brw0513
10-07-2007, 07:25 PM
Not a Quintrex Hornet or a Stessl Edgetracker or a Stacer Pro but easily good enough to get you well and truly on your way in the bream or bass fishing circuit without unnecessary expense.
This is a very capable boat for $7000. If you have budgeted for a dearer boat, then put some of it aside to buy three or four quality rod, reel and braid outfits and leave the rest in the bank to upgrade the boat to something else when your skills warrant it.
The Boston Whaler is an American made fibreglass boat with cathedral hull design and positive buoyancy. Even though the beam is only 1.54m, the boat is very stable at rest due to the hull design. Although best fished with two anglers onboard, I have often fished three-up with no stability problems.
It is very quiet on the water and with practice under electric power, it is easy to mooch this boat up to feeding bream around snags or pontoons. Depending on conditions I don’t think this is always the case with an aluminium hull.
The Boat/Motor/Trailer package weighs 575kg and tows very well behind a 4 cylinder car.
The boat can do 30 knots if required but 22 knots is very pleasant. It won’t get you from A to B as quick as some, but you will motor past a lot of prime bream territory on that journey anyway. In the cold early hours of the morning 18 knots is plenty fast enough.
The Swiftco trailer is of the tilting type so is kind on the boat hull during retrieval. The trailer is also a very good fit with the boat hull. There are five rollers supporting the central keel of the boat and two skids toward the stern to keep the boat upright on the trailer – just as the boat manufacturer would have intended.
I replaced the axle, springs and wheels and tyres around 9 months ago. Not because I needed to, just because I wanted the peace of mind new running gear gives you when you are towing a boat any distance. Holden HT hubs have also been fitted to replace the integral bearing type of wheel. You will not be up to your elbows in grease by the roadside if ever you need to change a tyre. Durahubs (http://www.durahub.com/index.html) have also been fitted. These are a much better proposition than alternative designs where pumping in too much grease only pops the axle seal out to let sea water in. The Durahubs work very well and the bearings only ever run slightly warm to the touch and I would have no hesitation towing this boat any distance.
Features of the boat:
* Side console with SS steering wheel and timber trim.
* Fully carpeted with casting deck, lean seat and heaps of storage.
* Two separate 60 litre live-wells. Permanently plumbed with an automatic adjustable timer.
* 50HP Yamaha 2-stroke outboard, 1996 model, electric start, trim & tilt, oil-injected in VGC. Solas 11.125 x 13 SS prop fitted with a Solas 11.4 x 12 alloy prop as a spare.
* 50 litre underfloor fuel tank, with two additional plastic 24l fuel tanks (separate plumbing) to extend fuel range for a long weekend trip.
* 55lb Minn Kota Riptide electric motor with spare prop.
* ACDelco 115Ah deep cycle battery for the Minn Kota with a separate Sea Master cranking battery (both with charge status indicator).
* Humminbird Legend 3005 sounder with speed and temp.
* New removable LED navigation lights and a new switch panel behind a hinged lid to keep it out of the salt environment.
* Anchor, chain and rope, two PDF Type 1 life jackets, mirror, V-sheet, paddles. The flares have just gone out of date so new ones will be required.
Features of the trailer:
* Tilting design, VGC.
* New 10" wheels on new HT hubs, spare wheel, new tyres, new 40mm square axle, new ALKO leaf springs, new bearings, Durahubs fitted,
* Fold away jockey wheel.
* Outboard motor support strut, stainless steel over-centre tie down strap.
* Dyneema winch rope fitted. This is a much better option than wire cable which eventually rusts, kinks and wire strands break with time.
This boat has been a very reliable and stable fishing platform chasing bream and flathead with lures and soft plastics in the Brisbane and Nerang Rivers. It is well maintained and always kept under cover.
12 months registration on boat and trailer.
Just couple up and go and learn how to catch bream or bass in any location you choose.
I'm only selling it because my three young daughters have a keen interest in fishing, so it's a half-cabin I now need.
Inspection and on-water test welcomed.
As a bonus, a maroon coloured bimini top is included and matches the colour of the carpet very well. I have never used it because I was of the opinion it would take up too much casting room but I fitted recently and it looks great. It is not complete since it is missing the rear stainless poles and hand rail fittings but they are of the SAINT brand and should definitely be available. The canvas is in very good order (stored for about 6 years in total). The poles, wire rope and pelican fittings are stainless steel. The hand rail fittings are chrome plated brass. No plastic or vinyl straps here - this is the Rolls Royce of bimini tops.
