Originally Posted by
Corry
We're about to head down the path of purchasing another boat, or getting one built. We've recently got our 4m tinny for the estuary side of things, and we've got the 5m Top Ender as well. The 5m is great, but it's sort of between a good size for estuary and offshore. Little big for running crab pots and zipping up smaller creeks, and a little small for stepping outside.
Plans now are to replace it with something around the 6m mark, in plate alloy. I now get to start researching boats again, which I love. The replacement needs to be set up on full off-road trailer and bulletproof for our NT trips.
This is all a hobby for us, could I go without a boat, definitely not. We travelled once around northern QLD, Karumba etc with no boat, will never do that again. We are lucky that $$ aren't an issue, but overall, the boating, or sometimes fishing, is something that we both love to do, and being located in North QLD has it's benefits.
Same as others, I love to tinker, so setting up a boat, then using it once set up to suit our needs is a buzz. They're the same as building cars I reckon, they are never finished, there is always something else to be done, upgraded etc.
We have looked at the charters and 'Fishing Camps' in the NT in the past, but we love being able to do our own thing, have our own set up, and go to places that aren't popular, away from the masses. Not to mention the great times had with kids, kids partners, and mates.