chris_lemess
20-10-2003, 08:00 AM
Now this is the part that sucks! Waiting for a new boat!
After getting comprehensively soaked in nearly every outing during 5kn+ winds in my Quintrex Dart, I was desperate for a step up. Family consensus was that a bigger boat was needed to fish out of, take down south or up north, tow the skis or tubes around and generally boat-about in without getting wet and without the hassles of a small boat! Original step up was going to be to about 4.3m. Oh well, looked like we skimped the entire 4m bracket!
The new boat? - a 5m Full Boar Sportsfishing Boat (heh... customised to suit *my* needs) but also able to do a whole heap of other stuff with a rather sexual 90hp Mercury 4 stroke on the back. I managed to secure a sponsorship deal (don't like to hide these little "affiliations" as we call them) and Tyson and John worked out a brilliant price for a beast of a boat.
She's a fibreglass (oooh the "f" word!) punt-style boat and I designed the layout myself - taking in to account the various other jobs apart from breamin' this girlie has to do (there's still a bit of open space inside the boat incase the swell picks up if we were to take her offshore). It'd be nice to have what Full Boar's building for ATOMIC, with carbon-fibre decks extending the full length of the hull with a sunken, twin console cockpit - but who can justify that much on a bream boat? Besides, I'm the only bloke in the house that bream-fishes seriously!
Anyway enough waffle, her she is with the paint-job I'm hopefully getting and the deck layout that I saw as most versatile. Foredeck is a bit big in the pic as I couldn't really get it to scale! Houses twin 7' rod lockers, tackle storage (to suit 6 x Plano 4000s), extra storage and a plumbed and timed livewell. Rear bench seat folds down to extend the rear deck, and up to reveal extra storage or an extra livewell if needed.
Can't wait! :D
After getting comprehensively soaked in nearly every outing during 5kn+ winds in my Quintrex Dart, I was desperate for a step up. Family consensus was that a bigger boat was needed to fish out of, take down south or up north, tow the skis or tubes around and generally boat-about in without getting wet and without the hassles of a small boat! Original step up was going to be to about 4.3m. Oh well, looked like we skimped the entire 4m bracket!
The new boat? - a 5m Full Boar Sportsfishing Boat (heh... customised to suit *my* needs) but also able to do a whole heap of other stuff with a rather sexual 90hp Mercury 4 stroke on the back. I managed to secure a sponsorship deal (don't like to hide these little "affiliations" as we call them) and Tyson and John worked out a brilliant price for a beast of a boat.
She's a fibreglass (oooh the "f" word!) punt-style boat and I designed the layout myself - taking in to account the various other jobs apart from breamin' this girlie has to do (there's still a bit of open space inside the boat incase the swell picks up if we were to take her offshore). It'd be nice to have what Full Boar's building for ATOMIC, with carbon-fibre decks extending the full length of the hull with a sunken, twin console cockpit - but who can justify that much on a bream boat? Besides, I'm the only bloke in the house that bream-fishes seriously!
Anyway enough waffle, her she is with the paint-job I'm hopefully getting and the deck layout that I saw as most versatile. Foredeck is a bit big in the pic as I couldn't really get it to scale! Houses twin 7' rod lockers, tackle storage (to suit 6 x Plano 4000s), extra storage and a plumbed and timed livewell. Rear bench seat folds down to extend the rear deck, and up to reveal extra storage or an extra livewell if needed.
Can't wait! :D