Whaly 370 fitted for role

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Whaly 370 fitted for role
Double-skinned polyethylene has many attractive qualities for a
tender, including immunity to damage from collisions with jetties
THE name Whaly
STRIPER 2006
2301 WALKAROUND
250hp Evinrude Etec, 2011
Lic’d, Alumin Trailer, 12"
Lowrance Struct Read Touch
GPS-Sounder-Radar. Excell.
boat & trailer. Top cond. $65K
Mike
0418 950 056
MILLMAN
Aluminium
34ft
1987 (Dolphin Diver) 3208TA
Cat Diesel with Hamilton jet.
Good accom & amens. Very
large deck and flybridge,
great for fishing, diving and
parties. Currently F.S.C and
pen available for short term.
Contact Joe
0418 919 006
Private Sale
$90,000
MOORING
BICTON Good strong mooring
Reg 11.5m previously Reg
12.5m. Inspection & DOT
reports. Pictures of install &
ground tackle.
$10,000 ono ● 0429 102 649
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SHARK UNITS
42 Units, MFL avail. Make an
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CRAY POTS recreational
pine, slat, fully rigged
Ph Alan 0428 955 623
FTOL West Coast, Pilbara/Kimberley. $35,000ono.
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MACKERAL QUOTA 2 TON
OF ZONE 3 + PERMIT
$40,000
0427 105 433
T-CRAFT CAT 10m
2MTU 350hp diesel, 200hrs,
sleeps 6, huge deck, new
GPS sounder & carpets, lots
of extras with HBH pen avail.
$99,000ono
0418 904 482
TRAILCRAFT Boats Wanted
Cash or Consignment
Graham
0407 086 224
Midway Marine
9527 6963
WANTED TO BUY
WEST COAST FTOL
Fishing
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B Zone - Limited No.
All Whalys are built to suit fitting out as tiller-steered or side-console wheel control.
line, it aids balance. The console
has room for fishing electronics
but in its basic form it does not
have as much as a rev counter or
trim gauge. This is exactly the
case as with tiller-steered boats,
and is a perfectly acceptable
simplification.
Tenders of this size generally
have gear scattered throughout
but the 370 is a model of neatness.
Battery and fuel tank live in the
thwart-lockers while the lidded
anchor well is big enough to take
extra gear as well as the anchor
cable.
Whaly even provides drink
holders for the passengers. It also
gives them a stronger feeling of
security than most comparable
RIBs. Typically the grab lines are
loops hanging over the side, but
not on the Whaly. Here a taut line
is stretched on top of the tubes
from quarter to quarter via the
bow, supported by frequent
mounts. The kind of line you want
and where you want it.
The recommended maximum
power for the 370 is 20hp. This is
what the review boat was
equipped with, provided by a
Tohatsu four-stroke. Many people
have only vaguely heard of the
make; those familiar with it have
mostly believed it to be purely a
two-stroke. Certainly it makes a
lot of two-strokes, possibly more
than anyone else. Vast numbers of
small-scale fishermen around the
world buy them and have been
doing it for a long time. Tohatsu is
Japan’s longest established
outboard manufacturer.
Tohatsu also builds a wide
range of four-strokes that
emphasise the qualities of their
two-strokes: near unburstability,
simpler service requirements and
lower prices; attractive qualities.
Our Tohatsu practically converted
the 370 into a sports boat. Two-up
it was a vibrant performer,
indicating that with a full load it
would still be far from sluggish.
Although the Whaly’s key
employment is likely to be ship-toshore transport, its carrying
capacity, stability and good ride fit
it for the other traditional
Rottnest role: the fishing boat-dive
tender. Not so much an all-rounder
as a maid of all work.
