My custom built fishing platform, with a skite pic, no bad vibes here.![]()
My custom built fishing platform, with a skite pic, no bad vibes here.![]()
I want to do the same with a jet unit
The Boosh in all it's glory. It's a frickin fish killer, but not so good for overnighters
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Jesus that’s a bit thirsty isn’t it?
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I'm drawn to the mountains and the bush, it's where life is clear, where the world makes the most sense.
New outboards for ya
Stern leg was never an option, we use it to cross bars that are knee deep at low tide, and we’d never had experience with props, just jetboats, so stuck with what was familiar. For down here and crossing west coast bars it performs perfectly. It’s a seahouse hull, LS3 that’s been tuned & 212 unit with turbo impeller. We gps’d 101kph on a flat lake hawea in the early days with two people and no gear. Now 85-90 would be tops. It’ll comfortably do 80 with 4 people and dive gear, but it’s not economical to do so - but turns heads coming in over the bar or into the harbour on a flat day
https://youtu.be/rXcR9_EtdZo
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I'm drawn to the mountains and the bush, it's where life is clear, where the world makes the most sense.
"Hunting and fishing" fucking over licenced firearms owners since ages ago.
308Win One chambering to rule them all.
That’s very cool, love the sound of the 8!
I used to have one that could do this, never tried it though!
Standard launch at Pennington, Natal south coast.
https://youtu.be/kT1BvBjlhqU
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"Here's the deal I'm the best there is. Plain and simple. I wake up in the morning and I piss excellence."
Goes ok. Most people that come on it are impressed by its handling in the sea. It’s very solid but very nimble for a bigger boat, launching is a breeze, can handle it solo easy enough too. That was before a muffler was installed, it was quite loud and talking while on route was impossible.
That river at low tide you can cross with gumboots on. We’ve only come in there at low tide a couple of times.
Not sure of the legalities there regarding speeds over bars. There are obviously rivers that are open, certain rivers that have official ‘liftings’ generally only for jet boat association members, and rivers that are completely closed. That info is generally easy to find. In the cases of our bars here, the chance of actually seeing/meeting another boat is fairly minimal anyway, particularly at mid-low tide.
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Last edited by JoshC; 16-02-2018 at 08:38 PM.
I'm drawn to the mountains and the bush, it's where life is clear, where the world makes the most sense.
Will you picks stop it, I’m already knee deep designing my next boat and I haven’t even finished the one I’m building now
For a bit of reference my (old now but new at the time) gp1300r injected twostoke was rated to burn 60l per hour at full throttle at 165hp......I found that to be very accurate racing around bouys(full throttle 100% of the time) but on the same ski could cruise the entire abletasman+sightseeing two up for around 40l for 6hours
there is varing efficiency's of different hulls engines etc but nowadays the actual horsepower produced and fuel burn per hour is very very close for modern injected engines.
My current 40hp on a 4.5m boat burns the same/more than a lot of 5.5m-6m with modern injected 90-150hp engines but mine fits in my shed and I could afford to buy it which is a massive bonus for me.
mine will burn less per hour but mine cruises at 16-18 knots instead of 25-30knt...going any distance its cheaper(not to mention quicker/safer/dryer/more comfortable) in the bigger boat but hey I still catch fish![]()
"Hunting and fishing" fucking over licenced firearms owners since ages ago.
308Win One chambering to rule them all.
Getting closer. Should be delivered next week....
Can't wait!😊
Please excuse spelling, as finger speed is sometimes behind brain spped........ Or maybe the other wayy.....
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