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My favourite filleting and deboning knife is an old Berkley Blade runner filleting knife... bought ages ago probably at K-mart end of season special ... it has a really stiff but narrow blade - the stiffness makes it easy to cut through bones and the narrow blade is a breeze to maneouver and control around the backbone bumps. Its the one with the green handle in the picture below. A few years back I did receive for my birthday a fancy deboning / filleting knife -- an F.Dick deboning knife - which sounds painful but thats the name (google it). This has a flexible blade of a much higher stainless standard than the Berkley BUT I just can't get used to the flex when filleting. However, I have found that the flex is really good to get skin off shark fillets. It's the one with the blue handle. Cheers Zoran

Water restrictions vary by council / region depending on the level of severity in that region... here is the data for Sydney. Look at section with title Cleaning Cars and Boats. Level 1 https://www.sydneywater.com.au/SW/water-the-environment/what-we-re-doing/water-restrictions/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR3SwhF2E5bY4gfzLE6FR9NYEZC7lyO8yIwxoSqWCriCIbnEyS-7j2qsnmU Level 2 https://www.sydneywater.com.au/SW/water-the-environment/what-we-re-doing/water-restrictions/level-2-water-restrictions/index.htm Personally I have a 5000L rain water tank that I installed the last time we had a drought but again I'll use it sparingly. Cheers Zoran PS - if it gets really bad may have to tow my rig to Penrith Tench Reserve to dunk the trailer and give the tub a run up the Napean in the fresh water up from weir ! Don't fancy the tow fuel bill there and back tho !

Stonker fish @Scratchie .... dropped my jaw when I saw the size of the bump ! Cheers Zoran

Only experienced a bushfire once being trapped at Jervis Bay Huskisson for 5 days as a visitor. Can’t imagine what it would be like to pick up and walk away from everything. Our thoughts are with you guys - wish you the best. Cheers Zoran

Back in the day from memory they were called rangoon poles. Mostly around 15ft long. Very popular for mullet, gar, yakkas etc cheers Zoran

One of our neighbors stopped talking to us after we did similar back in 1996. Then she called the council to report that the boat parked in our driveway was blocking her street view. 🤣 Best of luck with it mate! Cheers Zoran

Well since we are dreaming .... Dream big I say ! .... I saw more than one dream boat in this clip. Some of these craft 4x400hp OB ... seriously ! Cheers Zoran

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Hey @Fishop apologies.... didn't mean to sound harsh. Just wanted to establish if it was a specific problem you were experiencing or general chat. I can't speak to the samsung gps receiver as all my experience has been with apple iphone/ipads which have been spot on with the Eagle GPS in terms of location tracking offshore. If you are near mobile cell tower range I'd expect the phone to be more accurate as it has additional data points to use in its triangulation. When I'm driving through the city CBD, the buildings shroud a lot of the sky. My iPhone (using Waze) is always more accurate than my inbuilt car GPS as in addition to the satellites its triangulating of mobile cell towers. On the boat, the Eagle GPS has no wifi connection so its purely using the satellites and some onshore transmitters that project the correction signal - obviously not as prevalent as the mobile cell towers. So closer to shore, or in an estuary/river the iPad outperforms the Eagle, off shore they have been the same. My Haines has an alloy hardtop and plate glass screen, the ipad running navionics sits on the dash under the sloping glass alongside the Eagle GPS and has no trouble finding satellite GPS signals. I have no external GPS aerials. The iPad on the boat sits in a vertical position in a holder. This gives the best reception for the GPS receiver. How are you supporting your samsung? If its lying flat on a metal hull then you could be severely impeding the efficiency of its GPS receiver. Cheers Zoran PS - I purchase my Eagle Seacharter GPS in about 1999 .. so its way older than your raymarine !!!!

That’s great additional protection. Running negative back to the battery just minimizes electrical interference on sensitive gear from stuff like motors or pumps as you are grounded at the source. The only comment I’d make on the circuit is to have a master fuse that can carry the total electrical load under normal operation as close as possible to the battery. I’ve indicated two locations in red circles. This is to protect the wiring from a short circuit somewhere along the length of the positive wire supplying the 4way switch. Eg say the cable coating wears out and the positive wire touches a negative source (the hull), the full energy of the battery would try to discharge- the wire itself could start to burn back to the battery. A fuse located close to the battery would blow before that happened. I can’t quite make out the drawing but you may already have a master fuse: if not, then consider putting one at either of these locations indicated in red: Call me or send pm if this is not clear or you want to discuss. cheers Z

Forgot to say. In fact your radio, gps and other static sensitive gear is less likely to get interference. Cheers Z

Not at all. Terminal blocks or bus bars for negative are just a convenience for additional wiring- so that you don’t have to run back to the battery each time. cheers Zoran

