Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Upgraded the wee frewza to a slightly bigger wee surtees, just before knee surgery so been a painful wait to get back out for a dive. Managed to get in the drink over the weekend for an awesome wee dive taking one each of king, trev, snap, dory, kahawai, koheru. Bloody good to be mobile again

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Originally Posted by Nick-D

Upgraded the wee frewza to a slightly bigger wee surtees, just before knee surgery so been a painful wait to get back out for a dive. Managed to get in the drink over the weekend for an awesome wee dive taking one each of king, trev, snap, dory, kahawai, koheru. Bloody good to be mobile again

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Wicked, more boat picks please. What size you get and what donk and options cost etc.
Just dreaming at this stage but want to upgrade to a 5-5.5m Surtees/extreame/senator/stabi.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Wicked, more boat picks please. What size you get and what donk and options cost etc.
Just dreaming at this stage but want to upgrade to a 5-5.5m Surtees/extreame/senator/stabi.

Just a 485 man, so not really a true 5m. More a 4.7 plus duck board. Beamy though so still plant of space for bottom bouncing and spearing. Not as good for softbaiting etc as the rocket launcher gets in the way. Was literally the biggest boat I can fit in my driveway haha.

Just has a yammy 60 on it which goes plenty well. Did 70km on the weekend, half of which was into 15 knot slop and used about 20l of gas.

Big wait times at the moment for new so purchased second hand instead.

Pretty impressed so far, handles a chop really well, rides very softly for its size, super economical and pretty stable (the frewza had it beat on stability but the surtees rides way nicer.)

If I had the space the 540 hardtop would be a damn hard boat to beat under the 5.5m mark.

Extremes are mint but you are paying a bunch of money for paint and finish which for my uses doesn't help much,

Senator and stabis both good boats, almost bought the 1450 Pro fisher the surtees rode way nicer though and the shelter of the cuddy won out over lure fish ability. Modern stabis are cleverly thought out boats, but bloody dare

Originally Posted by Nick-D

Extremes are mint but you are paying a bunch of money for paint and finish which for my uses doesn't help much,

Senator and stabis both good boats, almost bought the 1450 Pro fisher the surtees rode way nicer though and the shelter of the cuddy won out over lure fish ability. Modern stabis are cleverly thought out boats, but bloody dare

Yea the stabi are crazy money now...Id be looking 1550 if going that way but they are small inside....like less room than my 4.5 fryan....1650 would be great but realistically way out of my price range.
I really like the senator 540 but down here at least there isn't much difference in price between it and the extreme and the extremes fit and finish is far superior.
Im not a fan of colour painted hulls but to have the entire hull and topsides with no protection at all like senator makes no sense, 5 years down the track ya 50k boat looks 30years old with the oxidation so have to factor in a wrap or nyalic on top of cost.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Yea the stabi are crazy money now...Id be looking 1550 if going that way but they are small inside....like less room than my 4.5 fryan....1650 would be great but realistically way out of my price range.
I really like the senator 540 but down here at least there isn't much difference in price between it and the extreme and the extremes fit and finish is far superior.
Im not a fan of colour painted hulls but to have the entire hull and topsides with no protection at all like senator makes no sense, 5 years down the track ya 50k boat looks 30years old with the oxidation so have to factor in a wrap or nyalic on top of cost.

Wrap all the way. Nylac looks good but it's pretty finicky. Doesn't like petrol or sunblock etc. Mines nylac'd and its starting to come away. Will. Probably wrap it up

Lazercraft is another mean, often overlooked option. Nicely finished, I think they still do a 520? The latest iteration of the fc boats are good too.

Spoiled for choice here in nz. Only problem at the moment is the bloody waiting lists

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Originally Posted by Nick-D

Wrap all the way. Nylac looks good but it's pretty finicky. Doesn't like petrol or sunblock etc. Mines nylac'd and its starting to come away. Will. Probably wrap it up

Lazercraft is another mean, often overlooked option. Nicely finished, I think they still do a 520? The latest iteration of the fc boats are good too.

Spoiled for choice here in nz. Only problem at the moment is the bloody waiting lists

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Yea logically I should sell mine now while its worth something and buy another in a couple of years when the market settels down but...

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Yea logically I should sell mine now while its worth something and buy another in a couple of years when the market settels down but...

Surely with your skill set you would be better off building veitnamcam