Just trying to get an idea what it might be worth?

Has had the gasket BLOWN. Also might need an exhaust. Brakes not to cool. Brand new tyres x 2 and almost brand new for the rest. Car inside spik.

Been our fish mobile for ages and she has let go.

Has huge sentimental value but now have a Landie 200 S and cant ever complain (apart from the $$$$$).

Passion feels fix it, sense says take it to the wreckers.

Hope you can help because I fix other things not cars (even though I used to Rally like mad)

Neels

hi guys just had a look at my boat and saw some damage  ; bimini ripped by hail,damaged seat by hail,windscreen by hail aswell as my compass,my boat is insured by trident insurance,need a few phone numbers to get quotes for these repairs,thankyou if you can help out

Hi there! We are moving up to Groote Eylandt , and my boat is being transported up to Darwin via Openica Logistics, then perkins shipping barge to Groote Island. Openica inform me that i have to get my own insurance for the trip. We have rang a few companies, and they dont seem to beable to help us. Has anyone on here transported a boat intertate and if so what company did you insure with? Thanks

does anyone own and want to sell an outboard stand big enough to hold a 75 2stroke? or does anyone have an idea how to construct 1 on the cheap??

Hi all

Im looking at up grading from my 17ft Regent Prince due to the hull packing it in!!!So im on the look out for a halfcab/run about for fishing.So any suggestions and advice would be greatly appriciated

 Many thanks

Chris

Hi all

Bloody confused now and thought I would post the question.

I have a single axle Dunbier trailer for a traily 5.4 centre cab.

Trying to make sure the pressures are OK on the tyres. Sometimes they look flat but the pressures are OK from a car perspective.

Now I have heard conflicting stories about what the pressures in a trailer should be and I dont know who to believe.

Currently at 36PSI.

Cheers

Neels

I took the boat out last night to do some squidding, about 30min in I lost all power to the gps, radio and everything else. These are the things that I had on when it happened, top and side nav lights, deck and cabin lights, sounder, gps, stereo, VHF radio.

One of the squid sprayed some ink so I turned on the deck wash and then everythink went black.

Does anyone have any ideas what the problem might be?

So i've just got myself a 4m dinghy and am going throught he process of fitting it out.

I am after ideas of where to place rod holders for storage of rods when on the move. I have seen the recent photo's of Milsies dinghy refit where he has them accross the bow and others that have them in similar areas but looking through the forrest of rods when on the move doesn't appeal to me (although that may be the only place for them).

Do you small boat crews just place them in the standard trolling holders etc or store them elsewhere in purpose built spots. Ideas?

Ok have a 250 verado outboard.  Are there any benfits in running premium over general unleaded.  The web says 87min ron unleaded.  Is the extra dollars worth it to run premium.

We are looking to upgrading our haines hunter 580 to a new chivers hammerhead 206SF.  Will be with a 150 evinrude e-tec and looking at the now superceeded lowrance X515C sounder - anyone got experience with these boats and or sounders, any recommendations or feedback for either?

Thanks

Started looking around for a new boat this week.  Hoping to talk the old man into trading the old girl in for a new one.  I was gonna chip in a bit so we could get something half decent.  Maybe around the $50,000 mark.  But I could be dreaming cause I have'nr spoken to him about it yet.

Anyway, I stumbled across this new brand of boats "Reef Hunter".  Went and spoke to the guys (at Dinghy World - Como) who are having them made and they said they bought the old Trailcraft press went they went broke.  Apparently they have started up again though.  The guys reckon there are a few differences between thier boats and Trailcrafts'.  They are using 4mm plate sides instead of 3mm and they can upgrade the bottom to 5 or 6mm if you wanna pay a bit more.  The ribs are fully welded instead of tacked either end.  And they fill under the floor with foam.  They haven't spaired any expenses in the fitout either apparently.

Unfortunately their first boat was having some finishing touches done and wasn't at their yard so I couldn't look but I will hopefully see it next week.  They said it wasn't ready cause they advertised it too early to try and beat the release of the new Trailcraft boats.  Sounds like these boats might be worth a look.  I'm looking forward to seeing one.  Being a smaller manufacturer, you might get a bit better service than other larger manufacturers too - in terms of customising and getting exactly what you want.

Here is an advert for it - Reef Hunter

Not sure how these will compare to other similar boats in price and specs cause I haven't started looking too seriously at other boats.  I will follow up and let you know what I think.

noticed today that the outboard (yam 150 2 stroke) has something i thought was water dripping from the very bottom of it, just under the prop. (Its not like a continuous drip, probably 8 drips on the pavers over 2 days) Had a closer look and it seems to have a tiny bit of oil in it.

Its very clear and i did mistake it for water at first.

i guess what im asking is if this is bad?? i did hose down the engine 2 days ago after taking it out. and its the first time its sat in this spot for 2 days....not sure if its just me....

Any thoughts??

hey guys

got honda motor / gauges so its the needle type , not digital.

was out today and tank was half full. stopped at 3 mile for a bit. re started motor and now fuel gauge doesn't move off of full except when you turn engine off. 

any idea's on what that might be?

It was down on the trailer spine, no signs of undercarriage.

G'day guys,

Handle to trailer winch "fell" off last Monday... Having issues finding one that will fit as most retailers only have handles with a hex head connection...

Any ideas where to go for a look?

Cheers

Bones 

Just wanted to recommend Laurie from Murchison boat hire

fantastic service in Kalbarri

we rented the 6.5 All about with 150hp 4stroke yamaha

on deck echo sounder and gps with waypoints

his marked over 150 spots i went to a few of them and they were fantastic

great boat great service

I was told not so long ago that my flares did not have to be replaced because they had exceeded the expiry date.

