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Yep the Timken ones in the pack are good quality, USA made if memory serves me. At under $25 a side good value.

Mate looks like it would be a good rig for that money as long as you are comfortable doing the work. Anchor hatch is easily fitted and the floors are not a hard job if you are handy. I would get the motor serviced and make sure all the control cables and steering are a OK. Dont remove the VRO, premixing is a pain, Oil injection is much better, fuel dosnt go off as quick etc. And as other have said the twin clyinder OMC were pretty good, not the smoothest running in my opinion but robust. looks like you could drop two to three grand tidying it up but if the basic hull and motor and trailer are all good i cant see you getting a alloy 4.8 cuddy for under $6-$7K and you know whats in it because you have done it your self. Good luck

PEL Last time i went to a bearing store, there bearings were exhorbiant. I found the "timken" brand blister packs at a well known automotive chain store to be good value. Only a few dollars more than the cheap chinese bearings they also sell. And as you may know "timken" were the original manufacturers of cone & cup bearings and generally dont make crap. Sam where are you located, if in Western Sydney Iam happy to pop around and help you with a side to give you a start.

Be very careful welding fuel tanks, also a good chance if it has cracked it is due to fatigue and welding may not be the best option. Awsome rebuild, will follow this with interest.

I am getting tired of the self tapping screws not holding in my floor and was considering drilling the holes out and putting alloy rivnuts (nut that rivets itself in hole) in and using proper 3/16 unf screws to hold the floor down. Has anybody else done this. Only concern i can see is the risk of corrosion between the two disimalar alloys which will be less than the alloy and stainless currently.

Congrats Roberta, well deserved.

Great looking rig and welcome to fishraiders I am hitting JB this xmas as well? My outlaws live at Callala Beach. The vsea is a great boat and your example is heaps neater than the other vsea i sitting in a side st at Callalla beach (yellow one). What year is it, didnt they have a major revamp of the boat around the mid/late nineties?

Perhaps when you get it back you could neatly drill the old rivets out and put fresh rivets in the holes and touch it up with paint?

Like most Yamaha products i imagine rock solid. As long as it has been well maintained.

I know sounder comparisons have been done to death, but I have been anguishing over trying to make a decision. I am considering the Raymarine DS500X. Personally I would like the Furuno 620 but can not justify the additional expenditure currently. The price I have been offered a new DS500X for is under $600, problem I have is I can not see one to demo. I looked seriously at the Lowrance X515 and while it has excellent resolution after having a play with the furuno and the clarity the digital sounder offers I don’t think I would be satisfied with the lowrance. I know of the fogging issue with the Raymarine, other than that is there any other issues? Fishing will be estuary and close offshore.

I have downloaded it and sent around our company as well. We need to do better than 27 downloads though! Donna is it possiable to sticky this or the petition in a couple of the more popular sections?

Glenn This was a boat i looked at during the year, it is a factory fit and would require the skills of fabricator to convert a normal boat over. If i "leccey" ours this is how i will do it. As a retrofit you could do something simalar very neatly by routing some marine ply, but it will still require the bow rails cut and modified.

I would have thought your GPS needs to export and import NEma data to talk to the furuno, be careful just baring wires. Ring Garmin up and ask or better still email. I have heard there customer support has gone down hill since GME stopped distrubting them.

What a top result, good on you.

congrats Are we going to see a pic posted?

Scumbags

Geez Andy sounds like a good offer but i perfer to be at home shovelling 2 tonne of soil and 6 m3 of wood chip and reading about everybodies success tommorrow night....... good luck

Great catch

Vince I went through something simalar earlier in the year with a 5.4 metre boat from Brisbane. I rang boat movers and it was expensive but nothing like that. It will not fit on a train. towing i could not find a car rental company that ; had a car for hire with a towbar; hire a car and let you tow that weight if they had a towbar; or take that vechile from the state! then some would want a return charge. If going the truckie option i would want some assurance that the truck knew what he was doing. Also i would suggest flying up 1st to do the deal and see it loaded. I didnt end up getting my boat as it was not how it was described to me after a detailed grilling of the broker! Your best bet is to go get it your self! and take up an offer from somebody like Ross (although you would have to talk bloody etecs for 2000+kms) or try and cut a deal with the owner to get it down here, he will know more people in Cairns than you. Sorry to a misery guts, but it is better you be warned? I do have a contact who is the machinery business in Brisbane and Mackay and could ask them about transport people if that would help? No promises but he may be able to steer you somewhere, PM if so. When in NSW, boat rego should be straight forward but the trailer unless it is from a newer trailer manufactuer and they have a plate showing the tare weight you will have to weigh bridge the trailer with out the boat for rego. Remember QLD hav REVS for boats as well, you have to pay and get a check on Hull, Motor(s) and trailer all seperatley. Good Luck

I thought it was sunset.

yep i used it as a kid also, the doe pudding (think we added cotton wool as well?) and garlic sausage as bait!

Cant say i am a big fan of his show, but will def tune/tape this weekend.

Ross that must be the femine side in you comming out, simalar logic they use for shoes. Great looking motor, i could imagine the 150 getting that going. Is the 150 a V4 or 6

Bill i run LED lights and they are prone to other problems. You must make sure the wire join is well up and it is sealed with heat shrink (the type that has glue as well) because corrossion will head down the wire and into the LED board. I recently replaced my clearance lights and went to a truck Asc place in wetherill park. I got genuine Hella LED lights for what the no names would have cost else where. They seem good and bright so far. Good luck

I am heading there tonight, great place. Snapper are on at the moment and was going to go out in the gulf on Saturday but have been summonsied hope by the