I had the trip up the beach run planned for late June. This was just after we got back from an NT road trip with a week fishing with ghound. Lowest tide of the month and good sand around the rocks were as expected but the 40mm of rain two days prior was just pure ass. I had towed the boat to Gympie a couple of weeks prior to get it serviced and have a complete check-up at Watsons Marine before taking it over. They do good work and will go over to the Island a few times a year to service and repair any of the boats up there as required.
No problems on and of the barge at least which can be difficult towing something this big. Although I had a couple of mates in support vehicles with me, the rain on the Island meant I towed all the way in without assistance. Even cutting across behind Indian head and the track over to Waddy Point were done slow and steady without a hitch up. Few more pics to give some scale to the exercise. Once there we made some modifications to the brakes and fitted a new winch post over the next couple of days. We also added a new 9500lb runva electric winch 80:1 to the new post to pull it up fast. No drive ons up there with surf launch and retrieves only. A short walk up to a mate’s place to grab the tractor and then a wait on the weather which is always an issue on Fraser. As it turned out we had no luck with the weather on the first trip taking her up but there are a few fish pics of some trips since. I have a lot to suss out there as I haven’t fished offshore there for probably 16 years. Could dig up some old images of the years prior if anybody is interested in the old days. Not sure when we will be up again but will be before Easter might get some more fish pics then.
After all this time I figured out how to put the pics in between text
