Thread: Show us your boat

Swanny...that is beautiful...truely beautiful......when you get time,chuck up some more photos.
you will soon learn the J stroke for solo paddling......lovely boats on a calm lake as the sun goes down....
I cant say it well enough just how much I admire your skills to make that.

That pic of the slalom course is a cracker. Although I always found glass water a little 'skatey' when trying to drop line lengths. And it tends to 'burn' your feet a bit when footing.

Better if it just has a little ripple.

Water skiing is SUCH an incredible family experience, especially if you belong to a great club. Wairere was were I grew up skiing.

Oh, and nice boat

We had this build, took a couple of year & went in the water about 2007. We've done about 30,000 miles, done a few laps of the closer South Pacific Islands. Still love it, and wouldn't change much if we did it again tomorrow.

A short clip of getting buzzed by Hectors Dolphins...

https://youtu.be/WW_0nllPGds

I have had a few health problems – prostate, hip and hernia - so two years since the Tristram has been in the water – I have been working through a few issues before getting a WOF next week
The mechanic told me at last WOF check, that one of the four hubs was a bit noisy – so I decided to change it – a braked disk, so not easy to get the wheel off – and back on. I knocked the bearing shells out of the noisy hub but could not whack the new shell back in the hub – I took it up to the garage and the mechanic had to use a press to get it back in. So wheel back on the trailer and decided to pump up the bearing buddies – the one on the failed bearing would not move. Cleaned it out and pumped air through it – but blocked solid. Probably been blocked for years so while I thought it was full of grease – it was empty. About $6 for a new grease nipple – and all good.
I changed the battery switches so I could operate the motor hydraulics and the top fell off the switch – checked all three switches and they all fell apart – 2003 boat so I guess plastic fails with old age. They put a lot off gear in the rear end of a 5.8m boat – two batteries, bilge pump, oil pump etc – so a bit of a mission to replace the battery switches – thank goodness they come as an assembled set. So, if your boat is getting older – maybe it’s a good time to push, pull and flick the heads of the switches.
Next thing was to start the motors – 150HP and 8HP Yamaha. The hand prime pump on the 150 was rock solid so I couldn’t get the fuel through to the filter glass on the motor – but electric start and the motor started fine. The hand pump on the 8HP worked fine and after a lot of hand pulls – I finally got the motor to start. A new hand primer for the 150 was about $30 and simple to fit.
I have removed the bulk of the old petrol from the underfloor tank using a suck it and see syphon through a small diameter plastic tube – and fortunately, didn’t get a mouthful of fuel. The lawnmower doesn’t seem to mind the old fuel, mixed and non-mixed.
So just about ready to go fishing again.

Originally Posted by time out

I have had a few health problems – prostate, hip and hernia - so two years since the Tristram has been in the water – I have been working through a few issues before getting a WOF next week
The mechanic told me at last WOF check, that one of the four hubs was a bit noisy – so I decided to change it – a braked disk, so not easy to get the wheel off – and back on. I knocked the bearing shells out of the noisy hub but could not whack the new shell back in the hub – I took it up to the garage and the mechanic had to use a press to get it back in. So wheel back on the trailer and decided to pump up the bearing buddies – the one on the failed bearing would not move. Cleaned it out and pumped air through it – but blocked solid. Probably been blocked for years so while I thought it was full of grease – it was empty. About $6 for a new grease nipple – and all good.
I changed the battery switches so I could operate the motor hydraulics and the top fell off the switch – checked all three switches and they all fell apart – 2003 boat so I guess plastic fails with old age. They put a lot off gear in the rear end of a 5.8m boat – two batteries, bilge pump, oil pump etc – so a bit of a mission to replace the battery switches – thank goodness they come as an assembled set. So, if your boat is getting older – maybe it’s a good time to push, pull and flick the heads of the switches.
Next thing was to start the motors – 150HP and 8HP Yamaha. The hand prime pump on the 150 was rock solid so I couldn’t get the fuel through to the filter glass on the motor – but electric start and the motor started fine. The hand pump on the 8HP worked fine and after a lot of hand pulls – I finally got the motor to start. A new hand primer for the 150 was about $30 and simple to fit.
I have removed the bulk of the old petrol from the underfloor tank using a suck it and see syphon through a small diameter plastic tube – and fortunately, didn’t get a mouthful of fuel. The lawnmower doesn’t seem to mind the old fuel, mixed and non-mixed.
So just about ready to go fishing again.


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Good effort, well done there! Not easy to get to some of those boat bits, I think the builders employ a double jointed contortionist midget some days.

This is what we been play with atm

Originally Posted by Padox

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Good ole Moeraki

What would give that away haha

Originally Posted by time out

I have had a few health problems – prostate, hip and hernia - so two years since the Tristram has been in the water – I have been working through a few issues before getting a WOF next week
The mechanic told me at last WOF check, that one of the four hubs was a bit noisy – so I decided to change it – a braked disk, so not easy to get the wheel off – and back on. I knocked the bearing shells out of the noisy hub but could not whack the new shell back in the hub – I took it up to the garage and the mechanic had to use a press to get it back in. So wheel back on the trailer and decided to pump up the bearing buddies – the one on the failed bearing would not move. Cleaned it out and pumped air through it – but blocked solid. Probably been blocked for years so while I thought it was full of grease – it was empty. About $6 for a new grease nipple – and all good.
I changed the battery switches so I could operate the motor hydraulics and the top fell off the switch – checked all three switches and they all fell apart – 2003 boat so I guess plastic fails with old age. They put a lot off gear in the rear end of a 5.8m boat – two batteries, bilge pump, oil pump etc – so a bit of a mission to replace the battery switches – thank goodness they come as an assembled set. So, if your boat is getting older – maybe it’s a good time to push, pull and flick the heads of the switches.
Next thing was to start the motors – 150HP and 8HP Yamaha. The hand prime pump on the 150 was rock solid so I couldn’t get the fuel through to the filter glass on the motor – but electric start and the motor started fine. The hand pump on the 8HP worked fine and after a lot of hand pulls – I finally got the motor to start. A new hand primer for the 150 was about $30 and simple to fit.
I have removed the bulk of the old petrol from the underfloor tank using a suck it and see syphon through a small diameter plastic tube – and fortunately, didn’t get a mouthful of fuel. The lawnmower doesn’t seem to mind the old fuel, mixed and non-mixed.
So just about ready to go fishing again.


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Hewy TO, they had a bad batch of plastic casings, the switches would break free & stop working. Had all ours replaced under warranty a few years back.

Been neglecting the old girl a bit so spent the last couple weekends in Te Anau giving her a tidy up and ready for summer. Hoping to get away for a couple of weeks late Jan

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Been neglecting the old girl a bit so spent the last couple weekends in Te Anau giving her a tidy up and ready for summer. Hoping to get away for a couple of weeks late Jan
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If u need help sing out haha

I see the blue bird excluder is working well...no more duckshit lol