Being a boat builder I have no emotional attachment to boats, if I can sell it and make a buck I will and just build or rebuild a new one.
Being a boat builder I have no emotional attachment to boats, if I can sell it and make a buck I will and just build or rebuild a new one.
as per fnq i am just paying the rego and licences to keep em running and it will just sit in the shed
have aboat that i didnt have to borrow to own and the running costs and maintenance costs fit our financial means.
the days of easy finance are gone for the forseable future
I haven't bought outside of my means as I've had boats that I've traded up with and also used money that I'd come into. I saved for about a year for my sounder and Navionics card.I've done HEAPS of wheelin' and dealin' to get things and sold plenty of things that I never wanted to sell.Don't reckon I'll ever have the chance to buy a setup all brand new,at least something 'safe' to take my young bloke out in.Would prefer to hold onto my boat but am also looking at other options.
Very lucky to have anything without some bastard trying to take it away!
As does the carpenter build a kitchen cupboard.Originally Posted by TJ Bear
Just wanna qualify my rant a bit.Down here in Victoria we have both the blessing and the curse of having less protection from elements, and closer in reefs to catch a few good specimens..minus the variety you chaps/chapettes have up there in QLD.Tougher conditions basically with less fish overall.
Yeah it's still there. I paid for the ad, so I figure if someone offered me full tote odds I might still let it go, but I'm sick of vultures ringing and telling me I must be desperate 'cause it hasn't sold, and trying to get me to give it away.
Ain't desperate.
Told some "foreign" "gentleman" to have a nice day the other day after a particularly rude offer! I made him a counter offer, something to do with his Mother, as I recall...
He refused.
Cheers,
Tim
Carbon Really Ain't Pollution.
Back to the original question - find a quiet time and take a piece of paper. Then write down the things that are most common (not necessarily important) in your life. Things like home, partner, kids, car1, car 2, bike, boat, job, friends, studies, extended family, sports, grog, smokes, holidays, etc
Now rewrite the list in order of most importance to you and your goals. Once happy with order, leave it for 24hrs and go back to the list to see if the order should be still the same. Be honest and real.
The items in the top of the list are not negotiable, the items at the bottom are able to be sacrificed if needed. As others have said, they can be replaced later on.
Looking at the items on the bottom of the list, ask yourself the following question for each. If I didn't have this item in my life, what would I do and what would be the effect on my life. ie what are the pros and cons of not having it? An example of this might be - if I had to sell my boat, I could always go out on mate's boat or one of the people on Ausfish looking for a deckie or do some landbase. I could use the funds to pay some debt and the savings on rego, insurance, maintenance,etc could go towards some gear upgrade or a charter. The now spare space in the shed can be used to put the second car under cover.
Trust me, if you do the above honestly, the decision becomes very clear and easier to live with.
I have done the above and gave up an extremely well paid job, schmick property and my beloved roadbike. Don't regret it at all (except maybe the bike a bit!)
A good mate used this strategy and left his wife, kids and home. He doesn't regret it.
Best of luck.
Steve
I sold my old tournment-ready hornet a few years back to get our deposit together for the home loan which at the time hurt but the offer i got for it was more than i paid for it in the beginning! It had everything & looking at today's market for the same boat with no sounders, livewell or electric motor you will pay 4k more than what sold it for!!
I sold mine to buy a truck to work for myself. It was worth doing & would do the same if i needed to. At the end of the day the boat is just a toy unless you use it comercally. Leigh
My 4.1 polycraft is going tommorow morning
My wife and i need the money as we have a baby on the way
I guess i will just have to keep my eye out for available deckie positions now
cheers tim
Thanks for all the replies. I did sell my boat for a few reasons both selfish and selfless. The main reason was to get my truck and Bobcat licence so I could leave the painting trade and get into that. However this has not been a easy road and i have not been able to secure a job in this industry.
The other lesser reason was so I can work on a car to prepare it for the Camp Quality esCarpade to raise money for children with cancer. This is going at a cracker pace and it's a good felling.
I do miss the boat but lucky I got other things to do on the weekens with the car build. It's just the through the week and slow weekends when the weather is fantastic that I realy miss being able to go out for a fish in the boat and destress.
Can someone, anyone please like my facebook page?I need at least 30 likes.... Please
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Thought there might of been a few more stories of people losing their rigs to other ways.
