Was thinking of going to watch some targa west action and was wondering which spectator points are the best. If you have been for a look before please let me know. I am looking at going either Saturday or sunday.
Cheers.

 With the recent birth of my nephew who is half Irish & half Vietnamese, I've been wondering if other people have a "multicultural family"?

I'm vietnamese and so is my wife. However, I've been in Oz for over 30 years so I'm very aussie, and loving my "meat & 3 veg"! Haha

One of my sisters is married to an Aussie- Filipino. They have yet to have kids.

Another sister was married to an Aussie-Kiwi. They have a daugher who is a very pretty little girl.

My youngest sister is married to an Irish. They just had their first child, a son.

So yes, you can say we have a very multicultural family!  

Would love to hear from fellow members and how diverse their family is.

 hmmm so the  census web site  crashed ????? not suprised malcom turnballs nbn (when he was comunication minister ) is years behind when we finaly get it it will be out dated , australia is 3rd world when it comes to internet speed

 Looks like being a total failure, the web site is down, I've tried twice to get on, anyone else been successful?

 Hi all,

might just be a pipe dream at the moment but wondering if anyone on here has ever had a crack at the powerboat aspect of the Avon descent? I am well aware the race has literally just been run, but wondering if anyone in here has had a go themselves?

i presume there are limitations such as hp rating, boat size, fuel type ect. Just wondering if anyone can give guidance from past experience on ways to potentially have a crack at it next year. Bodie and I from on here would be keen at giving it a crack, just need to get some indicative costs and complexity with getting the idea off the ground.

cheers

scano

 i love walking my mutt in the morning and arvo down at bent street beach ,  me and wifey have taken to carrying a 20 lt bucket with us to pick up crap from the beach ,  i have found fish nets , cray pots , crab nets, mountans of fishing line , halco lures(bonus) beer cans  , stubbies and other crap i dont want to mention  , makes me frustrated all this shit is on my favorite beach , and yes i do fish out from there too , sorry for my vent

 Last week coming up on the job here in Newman, just as well as there's only so much junk food you can eat. But there's a ripper little take away mob who operate out of a caravan who do superb burgers, but I digress. Looks like a diversion south, wifey has met up with a long lost buddy, so we're going to meet up with them on their farm. Rumour has it the grey nomads are as thick as fleas on a mongrel dog up north. So the chance for another fish will be delayed for a bit.

 Hey Guys,

Is anyone on here into Archery? Compound bows in particular. I have done a little bit of hunting with my uncle, using his 70lb compound bow and have been looking at getting one to use on my parents farm in Nowergup. Im also looking for one for my Wife too. Just looking for someone to point me in the right direction

Cheers

Jonny 

 Hi guys!

After a few months absence on the forum, I'm now back on the forum. Been busy with life, a young daughter and things to do around the house etc.

My interest in fishing and boating got de-railed the last few months. But still have my Penguin Huntriss and fishing gear, so all is well.

Look forward to chatting to you all again, especially Sea kem! Lol 

 Looks like no fishing this week. 

Anyone want there dog/cat taken for a walk?

Or this:

https://www.theurbanlist.com/perth/a-list/50-things-to-do-in-perth-this-winter

 Well it looks like Summa has jumped ship and can probably see the impending Disasterous few years ahead of the club. Gotta wonder if he got along with the arrogant coach and was frustrated that he probably wasn't listened to. He should have been the forward kicking coach if anything. More heads to roll out the door methinks in yet another rebuild lol.

 Has anyone got the same boat? If you do could you please tell me what your max hp is on your placard. I'm a bit confused as mine states 80hp max and 182kg max but all my online reasurch suggests 90hp. I rang a few quintrex dealers and they just say if it states 80hp then that's the max I can put on.

If there was a mistake on the placard I would love to get the 90 suzuki for the few extra $$$... 

 FW Crew,

I thought i'd pick your brains regarding what solar system to buy and why?

I know there is a shitload out there but i'm sure plenty of you here have had systems installed.

I guess people that have had them done in more recent times are probably the most relevant but if you have a must do or a must not do for what ever reason of course let me know.

