Bargain buy yesterday.

[Bob9863]

I went looking for a kayak the other day and ended up buying another boat. 

The reason I bought it was it was so damn cheap it was basically given away. I only paid $1000 for it, the motor alone is worth that. 

I got the 12ft tinnie, registered trailer and a 2019 Suzuki DF5A 4 stroke outboard. It's the same age as my Yamaha 2.5 4 stroke. 

So in the end I got a trailer for my punt and doubled my hp for free. I'm selling the Yamaha motor and the tinnie so I'm actually going to end up a little in the black on this one. 

The tinnie. 

The trailer. 

The motor. 

 

[ellicat]

Score !

[Kat]

Wow.  Good when luck comes to your way!

[Bob9863]

Yes you can see why I was so eager to grab it. 

I had it running in my maintenance tank for 2 hours today running some fuel doctor through it. Idle is smooth, acceleration too, everything moves and operates smooth too. 

Does not blow any smoke, oils are like new. All in all it was a great buy. 

It's definitely a good upgrade on the Yamaha, a little heavier but not too much and as stated earlier it's twice as powerful. 

I will take it out for a test run tomorrow, doing the usual fishing run to see if it improves the boats performance any, if it does I'm keeping it, if not I will sell it at a profit. 

[Junky]

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Looks nice

[kmcrosby78]

Very nice acquisition, well done 

[Bob9863]

Always keep an eye out for a bargain and don't be afraid to jump on it because they never hang around for long. 

[Bob9863]

I took the punt out for a quick test run today with the new 5hp Suzuki. 

Night and day compared to the 2.5 Yamaha. I thought it would be a bit quicker, but it was flying. 

I had to lean forward with no weight on the front to get it to plane, but once it did it was hooking along. 

It's almost too fast for what I want, but I can just run it slower and still have the power if I need ir want it. 

[ellicat]

That extra power will be handy when there's an extra person and 20kg of fresh fish ! haha

[Bob9863]

 E handy when the river is running like it is Atm. 

I went for a quick look this afternoon and all access to it is blocked off, it's now over double its usual flow and the river is flooded. 

Going to be a, while before I'm back down there. 

But I took the hydrofoils off the motor as I could feel them dragging the boat, so I'm going to see how it goes tomorrow, supposed to be a good afternoon so I might get some fishing in too. 

[ubnt]

5hp for 1k? You hit gold!

[Bob9863]

13 hours ago, ubnt said:

5hp for 1k? You hit gold!

And it's only a 2019 model, didn't get used for the last two years either, but it still got serviced. 

So definitely a bargain. 

I tested it out for speed and with the hydrofoils on it got up to 17km/h, but when I took them off it reached this. 

 

So it's definitely skipping along now for a 5hp.

Best of all it's so quiet, and at an idle it cruises at 2.8km/h.

I also bought a a down rigger for it so I can troll for trout over summer.