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I give up . . . what are those and what is their purpose? Secret Men's business! :rotfl: :rotfl: They are used for live baiting with a heavy handline. 60 pounds plus! You basically drop your live bait to the sea bed, then lift it a couple of metres. Once the fish takes the bait, it loads the spring...

Always the long winded sod aren't ya Trouty! :nutkick: I never once presented my boat as the way things are done. I never said my boat was perfect. I do have floatation but didn't see the need to show the stash of Microlen foam stashed below decks. The amount of flex in the floor panels was due to t...

Do you guys use anything like theses? I have just fitted some handline springers to the boat. Following is a series of pictures of how they are used. They consist of a grommet type fitting with a threaded body and a nut much like a skin fitting. They have a machined groove in the rod, and 'R' clip r...

Burley Bucket.....yes. Ya can't believe how Americans just don't or won't adopt the burley bucket theory. Fresh chum, right out the stern. :thumbsup: Burley buckets are the shnizzle! So versatile that it's awesome to have one. Throw any old fish frames and guts in there to disperse slowly and form ...

That was the floor done. The next thing to do was to set back my motor. As mentioned earlier, this was to allow the use of a side mounted hydraulic ram for my steering. Yes, I know...I should have bought a bullhorn unit. :deadhorse: This is what it looked like before the motor was removed. Note also...

The original brackets that the console was bolted to was salvaged from the old floor and used to position it on the new floor. http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i48/JOC00L/DSCF6237Medium.jpg After it had been dummy fitted, gussets were made up for the brackets to be welded permanently to the subfram...

It's always the way. Now...where was I..... These two photos show what the underfloor area looked like before it was all cut out. Refer to the earlier photo to see the bare bottom of the boat. http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i48/JOC00L/Before1.jpg http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i48/JOC00L/Befor...

I had this boat custom built in 2004 and it has had a couple of transformations. Initially it was a tiller steered boat constructed of 4mm bottom and 3mm sides. The idea was to use it in the rivers and creeks chasing fish on artificials. I then found that I was heading out into bays and the open oce...

Here are some pictures of the bilge/underfloor area after the floor panels had been lifted. Sorry for the grainyness. :hammer: This first photo shows the rear section where my underfloor kill tank was situated. This had been a later addition to the boat and was not very practical and hardly ever use...

When I was looking for ideas for my boat I stumbled upon this forum. And having done so, I thought it fair that I share what I have done to my little tub. If you guys are anything like us Down Under, then you would love reading about this kinda stuff and how others do it. Just as a bit of an intro, ...