Some Frewza action from the past two weeks 'after work' fishing, in the harbour, just short 2hr trips from the CBD, all sorts of species, Snapper, Tarakihi, Elephant Fish, Rig etc...

Hope the pics have worked, My F16 Fisher



   

Will post a few of my modifications I have done, when I can find them in this computer,






Split draw bar to make trailer shorter for the garage,also custom axle for a narrow entry thru the door

Cheers John, the Snapper will be round till end of May at least I'm hoping, always plentiful Gurnard supply to fall back on if not!

Jazza, great looking setup, the trailer looks very nice, is that a Voyager by chance? Wish I'd got the hinging drawbar after seeing Fissure's. Mind you his trailer was built round the boat... how they ideally all should be!

The trailer is a Hoskins great example of a trailer. Perfect set up for what I was after. Just looking at that web site its wicked what you can do with a draw bar, sky the limit.Mine would be the 3x3 welded seems well strong enough

I'm not using my riggers anymore with the dredge, they just don't work as well as rods in the holders, I'm running one strait out the back with the line on a rubber band to hold it flat, and another on a rod holder pointing out the side at 90 deg with the windon still on the rod tip.
Our small boats are to small and the riggers hold the lures to high.
My dredge runs under 1 st wave and lures behind it, with a bit of chop the lures run in the riggers would pop out of the waves and get airborne.
Takes a bit of mucking around with to sort out,Ive also got my dredge arm forward of the centre console now so I can see the dredge and the fish come in on it ,running on right hand side

Also I've bent the riggers so they run a bit flatter, when trolling a conventional spread they were sweet on dead flat days but in a swell the boat increased speed down hill and the lures popped out .

As with everything its trial and error, let us know how you get on , a mate had a cool idea for the dredge to to eliminate the trolling weight.
Running a stainless tube cleated to transome rails down into the water and the rope thru the pipe , simple as

yeah be interesting to see how the new unit goes CBF. so, after 500hrs any hiccups with motor or boat? what do you do with ya kings? might head out tomorrow and try and lay one down for the comp...

NZFisher wrote: Hey Ian, I finally came and had a look at whats up in the F.net Frewza-world - and there's 'my' boat :) Trust she's doing you well! I can confirm the F18 hardtop is AWESOME! I'm not surprised, they make such a  great boat the F18 hardtop was never going to let me know. Only a few small missions so far, but it's done really well.  If anyone has questions about the F18 hardtop - feel free to PM me, Derrick.

Hi Derrick,
I absolutely love my boat...just need a camera to document my trips out.
Launching and retrieving solo is a breeze and it handles the sometimes challenging Wellington conditions without issue. It is everything I was looking for and more...my compliments to you for putting together an fantastic boat, it attracts a lot of attention at the ramp and I constantly get lots of positive feedback.
I sorted out the issues I was having with the HDS...for some reason when I first turn it on it is in the middle of the USA...go into the menu and configure the satellites and its all good.

The F18 looks awesome mate...what a beast...I hope you are as happy with it as I am with mine.

Outriggers are 4.5m

Any one have 40hp tiller on F14 Dinghy? Thoughts?
Thanks