Conrad's RipTide XR-457 (Malta)

 

Its great to see yet another launching, this time from Conrad who lives in Malta (Europe) and is RipTide XR-457

He writes:

Hi all, 
I'm back and I'm super happy. I own one of the best boats in the world ! What a boat guys!

She performs like a 21' or better. 15 kts wind and she performed very well against wind and the water.

Just a little throttle and she's on the plane in just a second. 11 kts andshe's on the plane. 5000 RPM doing 28 kts. Very economical boat. She is a small boat with a lion heart.

Conrad

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Darren's Tropic 14 (Australia)

 

Great to see another launching this week, this time from Darren in North Qld and his Tropic 14 !!

What a TOP JOB !!

He writes:

G'day Mark,

A few photos of a trip to "xxxx" creek last week in the awesome tropic.

(I can't say where it was..secret)

It’s the first chance I’ve had to actually fish for a solid week with it. We got a shit load of flathead

and a heap of big grunter around the 650mm biggest 680mm .I didnt take any pics till the last day .

Mate, this little boat is an awesome Barra boat. So bloody stable for luring and crabbing... absolutely love it  and ... the comments I get from people is amazing

Regards

Darren

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Visser Brothers Sea Strike 18 (Netherlands)

 

Its great to see the latest launching of yet another Sea Strike 18,

this time from the Visser brothers in the Netherlands.

What a top job !!. 

They write:

Yesterday we splashed the ss, what a boat!! :D :D We made 4 hours on the Suzuki really great combination like this. This week we are planning to launch the Sea Strike 18 official, so this week we will do some small stuff like the antifouling, wrap and some red holders. 

It’s a really nice boat, even in the bumpy North Sea here a round Vlieland. For now we are still busy with the registration here in the Netherlands. When we know how to do every thing, we will let you know Mark.

Hopefully the coming weekend we will splash it again and make some new nice pictures and movies.

Now we will start saving some money so we can start with the PT26.

I think that also will be perfect over here.

Here's a few photo's of when we were out a few hours ago in a North western wind force 7.

With the NW wind it’s the worst with the waves. When we went out it was a round 2.5 meter or 8ft sea height. 

I didn’t have my lifeboat jacket on. Next time I would like to try with even bigger waves and also like to have a try with a breaking wave on the bow, just to see what the SS18 can handle.

(Designers Note.. this is exactly what the Sea Strike series was designed and engineered for... Serious offshore seas)

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Cameron’s Gulf Explorer 16 (Australia)

 

It was great to see Cameron from North Qld (Australia) launching his new Gulf Explorer 16.

What an awesome job he did building her !

He writes:

Soft launch completed. One up 50 Litres of fuel and no gear she goes 30 knot flat out and on the plane almost instantly. I was impressed given the size of the boat and small 50 hp motor.

Two up same fuel and normal gear running weight and things slow down a bit to about 26-27 knots but reving a bit high for comfortable cruising. Going up a pitch as the motor has way enough torque down low to plane quick. Seriously underrated motor.

Anyway...thanks for the comments guys.

Wrap finalised and going on Thursday week then the boat will be officially splashed!!!

"Such a beautiful afternoon, I couldn't help but go for a run and put a few fish in the boat."

Still playing with props at the moment. Whatever prop I put on though, the motor launches out of the hole.

The motor is still tight, so final performance may slightly improve.

-One person no extra gear +50L fuel 

- 14" alloy prop

- Top speed - 56kph/30knots @ 6200rpm

- Cruise - 34kph/17.8knots @ 4300rpm

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-One person, trolling motor + lithium battery, couple of rods/tackle bags etc +40-50L fuel

- 15" alloy prop (Looks light a small amount of cup??)

- Top speed - 55kph/29.6knots @ 5600rpm

- Cruise - 41kph/22.1knots @ 4300 rpm

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-Two adults, 1 small child, trolling motor, clothes/food etc for day +50L fuel

- 14" stainless solas prop with too much cup

- Top speed - 50kph/27knots @ 5400rpm

- Cruise - 42kph/22.6knots @ 4300rpm

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Wrap finalised and going on Thursday week then the boat will be officially splashed!!!

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Joe's EdgeTracker 426 (Australia)

 

A few minutes ago I just received a few photo's from Joe and his girlfriend (from WA) on they're 4x4 fishing and camping adventures, with their EdgeTracker 426 towed behind. 

He writes:

Hi Mark, hope you are well.

Just thought I'd send you a few photo's of the boat. We are up in the Kimberley at the moment having a great time. We've had a few local fellas in the boat with us, they've all thought it is 'deadly' (Australian slang for "awesome") and I've had requests to build them one or just leave the ET with them and build myself a new one.

Cheers. Joe

We are currently bunkered down in Cygnet bay which is about 200 k's north of Broome. We are care taking at a pearl farm for the wet season. Its perfect as there is a sheltered beach to launch the boat which we've been doing regularly.

The boat 'Barry' has been copping a flogging but loves it. I've had it out in some terrible conditions, the tides here are second biggest in the world so add a bit of wind and suddenly you can be in a washing machine. Never felt unsafe but had the odd death stare from the Missus.

One day we did almost 100kms in the boat around the islands of the Buccaneer Archipelago which was awesome. Once the roads are open we plan to do the Gibb river road and work our way further north.

If anyone knows of must see places or secret spots would love to hear from you.

Cheers. Joe

What an awesome Trip !!

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Chakkaphongs Sea Strike 18 (Thailand)

 

I just received these photo's from Chakkaphong  who lives in Thailand who just launched his Sea Strike 18 :!: :!: 

If you look at his console, you see can that he cut out a portion and added a shelf for all his gear. His own personal touch for his boat. :D 

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