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G'day Christien
We had a Northbank 600C for a couple of years. My impressions were good, well built, good layout, the finish perhaps not as schmick as some but good. Like other BMT packages the trailer capacity is pushing reality, though ours had a 3 tonne trailer rather than the usual 2t. I think the 600C is similar to other popular boats in the 6m range like the seafarer victory, very similar specs including weight. You'll notice some of the cheaper glass boats get the price down with less weight, but the Northbanks seem to be in a good slot in that regard. I liked the high sides, the 750 has very high sides at over a metre from memory. Some stand up game fishers don't like that much. One 750ht that sold went interstate and a couple of years later came back on the market and they had put a raised floor in the back, horrible, but demonstrates the point. A self draining deck would be a great standard for the 750. The only thing I didn't like was the floor, fixed carpet in the middle and slippery gelcoat either side, arggghh. Particularly tuna fishing, a nightmare. I fixed the slip hazard with heronaire tube matting, but that wasn't great either. when I cleaned the boat with a pressure washer the matting would re direct the blood and guts sideways in to the side pockets. Other manufacturers can make a non slip long lasting fibreglass finish (at least one anyway) that is easy to clean so I don't understand why Northbank continue down the same old path. If I had my time again I would rip out the carpet and get the whole floor refinished with a non slip additive (microbeads or something) or maybe seadeck or similar. I hate carpet in boats, though I understand why ali boat owners go that way to reduce heat and glare, but when I've had it in previous boats at least it was removable.
I've never been in a 750ht except while its still on a trailer, but did consider buying one, in the end there wasn't a secondhand one available. The 750 came out after Clayton Marine closed down and I figured they saw a gap in the market where the Gallant 7.4 had been. The huge unclutered fishing area is enough to give any fisherman's or fisherwomens heart a flutter With a stern drive diesel economy would be great, but servicing can be tedious so they tell me.
Overall, great local brand with the 750HT a worthy flagship.
All in my opinion
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A pity about the tonic's reeftrip, but I'd say you would have buckley's chance of a successful warranty claim under those circumstances from any manufacturer.
I still have my maui jims and had new lenses fitted after I put them up on my head when I went in the shed and had a drink of water, hmmm, concrete and glass not good friends.
I recently went to national pharmacies and got a couple of pairs of the cancer council polarised sunnies, with 20% member discount $24. They are plastic so good for those cold mornings and knock about type thing. Actually not too bad either. A spare pair in the boat and the car
Cheers
Rod
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G'day
I do all my smoking in a larger hark smoker but do have one of those small 3 burner ones. I've only used it once and I can tell you that using all 3 burners is much too hot
I devised my own simple method that gets all thumbs up from those that try it. Take some soy sauce, sweet chilli and some brown sugar, mix it together in kind of even amounts, brush it on the fish, for tuna I leave it overnight but tommies an hour would be enough but longer won't hurt (I'm thinking you'll have fillets?). Get the smoke going, you would need the vent open to keep the heat generation. I would think 20 mins would be enough, but make sure it is cooked (hot). This is hot smoking, basically cooking the fish with some smoke flavour and you want to make sure it's cooked. Cold smoking is a completely different preservation process. I used to use brine like everyone says and it completely spoils it in my opinion and just adds more work. Saw dust is what they generally recommend for those little smokers.
Experiment with the burners, I think getting that even and a nice temperature will be the toughest part.
Cheers
Rod
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I've never done cutlets or eaten them, but personally like my fish to only have flesh, no bones or remnants of bones (apart from snapper wings). It takes about the same time fillet a snapper and skin it as a whiting and you end up with nice clean bone free fillet. Just curious as to what is the attraction to cutlets when my imagination points to bones and bone bits in the flesh?
Cheers
Rod
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I will never have carpet in a boat, EVER again. I did think it would be good in the saloon of my new 60 footer, but someone else won the $100 million
If the carpet is removable it's not so bad you can hang it over something a squirt from both sides, but fixed is a real pain. Lofty's idea of napisan is worth a try I would think. It works well on hard floors and most other things. Try a little mixed first, not sure about residue
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G'day
Got new laptop this week and tried to install photo gallery with a saved installation file, but got an error message. After spending a couple of hours searching for solutions I finally found it here and downloaded the full setup file. The one I had, relied on downloading more files that are no longer available from microsoft.
https://yellowduckguy.wordpress.com/
File is here https://app.box.com/s/jx4k354twd2ccu3kefg00qrl5tvodtvg
I'm confident the file is safe and worked fine for me but please take personal responsibility if you do the same.
