garfield28

My dream boat consist of, it cannot corrode or be damaged at all, the outboard runs on thin air and nothing else - and it never needs a service, and all of the fish I would like to catch are attracted to it like moths to a porch light... and maybe my wife would actually love it too 😁 Anyone know where I can find one please?

Absolute legend Frank is. Wouldn't meet a nicer bloke, who is prepared to help anybody! Helped me out a few times, and sure ain't wrong BN he can fix anything and when I've been to his place he has a lot of home made gadgets for getting the job done. Love ya Frank and hope you are well mate.

Sorry to hear the trip didn't go as planned Frank. Good to see you are getting out on the water mate, I hope you are doing well legend.

Nice fish Antony... That is one of my fishing goals, a big girl on a plastic, or any flathead on plastics 😁

Maritime mate....

I got pulled up at Tea Gardens a few weeks back by a couple on waters skis... I get they have a job to do but I've had most in the past come across friendly from the start, ask how your day is are you catching any etc, then proceed to ask to see a couple of safety items, have another quick friendly chat, and then let you be on your way, but one of the guys from a couple of weeks ago near pulled my boat apart looking for something to nab me on I reckon. In the end he ran out of things to ask for which meant I had it all covered but I felt he was really trying to pin me for something!

Legend!! I'll suss them out

Agree it looks real hard, but as I say I'm not sure if it's a big deal not to have it like it was but appearance wise I'd like to fix it up and just not sure how I can, but was hopeful that someone may be able to help with a way I could.

How it looks now, it basically forms to a point and tappers off to the front of the boat. When I sanded it back it must have been shaped and in that area by gelcoat, because I didn't sand down fiberglass in that area. Any advice much appreciated. Thanks Geoff

How it looks now

Hi all, Can anyone with experience doing fiberglass repairs on their boat please tell A, how I can shape the very start of a strake that starts at the bow, or even B, if it is necessary to do so? Where the damage was I sanded down to lay up a little fiberglass but also sanded away the shape of the strake at the start up the top end of the boat, and so If I need to I'll do my best but if it's not really necessary I'd probably just prefer to leave it as I'd imagine its a lot of work. I'll take some pics and post straight from my phone. Thanks Geoff

Thanks for that boys. I bloody tapped that glass when laying it up for heaps with the paint brush and it seemed as though it was fairly wet to me, so not sure how or what I did wrong exactly, but know the more you tap it to wet it out it spreads and seems to move off the area you laid it. I went to the boat shop yesterday arvo and the guy there suggested and sold me some septone gelcoat repair filler. He said it will fill the pin holes and it is also a finishing gelcoat. Said to give it a couple of coats, so I slapped it on this arvo and will sand it back tomorrow arvo when I get home from work and see how it looks.

Actually just wondering if I can fill them with some 2 part epoxy?

Pic

Hi all, Have just done a small repair of some fibreglass on my boat where it has been a little gouged out by hitting the last keep roller while trying to drive up on the trailer. Anyhow started by sanding the area etc and laid up a little bit of glass and have sanded that this morning and notice there's a couple of little holes where obviously air has been. With these holes can I just hit them with a putty of some sort to fill them and then gelcoat over the top? Just wondering if I am meant to use a special type of putty filler too. Will try and load some pics from my phone. Thanks Geoff

Nice rig Antony, looks the goods mate... may have to tow her up and make a trip out to the island 👍

On fire of late Jeff, cracking fish... well done boys!

HI Zoran, Sorry for the late reply mate but been away on holidays with the family. Thanks for the sketch and the idea mate, very kind of you to put the thought into that for someone else, much appreciated. Also, I'll post a pic, but from the very day I picked my trailer up my boat doesn't even sit on that last roller when it is on the trailer.

HaHa thanks for the concern mate...

Boats = $$$ doesn't it, even when you don't end up using the bloody things! Whats the self centre roller for that I need mate?

Ingenious idea mate.... Did you use pre-gal steel for that mate, or just cold gal spray it when complete? Thanks mate, but I'm liking the DIY idea at present as I love to play around with tools. Hey mate, Thanks for the reply, how come you haven't used it? So now I need red rollers not blue ones... I might have to wait till the blue ones fall apart first coz if I spend any more money on my boat which doesn't catch fish I think my Mrs will leave me.... true story :-) Mate I think it's more the steel part of the bracket holding the actual roller which is the problem, so I guess maybe one long as roller could work but I don't know if they exist. I have winched it up a couple of times but would much prefer to drive mine up if I can, which If I can just get around the first keel roller without hitting the bracket, I should be able to. I i'll try and hang off for now on the red rollers the Mrs will make me sell it! Mate that is an awesome idea... maybe I can sink 10 cans and think about mine :-)

My trailer pretty much is like this one except just not a tandem wheel set up.

Thanks for the reply Zoran... You're a bit of a genius! So the idea is it hits the V first which is slightly lower or high than the first keel roller on the end there and guides it onto that roller?

Hi all, I recently changed my rusted full wobble roller boat trailer to a spitfire aluminium trailer with both wobble rollers and keep rollers. I've had a few mishaps driving the boat up on the new trailer and it is always the last keep roller at the back of the boat it is designed so that you basically have to aim at that one spot on then work your way up the trailer, but thanks to winds or the current etc I've missed it a couple of times and have done a couple of deep gouges on my boat (the latest incident attached) After some ideas on avoiding this without having to actually pull a rope and winch it up, I much prefer to drive on when I can so if there's a DIY solution or something I can do like put the boat in the water more etc I'd really love to hear it. Thanks Geoff

Hey Zoran, Thanks for the info and pic mate, but I cannot think how that would still not come out of the top with the way that they are designed. The one I have cannot lock in any way it just comes out if you pull it up, if that makes sense... I'll have to try and take pics to explain myself