Haines 800 Patriot

[Grand_Marlin]

G'day Guys,

Both my Sharkcat projects have been finished and sold, so it is time for my next project.
Introducing "Insanity" our Haines Hunter 800 Patriot.
This will be our project boat and display boat for all the products we use and recommend.
She is:
8.23m long
2.5m wide
Weighs 3.5 tonne.
Powered by twin 200 Evinrude Etecs
Has 500 litres of fuel
Sleeps four people.

It will be set up as a long range sport fishing boat, capable of spending two to three days on the shelf targeting Blue & Black Marlin, Deep Dropping for Blue Eye Trevalla and night fishing the shelf (and beyond) for Broadbill Swordfish.

Cheers

Pete

[lucee81]

I've seen this in the flesh and absolutely awesome rig.
Now I wonder if Pete will notice it missing on the 7th July.....

[Kondo 1]

Very Nice, look forward to seeing this in the flesh later on this week

[tropicrows]

Very nice Pete, how old is the hull, how big is the cabin and roughly what did it cost.

[honda900]

Nice Pete ,

what bit of it are you doing up?? or you you just pimping your ride..


regards
Honda.

[Blindfreddy]

Looks great Pete. Have fun with it.

Cheers,
BFreddy

[champion]

Hey Pete

Awesome looking boat that patriot, looks goods in that colour combo,you thinking of putting a hard top on it like the 680?

Cheers Dave

[Captain Seaweed]

big boat Pete, looks good. I saw you installing the CHIRP tranny as well as huge screens, where are you up to?

[Blackened]

G'day

Like I said today Pete.. time to get her full of blood and guts!

Dave

[No Fear]

The weapon has been introduced....So have you sold the house and moved into the transom????
I have been on this thing and it flies......literally......... From Sandgate to Tangalooma in about 3 minutes and touched the water about 6 times......
"two to three days on the shelf"??? Dont tell me you're having days off work?????
Looking forward to see this thing pimped up.....just a couple of questions though......."Does this thing only have one hull??? Or I am seeing things??? Were you blind when you bought it and saw double? Or did you just see two engines on the back and though it was a cat????
Looking forward to fishing side by side to it sometime soon.....on your marks of course.....Tom Cat doesnt catch fish!

[Grand_Marlin]

Very nice Pete, how old is the hull, how big is the cabin and roughly what did it cost.

G'day Bruce,

The hull is 1997, the cabin sleeps four with the reverse double bed under the helm and the price was mid 60's

Cheers

Pete

[Grand_Marlin]

Hey Pete

Awesome looking boat that patriot, looks goods in that colour combo,you thinking of putting a hard top on it like the 680?

Cheers Dave

Staying with the soft top, mainly for weight reasons.

[Grand_Marlin]

big boat Pete, looks good. I saw you installing the CHIRP tranny as well as huge screens, where are you up to?

Back on it now, had a few delays from events earlier this year...

[Grand_Marlin]

The weapon has been introduced....So have you sold the house and moved into the transom????
I have been on this thing and it flies......literally......... From Sandgate to Tangalooma in about 3 minutes and touched the water about 6 times......
"two to three days on the shelf"??? Dont tell me you're having days off work?????
Looking forward to see this thing pimped up.....just a couple of questions though......."Does this thing only have one hull??? Or I am seeing things??? Were you blind when you bought it and saw double? Or did you just see two engines on the back and though it was a cat????
Looking forward to fishing side by side to it sometime soon.....on your marks of course.....Tom Cat doesnt catch fish!

Hmmm... trust you to pick on the point of greatest embarassment... no it doesn't have twin hulls
An 8m mono was the closest thing I could get to a 4m cat

[jigsnreels]

Nice tub Pete, bit wasted on QLD waters though