Any idea on ratio fiberglass to aluminum,where your at?
offshore its around 50/50, but in the estuaries & salt water rivers (smoother waters) it,s proberly around 80% ali
cheers bigwave, the channels around north staddie & moreton Islands arn,t all that deep & you really have to know that area well to fish there as its all shifting sand, moreton island which is the next one above staddie is the largest sand Island in the world & has some great sand hills you can...
Ive been a bit slack & haven,t done much on the boat over winter hear in OZ ( it gets as cold as 25 deg c I think thanks about 75 f)burrrr had to put a shirt on one night,, :D anyway the tinny,s pretty much done
Ive always loved race cars & hotrods & the like since I was a kid, so after I was to old to play with them I started collecting diecast models, I started following F1 in the late 80,s & started collecting 1:43 diecast f1 models ( mostly world champs)about 15 years ago, last week I hit a big goal...
Hi mate your boat looks great, the front deck is similar to how I,m doing mine, rod holders look good, & saves a bit of cash doing it yourself, I saw a little trick on a kayak site for flaring the tops of the tubes, heat them up ,I used a heat gun & push a bottle into them ,,cheers ,,jayson....
did a bit more on the boat over the week, cut the timber out for the deck, in the second pic is a mockup of where I,m going to fit the radio & speakers, & a pic of the livewell with light on ,,cheers jayson,,,
did a bit more on the boat over the weekend, fitted a livewell pump & bilge pump, fitted a drian pipe to the anchor well, plumbed & fitted a light to the livewell, I took it for a test run this afternoon & all works well, the way I,ve set up the livewell is to fit a tube as the over flow, when...
What type of fish is that in the 1st photo? Looks like an oyster cracker - but I am sue it is not
thats an australian flathead, grows to over 1m long, but anything over 750mm In Queensland has to go back, they are good eating too,,
I make my own hardbody lures, manly from cedar, my favorite part of making them is the airbrushing paint work, I use createx water based paints, & finish them in a epoxy clear coat,,cheers ,,jayson