Geelong / Portarlington

[fitzy90]

Have not put up a report for a while, so here goes

Finally had a chance to get the newest member of our fishing crews fleet on the water today, Captain Cranky!

Was a cracking morning so decided to see what sort of range we could get out of a tank before we start to take it offshore. Launched from St Helens ramp at the gentlemanly time of 8:30.
The boat handled like a dream so opened it up and made it around to indented heads in no time at all, a few boats fishing in the channel off clifton springs but not a hell of a lot of boats on the water given how good a day it was.
Drifted around prince George bank and the 3 of us had our bag of squid in around 2 hours, a few medium size but mainly small.

Decided to go for a cruse a bit farther down the shore line so made it to swan bay and turned around and came home.
So much life in the bay at the moment, dolphins came out of nowhere to play in front of the boat, seals sunbathing everywhere and gannets smashing the water in the massive bait balls we sounded up

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All in all a cracking day on the water.

[bowl]

Awesome boat ..I want one...lol

Great day for it !

[barra mick]

Fulled by jack daniels....nice touch

[Trumpeter]

Great Gannet pics..

[Lightningx]

Great report mate. Really nice boat! I was out today as well saw 2 pods of dolphins. Was a beautiful day to be on the water :thumbsup:

[Nude up]

Great photos how big is the fuel tank, swan bay from st helens is a fair way.how many klm did you cover.here is some useless information gannets have an airbag in their skull which they inflate just as they hit the water to prevent knocking themselves out

[fitzy90]

Great photos how big is the fuel tank, swan bay from st helens is a fair way.how many klm did you cover.here is some useless information gannets have an airbag in their skull which they inflate just as they hit the water to prevent knocking themselves out

Cheers mate, the fuel tank is 140 l, covered around 90 - 100 kms with 100l on board (had the back up tank there too just in case) sat on around 22 knots. There was a little chop first thing in the morning but the trip home was glass, will give it one more run in a bit choppier weather to get a good gauge on the range.

[Nude up]

Nice cruising speed I normally cruise between 22 and 27 knots depending on the conditions. How much fuel did it use

[Lightningx]

What size outboard you got on the back mate?

[fitzy90]

used around 90 l , so was on par on what we expected. its a 115 hp motor around 8 years old