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I have the Aldi ones with remote still haven’t put them in.

Good work getting the son addicted early. Nice catch

The boat still has the same shackle it had on it when sold new. I was also a bit surprised the new boat had just the one chain instead of two like the smaller boat it replaced.

Your knowledge is awesome Rick. I have seen the boats heading out from Elizabeth beach and figured good fishing would be close by. We go to Smiths lake for 1 week a year we don’t do much during fishing though.

My understanding is on the 60 cent scheme the meters put all of the power you produce into the grid. All of the power you use comes from the grid. The most sensible way when the rebate is higher than the cost of electricity. On later install when the rebate was only part of the cost of the power (like mine) the meters use all of the power produced in the house first and put the remaining power into the grid. What I am saying is you might be selling your power for a low rate and buying it back at the high rate. Where now you want to use the power you make first and buy the difference.

They might call them cherry blind rivets.

After the 65c thing finished did they change your meters?

Going fishing and Berley guts are pretty right in that you need a good offset. I think my pool does that in my case. I just looked mine up I got it in October 2013 and it cost me $6,800.00. It has produced 32MWH that’s 32000kw. If I use all of that power myself at the current rate (29c/kw)it’s 32000x0.29=$9280 saved If I feed all that power back into the grid at the current rate (11.1) it’s $3552.00 saved. There is another thing to to think about that is the removal and replacement cost if you decide to do anything to your home such as reroofing or extension. As a builder it can really push the cost of jobs up moving solar power, solar hot water, pool heating and the like.

My aircon is a ducted 22kw version three phase. The aircon guy tells me a 22kw cooling AC uses roughly a third of that. ( I don’t realky understand that though!) I upgraded to a three phase inverter. The system is a 5kw system 20 panels. I installed mine when I got divorced 5 years ago so it’s hard to compare bills. But they were between 800 and 1800 per quarter . They are now between 200 and 600 ( in summer using the AC). I calculated over summer the pool was costing around 450 per quarter. I am happy and think it paid off well.

Sorry I can’t help with acontact, the one I used dissapeared but I’d think the job was fine., there was plenty of crap ones at there . I’m a builder and we have worked on one house in particular with a dodgy install. Of course that company had dissapeared too. Everything was live the frame, the sarking, the fascia and gutter. That’s how we noticed it a contractor got a jolt. So I can’t help you with a contact. I have a 5kw system and it has worked out for me. Even when power went up recently so did the rebate. I produce roughly the same amount that I use so the only reason I have a bill is because the power you buy is around 4 times what you put in the grid. In my case I have a pool so I have the Pool system working during the middle of the day so I am using a lot of the power I produce. I think it’s important to have an idea of when you use the most power and what on to assess if it’s worthwhile. My pool uses around 3.5kw/hr if the 3 pumps are running. So it is a good offset. Also if it’s warming up and I’m home I put the AC on early preferably when the Pool isn’t on. It uses about 8.0kw I think. Jason

Nice work those pippies sure do get the fish. 2 beers between three hmm Sounds like the house was in a top spot.

Great fish. Sounds like a cracking weekend.

It’s hard to know what’s the best way. We use Tefgel as above as one option. Fittings like rod holders we drill the appropriate size rivet holes and prime and paint them. We use sikkafkex under the rod holders to seal them, rivet them down and clean off any excess. Other fittings we have drilled over size holes primed and painted. We used nylon fixings with sikka or tefgel on and around the hole. We avoid self tapping screws as much as possible. They break the paint moisture gets under it, the aluminium oxidises and the bubbles grow from there. That’s my take on it anyway. To us it’s all about stopping moisture and salt getting near raw aluminium at the fixing point. It’s a bit of mucking around. Another thing we have done is wax the top deck off the boat trying to prevent any minute imperfections in the paint allowing moisture through. That makes it slippery though. I hope that helps. Good luck.

Great post. It’s funny some of the things that happen in a days Fishing.

Great session. What a top sporting and table fish they are. I bleed them and put them on ice fairly quickly. Fillet them and cut the blood lines out giving 4 fillets. Lightly coat with olive oil and seasoning and put on the grill plate. Watch the colour come through, turn off the heat, turn them and the other side cooks on the remaining heat. Yummo

Just out of curiosity were you near the wreck? As far as I know that area is mostly sand with very little reef.

Wow if Yowie occasionally gets them these things are rare!

We called this one as a marbled flattie. Caught mid last of the Sea Cliff Bridge. Do the colourings underneath and tail markings match yours?

Great write up it just wasn’t happening on the day

We were in the same area on Friday. After a couple of early squid we trolled lures down the coast thinking we would at least pickup something pretty easy and came up empty too. We didn’t even mark much in the sounder. We ended up settling for a feed of flatties off Marley. Id love to know the answer to that question too.

I just use the standard ones the rated ones dont fit the towbar on my car.

Also have a look at this link. Plenty of sail boats moored there so I’d say you are correct. You would want to fish around the high off the pontoon I’d say.

I remember quite a few moored boats not necessarily a sailing club though. Plenty of ribbon weed about. There is a wharf/pontoon near the ramp.

In the bay near the ramp it may be worth a shot for some squid. It has been awhile since I was there though.

I generally do better before the sun comes up. Around any moorings specifically at Lilly Pilly. If that doesn’t work I have another go at Jibbon.