MY GOODNESS!!!!The same ace which Thika showed earlier, only just managed to dodge this coconut tree in Guinjata, thankfully the trailer took the damage.....
she really was a great boat, in a big weather and rough sea, you always knew she would get you home,she used to love running with all the new cats into a sea, as she used to give them there heads and leave them behind, it was a sad day when I sold her. She went to a guy in secunda/trichardt I think, but I believe he has since sold her on.
It was a bit of a funny story when I bought her she was called "naughty lass" and used to belong to a great marlin angler called Pierre De villiers, she was bought buy my father for R30 000.00,we then used her for 16 years and I replaced the decking re-sprayed her again,furuno electronics, carpets as well as some new axles and I put her into the Ski boat Magazine in December 2006, she was sold verbally 3 times in the same day as the magazine went to the shelves and I was getting calls for her months afterwards. It was on a first come first served basis and I had the cash notes before I left to come home from my december holiday I could not believe the response, she sold for 85K.
One of the calls I took was from a guy who used to own one of these crafts and really wanted this boat back as he had never seen a boat this old in such good condition, his name was Pierre De Villiers, her previous owner I was pretty sad that I had let her go to someone else and not her original owner, but maybe they are re-united again who knows....
we caught 42 sailfish and 29 marlin from this boat while I skipped her and I know the previous owner also caught a lot of billfish of her, so I guess there are some boats that just raise more fish....maybe it was her day-glow orange props!!!
SEALINE MAKES THE WORLD SMALLER!! I remember that trip well!! Trevor got that hook in his finger that trip and we beached early just before the buster came through, I think you guys got caught in it?? But it came down in torrents and we all moved up to the abandoned houses. Trevor is my business partners Brother in law, he has now got his own boat a 16ft quick catch.MY GOODNESS!!!!
Shag we fished along side you guys in desember 2001 at Zavora! We had to move because the lake took back the camp side! The boat we fished with was a yellow centre console called Astrix. As I can remember the ocean was on its head with a couple of huge storms that passed by. I can only remeber the one okes name, trevor and his familie! THAT WAS AN AWESOME BOAT ON THE WATER!!!
Didn't they say that about the Titanic too ?Just for the record, a buttcat is truely UNSINKABLE!!
Ja we got caught in that storm!! Geez I can still remember that day like it was yesterday, I almost k@k myself!! Gale force winds, rain poring down in buckets and the biggest waves I've ever seen in a 17ft boat and they were coming from everywhere!! The lady that was with us on the boat didn't launch with us again for the rest of the holiday and so our boat packs dried up! After that trip I went out and spend almost R2000 on the al new halco crazy deeps because that was the only lure that got the fish on the bite! The owner of the boat was Ian, I don't know if he still has it and he works for sappi or mondi or one of those. They lifed in the midlands some where (my dad's mates). My dad is Tonie and I'm Anton the laaitie that smoked skelm on the beach. Sent my regards for Trevor and the rest.spickerish wrote:SEALINE MAKES THE WORLD SMALLER!! I remember that trip well!! Trevor got that hook in his finger that trip and we beached early just before the buster came through, I think you guys got caught in it?? But it came down in torrents and we all moved up to the abandoned houses. Trevor is my business partners Brother in law, he has now got his own boat a 16ft quick catch.MY GOODNESS!!!!
Shag we fished along side you guys in desember 2001 at Zavora! We had to move because the lake took back the camp side! The boat we fished with was a yellow centre console called Astrix. As I can remember the ocean was on its head with a couple of huge storms that passed by. I can only remeber the one okes name, trevor and his familie! THAT WAS AN AWESOME BOAT ON THE WATER!!!
We were actually talking about you guys from Asterix now in november as we were driving through Paul pietersburg I seemed to think one of you were from there? I am terrible with names, whats are they again?
cheers
Greg
Then we did well marketing them down there!! but they are great lures and still the most widely used on our boat!! I will send Trevor your regards and please send your dad and Ian ours when you see them...I actually think that ASTERIX was a 17 ft centre consol Acecraft, in yellow and white!!Ja we got caught in that storm!! Geez I can still remember that day like it was yesterday, I almost k@k myself!! Gale force winds, rain poring down in buckets and the biggest waves I've ever seen in a 17ft boat and they were coming from everywhere!! The lady that was with us on the boat didn't launch with us again for the rest of the holiday and so our boat packs dried up! After that trip I went out and spend almost R2000 on the al new halco crazy deeps because that was the only lure that got the fish on the bite! The owner of the boat was Ian, I don't know if he still has it and he works for sappi or mondi or one of those. They lifed in the midlands some where (my dad's mates). My dad is Tonie and I'm Anton the laaitie that smoked skelm on the beach. Sent my regards for Trevor and the rest.
Sorry for the hijack but it is almost ACE CRAFT related. In fact ace craft made us meet each other if you think about it.
sounds like a plan!!! just the type of re-union I like!!No it was a old voyager 17ft6 cabin that Ian striped down and rebuild as a centre consol with 2x50hp mercury big foots on but it was the brightest yellow around. I will let you now when I'm back in gp land next year I think I still owe you guy a couple of guinness's!!