I've tried a few other programs for photo management but non suit my needs like photo gallery, I wish they had kept it going
Also comes with movie maker which also like.
Cheers
Rod
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45 minutes ago, dmck said:
Just 1 lens? Cant have been a serious evening!
The problem comes when you travel. My camera gear nearly exceeds my weight limit😡😡
Yeah it was a bit like that. LOL
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G'day Adrian
I enjoy your pics and like taking some myself. It's a pity photo gallery has been discontinued, such a great program for sorting and basic editing. A few months ago I did a clean install and with photo gallery not available I looked around at other options but they all seemed to lack the simplicity of sorting, tagging, rating, face recognition and basic editing. I ended up finding a non microsoft source for the program and continue on with it for now. So easy to find pics. Isn't digital photography amazing, I remember the dark ages when I was paying 18% mortgage interest and taking pictures was a rare extravagance. Now I click away willy nilly and the only concern is deleting as many as possible so I don't end up with too many
Went to a sony camera training night the other night and the main thing I learned was that now I 'need' a lens that costs more than the camera
Cheers
Rod
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Reelfun. Your one of those that said they read Playboy for the articles aren't you LOL
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G"day
I like shimano but in recent years have bought a number of these for snapper and tuna. 8-10 kg are good for snapper and 10 - 15kg for tuna. I fish deep with 8 - 16oz sinkers so go the 850 or 950 reel. You can select which combo you want and don't be fooled in to thinking they are not good quality because of the price. Mind you can pay more than that just for the reel elsewhere.
Cheers
Rod
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I've got a big version of these. Not sure if would suit your situation?
Cheers
Rod
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On 09/03/2018 at 10:34 AM, AquaticResearch1 said:
Do you use water resistant cameras, Adrian? Or are you unlikely to get them wet in the process?
Half considering a camera for the kayak, but it'll get splashed and knocked around.
G'day
I guess you've probably looked in to it, but the action camera style might suit yak fishing best, with everything close and you get attachments to hold on a stick under water etc. I've bought a couple of the cheaper ones, an SJ4000 and a kings one, pretty cheap and work pretty good. Maybe a starting point
Cheers
Rod
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6 hours ago, AquaticResearch1 said:
Do you use water resistant cameras, Adrian? Or are you unlikely to get them wet in the process?
Half considering a camera for the kayak, but it'll get splashed and knocked around.
I've had the panasonic 'tough' camera for about 9 years, it's been in pools, snorkelling on the GBR, bouncing around in the boat (at least when I had a mono LOL), pics taken with fishy hands etc, just wash under a tap and wipe off the lens and good as new. It's the orange one they used to advertise with a guy skimming it across a raging river. Pics are pretty good, video also. But must be lots of options/brands now, be good for a yak I reckon, no fisheye effect like the action cameras, but they have their uses also. I keep a fopro in the boat to, but must admit most pics get taken on our S5's which are water resistant also
Cheers
Rod
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Gee that's a small camera Adrian.
I thought you might have bought a rugged style camera given the hiking and wading you do. What swung you this way. I keep a panasonic TS1 on the boat that I've had for years, that does a pretty good job but getting a little old now, but it can be washed which is good. I recently went the other way and bought a mirror-less camera (A6000) after I wanted to get a large print but the definition good enough. Now I have to get those great pics again that took me years to get, sighhhh. I will still use my sony HX30V which is a great point and shoot and fits in a pocket, just. Here's a pic for others to see how small Adrian's new camera is
Cheers
Rod
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17 hours ago, gregtech said:
Nice pic Adrian. Watched a doco on them that was an eye opener. In some cases after mating, while the male is catching his breath, the female turns around, grabs him and chews his head clean off. Nasty girls.......
I can relate to that, but usually after I've said something funny, well I thought so LOL
Northbank 750HT Info
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G'day Christien
Just had a look at the witch craft, I've seen one of those recently and thought it was a gallant but different hard top layout to those I've seen. Now I know better. The Northbank seems a better buy and appropriately priced imo.
I understand why your dad fell in love with the 600c, nice chunky boat with low centre of gravity, not like the 80's boats with the low transom etc. As advertised they are hard turning, you can pretty much go full throttle and full lock, first time I went in one the owner did this, I actually felt the g forces, much harder than I would ever turn but impressive. We were doing some filming. Not possible in our cat though, but we can go a lot faster and much more comfortable in a straight line
Good luck
Cheers
Rod