Such a sweet boat!! I just love the styling of your aluminum fishing boats in Australia. I wish you had them in the U.S. they are better looking than most of the pilot house style boats made here. Both are wonderful boats but I must admit that the Aussies really put some nice body lines on their Aluminum boats. This was a great video and it was a bit bittersweet story about the name, that name really means something. Thanks for the great video and the boat is so badass!!
One fuckin sic as vessel for out wide, Bloody love it. I've been looking at Blackwatch 26 which has always been my dream boat with a Yanmar 315HP and shaft drive closed in cab with A/C . This vessel is now compromising my dream Offshore rig.
Surprised tractors aren't more common over there for beach launching? Every small beachside community here in NZ is full of the bloody things lol. Although theres a particularly gnarly bit of coastline a few hrs south of me where the tractors make way for old bulldozers instead!
I'm slightly more than jealous 👌 Is there a reason one would go for a mono in that size as opposed to a cat (Sailfish springs to mind). Not towing on roads, tractor to launch and retrieve. Would like to hear experience and reasoning. I like to know other people's thoughts because we can all learn from someone.
may i comment I built boats sinc 1972, my own Co. since 86, building all in alu, from ocean sailboats, to commercial mussel harvesters t0 3o m and trailer boats to 9m In NZ where we use outdives for offshore I just drew ab 8m using tunnel for single 300 shp Cummins, 60 l hour and torque such that you leave throttles alone So here you are paying 400 t0 500 dollars hour for gas this makes no sense The profile of your boat looks good mistake, those long strakes, all they do is compound hard ride entry fwds looks good , that is deadrise 6mm IMO is overkill on the topsides plat, I'd use 5, but on the bottom, this is my choice please take this as a professional take on it.