Juggs
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My thinking was too trickle charge it overnight just needed it confirmed i have charged batteries before just not a deep cycle thanks for the replies i also have 100% battery acid at home too dilute if the battery needs a top up
a battery will fail if it is only trickle charged
generally a charger will ramp up to between 6-12 amps then back off when the battery is about 80-90% full
you need around 1amp of charging current for every 10amps of battery holding capacity
so 90a/h battery you need 9amps 120a/h 12amps
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And don't buy the shitty $50 units from the auto stores
Nothing works better then a Cetek charger
We were having issues with starting high compression race engines and it turned out many chargers won't fully charge a battery
Cetek fixed our issue by giving us a full charge to start the engines, even the $200 charger from jaycar was inadequate
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What type of battery and what type of charger ?
Most battery's even with the screw in plugs still don't need to be unscrewed as the cap has a vent built in
Should also be charged as soon as possible after use
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Yep an idiot and deserves the fine
But what is disturbing is the cash cow they are turning boat owners and fisherman into
My boat licence is way dearer then my car licence , I use the car licence daily the boat every 2-4 weeks
And the fines and saftey requirements are getting nuts too
If anyone here is in any sort of boat accident do not talk to rms to give a statement untill you have spoken to a lawyer
A friend had a wave come over the back of the boat when he had a sea drogue out swamping the electricals and requiring vmr to rescue him
Rms investigated and fined him $2k for not keeping a proper watch ie he wasn't watching 360 degrees while operating the boat
Something that is impossible to do but they got him on his statement when they asked if he was watching the rear of the boat when it happened
A lawyer would have advised him on what to say in his statement to rms
Bit of a ramble but if you find rms after you you are going to get shafted hard
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That's the deckies job
My boat so I don't pull up anchors or get feet wet at the end Of the day
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just a conversation here im not denigrating fishraider or even pushing for FB for fishraider
i was just trying to put a voice forward that FB is not the antichrist
we had google out a few weeks back for a pay per click campaign
we confronted the rep on the fact we could see over 50% of the links to our site were comming from FB and google was second, after that it was a few % from random search engines
she confirmed that FB was becoming a major search tool
when you search in FB it looks through its pages and if nothing is there it searches the www and will display links
you can set up a fishraider page that allows no content to be posted and all it does is directs to here
a information page so to speak and you gain the benefit of free exposure
on fb i have a group of 30 odd small boat owners, when one of us is going out we throw it on there and see if anyone wants tag along
good for inshore stuff when we want a buddy boat for safety reasons
so it has it uses apart from that i just post photos of the kids for mum overseas to look at
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That has made my day Juggs, so this site fits in the profanity filter at your work but facebook doesn't? There's more crap on facebook
Maybe your IT is a little "misinformed" and maybe i'm "ranting"
maybe the boss just knows i like fishing
nah few words get caught up in it there server they manage the risk
facebook is allowed as my marketing lady has to use it, and the other staff are trained to use it to promote the company
instead of paying through the nose to keep the website at the forefront of search results, a few targeted posts on facebook can really help with getting traffic to the site
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nothing wrong with facebook pages if admind properly, the ranters against it are probably just a little misinformed
pro - i cannot view fishraider from work due to the profanity filter, but facebook is allowed
pro - i guarantee you would get more searches for fishing information on facebook then through google.
my company just spent a lot of time researching and implementing a facebook page and our web page hits have gone through the roof as a consequence up 35%
cons - plenty if your a sky is falling type of person, but not enough to ignore it as a communication tool
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I buy the premise ones
Gang hooks wire and a ring
The ring makes it a lot easier to handle them
Just grab the ring and swing into the boat
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i put mine in the lawn mower
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I have a spotfree on Sunday to fish botany
If wind stays away will have a quick troll for Bonnie's then fish in the bay for flathead
Plan to drift and use plastics at various spots I have
All the kings have left and gone offshore and waters too dirty for squid
Meet at stclair about 5-5.30 home by 1
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Hi guys,
How much water comes out of your boat when you pull the bungs?
