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GDay to everyone. This seems a great way to share ideas and check out the great plastics Australia has to offer. I live just out of Darwin and have just purchased a 5.99 frontier centre console. It is currently getting fuel tank built to survey so it is available for some commercial use. Currently it is a bare shell and is getting a fwd casting deck with kill tank and aft casting deck with chairs. I have a new 175 suzuki waiting to go on and shall personally look at the bolts and make sure there is plently of goop spread through, after reading about those leaky issues. Has anyone put a deck wash system with a sea suction through the bottom skin? I have been thinking about a double flange with rubber gaskets but unsure how much flex these boats have. I have heard of constant problems with a boat that tried and curious to see if someone has perfected it. I only have limited pics as yet, but shall palce a few as the fitout begins.
You won't see any blood on the decks with that colour. Why d'ye need a deck wash?
Welcome to the zoo, Pearsy! We need more pix!
To keep a clean deck from a fishing session you are only going to see in the top end.
Pearsy, I've done about 20 trips to Bamaga and fished with Carpentaria Seafaris. I know what it's like. As a Gentleman, you understand - no bait or lures!:D
bushbeachboy
12-02-2010, 09:05
Welcome aboard the zoo Pearsy. This is a great place to get info and ideas. Don't take any notice of the gentlemen fly swatters. Of course they don't know how much mess is made when you have a good session - to a fly swatter a good session is getting out of the house with a whole rod.laugh1
Pirate Pete
12-02-2010, 13:09
Welcome aboard Pearsy
I always wanted a RED 1 but they wouldnt make them back then in the bigger boats.
Im thinking of putting a deck wash in our 5.3 but am looking to bring the fitting up the transom & then in so I dont have any holes below the water line. Poly is extremely hard to seal with any silicon etc. I am thinkinf of taping a electrical gland into the back side of the transom & then poking the pipe through that to keep things sealed up.
Pirate Pete
12-02-2010, 13:12
Don't take any notice of the gentlemen fly swatters. Of course they don't know how much mess is made when you have a good session - to a fly swatter a good session is getting out of the house with a whole rod.laugh1
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"to a fly swatter a good session is getting out of the house with a whole rod."
You can be a right bitch sometimes, you know? (agro)(agro)
All the transom pick ups seem to spray water underway all around an expensive motor. A six bolt flanged system works on other flexible pipes so I am curious about a through hull pick up. Poly in Bundy have told of some failure stories but someone out there may know.
Regarding the red one, a mate up here sells them because they did only do white, but I'm not sure if this has changed. It also hides the red dust as we don't have sealed roads everywhere.
Pirate Pete
13-02-2010, 08:19
The obvious thing is to weld a poly pipe in.
As for the colour thing It was around the time of the 4.8 being released that Polycraft started making the bigger boats in colour again.
bushbeachboy
13-02-2010, 09:50
Pearsy I had a thru-hull pickup for a deck wash on a longboat. It worked well and made no spray. From memory (not too reliable:D) the thru hull fitting was mounted forward. It didn't work when planing, because a fair bit of the long boat hull is out of the water.
I don't see any reason you couldn't do it with a poly.2thumbsup
Was the longboat glass or plastic?
welcome to the site and another poly owner in the Top End.
Drop us a PM and we should try and catch up mate.
Cheers Bones
Captain Jack
13-02-2010, 14:03
Interested to hear your comment about awaiting an in survey fuel tank. I am having a 5.3 built an intend putting it into NSW survey. Was told some weeks ago by Polycraft that the initial problem with NSW Maritime regarding the 'standard' tank not meeting survey standards had finally been resolved and that my boat would be supplied with a newly designed 'survey standard' tank fitted.
BUT was advised by Polycraft 5 days ago that the 'new' tank has also been knocked back due to a lower melting point than is requierd (melts at 130 degrees and not the survey standard requirement of 150 degrees and they are now "back to square one" re the fuel tank issue. Very frustrating!! Hope you are having better luck than me?
Pirate Pete
13-02-2010, 19:19
Interested to hear your comment about awaiting an in survey fuel tank. I am having a 5.3 built an intend putting it into NSW survey. Was told some weeks ago by Polycraft that the initial problem with NSW Maritime regarding the 'standard' tank not meeting survey standards had finally been resolved and that my boat would be supplied with a newly designed 'survey standard' tank fitted.
BUT was advised by Polycraft 5 days ago that the 'new' tank has also been knocked back due to a lower melting point than is requierd (melts at 130 degrees and not the survey standard requirement of 150 degrees and they are now "back to square one" re the fuel tank issue. Very frustrating!! Hope you are having better luck than me?
In the early models Polycraft had Stainless Steel Tanks. You would think that they could fit that & comply, even if they had to go down the road & get 1 made to order.
bushbeachboy
13-02-2010, 19:31
Was the longboat glass or plastic?
Glass mate. It was a Goodwin 595.
Pete
I live in Bundy where the Poly boats are made, and have not heard of "raod 7" in the refidex !laugh1laugh1
And Pearsy
Welcome to the forum mate.I am bloody jealous of a 5.99 with 175 ponies on the back I must say.Firetruck red too !
bushbeachboy
13-02-2010, 21:01
And Pearsy
Welcome to the forum mate.I am bloody jealous of a 5.99 with 175 ponies on the back I must say.Firetruck red too !
AND he's getting a fire hose fitted....laugh1
I am getting an alloy one. Basically it is a tank in a tank, needs to be inspected before the top is welded on then pressure tested then bolt the top on the coffin. Fuel tank spec on the NSCV/USL code web site will specify all the requirements
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