If you had a budget up to $75,000 for a trailer boat and you wanted to do both creek and out wide fishing (up in the Pilbara), what would the recommendation from the Fishwrecked crew be?
What max hp would you put on it if it was going to be used for both creek and out wide?

ive got a 445 bemuda im toying with the idea of painting the hull outside does anyone know anyone who is compitent to do the job and how much ?? roughly would it cost?i have a boat mechanich to remove the outbord

my mrs and i got our skippers ticket today! wasn't as hard as i thought. One/two runs through the book and a bit of Q/A with the mrs and we got through it ok. Was pretty windy so picking up the "man over-board" was pretty funny. Oh and we had a nice crowd over watching from the Breakwater in hillarys.

should of got some pictures of our maiden voyage! oh well maybe next time

Anyone tried the Navionics route planning software? Is it easy to manage waypoints etc?

Seems a bit pricey and comes with a card reader (why, I dont know).

Any imput would be appreciated.

Cheers, Nemo.

I recently picked up a 4m dinghy as my first boat. Yeh! The boat is basically stock which gives me the chance to turn it into my own little fishing machine the way I like it.

One of the first things I want to do is put a fish finder in it however therein lies my problem as I don't know what I don't know about fish finders.

When I go shopping around what are the questions I need to be asking?

What are essential items that the fish finder should have?

Do I really need a colour sounder? I want one because they look to have better resolution etc but I am only guessing.

What do I need to know about transponders?

Is there anything else I need to know?

Sorry for the load of questions but I really have no idea about them. Then comes the hard part about learning to drive the bloody thing!

Budget I will determine later after I have a better idea of what I NEED as opposed to what I WANT.

Oh well the fishing bucket has died. Time to change!

Looking at a Bnew Prado, or a late 2008 Landie 200S with only 18000 on the odo.

Anybody in the know help with choice. I am leaning towards the landie but have heard that the 200S early models have had some trouble.

Help please.

Neels

Have been doing the rounds of the trim shops looking at a towable boat cover for my ali trailcraft runabout and now have to make a decision on what type to get. I need to make a decision real soon so as to be able to have it ready for Easter. I have been quoted on two different types, a full cover that goes right over the bow and along under the chimes to the back of the boat using draw strings under the boat and maybe a strap or two under the boat. The other is what some places call a tow cover which just goes from the windscreen (clips on) down to the stern. This involves clipping it under the gunnels with clips that are attached to the boat. Some of the guys at the trim shops have said that the all over covers don’t tow well as the wind pushes into the front of them and that they flap around. I am not a fan of drilling into the boat to put clips on but if this is the best way then so be it.Any advice from anyone who has seen/have these types of covers would be appreciated. Thanks Brad

thought I would post up some pics of the outcome of my search for a towable cover. I am very happy with it, towed the boat to walpole and back for easter without dramas. Next trip to exmouth in august. I will post a couple more photos soon as the system wont allow me to upload any more at the moment

Brad

hello everyone i have very bad math and on the net can only seem to find ratios in gallons

i have a 3hp yami that i just bought that runs on 75:1

i have to fill a 5 litre tank so it would be 75 ml of oil right?

i just dont want to blow up my engine

whats the easiest way to work this out

Well im in the middle of fitting a new lowrance fuel flow meter in the boat connecting to the global map7200c.

has anyone used this one and can add some pro's and con's.

im hoping they are better than the navman ones which are sooooooooooooo crap, i went thru about 3 of them.

Will be good to know fuel usage again etc, especially on those long distance trips

I thought it was time to finally put up the additions my bother (Ollie) and I made to the old dinghy we bought mid last year. The hull is a 12ft Clark cutter, structurally it was sound with no leaks and it felt much more sturdy than most modern tinnies however cosmetically it wasn’t in the best shape. We basically bought it for our trip to exmouth last year, we used the engine off our tender which while it was only a 5hp it was still fast enough to troll. The boat lasted the trip and we decided to keep it, however not in its current state. Before Exmouth we added all the fishing accessories including rod holders ect.it was then when we arrived home the major work began, we started stripping the paint, which proved to be the hardest and most time consuming part of the addition. Here are a few before pics.

We used paint stripper as well as a high pressure hose, however this still left behind crappy old paint, it then took me two days straight to sand back the paint and to reveal the original aluminum.

We then decided on a painting method and decided to uses a two pack two part polyurethane gloss finish which was by no means the cheapest or the easiest but it came out with great results and It just makes the effort that much more rewarding. To make the floors we decided to use 10mm thick outdoor ply and use ribs for support and then coat in glass, we thought doing this would be the lightest and the most cost effective method. We then wrapped the boards with carpet.

Once the paint and floorboards were complete we proceded to fit all electronics and extras. We then decided to fork out and buy a new engine and after ringing around bought a new 15hp mariner which has been great since we bought it. Here are a few pics once it was finished

And finally a few pics of the fish we have caught so far in the last few weeks

so hopfully we have given any of you who are looking at or in the process of pimping out a dinghy a little insight into the effort and the reward at the end.

Miles and ollie

Hey Guy's

I'm looking for a boat mechanic in the wangara area to service my goldstar. It's a 200 yammy 4 stroke. I also need the trailer serviced and a seal fixed on the hydraulic steering.

Just wondering who you guy's have used in the area and would recommend and also who to stay away from.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Ryan

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Guys, looking at hooking up a third battery in the boat for running a fridge etc.

 The question is - do sealed lead acid batteries still need ventilation ?

I am looking at putting the 3rd battery in the cabin, under the floor below the helm in a space about 500mm sq.

Dont really want to put a third battery down the stern, could do with some extra weight up front anyhoo.

The length of wire from battery to VSR controller is about 4 meters, am i asking too much of it or should it be O.K. ?

 Cheers