If I just sit in the river, hardly anything comes out. But If I go to wards the ocean, drive fast, turn corners, fill up the bait tanks a lot more comes out.
Is that normal?
none should come out, unless its rain or whats splashing into the boat
you have something leaking
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Thank you for the advice. I will differently try next time I am out.
i fished the bay saturday in borderline conditions for my boat
we trolled 5kays south as close as we could to the rocks 2.5m-3m swell predicted, had the wind up my bum and copped a few 2 stroke fumes which on top of how rough it was sent me off colour a little
tried trevally alley for pickers, then drifted in the eastern part of the bay for a few flatties
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if you start fishing botany ill tag along or you can tag along either way
i cant be arsed getting across sydney for the harbour ramps when i have a 35min cruise down the m7 m5 with one traffic lightat the end of my street and one at the boat ramp entry
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Oh and hey juggs, was that you out at WB a couple of Friday nights ago ? I had been to another spot caught my hairtail and stopped by WB on the way back to the ramp about 9 pm all I could see from cottage point was something lit up light daylight thought it must have been a UFO on the water catching hairtail.....???????
Probably was i was up there a few fridays ago giving it a run
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so you have 6k and need a 15ft boat, break it down into its component pieces
10-15 year old 60hp engine $2500
trailer $1000-$1500
leaves you 2k for a hull so 15+ year old aluminium with a very basic fit out
the boat in my profile is 16ft and cost me 9k and needed a fair bit of work, trailer is shagged etc
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Sydney harbour tennis balls and condoms
Botany bay tennis balls and kebab wrappers
Broken bay tennis balls and dead cows
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Dump the wire and put braid on its awesome
$40 got me 200yds of 300pd braid
No hum less blow back and I just use a standard fishing knot
Every few trips I just cut a meter off and retie
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I do it every 4 4l bottles of 2 stroke oil
When I buy a box of four bottles I buy a set of bearings
Weird but works for me if I use it more it means I check them more replace them more often
Sometimes it's every 6 months
By the time you have heard the grinding noise it's highly likely you have scoured the stub axle which if not cleaned up or replaced you will shorten the life of the new set
20k of boat is reliant on $60 worth of bearings
Apart from the inconvienenace of breaking down and not getting out
Its not worth losing it at speed and destroying the boat or killing someone
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generally when jumping to 4.2m you get a lot more boat
more depth more width more transom height
these big bays botany broken bay melbournes bays even the big dams here can get choppy and worse really quickly
i can remmber being in 1.5m+ waves in broken bay one day when i pushed my luck with a predicted southerly
one minute flat the next life jackets on an dflares out expecting to lose the boat
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minimum 4.2m boat like a quintrex dory or stacer rampage
30hp minimum for when you have the 2 adults 2 kid, could also pull a tube around
two twarth seats and a floor between, a big bimini and a cheap sounder and 27mhz so you can get weather warnings as any bay can blow up
5k would get a nice package 8-9k would get a brand new one without the bimini etc
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I've owned both Yammy and Zuki, the initial purchase price would be less for the Suzuki, maybe somewhat offset by six monthly rather than annual serving. Yammy certainly have the advantage with he dealer network but I'd tend to choose your nearest dealer and go with his brand.
in both four and 2 strokes in the 50-70hp range yamaha were significantly cheaper then suzuki and lighter in the 70hp at least there was 20-30 kilos in it
yamaha also has the benefit of their yloan financing, which ive used to buy 4-5 outboards 2 bikes and even a gokart
also as you said a much larger dealer network then the others
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what engine is it replacing and what was performance like top speed and rpm and on what hull
basically the biggest contributing factor i sthe quality of the dealer doing the initial fitup, sorting out the prop and then servicing it
all brands are decent, to me the dealer matters most as all brands play up and id say about the same amount (purely guestimation before someone jumps on me about their beloved white engines)
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didnt read what i wrote?
im not complaing about a licence, its just mildly amusing how the state gov thinks its a cash cow
the fee is excessive is all