My First Boat Options

[poly]

do you have a photo of your first



Paul

[Fed]

No photo Poly but I can give a description.

Hartley 15' plywood half cabin called 'Bluefin'.

Fitted with a 265 Cubic Inch side valve V8 Ford motor directly coupled to the prop shaft.
No gearbox, no dog clutch, no nothing.
Used to have to aim the boat to open water and as the starter motor was cranking over the boat was creeping forward, of course when it fired up all hell broke lose.
It was an exciting boat to get going on a cold morning.

[poly]

No photo Poly but I can give a description.

Hartley 15' plywood half cabin called 'Bluefin'.

Fitted with a 265 Cubic Inch side valve V8 Ford motor directly coupled to the prop shaft.
No gearbox, no dog clutch, no nothing.
Used to have to aim the boat to open water and as the starter motor was cranking over the boat was creeping forward, of course when it fired up all hell broke lose.
It was an exciting boat to get going on a cold morning.

sounds like real fun mate, that piece of tin shit dam near killed me

[Fed]

Come on, tell us the story mate.

[poly]

let me put it this way, they split open in a big bad storm

[kkw]

My first one was a DeHavilland 15ft almost the same as yours Pol. Used to go out of Port Hacking, down to Stanwell Humps, Garie, Marley etc for years. Got a photo somewhere. See if I can scan it.

[Jumpus GooDarus]

Dont rissen to Fed poly
His 1st boat was a whale attracting device but only for male whales they use to try humping it

Not to mention how salty would've been offended when Fed had to tie milk crates on a rope tow them behind to stabilise the boat

Go the Gudma

[storms72]

My first was a 10ft fibreglass tender found by accident in the bay behind our family house...I was windsurfing-bloody thing cost me a new fin and a sore head when I hit it at speed, a half brick was stuck in one of the holes in the floor...Used my dads 14ft trimcraft-6hp suzuki to tow the tender back home..A few days of glass over ply repairs, wood centre seat glassed in and a few $$$$ spent on a 2hp suzuki(local dealer was my old mans mate) rod holders, anchor, borrowed dads rope from trailer, I was the proud owner of what looked like a motorized sabot with a wonky crooked fibreglass winged keel ...that little boat helped me catch many many fish around the brisbane waters.

First family boat I remember was quinnie fishabout.

[poly]

Dont rissen to Fed poly
His 1st boat was a whale attracting device but only for male whales they use to try humping it

Not to mention how salty would've been offended when Fed had to tie milk crates on a rope tow them behind to stabilise the boat

Go the Gudma

And so j.g. what was your first boat a photo would be good, but a discristion (don't know how to spell that word) will do.
we all know it was a pressed tin thing with j.g. mods, so were is it now, sunk I would think or rooted away.

Paul

[Fed]

Ahhh, The Mighty Gudma, she was my second boat Jumpy you missed the first one.

Was thinking about my old boats today & realized the Seafarer is the first mono c/w single outboard I've ever owned, all the others have been sterndrives, shaftdrives and the Cat.

I'm a bit of a keeper, 5 boats in 40 years not counting jointly owned boats because they don't relly feel like they're yours.

I had the same car for 25 years, I like to get my moneys worth out of things.

[Jumpus GooDarus]

Geezus poly

Ewe detroyed a perfectly good tinny just so could use the yellow canopy & go around telling evlly bloody's you had a polycraft

Hell you're weider than the seafairy owners on this site

[nimrod]

My first means of water transportation was half of a cable roll/holder, flat piece of wood from one side of a reel that holds the cables for the electricity,,,, ( leckie things were starting to become popular when I first took to the water ) I got a large straightish pole and pushed this raft along the river, Parramatta river.
My first factory made boat was a savage 12' tinnie and a 4hp johno motor on trailer, before I got a drivers licence, so my brother inlaw would tow it down the river launch me in it and pick me up later in the day.
A couple of years later i got my licence and a car and started fishing places I couldn't get to before that.
I have had that many boats I can't remember them all.
I have had my 12' punt now for about 40 years and probably die with it.

[nimrod]

My first boat I ever went outside the heads in was a 15' wooden clinker with single cylinder lister engine and prop on a shaft. You started it by spinning a huge thick flywheel and it had a lever that you slammed into gear.
First place outside I ever fished was jibbon bombora, shortly after that I heard of a place called the peak and after a few hairy trips out there over a few years I decided to get a propper boat and bought a new Pongrass 17' 2" waverider, that was about 1970.
Today I have another pongrass waverider in my stable and it's still as good a boat as they were in 1970.

[Jumpus GooDarus]

Did ewe drive it in the nutty frank

[Spudly]

Picked up my new one today....

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[Fed]

What did you get Rumpus?

[Spudly]

Hope the pic works!

[Fed]

Excellent mate perfect allrounder, what size motor is on it?

[poly]

Hope the pic works!

Chad this will never do, we need a complete photo spread and no air brushing, we need to see it as it really is.


Paul

[Jumpus GooDarus]

What did you get Rumpus?

a 1/2 boat

Told him i didn't need a life boat when he rocked up with it esp a 1/2 a raft

Spud dosen't know but i needed a place to do some wee wee's