Please help. Identify this boat.

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  1. Mr Efficiency
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    Settled right back, but still ticking over.
     
  2. whitepointer23

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    Fixing up an old ketch sailboat hope to have her useable for christmas. I left western australia 7 years ago . I owned 3 ex cray boats over the years.
     
  3. kalibore
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    I knew a few guys that went out a few years ago now.. got into the mining. They all did really well out of it.

    Must be like a rabbit warren there now :p
     
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    Where is your favourite place to anchor over there?
     
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    I come from albany 400km south of perth. I have been off perth a few times. There is a lagoon on the east side of rottnest that is protected by a reef. That would be my favourite anchorage in that area. West end of garden island has a beautiful anchorage as well but no shore access there. Its navy property.
     
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    Qld may be harder hit than WA by the mining slowdown, the coal price being much lower than a few years ago. Houses that were rented for as much as $2000 a week at the height of the boom now available for $400/week, apparently.
     
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    Bet there are some beautiful spots to explore over there.. plus it's sunny!!

    Worst Summer here I ever known. We had either 3 or 4 days where it hit 30 degrees or slighty more.

    3-4 days.. in 365! Just been pissing it down. August was raining solidly more a less for the month.

    Good for fish.
     
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    Wow that is mad! Big difference!

    I met fellas in Bali, 2012 that reckon they were earning up to 400k per year at the time. That is pretty specialist wages I know, but even earning $90 per hour starting at the bottom isn't a bad craic when you can get it.
     
  9. whitepointer23

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    The house i was in at port hedland when i was carting iron ore was $6000 a week. The company was renting 60 houses there for the staff and drivers.
     
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    That is crazy! Get paid in one hand, straight back the other..

    Still all relative I suppose.
     
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    Amazing ! Heady times.
     
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  13. whitepointer23

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    Not quite. We didn't pay anything. The company covered it all. The house i was in had 9 bedrooms and 2 kitchens thats why it was so much. The 59 other houses were 2,3 and 4 bedrooms. There rent ranged from 1200 pw to 4000. Now they have moved everyone out to a camp on a minesite and a lot of those houses are sitting there with no tenants. I knew someone who bought an old dump for 76000 and sold it to bhp for 1.2 mill a few years later . There are lots of stories like that . It is dead now but give it time and it will boom again. This boom and bust cycle is how w.a operates. And yes the fishing is excellent over there.
     
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