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I think it could be a Clark. Not sure what the model is though. Mate has a 4.2 and it so close to identical to your boat, I almost thought it was his. Dave.

I just used a 300mm foam float and a 4" stainless ring, both available at boating stores. Spliced some of my 8mm nylon rope onto the foam float, then splice the other end as a loop with a gal thimble so that the length between float and thimble was about 2'. Then attatched the ring to the thimble with a dee shackle, all done. just undo your anchor from the chain and feed the chain through the ring and reattatch the anchor. Dave.

Awesome unit I reckon. Have only had mine a out for a couple trips but am totally wrapped in the unit so far. But, having only ever used black and white units before, I might be easily impressed. Great colour, clear easy to see screen, easy to use menus, all the information you need. The only gripes I have with the unit is that while in sounder mode you cannot have the water temperature displayed as a number, only as a graph, and that the only time the backlight on the keys comes on is when it is set in night mode, which means the display is a very dim monochrome picture. Only minor things I know, and overall am one very happy camper. Dave.

If your going to use an anchor yanker, you don't need to worry about the rope being thick enough to handle easily. I just put new anchor and rope on my 5.2M Haines, I went with 100M of 8mm nylon rope, it's stronger than the 12mm silver rope that most people use and you can store so much more of it, I would have room for probably another 200M of the stuff in my anchor well, wouldn't have a hope with 12mm. I also use 5M of 3/8 gal chain and a reef pick and a home made anchor yanker. Dave.

Thanks Pete, Yeah, fuel prices are a bit of an issue, but it won't be a problem unless fuel consumption is ridiculous. I used to fish out of a 21' haines that had 350L under the floor and we had to carry extra juice to do a 100Nm round trip, don't really want anything like that. The V17L sure is a sweet looking rig, but don't see many for sale though. I think it will be 17C I end up with, just gotta do abit of work to my current rig and sell her before I start shopping. Thanks. Dave.

Hi all, Am looking at buying a boat to do a bit of reef fishing off Rockhampton/Gladstone area. I am leaning towards a Haines v17c at this point, anyone who owns one seems to love them. My dad had one when I was a kid and we used it for offshore work as well as crabbing in the creeks, with a 175 Merc it was also a rocket! Just wanting to know what size outboards people run on thiers and what sort of economy/range they are getting from them. It would also be good if you could give me some aprox performance figures as well. Thanks. Dave.