Cheers 

Tim

are the tigers still going to boycott eddie [carocrap] and maybe not go, they'd be better to stay at home,
derby love to see Sandy repeat the knee on nit nat, hope its last one standing,should be a good round

thought I would put up the scenario I've just gone through and see what people's thoughts are on it.

earlier this year I had a bearing fail on the boat trailer (ally I beam 2009 so not old and maintained accordingly - new bearings were put in less than a year ago). The wheel bearing failed coming back from Augusta on the freeway and resulted in the complete wheel assembly coming off, along with the wheel arch and tearing the I beam, along with a lot of ally wearing away in the 600 metres it took to control the trailer and get to the side of the road. Needless to say once it was taken to a boat workshop it was deemed a write off and a new trailer was required (no damage to the boat except for sticker damage from the tyre making contact and thank god no one in other cars got hit by the tyre crossing the middle of the freeway and incoming traffic).

Got the ball rolling with the insurance company and before a quote had even been written they deem they would not cover due to 'mechanical failure'. Now this is where I am confused with why I bother with insurance (this is the first insurance claim of any kind I have ever had for anything). I spoke to a rep on the phone and explained that I agree that I wouldn't expect insurance to cover a failed bearing, as I wouldn't expect a car motor to be covered if it died from wear, however I would think that the trailer would be covered in a scenario like this. They repeated that they still wouldn't cover for this. So I asked the rep when I pick up my boat on the new trailer in 3 weeks time, and 2 months later the same scenario happened would I be covered, he stated that I would not, as would be the case with anyone else covered by them. The part that really irritated me was that they said that they would be able to cover the damage caused to the stickers! What a relief. Don't think that will cover the 9k for the trailer

thoughts on this? 

Macca

 Leading on from Randall's post who do you all think is the greatest player of all time?

My Pop used to say it was hands down Barry Cable but I always thought he had a certain bias seeing as he was his colts coach for Narrogin Imperials but after doing some research recently I genuinely feel that if he had gone to the VFL in his prime then he'd have given Lethal a run for his money.

The issue is that we had three leagues and guys like Billy Walker and Ray Sorrel will never get the recognition they deserve and if Toddy didn't do his knee or Juddy's groin didn't give in then we wouldn't even need to ask this question.

Looking to see if someone can answer a question i have in regards to getting a used boat to pass a 2c survey.

I was talking to a mate and he is looking at options for a charter boat / sport fishing business in NSW, I guess WA maybe different though.

We were talking about boat types, licences, passenger numbers etc.

I suggested a really nice boat was the 780HT Barcrusher, now i believe you can get these made to survey from new, but

Can a second hand BC 780HT, be inspected and passed to the 2c requirements ?

I believe the 2C is :-
2 - passenger vessel
C -up to 30nm off the coast

If anyone could answer this it would be greatly appreciated and feel free to ask for anymore info i may have left out.

Cheers
Scotty

 Hey Guy's, 

Heading upto Coral Bay at Christmas time for 3 weeks and I'm taking my 21 foot Trophy. We're staying at Bayview caravan park in the dog area. Was just wondering if there are any good sites for getting the boat in and out regularly or is it best to leave it at the boat parking area?

Cheers

Chris

p.s any other members up there at the same time? May need a deckie occasionally. 

 hoping some 1 can help me out here , is the lenght of cable attached  to a vhf marine ariel a tuned length,  i have about 4 meters of excese

cable and would like to shorten it up

 Has anyone/is anyone using the Isuzu FSS 550 now 110 for towing 3.5 + tonne boats. Just wondering how it performs. I want to know if it's going to drop back to 70km/h going up hills or anything crazy like that! Spoken to a few dealers and they say they are good trucks and a lot of people use them for towing larger boats! But can't trust all dealers! 

 My club has been asked to run a beer tent later this year. It will be a fundraiser for ourselves and we want sell some stubby holders.

Thinking of putting a comical saying on them. The 'stolen from" has been done to death.

Have you seen any good ones or have a suggestion.

Cheers in advance

 i was in k town for a wedding this week end and managed to get a few dives in on the pipe line before i flew home to perth today ,  the whole pipe line where we dived  is bare of fish 5 years ago thriving with fish life , soft and hard corals all gone now whats happened???

 Whats the go?

Just saw on news its all go!!!

If it becomes legal in WA, it will give some people something to do when the swells up!!!!!