More photos available for viewing at http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w268/brw0513/Boston%20Whaler/
Happy to answer any specific questions. Just PM me.
This is a very capable boat for $7000. If you have budgeted for a dearer boat, then put some of it aside to buy three or four quality rod, reel and braid outfits and leave the rest in the bank to upgrade the boat to something else when your skills warrant it.
The Boston Whaler is an American made fibreglass boat with cathedral hull design and positive buoyancy. Even though the beam is only 1.54m, the boat is very stable at rest due to the hull design. Although best fished with two anglers onboard, I have often fished three-up with no stability problems.
It is very quiet on the water and with practice under electric power, it is easy to mooch this boat up to feeding bream around snags or pontoons. Depending on conditions I don’t think this is always the case with an aluminium hull.
The Boat/Motor/Trailer package weighs 575kg and tows very well behind a 4 cylinder car.
The boat can do 30 knots if required but 22 knots is very pleasant. It won’t get you from A to B as quick as some, but you will motor past a lot of prime bream territory on that journey anyway. In the cold early hours of the morning 18 knots is plenty fast enough.
The Swiftco trailer is of the tilting type so is kind on the boat hull during retrieval. The trailer is also a very good fit with the boat hull. There are five rollers supporting the central keel of the boat and two skids toward the stern to keep the boat upright on the trailer – just as the boat manufacturer would have intended.
I replaced the axle, springs and wheels and tyres around 9 months ago. Not because I needed to, just because I wanted the peace of mind new running gear gives you when you are towing a boat any distance. Holden HT hubs have also been fitted to replace the integral bearing type of wheel. You will not be up to your elbows in grease by the roadside if ever you need to change a tyre. Durahubs (http://www.durahub.com/index.html) have also been fitted. These are a much better proposition than alternative designs where pumping in too much grease only pops the axle seal out to let sea water in. The Durahubs work very well and the bearings only ever run slightly warm to the touch and I would have no hesitation towing this boat any distance.
Features of the boat:
* Side console with SS steering wheel and timber trim.
* Fully carpeted with casting deck, lean seat and heaps of storage.
* Two separate 60 litre live-wells. Permanently plumbed with an automatic adjustable timer.
* 50HP Yamaha 2-stroke outboard, 1996 model, electric start, trim & tilt, oil-injected in VGC. Solas 11.125 x 13 SS prop fitted with a Solas 11.4 x 12 alloy prop as a spare.
* 50 litre underfloor fuel tank, with two additional plastic 24l fuel tanks (separate plumbing) to extend fuel range for a long weekend trip.
* 55lb Minn Kota Riptide electric motor with spare prop.
* ACDelco 115Ah deep cycle battery for the Minn Kota with a separate Sea Master cranking battery (both with charge status indicator).
* Humminbird Legend 3005 sounder with speed and temp.
* New removable LED navigation lights and a new switch panel behind a hinged lid to keep it out of the salt environment.
* Anchor, chain and rope, two PDF Type 1 life jackets, mirror, V-sheet, paddles. The flares have just gone out of date so new ones will be required.
Features of the trailer:
* Tilting design, VGC.
* New 10" wheels on new HT hubs, spare wheel, new tyres, new 40mm square axle, new ALKO leaf springs, new bearings, Durahubs fitted,
* Fold away jockey wheel.
* Outboard motor support strut, stainless steel over-centre tie down strap.
* Dyneema winch rope fitted. This is a much better option than wire cable which eventually rusts, kinks and wire strands break with time.
This boat has been a very reliable and stable fishing platform chasing bream and flathead with lures and soft plastics in the Brisbane and Nerang Rivers. It is well maintained and always kept under cover.
12 months registration on boat and trailer.
Just couple up and go and learn how to catch bream or bass in any location you choose.
I'm only selling it because my three young daughters have a keen interest in fishing, so it's a half-cabin I now need.
Inspection and on-water test welcomed.
As a bonus, a maroon coloured bimini top is included and matches the colour of the carpet very well. I have never used it because I was of the opinion it would take up too much casting room but I fitted recently and it looks great. It is not complete since it is missing the rear stainless poles and hand rail fittings but they are of the SAINT brand and should definitely be available. The canvas is in very good order (stored for about 6 years in total). The poles, wire rope and pelican fittings are stainless steel. The hand rail fittings are chrome plated brass. No plastic or vinyl straps here - this is the Rolls Royce of bimini tops.
More photos available for viewing at http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w268/brw0513/Boston%20Whaler/
Happy to answer any specific questions. Just PM me.