dave nagy

I got the photo thing working, its much better than explaining the whole thing The way i got the rounded edges was with conduit, and glassed over it, it makes it look like it 30mm thick but it is just a skin. Thats why it has those ribs on top to strenghten it. I have stood on the center rib. if you want to talk to me about it drop me a line ipraust@optusnet.com.au

Arh right up mu ally Im just in the process of finnishing mine, hopefully this weekend welding up the supports. I tryed to add some photos but its just to hard I have a 38 footer and made the hard top out of f/glass but it is just a skin about 2-3mm thick, afterall it only needs to hold paint unless you want to dance on it. I layed glass in masionite a little longer than i needed times 2, then got the width i need and glasses both togeather. Mine is 3meters by 2.5. When i glassed the middle i glassed over a shaped timber so i coud recess a grab rail down the center but it left a lump on the top side which had to put a rib overto cover it up. Then i sat it in a cradle to give it slight bend. i then glassed ribs on the bottom side as in the boat side aprox 10cm in from the port and starboard sides, thes i made fairly thick as it made the back bone frame. Imagin masionite with a 4by2 frame Gotta go but i will get back to this post

I think it was a riv or mariner with some kind of name in silver or whitish writting

In the other boats defence they were about 500m away and only having a lookse, its just that we had a 1/4 spool left only, so he thought he was far enough away. I have to admit that im guilty of going over for a look if someone is backing up, BUT if a boat is bleering there horn and there is 3 guys in the cockpit weaving ther arms like mad men and the boat is backing up like mad with water coming over the transom you would kinda think that you may be in the way. Any hoo they didnt cut it off(we did) We realy wish we could of weighed not to just win the tournment but to see how big it realy was. Not to put it in the calss of a 1000pounder but it was so long it just didnt have the depth down near the anal fin. Grea fish

We on Time to tango lost a blue we are calling around the 350-400kg mark on sunday after 2 hour fight then 1 hour at the boat straight out the front of broken bay in 130fa. Biggest fish i have ever seen in 12 years of fishing, even being weighed. It was a good fight on 24 with it being run over twice by another boat (we were bumb founded when we came tight again after that), two broken harnesses/gimbles, a scoole of leather jackets hanging under the boat, the extendable tag pole not staying out and a school of 30-50kg yft jumping 4-6 feet out of the water a couple of hundred metters away. After getting it up to the surface we saw it was body wraped, i was on trace and could not lift its head. I could feel the 600pound trace streching like a rubber band. The last time i had the leader it slipped through my hands and the trace gloves(rigger glove with the orange gloves that have the crisscross rubber over the top with the finger cut off) got stuck on the snap which started to pull me over the side until the snap opend up. 10 min later we had her back up and tryed to get the snap back togeather which is when it dived under the boat and poped the double on the marlin board. Another boat Pacimo coming down from Port Stevend lost annother big blue after 3 hours ith the angler exhausted sitting on the cockpit floor in some rough weather and they tore the marlin board off. They didnt loose when the board came of after one of many atemps at the trace i think it went under the boat to. Bloody marlin boards. We called our fish 350-400 as on of the guys had fished cairns and got a 350 and said that our fish was way bigger and another guy has seen a 1100pounder weighed in Kona and said it wasnt in that class which we all agreed. i have a new found respect for those deckies in cairns that grab the big girls without a flinch. I rember talking to a cairns decky years ago that said you have to fight them with the boat once on trace and he was so right. At one stage i rember looking at my arm and it was shakeing just trying to hold on. I will never forget the image of it taking a slow motion lazy jump with me in toe for one side of the boat to the other with one beat of its tale(wish we got a photo of that). I looke around and was the other gus picking up ther jaws off the cockpit floor. I could stop fishing happly now after that sight. It was the fish of a lifetime out of sydney. I wont stop, ill get back out there and try again.