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Thanks, every thing is all tied up and all ropes doubled and insurance all paid up. On the ferry back home now we have some people who live on the boats near by who will keep a eye on her for us.

Signed the papers on our new boat yesterday. She is a Bayliner 305 powered by twin Mercruiser 350 MAG MPI's. I now reside in Townsville so this will allow me to fish the reef in absolute comfort and allow us to duck down to Whitsundays for long weekends.

Thanks for the advise guys She's a nice looking rig but its the stuff you can't see that worries me Might just stick to outboards

Hi i havnt been online for a while as i have left sydney and now living the good life on Magnetic Island in North Queensland looking at getting a new boat that will suit both my needs and the mrs we are looking at getting a 28 foot Mustang 2800 Sportscruiser the hull is from 2002 we live on a island so its going to be at our berth i have only ever owned boats with outboards so this is where i need the advise of some wiser members it is powered by a Volvo Penta 5.7 GXi-B petrol engine with 650 hours and duo prop leg. Equipped with neutra salt. it has a 290 litre fuel and has just had the leg serviced and hull antifouled from what the current owner has said its not too bad on the fuel he can do a return trip out to the reef which is around 140km on around 170ltrs of fuel and that is when he is sitting on 28knots we would mostly be using the boat for cruising around the island and going on the odd trip out to the reef when the weather suits he is chasing around 40k does this sounds about right for a boat of this age with 650hrs on the clock ??? looking forward to your thoughts thanks Simon

yep i stay at this place its great ill be back there in 50 days http://www.bachcare.co.nz/accommodation-holiday-homes/coromandel~east_coast_coromandel~tairua~1319

did you try zooming in more ??? dont think mine shows that much detail when im zoomed that far out

just from looking at that picture i would say the transom is going to be soft those cable management things look like they where just screwed in im sure water has been soaking into the tranny thru those drill holes

thanks guys was a great trip just a shame about the weather the doggies are one fun fish to tangle with cant wait to get back over there to get some larger models here is a clip of the doggie i got on a popper rod is a JM gt monster with a gosa 18k with a williamson jet popper

few videos from the trip video of my larger doggie video of the big Dolly

edgewaters beautiful boats

just got back from a few days fishing in vanuatu sadly the weather gods didn't want to play nice and each day we were greeted with 40km winds each and every day we still got out each day to fish but we only really got to fish the 1 spot still scored a few nice fish and drank a good chunk of the islands beer reserves we never really targeted the gt's as we just stuck in close to a volcano to stay out of the winds and try tempt a doggie or 2 the other boat spent a few hrs each day on the gt's and managed 2 im not one for writing reports so ill just throw up some pictures taken through out the trip looking forward to getting back over there

Caught this little guy on a williamson jet popper few nights ago Good cheap little lure Fallings also worked a treat

Nice collection Im heading to vanautu this afternoon for 4 days fishing ive got a suitcase full of tackle dont even have room for clothes What rods n reels are you taking over You might also want to invest in some short tuna style jigs as the doggies prefer them over your longer knife jigs Heres a few of my latest additions to my bag of tricks Jigging master fallings jigs and a few aswb stickbaits

Hi Im heading over to vanuatu for a week chasing doggies and gts on both jigs and poppers After some advise from people that have fished there before on what lures work Thanks in advance Simon