Glad that its fixed and thanks for posting back to close out. 👌 Cheers Zoran

Hey @Fishop When you say "apparently" is that your experience or or what you've heard? All GPS systems run of signals coming from satellites that participate in the GPS network. Some of the older GPS units only tracked 6 or 8 satellites, some of the newer ones track 12 to 16. The GPS unit then triangulate off the signals. The bigger the spread of the tracked satellites across the full visible sky, the more accurately the GPS can calculate your location. If all the satellites currently in the southern visible sky are clumped low on the horizon then you will have a poor location calculation. etc. This would explain why the raymarine was also having trouble. Anyway, as you say you have to be comfortable with what you have, so why don't you do some tests. I did. I have an Eagle SeaCharter (now LEI) combo. I navigated with it side by side with the iPad and iPhone for a few trips. I did not see a perceived difference in plotting the location or the accuracy of speed etc up to 40km offshore. Way out of range of cell towers and without a SIM in the iPad.once comfortable, the Eagle is dedicated as a sounder and the iPad is the navigation. You can also test in your car. I have an iPhone and switched it to flight mode - so all wifi, bluetooth and mobile network (cell tower) communication was switched off. I then used TomTom on the iPhone and it correctly located my vehicle and speed compared against the vehicle odometer and the in-car GPS system. I also tested the Boating app (first download the map and switch on the satellite overlay - that will give you a view of the roads), then switch on flight mode and go for a drive. In my case it picked up the correct speed and location etc. That was enough to convince me the GPS was good enough for my purposes. Anyway, if you have the app on your phone it's simple enough to try. Just make sure your iPhone or iPad has a reasonable clear view of the sky, you are relying on exposing its GPS receiver to as many overhead satellites as possible. Cheers Zoran BTW, In the past, the US DoD used to insert a random error in the satellite signals that would vary accuracy from the 5-10m range out to 150-200m to prevent mis-use of the GPS network (think missile guidance). The GPS unit manufacturers figured out how to perform additional correction by triangulating off all sorts of signals, on land, off other shipping, off planes etc So triangulating off other sources is not new, and navigation without them is also not new. Various vendors have different names for this like AGPS - Assisted GPS etc.

I used a similar technique (described earlier in this same post) for many years... These guys were anchored in extremely calm waters so factor that into how "easy" they made the anchor retrieve.... add swell and wind effects, perhaps being closer to a rock face and I'd bet they would have had to hurry much much more on the rope and chain pulling. But generally speaking, it's a good technique to deploy the anchor from the back. Makes it a lot easier. @Stash just make sure you have all the open waters safety gear in place before you start anchoring outside the heads in a 13ft tinny. It can be done, but just be safe. BTW, watching this makes me so glad I installed an anchor winch. Cheers Zoran

Glad mines a HUNTER then ! 😂 Cheers Z

Planning to overnight, hit the hairtail on a cold winter's night? ... my crew and I love the cabin, bunks, dry storage, out of the wind and drizzle ! Cheers Zoran

@dmck hahaha. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I prefer subtle and there is always someone smarter to learn from. Just speaking from experience. cheers Zoran

@T_Bert83 is correct that the voltmeter is measuring potential difference. To my understanding, you cannot get a potential difference reading from your multimeter unless there is a circuit path from positive and negative back to the SAME battery. So in your case, if you have switched off the isolator (negative in your case), you must have another connection to the hull from the negative somewhere. I suspect the small black lead that you said goes to the console is connected to a device that is "earthed" to the hull (maybe through the mounting screws and that is providing another path back to the negative terminal of the battery through the hull. So your boat is negative earthed through that small black lead...and if one side of your tester is connected to the positive of the battery, anywhere you touch the hull will give you a voltage reading. It's simple to test. Disconnect the small black lead at the battery and repeat the hull touch test you did... I am sure you will see zero reading on your multimeter. PS - If you want to test my statement that you need a path back to the same battery, do a simple test with the multi meter and any 2 batteries (AA, AAA, 6V etc). Put the multimeter on positive of one battery and negative of another battery and you will not see a potential difference on the meter as there is no connection, no path back to the same battery. PPS - I always fit the isolator on my positive circuit and leave the negative circuit connected. There is some debate on this, but most of it leads to isolating the positive. Cheers Zoran

@jordy it’s difficult to visualize where you connected the tester and hence what that implies. If you connected one terminal of the tester to a solid working negative source then : 1. Starboard- led lit up because where you connected tester you have completed the circuit and hence can conclude that light is missing a negative connection 2. Port: no led light because that circuit may be missing a positive or the led is faulty. Where are you based? Cheers Zoran

LEDs need the positive and negative wires to be accurately connected. Did you rewire something and maybe swap the positive and negative wires around. Cheers Zoran

Great job ... and very tasty 😋 cheers Zoran

Hey Antony - yeah likewise we need to do a session out soon. Re Gummy, I haven't had a chew as yet, but all the reports are they they are excellent flake. Two fillets (990g each) came of that gummy. So my buddy and I each have about a kilo to play with and try in various ways. Will let you know. Just to close this out, I did have the gummy about a week ago and just now remembered I had committed to report back. Happy to report that they are awesome table tucker. I prepared the fillets as fish cocktail size chunks, rolled in flour salt and pepper, shallow fried in oil with a few whole garlic cloves. Served with two side dishes: a warm kiffler potato / string bean mayo salad and coleslaw. The gummy had firm white flesh, very delicate flavour and obviously was completely boneless. Just awesome tucker. Can't wait to come across a few more. Cheers Zoran

The iPad I use is sim card capable (from memory they are the ONLY models that have a proper GPS receiver in them).However, you do not need a sim card or data connection for the GPS / Navigation to work. So I do not have a sim card installed. I upload all my maps and do all the upgrades at home on wifi. If I do want to get a data connection to the iPad while on the water, I just hotspot it to my iPhone and use the iPhone's sim data plan. So I always have that option. Cheers Zoran PS - please note: The non-sim iPad models use wifi to approximate GPS location, so they work indoors, and sometimes even outdoors walking around the city as they ping off wifi towers - without actually needing a full wifi log-in connection - but take these models offshore and the navigation just freezes.... trust me - it took me 3 ipads to figure that I needed the SIM model. Once I knew that, all the specification write ups for the different models made sense.

It’s been discussed many times before. You may want to try the search facility eg I’m with NRMA btw. cheers Zoran