LOWDOWN
WHALY 370
Price as reviewed $13,600
Length 3.70m
Beam 1.73m
Hull weight 135kg
Motor fitted 20hp Tohatsu
four-stroke
Agents Dinghy World, 250 Canning
Highway, Como
Phone 9367 6555
Skeletons key to Montebello fishing prize
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whole range
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TRAILER FOR BOAT
2014 NEW. Lic’d. Magic Tilt
Highest Quality, Aluminium,
alloy rims + spare wheel.
3500kg Roller
$12,000
4500kg Bunk GVWR $14,500
Mike 0418 950 056
TRAILERS ★ DUNBIER
Special prices. Good stock.
Midway Marine
9527 6963
ALL C ZONE SOLD
WANTED
● A, B & C zone pots Top Prices
● Lease pots 2015/2016
● Boats
● Strong vessel sales
FOR SALE
● Pilbara
Trap
complete
package
● SW Units @ $340 p/u
● Abalone Quota - Zone 3
● Mackie Quota $20 p/kg
● FTOL’s
Kimberley,
Pilbara and Gascoyne Keen Vendors
LEASE
● South West Wetline Units
$15 p/unit
● FBL $5500
252 Canning Hwy, Como
9367 6555
0400 014 188
www.dinghyworld.com.au
VAN DER STADT 34’ Racer/
Cruiser. Fully serv Nanni 23hp
eng. Gd sail invent. Surveyed
for insurance & antifouled Jan
$75,000
0412 038 166
OVATION 52 (2009) with pen
3 cabins, IPS Joystick control.
MUST GO.
Excellent cond.
2009 RIVIERA 4400 $549,000
loaded excellent cond with pen
2009 Cruiser 300
$95,000
30hr Searay 330
$94,900
2007 Maxum 3100.
$89,000
2002 Sailfish 218cc
$44,000
2007 Four Winns 19. $27,500
GETAWAY MARINE
www.getawaymarine.com
0400 880 051
PENS – NEDLANDS
11 YEAR LEASE
15 metres
$44,000
20 metres
$55,000
25 metres
$66,000
0405 060 901
★ PMY24 ★
Built by North Shore Boats.
NEW.
9437 9980
RANDELL 32 Flybridge Cab
Cruiser 84 Fibreglass, Twin
200hp turbo Volvo diesels
with
twin
screws,
new
Injectors,
cooling
systems
and
heads
reconditioned,
wiring harnesses replaced.
$50K ONO
Mob: 0400 475 059
RIVIERA FLYBRIDGE 42FT
WANTED
Private buyer
0411 247 240
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Please Call: 9243.6373
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Richard Elvin 0499 449 788
marine brokers member
SALTERS
YACHT CREW
NEEDED
For racing on keelboats
Saturdays &/or Wednesdays
at South of Perth Yacht Club.
All welcome, age and
inexperience no barrier.
Contact the Club’s Crew
Coordinator Brian Saleeba
on 9319 3530 or email
abeelas@bigblue.net.au
YACHT CREW WANTED
Interested
in
sailing
this
Summer? Royal Freshwater
Bay Yacht Club is looking for
enthusiastic people willing to
crew on keel boats on Sat or
Thur afternoons. Exp. is not
essential. If interested please
contact
Barry
Martin
on
9286 8209 or place your name
on the bulletin board at
www.rfbyc.asn.au
or
email
training@rfbyc.asn.au
★● YACHT S97 ●★
S97 CRUISER/RACER
Well maintained, AMS and
IRC cert. Many Extras, ready
to race or cruise. Surveyed
Apr 14. POA. 0419 988 616
● C ZONE AVAIL $44,000
Half already sold!
Small number remaining.
● B ZONE SOLD @ $45,000
LEASE POTS WANTED
Highest prices in the state
will be paid - check with Peter
SCALE UNITS WANTED
TO LEASE 2015
Client will pay $25/unit
Kalbarri & $20/unit Midwest
+ licence fees.
