“A collision at Sea can ruin your entire day.” Thucydides 471-400 B.C.
Looking for plans/suggestions for a 9 metre long steel or aluminium hull lines-handling boat. Crew of 2, capable of working up to 8" poly or...
Cheers Whitepointer
Third photo on page 1 shows a very flat bottom aft with some curvature, and given that Port Phillip has short, steep waves it would bang and crash...
Are you sure it's a Haines Hunter? Looking around a couple of Oz sites the V16R and V17R both had distinctly rounded tops to the windscreen and...
A bloke in Melbourne put a 3.8 engine on a Mercruiser Alpha 1 drive. Had to make all his own manifolds, coupler etc but it went like a dog shot in...
For about 3 years Yamaha made sterndrives using 3.0, 5.0. 5.7 and 7.4L engines. The metallurgy in them was superb, but a court case from...
Don't drop in here very often, but TQM, that acronym I posted a while back, was to be the all-sining, all-dancing road to financial nirvana, a...
Seriously thinking of selling up on the mainland and moving to Tasmania. IF global warming is true, by the time 10 years have passed I'll have to...
Recently investigated an insurance claim and the boat was powered by a marinised 327 Chev swinging a Robbie sterndrive. They still have a phone...
Ditto Steboe. The Christmas Day forecast so far is Early morning showers, clearing to a fine and mainly sunny day. Winds south to southwesterly...