I have 3 of my toys up for sale at the moment due to a little restructure. If you know anyone chasing a tinny or 2 and a Skiboat in the Pilbara send them my way.
This happened a couple of years ago as well. Ended ok but thought the boat was gone for a bit.
Well what an adventure we had Headed to Pococks Friday arve and ran into Barrajames just before the four mile hole turn off. He was pulling the pin as the road was a bit to rough for his boat and trailer and had decided to go up the South instead. Opes and I pushed on and arrived at pococks to set up camp. Dodgy, Pyro, Paul and Tim arrived later but the wind kept us from launching the boats till the next morning.
Hit the water at daybreak and threw every lure I owned at the rockbars around Pococks and West Alligator head but couldn’t turn a scale. Caught up with Barrajames at West Alligator head but he wasn’t getting anything either. We then decided to have a flick around the mud flats and some small gutters. First cast I had a barra around the 70cm mark have 2 attempt at inhaling my bomber but I couldn’t set the hooks Continued to fish this gutter hooking several barra and 1 salmon but didn’t boat a single fish.??: we moved to the other side of the West towards the mouth of the South, hooking a barra on our first troll that would of put me into the Metre+ club. She grabbed a barra classic but spat it back at me after she put on a bit of a show nearly taking my head off in the process. So after loosing that many fish in one sitting I had a bit of a cry and we headed back to camp as Opes had to get back into town.
After talking to dodgy about my bad luck we decided to head back out and have another crack.Just as we were leaving Pyro and the boys came back from the jew reef with Tim popping his cherry with a nice jewie, but I will let him tell that story.
With nothing but barra on our minds we pushed back over to West Alligator Head and got straight into it. The barra where definitely a lot hungrier now and we were getting good hook ups on classics and bombers. We probably hooked 30 fish but still only boated a handful.
With all the commotion going on we didn’t notice the wind had really picked up and we needed to get out of here. By the time we got moving the sea had turned real nasty and we were taking on a lot of water. With the sun setting fast and the wind getting worse Dodgy and I had to make the tuff decision, keep at it and hope it gets better or run for shelter. We made it back across to the eastern side of the West Alligator but we could not get around the headland . We headed to shore but could not get anywhere near the mainland as it was low tide. So we anchored in sheltered waters and walked the rest through a few feet of mud, rocks and water with all our gear and barra on our shoulders. We then decided to walk the remaining 5 or so kms back to camp ditching our gear and eventually our fish along the way By now it was pitch black and we where navigating completely by feel through the dense mangroves and bush hoping that there where no cranky lizards along the wayWith no shoes this turned out to be one hell of a challenge for me and I ended up making do with a couple of hats tied to my feet to cross those massive oyster rocks
(note to all: always take shoes fishing
). We arrived back at camp a little bit worse for wear but all ended well and we found the boat floating in the morning.
Wasn’t very happy that we had to ditch the fish but something had to give. I think we made the best out of what could have been a very bad situation. I few quick decisson had to be made and I recon we made the right call.
Fished again on Sunday but the only fish we got was a monster queenie.
Thanks to all the goys for a top weekend
Now that’s a trip I will never forget
Its pretty common - I also sold my 5.35 quinny Reef Raider to help with the funding of buying a house .
I would never make that sacrifice again....... Regardless!
Chris
Give a man a fish & he will eat for a day !
Teach him how to fish
& he will sit in a boat - & drink beer all day!
TEAM MOJIKO
Im with FNQ and stevej. My boat was cheap and is very cost-efficient.
I'd love something more flash, but there is a certain satisfaction in operating efficiently on the smell of an oily rag.
To be honest, I'm not one for being in debt, if I can't pay cash and still be comfortable I do without, I prefer to choose financial freedom and security.
As others have said, when times are tough, we do what we have to do to survive, family always comes first!
Cheers.
im in the process at the moment to sell my beloved jet ski. i saved my ass off for 6 months last year when i was labouring to buy it. id wanted one for many years. last year was my first year out of school so it was hard savings to buy it.
now ive just got myself a 2nd year apprentice position so im going to have to sell it to free up some money. its very hard to make the decision because i saved very hard to pay cash for it, but you have to do to get by easier.
but selling means i can get back into a tinny and focus on my fishing now i dont have to work saturdays.
-tyler
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