is an ever increasing deep drop following on here, as well as some pretty smart individuals, I have the following question.

has anyone looked into or had success, in changing an electric reel lcd display from Japanese to English? 

I have a shimano Forcemaster 6000 on its way from Japan, and although there is English notation on the buttons, the Lcd screen is in Japanese (obviously the numbers are universal).

has anyone been through the exercise of changing the lcd wording from Japanese to English? And if so what was required? Any info would be greatly appreciated. 

Before people jump to conclusions, I do buy 90% of my fishing gear in Aus, and support site sponsors As much as I can. When the cost of supply and delivery from Japan is literally half that to buying within Australia, it's the main reason I have opted to purchase from the international market on this occasion.

scano

Heading down to Bunbury on the weekend with extended family and thinking of taking the boat (20ft). Weather forecast looks reasonable but not fantastic offshore. Plan to launch at power boat club.

Do you have any tips or suggestions for family cruises with kids, where to head to catch a feed of whiting or squid & other inshore species. If weather looks OK and I may head out deeper.

 after years of boating i saw my regular decky of 32 years starting to strugle pulling the pick from 30 or 40 meters , i invested in a anchour whinch , the smile on my deckys face when i hit the switch to pull the pick makes it worth what i paid for it , whats your best bit of kit you have put on your boat ?  

 With the forcast looking ok early in the morning and better as the day went on an early start was a go.

Decided to go out a bit further than normal out to where Sandy got her pb dhuie. No dhuies today but the first fish on board was a pb bauldie for Sandy .not huge compared to some but happy as a proverbial. 

Went back for another drift over the same area and this time a pb bauldie for me. As these are my mums fave fish we sent a pic straight to her just to tease . 

The rest of the morning wasnt anything to right home about . We tried all over looking for new ground. All we managed was a small bbum and undersize pinks. As the water near on glassed off we thaught why not just stay out and relax and hope for a few more fish.

We ended up starting to make our way in early arvo with a stop at our kg grounds on the way in. Sure enough as the lines hit the bottom we were on with a couple of nice kg . Nothing else on the drift so went back and another 2nice kg hit the lines . Went dead after that apart from a massive hookup for sandy that bricked her real quick. Thinking it may be a dhuie but who knows. Sandy got busted off there a couple of weeks back by a monster dhuie so could be the same resident. Its currently wearing some jewelry. 

We called it a day and cruised in on a leasurly 25 knots.  

In the end we had a great day out and a couple of pb's and new species for us down in mandurah.