 G'day everyone

i have a work trip to the east coast lined up in the near future (staying in Brisbane) and I was wondering whether anyone here had any recommendations on east coast charters? Not really too phased as to what they target for the table, because I am only there for 1 weekend anyway, plus I am fortunate enough to get my fair share of fillets here in Perth.

So from what I can see and read on Google, most Barra style charters are about a 4 hour drive north of Brisbane. There are some saltwater charters out from moreton bay which look OK also. I am keen to know if any members on here have done any 1 day charters on that side of the continent and any recommendations would be very much appreciated.

Not looking for any extended long stay charters, more so a 1 full day charter I can do on either that Saturday or Sunday whilst I am there.

cheers 

Up in Coral Bay at the moment and my sounder has started playing up. It's a Furuno 587 running through 2 x 1kw Airmar transducers. Relatively new with little use.

Was working fine and then the bottom trace just started to get thinner and thinner until it disappeared ! The bottom lock display just got lower and lower on the screen until it was gone. I was running on the 200 so I switched over to the 50 only to have the same problem, no bottom trace. Checked all connections, all dry and tight. Then a couple of hours later it started to work on 50 but kept on drifting in and out. The 200 works but only in water less than 5 meters. 50 works in 200 meters but keeps losing the bottom trace.

I don't know if I have an issue with the transducers, the leads or the head unit. Anyone else experienced anything like this ? I am going to ask around to see if anyone up here has a 585/587 who is willing to help so I can swap over the head units to see if I still have the problem.

I will post up some pics of the screen. It's weird, the temperature graph even starts to fall away. Any advice or help would be appreciated as I am running off the 600w Lowrance sounder in my HDS8 as a backup. 

Note how erratics the temperature line is. 

 Hi guys,

Been looking at a new tent for a while and tossing up between the Black Wolf Turbo 300 plus and the Turbo 240 plus for a family of 4 (2 adults 2 kids under 10).

Just wondering if any of you fellas own one and what your thoughts are and if they are worth the money?? I've seen plenty of the standard sized ones setup in stores and they look of awesome quality.

My only issue is the size - I honestly can't decide whether to go bigger or smaller. At the moment I'm leaning toward the larger model as I can currently get it on special which makes it about $50 cheaper than the smaller model.

Then of course there's the weight of these things and trying to get them on roof racks .... where there's a will there's surely a way :)

Thanks for any advice guys.

still plenty of life left in the year if your not a sooky freo supporter

THE homegrown Ford Falcon ute has reached the end of the line, marking the end of an era. The company that invented the ute — and then introduced it to the rest of the world in 1934 — has built the last example of its type in Australia. It is the first historic step in Ford’s factory shutdown process in the lead-up to the car assembly line’s last day of operation on October 7. The last ever Ford Falcon ute rolled off the Broadmeadows production line near the end of shift about 3pm on Friday — following in the tyre tracks of the original Falcon ute built in the same facility 55 years ago, in February 1961.

Today was the day the old falcon ute is no more , had a couple of XM,s , a XP , and now I have this one.( a keeper Id say now!)

The first of the xh utes back with a 5.0 litre after fords v8 ban in the 90,s.

Many sad days to come as local manufacturing winds down , good  bye locally made Ford and Holden

Hello Hyundies , great walls , and smart cars me thinks.

( Yes , hello Mustang and Camaro , but they aint making utes!)

 Hi everyone,

just wanted to get people's thoughts and suggestions in preventing excessive heat build up of disc brake rotors?

has anyone gone go the trouble of fitting cross drilled or slotted rotors to their boat trailer? In a bid to reduce heat build up and rotors warping ect.

the reason I ask is another fellow forum member whom I fish with very often (I am sure you can all work it out) has had issues of brake pad material coming away when the hot pads hit the cold / salt water. Therefore this leaves the pad material nearly non existent and metal on metal with the brake disc rotors.

if the pads and rotors were far cooler prior to reversing the trailer into the salt water, it may prevent such occurrences? Also by fitting slotted rotors, will it help to prevent brake shudder (much the same as race cars ect) 

just wanted to enquire if others are having similar issues of brake pads and their material suddenly giving way prematurely due to being hot and then dunked into the salt water? And if so what they have done to help combat that?

scano