sodwana/boat collection report

[lebaka]

morning gents

we left on Saturday morning at 3 am and made our way down to empangeni to go collect the new boat, having speculated to where to fish once the boat delivery took place we booked at the lodge next to the Richards bay caravan park planning to fish ricky bay on sunday and maybe dsbc on monday.

at about 8 am we had a look at windfinder to find that sordies was going to have a swell of 1.7m at 9 secs and the wind would peak at 9 knots so a few quick phone calls we booked at Sodwana bay lodge and cancelled richards bay 


collecting the boat

here are a couple of before pics





as you can see the boat that wayne bought was the first prize at this years guinjata compo,within a week and after a few phone calls the deal was done and we went to fetch her from the organizers and she was delivered to Z craft for final fitting

the boat at Z craft factory







tyrone and stuart from Z craft took us out in the harbour showing how all the gadgets work fish finders/auto pilot/luna tubes deck wash etc etc etc etc







loading off and on in at the slip way went smoothly and off to sordies we went

on the way shag phoned and wished us luck and asked had we celebrated yet so we pulled over there an then and...............



after some further  and not much sleep we where off for a days fishing





fishing wise we werent to bothered as the main goal was to get as close as we could to 20 hours on the motors for the first service but as luck would have it we lucked a 






wayne released the     and we could not have asked for better start new boat first trip and a bill to make it all quite special

note when i had the sail next to the boat somehow  the bill snapped off  need to work on my leaderman skills i guess






we launched again on monday but we were pressed for time and did not managed any more fish and arrived home at about 11 pm last night

ps the saily was caught on a rappie in about 40 m of green water

will post some more pics soon of deck layout electronics etc etc

[REEFMAN]

Awesome report Lebaka! Congrats on the new tub, she's a beauty!
And blooding it on a  first launch!! You must be stoked! 

[Chigger]

Very lekka and looks like its got "the luck"!! Was it the 1st prize at the Guinjata fishing comp from this year?

[Shaun17]

Beautiful boat, what electronics have you fitted there? 
 
Congrats on the Saily... think you're the 3rd UA guy with a Saily caught as the first fish on the boat!! Boat has good juju!!

[lebaka]

Very lekka and looks like its got "the luck"!! Was it the 1st prize at the Guinjata fishing comp from this year?

jip rya mara won it

[Toppie]

Very nice boat and congratulations with the Saily!
 
How fortunate are you!

[lebaka]

Beautiful boat, what electronics have you fitted there? 
 
Congrats on the Saily... think you're the 3rd UA guy with a Saily caught as the first fish on the boat!! Boat has good juju!!

we have a garmin 720s from the old boat and fitted a garmin 721 with chirp technology and a garmin auto pilot man oh man the auto pilot is a lekka thing to have on a boat 

[Shaun17]

Beautiful boat, what electronics have you fitted there? 
 
Congrats on the Saily... think you're the 3rd UA guy with a Saily caught as the first fish on the boat!! Boat has good juju!!

we have a garmin 720s from the old boat and fitted a garmin 721 with chirp technology and a garmin auto pilot man oh man the auto pilot is a lekka thing to have on a boat

Very nice, really pleased i got the CHIRP module as well... auto pilot is next on my list!!

[Debbie]

  on boat and saily !!!

[lebaka]

Beautiful boat, what electronics have you fitted there? 
 
Congrats on the Saily... think you're the 3rd UA guy with a Saily caught as the first fish on the boat!! Boat has good juju!!

we have a garmin 720s from the old boat and fitted a garmin 721 with chirp technology and a garmin auto pilot man oh man the auto pilot is a lekka thing to have on a boat

Very nice, really pleased i got the CHIRP module as well... auto pilot is next on my list!!

shaun its sorta like a pvr decoder dont know how you can live without one 

[shagnrelease]

she looks magic congrats guys!! Only good things can come from a saily on the first launch!!


When you bill a fish try grab it initially near the base of the bill, then keep the arms stiff and push  out and slightly forward, that will keep the sharp bit away and your onto the strongest part of the bill, watch out not get yours hands between the bottom and top jaw, they can give you quite a squeeze, seen okes get a lekker skrik when they think they are getting there hand chewed off!!


Shame man your so rough with saily must be the Ben-ou-ni coming out!!


Well done guys, please delete those marks and commit them to memory

[Shaun17]

Beautiful boat, what electronics have you fitted there? 
 
Congrats on the Saily... think you're the 3rd UA guy with a Saily caught as the first fish on the boat!! Boat has good juju!!

we have a garmin 720s from the old boat and fitted a garmin 721 with chirp technology and a garmin auto pilot man oh man the auto pilot is a lekka thing to have on a boat

Very nice, really pleased i got the CHIRP module as well... auto pilot is next on my list!!

shaun its sorta like a pvr decoder dont know how you can live without one 

Hahaha, waiting for my quote from Shag....

[lebaka]

she looks magic congrats guys!! Only good things can come from a saily on the first launch!!


When you bill a fish try grab it initially near the base of the bill, then keep the arms stiff and push  out and slightly forward, that will keep the sharp bit away and your onto the strongest part of the bill, watch out not get yours hands between the bottom and top jaw, they can give you quite a squeeze, seen okes get a lekker skrik when they think they are getting there hand chewed off!!


Shame man your so rough with saily must be the Ben-ou-ni coming out!!


Well done guys, please delete those marks and commit them to memory

lol ok done and tx btw otherwise we might have been flying blind

[Umpa Lumpa]

Awesome report Lebaka, nice boat bud and well done on the 

Nominate this post for month of September already 

[shagnrelease]

Beautiful boat, what electronics have you fitted there? 
 
Congrats on the Saily... think you're the 3rd UA guy with a Saily caught as the first fish on the boat!! Boat has good juju!!

we have a garmin 720s from the old boat and fitted a garmin 721 with chirp technology and a garmin auto pilot man oh man the auto pilot is a lekka thing to have on a boat

Very nice, really pleased i got the CHIRP module as well... auto pilot is next on my list!!

shaun its sorta like a pvr decoder dont know how you can live without one 

Hahaha, waiting for my quote from Shag....

Organized everything will give the details today,just got my laptop sorted 

[Charles]

Lekker report Lebaka! Awesome boat and well done with the Saily.

[Lichia amia]

Eish , nice Skippie  and  on the first  . May she bring your years of joy , enjoy her.

[Big B]

Joh, she is a beauty! Congrats and hope you have many happy hours of fishing on her. What a prize!

[Fishaholic]

Awesome boat you got, she looks very good!!
 
   also for the saily you got!
 
 
I also got the 721xs, what transducer did you get? Mounted through hull?

[Werries]

Fantastic stuff...no better way to christen a boat!! ( Talking about the sailie, not the Klippies  )
Congrats guys...may you have many great days on her !