The Big Pig (new boat)

[ausbill]

Here she is, my new weapon of choice.

[ausbill]

Her registered name is SNIFFIN, a 6.1m Full Boar sports fisher.
Finding my ‘perfect’ boat for a variety of chores was quite difficult.
The requirements covered a mixture of safety, low gunwales, passenger capacity, limited offshore ability, stability, low maintenance, shallow draught, reasonable speed, one man launching on cement ramp , two casting decks and comfort.[B]

[ausbill]

The two rod lockers, and storage areas pretty much speak for themselves in the pics. The rear bench seat folds down to an extended rear casting deck with storage underneath.

[ausbill]

Next Summer should be great, dragging the kids round on a float or knee-board, diving, chasing pelagics with the kids, lolling in the sun on the forward casting /activities deck. A beach umbrella in the lean seat base /umbrella holder. I may even get some time for a serious fish.;)

[ausbill]

Took the family on the first test run last weekend. The kids loved it, only got a couple of full throttle bursts in as the engine shows just over one hours use. She pulls 33 knots on the GPS with four onboard and full live and bait tanks.
The 4 stroke Mercury is quieter than I expected and smoooth as.

[ausbill]

I would like to say thanks to John Hickey, Lindsay and especially Tyson Dethridge from J.D.M. Boat works/Full Boar Boats.
Tyson and his employees put Sniffin together at their Matraville workshop and the quality of their workmanship speaks volumes.
The attention to detail is great.

Tyson put forward many ideas used in the build process of some of the more intricate, one off items and shone through when I was stumped for solutions

This is ‘the guts’ of it.
Mercury 115 HP EFI 4 stroke primary.
Mercury 5 HP 4 stroke aux. runs off the main and secondary fuel tank as required. Can be steered from the primary engine with the fitment of a custom stainless link arm.
Hydraulic steering
75+ litre stainless custom fuel tank.
Minn-Kota RT65AP with remote Co-Pilot and removable slide mount. The RT74AP I ordered last February, still has not arrived. BLA loaned the 65 pounder.
Twin 115amp hour Sonnenschein gel-cells
Guest 2631-230 on-board charger
GME 27MHz Transceiver
GME VHF Transceiver
GME AM/FM/VHF Receiver
GME MT400 EPIRB
Garmin 182 colour chart plotter with MCP004R Blue-Chart
Garmin GSD20 remote colour sounder with transducer at the stern.
Humminbird Matrix 37 with mounting bases at the helm and bow.
GPS antenna
Weather-Sense
A removable stainless, deployable transducer mount system is fitted to the bow. Fitted with a universal style breakaway system.
Four, switch selectable, transducers at the bow.
Two, switch selectable, transducers at the stern.
Front live tank with circulating and recirculating timed systems.
Rear live tank with circulating only, timed system.

Crank and house batteries with a V.S.R. and manual override switch. Charging from the main engine and the on-board charger as required.
There are two tackle box lockers mounted in the rear vertical face of the front casting deck that hold five Plano 4200’s each.

Two bilge pumps. 12V 750GPH and 24V 2000GPH
Switchable, float activated/on/off.
Powered separately by the house and gel-cell batteries.

Fire extinguisher flush mounted at console with a second larger unit mounted in a forward locker.

Trolling rod holders.
Two at forward gunwale sill. Facing out.
Two at the rear gunwale sill facing aft.
One from the rear lean seat base, facing aft.

Seating
Primary and mates seats are suspension post swivelling RayLine buckets. The helm seat sports a sliding base.
Forward, swivelling buckets are RayLine units. Custom height adjustable posts size suit the fore and aft lean seat bases.
Three seat position bench under rear casting deck with RayLine cushions.
Lean seats, fore and aft are custom height adjustable posts with BassPro cushions.
Stainless skin fittings
Stainless keel guard
Stainless folding removable ladder
Removable burley bucket
Stainless tow eyes
Riding on a Dunbier SupaRolla trailer with a swing-away draw bar.

[ausbill]

The addition of a stainless keel guard was a must for cement ramp launches.

[Nath_18]

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: VERY VERY VERY NIIIIIICE!!!

what a beast!

i love the seating placement, do the rear three seats fold down into a casting platform?

*nathan shakes fist in envy*

chears, Nathan

[Rono]

Thats a very nice boat ausbill you should get many hour's enjoyment out of it.

[Traveller]

Good to see you finally got the boat Billyboy...........

Hope you have many years of enjoyment out of that boat.........

Originally posted by Nath_18

i love the seating placement, do the rear three seats fold down into a casting platform?


The rear bench seat folds down to an extended rear casting deck with storage underneath.

I think it does:cool:


It looks like a MAAD boat!!!
Heaps of room for ppl to sit too

[Evileye]

whoa, niiiiiiiiiiice!!!!!!, just picure homer drooling and thats me just there

[the_fanatic]

:eek: :eek: :eek: i want one.....
Very sweet boat, looks awsome.

Josh

P.S if you ever need another person to join you give me a call:D :D :D

[Angry]

A very serious piece of kit. Looks Awesome, I'm sure you will be plenty pleased.
Quick question, on the last pic, whats the bit of stainless mounted to the rubber edging? I can' t quite make it out, but it looks like a metal overflow or something.

[Angry]

A removable stainless, deployable transducer mount system is fitted to the bow. Fitted with a universal style breakaway system.

OK scrub my previous question. I guess the above line refers to what it is, yes? now explain what all that means, how it works and what needs you want it fullfill, I'm very interested.
Looks like you have put a lot of thought into exactly what you want out of a boat, and at first impressions I don't think I've seen many boats that intensively fitted out at delivery. Most boats tend to evolve to that level of fit out over the years and end up looking like a bit of dogs breakfast as bit bits and pieces are added removed refitted and replaced.
Excellent work.
;)

:eek:

That is one sweet ride.........................

[Evileye]

looks like u need 2 leccy to get that thing moving, looks like a charter boat!:D

[i_wanna_fish]

seriously SWEET
i want one

[i_wanna_fish]

how much did it cost ya

[Phil G.]

:D awesum boat mate luv it

[ausbill]

Originally posted by Angry
OK scrub my previous question. I guess the above line refers to what it is, yes? now explain what all that means, how it works and what needs you want it fullfill, I'm very interested.


Angry
I'm using a transducer, which fires narrow beams. Attaching the unit to the MinnKota would mean it becomes 'aim-able'. This could be a good thing under some circumstances, but not for the types of structures I target.

I needed a mount point below the leccy which could be aimed on a horizontal plane, up to a degree. Adjusting the transducer at the mounting point gives the vertical plane.

The mount needed to be removable and fold back in the event of a collision with something solid.

The pic showing the casting deck also shows the transducer mount arm, minus the mount head. It simply plugs into the female socket at the bow and is retained by a small captured screw.
The tension on the arm breakaway section is strong enough to hold the arm in position when underway at low speeds (main engine)
The arm pivots up and back, to lay along the deck on long runs between spots.

The thinking behind this idea came from researching sounders and transducer capabilities, then applying their limits against my fishing requirements.

Take your off the shelf X brand sounder.
Not much good having a sounder that fires a beam under the boat if you are targeting the bank, and the shallower the water the less use the sounder is.
The Matrix QuadraBeam comes close with a total of 90 degrees under the boat covered. That still leaves 45 degrees on one side of unsounded water. Its this area of water I normally target.

This should give you a pretty good idea of what I'm 'messin' with without giving away too much just yet.

Bill