Youtube video of a boat getting a cracked hull..

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They have to be 'Canucks' with that accent.
God video (ta), looks like a normal day up the Straits!!

Aloominan boats?
I know there's lots, big uns too but ali and salt?
 
Usually pressed or rolled alloy (3mm) will split at the base of the stem, right alongside the keel, well forward, after a long period of hard head seas, maybe over a long season or so, but those conditions didn't look that tough.

You won't split plate alloy (5 to 6mm) that easily, and is the preferred material for heavy work.
 
All you colonials are bomb happy, damage can be prevented by pulling the stick back a bit. Now I know why life jackets are handed out as the boat leaves the harbours in OZ (Batemans Bay) (Narooma) done it, it's nothing to do with the sea conditions it's all based on the time the pubs open.
 
omega2 said:
All you colonials are bomb happy, damage can be prevented by pulling the stick back a bit. Now I know why life jackets are handed out as the boat leaves the harbours in OZ (Batemans Bay) (Narooma) done it, it's nothing to do with the sea conditions it's all based on the time the pubs open.
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Ah, you've been to the south coast Omega. I used to live there for a while (Bateman's Bay), and some of the references I make about barways are based on Narooma, where the holiday makers risk life and limb to catch that elusive fish before they go home, regardless of the conditions.

Tinnies (alloy dinghies) as you would have seen, are as prolific as fleas on a dogs back and often pushed to breaking point. To keep them light, the smaller versions are pressed, but anything over about 18' becomes too full in the bow sections and thus prone to splitting at the lower fore foot when thrashed in heavy weather.
Some fabricators combine a plate (5 or 6 mm) underwater section to the chine, then pressed/rolled topsides as a compromise between strength and weight.
The full hard-core, bluewater models run plate only. I have never owned one to use personally (prefer GRP) but use them everyday for work (from dinghies up to 70' ferry).
 
Spent 10 days at Narooma, in a camper (britzbus), waiting to get ONE IN, out of bed 4am, drive up to the coast gaurd station, to have a look, and watch that ocean boil at the mouth of the creek. Then wait for the skipper to tell us "not today lads". Did eventually get out,

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what day!! well worth the wait

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mind you "NITRO" is a crack boat with a crack crew.
 
A couple of rippers there O.

It's a great piece of coast between Eden and Jervis Bay and a great climate to live in.
I suppose you sampled the fish and chips at Wagonga Inlet in Narooma, best on the coast, if you can keep the seagulls away :)
 
AndieMac said:
A couple of rippers there O.

It's a great piece of coast between Eden and Jervis Bay and a great climate to live in.
I suppose you sampled the fish and chips at Wagonga Inlet in Narooma, best on the coast, if you can keep the seagulls away :)
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took my own fish there and fed the multitude!!
 
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