Mitchel

We have a 712 Power winch on our Cruiscraft 600. Got it 2nd hand, don't know how old it was. But we have had it for 4 years. We immediately changed from the wire rope to Dyneema and we welded the winch onto the winch post. We timed the difference between a hand winch and it was 45 seconds on a single line pull. Sometimes if we come in on low tide the ramp is steeper so we go to a double line pulley, so the diff is 90 seconds. If maintained ( greased) regularly they are trouble free. We do have a cover on ours though to keep the water out as well.

Hit the water with my dad chasing spotted mackerel. We went out of Tweed Heads at about 4:00am as Currumbin bar is too shallow and dad was scared we would get stuck on it. We also had my pop and two uncles on board as well. One got sea sick and it was funny. We got lots of fish, but no mackerel. Only black kingfish which are called cobia and two strippies. I caught my first cobia on dads rod. We were using pilchards as bait. I was puffed at the end. We got 5 cobia and kept 3. We got no mackerel, but will try again later in the week. SUNRISE My First Cobia We stopped and took a picture of the desal platform on the way in. Me catching the fish PS. Dad helped me write this post.