FOR SALE
● S/W Fish Bus. Boat 480
units permit FBL "WIWO"
LICENCES FOR SALE
● FTOL
Kimberley/Pilbara
Must be sold.....$29k ono
● FBL
● Shark Units West Coast
● Mullie Quota W-Coast
● Mullie Quota S/Coast
QUALITY BOATS AVAIL
www.saltersboats.com.au
BOATS WANTED!
9430 6038
7/9 Mews Road, Fremantle
peter@saltersboats.com.au
PETER HAMMOND
0429 362 937
GAVIN HAND 0429 377 823
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SAMBRAILLO 53 Detroit 650hp
Turbo charged. Cruises 17kn,
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There are those
rare and brilliant
times in life
when we try to
win one thing
but instead win
something
GLEN
totally different
JAKOVICH
that is even
better. This is what happened to a
Vasse fisho who didn’t quite win
the largest dhufish category in a
club fishing competition but,
instead, his fish helped him take
home the 2013-14 Send Us Your
Skeletons grand prize worth more
than $6000.
Some time ago, Mike Wallingford
of the Naturaliste Game and Sport
Fishing Club donated the frames
(skeletons with the heads and guts
intact) of two dhufish and a
baldchin groper caught 7km off
Canal Rocks to the Department of
Fisheries as part of its Send Us Your
Skeletons initiative.
Mike’s largest dhuie was 1.2kg
lighter than the winner in the
competition but he was
compensated in spectacular fashion
for donating the three frames by
winning a six-night charter fishing
trip for two to the Montebello
Islands donated by Montebello
Island Safaris. His prize also
includes return flights for two from
Perth to Exmouth.
The Send Us Your Skeletons
program encourages recreational
A AAA Wanted to lease
URGENTLY
300 Z2 shark units
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Mike Wallingford, right, with researcher Kim Clayton. Picture: Mike Burgess
fishers to donate their frames to
help the department’s scientists
with vital monitoring of WA’s most
prized near-shore and demersal fish
species, such as Australian herring
and West Australian dhufish.
In 2013-14, nearly 7000
near-shore and demersal frames
from fish caught off both the west
and south coasts were donated.
This gives Department of Fisheries
researchers a very strong
foundation to make reliable
assessments of some of WA’s fish
stocks and, in turn, provides the
information necessary to manage
them sustainably.
You can find stock assessment
reports at fish.wa.gov.au. More
frames and new donors are always
needed.
If you haven’t donated fish frames
before or haven’t donated for a
while, why not join the program to
help ensure fish for the future?
For more information and to find
out where you can drop off fish
frames, go to fish.wa.gov.au/frames.
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is not too
exciting but it
does represent
one of the most
accomplished of
12 footers — the
MIKE BROWN Whaly 370.
As the number suggests, there
are Whalys of other lengths, all of
similar layout. The form
resembles an RIB but is built of
double-skinned UV-stabilised
polyethylene — what used to be
contemptuously described as a
Tupperware boat. This of course
is an insult to Tupperware, an
enduringly tough product, but a
left-handed compliment to the
boats that have a long, fatigue-free
life ahead of them.
This material has many
attractive qualities for a tender. Its
yielding, slippery nature makes it
kind to unskilled contact with the
mother ship’s hull. It also renders
it near immune to damage from
vigorous encounters with jetties.
The 370 in particular is a born
tender. Within its small footprint
it has the European-certified
(Whalys are built in the
Netherlands) carrying capacity of
eight persons or 550kg.
All Whalys are built to suit
fitting out as tiller steered or sideconsole wheel control. They
feature full-length buoyant side
chamber benches for maximum
passenger numbers with tiller
control, convertible to wheel
steering with drop-in units. The
side chambers have vertical
grooves to accept them. The
review wheel-steered 370 has two
of these drop-ins; one provides the
thwart-locker the driver sits on,
another the combined partial
thwart-console.
It is more of an off-centre than
side console, since it has to fit
within the side benches, but it still
provides the maximum of rail
access for anglers. And, putting
weight a bit closer to the centre
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