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New Signing

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  1. Unfortunately those pictures dont do the differences justice. Maybe next time you wrangle a few you can try and get us comparison pics
  2. Do you happen to have a picture of a spikey next to a Blue spot for comparison?
  3. You'll do it pretty easy with a boat that size. We done it for years with far lesser vehicles before the Nerriga Rd was done up. Including one interesting trip with a seafarer viking behind a Sigma with my grandmother behind the wheel 😅
  4. I stand corrected. Perhaps memory doesnt serve me well. I thought in years gone past there was an * on the DPI measurements that said something along the lines of any unlisted flathead species having a size limit of 33cm
  5. Appears to be a lot of couta showing up in close so the cold water is coming. Still a good run of yellowfin off JB and Batemans Bay so it might be a few weeks yet
  6. I'm convinced you would actually have to intentionally try to break and ugly stick christ they're tough. As another poster said above lure weight is unlikely to be an issue with them
  7. Seems to be a real abundance of pigfish around this year which is certainly a welcome addition to any tub. Supposed to be a pretty big blow this coming weekend and some nautical swell. That should really stir the snapper up
  8. 🤯Dont think id be testing your theory on the spikies not having a size limit mate...............
  9. Cracking little boats. The old man has the Stacer version. The one thing id say is even with the max horsepower they are a bit under powered.
  10. Vinyl has its own adhesive which is tacky at first and then finally activated by heat. There are an almost endless number of vinyl brands, types etc etc available and that's why you will see prices for wraps vary wildly from place to place. To give you an idea when i was pricing up the vinyl i would use for my wrap it was anywhere from $11 per square metre to $90 per square metre. I was fortunate enough to have a supplier offer to provide my product for nothing as sponsorship. This particular vinyl which has a metallic flicker through it in the sun is around $70 per square metre cost price again your supplier will decide what is best for them to use. Good quality vinyl has what is called an air release built into the vinyl, the better the air release the easier it is to apply and better finish you will end up with. We use a lot of Avery vinyl but this Orafol is on par to work with my guys tells me. Each boat will differ on how long it takes to apply the vinyl because of shape etc. You would be amazed the difficulty involved in wrapping around the nose of mine even though it is not massively flared. Personally to extend the life of my vinyl i've spent about $50 buying a 3m edge sealing tape which is more adhesive than vinyl and will protect the edges from lifting due to water pressure and eventually failing. Most people don't use it but i would certainly recommend you request it be used if you are to have a boat done. I also went an extra step with mine and installed a stone guard thick vinyl to the very keel at the front to protect the vinyl from the big V stop. Again not necessary but its just what i wanted. Now as far as the question of life goes there is a hell of a lot of variables involved in that eg. vinyl used, surface it is applied to, who applies it and additions as i've mentioned above. In the case of a printed vinyl eg the outlandish boas you see getting around with beautiful fish portraits etc you're really looking at about 5 years before you start to see fading etc. If you go for a flat colour and vinyl cut lettering as i have you are looking at about 10 years before it starts to fail in spots. Just because the vinyl starts to fail does not mean all is lost as it will last a decent amount of time after the edges start to lift. Now as far as pricing goes................... before i started working here i got a couple of indicative prices to do my boat and i was looking at about $5,500. I cant say exactly how long it took my guys to do mine as they were doing it between jobs but i would say around 8hrs with 2 guys to install round figures you're talking about $1,500 labour for an install. Probably 2 hours prep removing stuff and cleaning down $360. We used 10m's of vinyl to do my boat and it was just enough. Really i would have liked to have had about 15m to make everything as perfect as i'd like it, again round figures $1,500 in vinyl. So i'd say the guys who quoted me before probably weren't too far off the mark. Can you order a vinyl and do this at home, yep 100% you can. You need to take your time and its important to have a dust free environment. Vinyl will show through specs of dust. You'll want at least one friend if not 2, heat gun, squedgies, cleaning products, good blades and a lot of patience. I hope none of the above is against the rules and answers your questions
  11. I've never actually measured it. The trailer was originally built for a 25ft bertram im told. Car stays well clear of the water on all but the worst surge
  12. Never often enough mate and its a fair drag to my home port of Culburra but i fish a lot of the comps to the south when they're on
  13. I didn't pay for it mate. I had my guys do it and the vinyl was supplied by Orafol as a sponsorship deal. I'm not sure im allowed to discuss our business on here but if you want more info message me and ill give you my email
  14. This is what it looked like before
  15. I thought you guys might be interested in seeing the transformation of my old girl with a vinyl wrap i had my guys do at work.
  16. Mix with sand and munch up for burley
  17. Couta and yes they are edible but supposedly full of worms and the flesh goes to much as soon as you out any heat to it. Decent snapper bait
  18. Top right a parrot fish thats just lost its colouration?
  19. My first yellowfin and marlin were both mounted. The work Fred Montebello done on my marlin is the best work i've seen. The old man also had his first done as a head mount and a friend had a 91kg black done. The yellowfin is hanging in the outdoor area now. The marlin is still in the garage
  20. The old 3rd tree on the left over the house with the red roof trick 😄 I'm convinced we never fished the same area twice
  21. Mullet will hold together a hell of a lot better if you're using cut baits
  22. Also if you use your bottom zoom you will see the undulations etc of the reef a lot better
  23. Very nice hoods in that lot. Surprising just how far one tube goes. Grandfather has also taken to pickling the flaps and tenticles. While i can highly recommend the taste it has cut into my bait supplies lol
  24. Catching sarges isnt the worst thing in the world. They normally sit on hard reef with rock cod and the like. If you continue your drift eventually you will come off the hard reef onto gravel beds where the more desirable species tend to spend their time. Also sarges are really good cut baits
  25. Not only that, if you lob a lure or two out the back and just make your way home steady you're a good chance of picking up a bit of bait for next trip
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