hi
This is a crap story about everything that can go wrong
My mate and I decided to head out to the reef today in my 12ft tinny with a 15hp Mariner. We got up and got everything ready took the boat down the beach launched the boat and got going at 6:45 am. The reef we were planning to dive was roughly 20miles off shore the wind was blowing at 15-20knots from the SE into our face.
I held the throttle wide open into the waves all the way out it was extemely rough ride and we cracked the hull of the boat in 2 places water leaked in slowly :hmm
After an hour and 15mins of travelling into the waves the engine started dying and stopping so we stopped a few times and changed fuel tanks over it kept getting worse and we decided to stop and turn around for A LOOOONG trip home. We still dont know what's wrong with the engine but on the way home we held it full throttle and it was only doing about 2knots it wouldnt go any faster.
So it took a total of 4hours and 10mins of travel time to make it back to the coast, I managed to stop on a spot on the way home for about 30mins and speared 2 Coral trout and a nice Mangrove jack, but we still had a long journey home and not to mention bailing out water all the way home.
Not a fun day, hope you guys had some better spearing.
cheers
This is a crap story about everything that can go wrong
My mate and I decided to head out to the reef today in my 12ft tinny with a 15hp Mariner. We got up and got everything ready took the boat down the beach launched the boat and got going at 6:45 am. The reef we were planning to dive was roughly 20miles off shore the wind was blowing at 15-20knots from the SE into our face.
I held the throttle wide open into the waves all the way out it was extemely rough ride and we cracked the hull of the boat in 2 places water leaked in slowly :hmm
After an hour and 15mins of travelling into the waves the engine started dying and stopping so we stopped a few times and changed fuel tanks over it kept getting worse and we decided to stop and turn around for A LOOOONG trip home. We still dont know what's wrong with the engine but on the way home we held it full throttle and it was only doing about 2knots it wouldnt go any faster.
So it took a total of 4hours and 10mins of travel time to make it back to the coast, I managed to stop on a spot on the way home for about 30mins and speared 2 Coral trout and a nice Mangrove jack, but we still had a long journey home and not to mention bailing out water all the way home.
Not a fun day, hope you guys had some better spearing.
cheers