How Is Your Yalta Craft Going

[shardoroba]

What a top fishos site, only joined this week, wish i found it earlier, needed seamax marinetec manual ,put it on here next day find one ,many thanks to Smacka14 [Drew],I have an older model Yalta, similar to the one Grand Marlin pic shows, 5.7 mts with twin 70 johnstons, ,vintage 1990. need some info, re same weight ect, Bought 3 years ago ,rebuilt from trailer up, only used it once, Wasnt that a disaster, the cook,THE ONE WHO MUST BE OBEYED] says be ,nice to go out on the boat and watch the fireworks, N.Y.Eve, ok ,sounds good, head off, noon,get to ramp, start both motors, both ok,launch it, port motor keeps cutting out. ok can run on one ,boat wont plane ,thats cool , just slowly head down to the bridge [habour] find a spot anchor up and enjoy, yeah!!!!! What a top fishos site,only joined this week, wish i found it earlier, needed seamax marinetec manual ,put it on here next day find one,many thanks to Smacka14 [Drew],I have an older model Yalta, similar to the one Grand Marlins pic shows, 5.7 mts with twin 70 johnstons, ,vintage 1990. need some info, re same weight ect, Bought 3 years ago ,rebuilt from trailer up, only used it once, Wasnt that a disaster, the cook ,THE ONE WHO MUST BE OBEYED] says be, nice to go out on the boat and watch the fireworks, N.Y.Eve, ok ,sounds good, head off, noon ,get to ramp, start both motors, both ok, l aunch it, port motor keeps cutting out. ok can run on one, boat wont plane ,thats cool , just slowly head down to the bridge [habour] find a spot anchor up and enjoy, yeah!! !!!anchor up, jump in cabin ,open can of mothers milk,[ jimmy] we planned on staying all night, might have got lucky ,too ,a voice says ‘’the boats moving ’’,think gunna be one of those days,’’ don’t worry ‘’ I say, but its gunna hit that BIG boat, shit the anchors dragging,’’ I want to go home ‘’,don’t worry , well find a spot out of the wind, it will be o.k..When she says things twice she means it ,back to the ramp, tell her what we need to do to put it back on the trailer, she say I’ll wind it in you put the cable on, there’s this old bloke at the ramp watching all this .She’s too busy winching it back on the trailer to notice her boob pops out , the old guy doesn’t, when I catch her attention, she turns to the old guy and says’’ did you enjoy that’’he smiles nods his head and walks away, glad someone enjoyed the day. Boat back on trailer, pull bungs ,half of Sydney Habour pours out, bought new bugs at Bias prior to trip, did know 2 different thread pattens ,ooopps bought the wrong ones, thought they were tight installing them, ,copped some over that ..no wonder it wouldn’t plane!!!!!!.get home ,check the motor that wouldn’t run, when I put new fuels lines in ,put the primer with the arrow facing away from the motor, no wonder it wouldn’t run ,never told her about that?????The boss says whens the boat going to be finished ,cause I want to go fishing?.downside to this is ,she reckonsshes going to put a lipstick mark on the side of the boat at rest, if the water goes over this were going home, sort of a plimsol line ,or wife line,.Rocket launchers and out rggers go on this weekend ,post few pics when its all done.

[gawby]

Sorry, i started the thread and went missing. As usual i have been away in the truck.
The questions asked have been asnwered by Honda and Scott.
From memory wot 6,000 rpm about 60ksph. That is flat out.
I usually sit around 5 to 5,500rpm which give about 50 to 55ksph. This is the best running area as wot you only hear the motor working overtime and going nowhere.
Honda gets a little more speed and different revs with the 2/s motor.
Nigelr, i was looking at C/C around the 6 to 6-5m. I have thrown out the flyer on it so i carn't tell you any more than that. The C/C is a nice boat though.
The Yalta make a 615 which is a bit bigger than the 555HG and is a nice boat and at not much more in price.
Ride compared to other boats, a whole heap better than the Stacer 525 i had but it was a good boat and i went everywhere with it.
We bought some collapsable live bait tanks from the boat show with an airiator for about $50-00. I think they were also in the last Qld Monthly mag.
Graeme

[Seahorse]

what a great thread. i want one. i have 489 stacer but just want half cab around 5.5 -6m. The yalta sounds good value and they do look good in the water. can u sleed confortably up front if u wanted to stay overnight?
how do they handle chop and swell. tinnie is rattling my teeth

cheers
greg

[honda900]

Seahorse,

I just measured the front for you internally,

From the bow to the cabin door is 2 meters, from bow to stern(on the cushions).

1/3 of the way from the bow to cabin door, port to starboard is 830cm

At the cabin door from Port to starboard is 1760cm.

The following link has some photos of the cabin with the bunk infill (which comes as part of the package. you can click on the photos for a close up view.

http://www.marinetune.com/specials/s...tail.asp?ID=74

dunmears,
My dad had the 535, basically the same hull shape but the 555 has double the room in the back even the same removable esky and storage bin, performance is pretty much the same between the hulls. In the 555 you can fish 4 blokes comfortably. Even Dad was suprised at how much room it has in the back.


Regards
Honda

[gawby]

I am sure that someone asked if there was a Yalta Dealer in Vic or S.A.
I came up with one in Vic.