General Discussion

General Chat, Anything of Interest

Boat Upgrade

Well, put my new winch on today.. Won't be long before I'm fully operational and heading out all the time over the Chrissie period.. All thats left now is to fibreglass in the captains seat, re-spray the interior (optional), and put all the electronics back in place and its all sweet..

Process so far has been, Remove all non stainless items, fibreglass the floor cracks on both sides (as a result of having too heavy chairs), remove and replace all the electrics, sand and cut back the loose paint..

Not too much more to go, but its been a long and arduous process.. But it will be worth it, can't wait!

WinchNew winch
 


Underwater News Website




http://www.underwatertimes.com/underweird/underweird.php



Didn't really know what to call this, but check it out.. Has all sorts of news reports that come up each day which are specific to the water.. Seen some crazy stuff on there lately, worth a look.


Earth Quake off Western Australia

Anybody here about the earth quake off west australias coast? it apparently was 6.4 on the richter scale(sp?) . Thats pretty big isnt it? wonder if itll affect the tides at all.


Finally getting my sh*t together with my boat - yay!

Well after 4 months of laziness i have finally booked a mechanic to look at my boat, and ive found a new trailer (well 2nd hand) for 500 bucks , its a john papas and is pretty much perfect for what i want. So i will finally be back on the water hopefully next weekend!

Watch out fellas shizz is back and badder!


Sharks on A current affair

Hey there folks,


Just a heads up about a piece A current affair is running tonight on tagging of sharks. Pretty sure it is on from 6:30 tonight and should make for some interesting watching


Great white shark sets trans-oceanic swimming record

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/10/07/1128562949067.html


Check out this link, the great white does a few miles it seems..


American War Videos

Not sure if any of you have seen this, but its a collection of American War videos, not only showing their weapons, but in some cases killing enemies of the U.S.

http://orgx.com/military-vids/

Download each one and take a look, some scary stuff, and some pretty cool montages.  But some of them are pretty disturbing, i warn you now.


Indoor Cricket

Well... the FnC's beat hotbite in the indoor cricket grand final.. 40-40.. a draw.. what a game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.. a draw in the grand final.. hotbite won the first game easy.. fnc's won 2nd by stealin it just.. the fnc's won a cracker.. much respect to dario to his monsterous catches...


fnc's 05 winter six aside champs!!!!!


Escape with ET

Watched the escape with ET show on channel 10 today.. Well worthy of the watch.. It is on at 11 or 11:30 next saturday where he takes on some monster mako's.. The mackerel and tuna sections were pretty awesome in todays episode..


Walpole on GF day

Went for a fish the morning of the grandfinal day, didn't take any fish photos thou, which was pretty silly, but I got a couple of the conditions, so you could just imagine what sort of day it was.

Walpole GF day
Walpole on GF day


Just like a bloke...

Another common truth about us guys caught on video....


http://media.putfile.com/caronas



Click url to watch!


Tough Jeep

A few you might have seen this.. But check it out for a tough jeep.. Got sent it quite a while ago.. but well worth the watch..

Is only just over 500k.


Download "Tough Jeep" (.5 meg, wmv, :15 seconds)



I-Fish - Weekend Show

Did anyone catch the I-fish show on the weekend?

What an absolute corker, 80kg dog tooth tuna, 4 sailfish at once with hookups everywhere.. Best show I've seen from them and anybody else lately.. Alltime!!!


General Information

Just if any of you are interested.. There is a little histogram at the very left hand bottom side of the page.. Clicking on that shows you how many times this site is being hit a day, where from, what service they are using, the link they get it from and other general information.. Just a cool little statistics program that shows some interesting information..

It is just next to the - powered by drupal

Tried to put a link in, but only goes back to the main page..



Hotbite - Down?

Just wondering what has happened to the hotbite forums and what is going on over there?


The Ashes 2005

Now I don't know about you, but I am over the moon by the return of Richie, Tony and some Australian commentators to the cricket coverage. Yesterday when one of the English commentators said "This is the changing of the guard", when England put seven slips in before lunch and Australia was considered to be on the ropes I was completly disgusted and couldn't believe my ears.

First day on an English greentop with the ball moving around everywhere, zipping and cutting back off the seam and they think that the Aussies are dead and gone for.. Well.... All we can say over here is.. OOOOOOh AHHHHHH Glenn McGrath.. The man is a machine and with England at 7-90, I can tell you that the changing of the guard won't be today and maybe the English commentators should wait until they see England bat before they comment about the fortunes of their side.. But, it is quite satisfying watching them put their team up on a pedestal and for McGrath to bowl the legs from under them.. Very enjoyable watching indeed..