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thika

Sealiner
My own boat:

Ugly anchor swivel, but do not want to bash the bow stem on the last meter

For sand in Langebaan and so forth

Home made katrol and 200m rope
 

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thika

Sealiner
Bullbar short of rodholders

Note the nifty ski-rope post

My kids are avid barefooters and slalomers and will brave the wake!

Can also be used as tow-in for Butt Cats  :)

 
 

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BFC

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Thika,

Time ,Time , Time - wish I had more of it . I am in the Citrus business and our season ended up being 5 weeks longer than normal but the project I have gotten myself into is very exciting - instead of being a refurbishment it will become a custom project - just busy ordering the decking I want to use out of the USA, little pricy but nice things cost money. To build a new Ace Craft looking like a backyard job is not what I have in mind.  Attached is a picture of the decking I am going to use, and will be arriving with a mate from Philadelphia in 2 weeks. 
 

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thika wrote:
Bullbar short of rodholders

Note the nifty ski-rope post

My kids are avid barefooters and slalomers and will brave the wake!

Can also be used as tow-in for Butt Cats  :)

 
Do you have a live bait well?

Please post a pic of your deck layout.
 

BFC

Senior Member
Will do ,

I like that Haakneus of yours looks like a dredger, digs where it wants to go !!!

 
 

thika

Sealiner
Bennie,

No baitwell yet

Not so sure it is needed here?

Also have to sort out ice

I have a huge open deck and want to make something that can strap down but is removeable

Have to find a market also, but that's another story

Lots to learn about the West Coast...very different

Also crew with same  priorities and time I have

Will post some pics next week

Thika
 

thika

Sealiner
BFC,

I believe you need that haakneus with the wind as it is this week, and the tides as they are in the Baan...might still be too light!

Also have a grapnell for the rocks outside

When will you be up here?
 

thika

Sealiner
Finally got my seat....nogal spring loaded!

Note nifty original Ace Craft logo I managed to salvage from the old swivel seat

 

 
 

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Tammo Vink

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I bought a new Cobra cat 525 in 2007 we went to sodwana bay and I went out with a friend of mine that had a Ace Cat 555 it was the ride of a life time that boat take the sea like no other boat could when we return home I sold my Cobra Cat and bought a Ace Cat 555 what a boat ::S
 

thika

Sealiner
This is the Butt Cat tower inner!~

Saturday at Mykonos

The man in the boat is Gerhard James Bond

Boat is dry

Boat runs 46 knots on lagoon water with a tailwind

Boat catches NO crayfish

Boat catches Steenies

Boat needs to get anchor sorted out

Owner bought crays R10.00 where ge lives

Boat and crew WILL catch biggest YF and become famous!
 

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BFC

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Thika ,  

Ace Crafts are designed to catch prized Gamefish and take heavy sea's 

Crayfishing it will do but doesnt like it those are for boats like kreefbakkies and rubber duckies.
 

thika

Sealiner
Route followed to catch 7 Steenies and no crayfish

Good news....boat now ready to win boat prizes and do Butt Craft rescues :)
 

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thika

Sealiner
Thanks Ivan,

jy gaan defenitief saam as jy Desember hier is

Rudolph,

Sal jou kom soek die naweek, of val net in...ek is defenitief hier tensy die weer mooi is

BFC,

Spoken like a true Ace Craft man...the time will come!

 

And thanks Kwando...he is an accomplished angler and skipper...a  private man that just gets on with it. Ek gaan nog swaar op jou leun  :)

 

 

 

 

 
 
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