Tinnies for Camper Trailers

After seeing what them swampdogs do out at Adelaide River, I am with you Fred

Cheers

Oh rubbish! Come on guys, who ever gets eaten out of a tinnie, even a small one? Answer, NO ONE! Who gets eaten, the people who are to scared to get in a small boat because of the croc's and fish of the bank instead :-) Seriously, the people who get taken either stand in the water and fish or go swimming.
We have a 3.7 Mako Craft(stessle) Edge Tracker/topper tracker , very stable, 70 Kg, Good in river chop and a FLAT sea.
If a large croc takes an interest in your boat move on. Watch when lauching and retrieving and you will have no hassles.

Cheers Lyndon

Yep your absolutely right Lyndon.

Good fishin Fred.

Cheers

"Around Darwin boat shops you will often see tinnies (large ones) in for repairs to weld up holes left by croc bites."

I don't know where you got this information, however it is not true. I think maybe some people from the NT are trying to scare the southeners and told you a bit of a furphy. If the crocs were that bad, there would be someone eaten at a boat ramp every weekend as there are hundreds of boats on the water each week.

Cheers Tony

Hi Tony

When I was living in Darwin I did see on several occasions croc damage on boats and motors in boat yards and repair shops.

Over the years there were often reports in the news of people being taken at boat ramps, popular camping and swimminng spots.

One incident was at the Palmerston boat ramp where a couple were fishing at the base of the boat ramp one Saturday morning. She was sitting on a rock at the base of the ramp and he was walking and casting in some metres away. A smallish 3m croc leapt out if the water and grabbed her. The husband came quickly and beat the croc off and rushed her into Darwin hospital with severe lacerations.

I have personally bent up 2 propellas from hitting crocs in mid river. And have been forced to sit in the boat off from the boat ramp while a 4m croc is sitting on the boat ramp at shady camp.

Crocs are real, they do bite boats and propellas, they will stalk boat ramps where some foolish people fillet their fish, they are not scared of humans anymore, they are rapidly increasing in numbers to be a pest to fisherman.

I think that people from down south just don't take the threat for real because you only see 1 in 10 crocs. Keep an eye out for the other 9.

Tony, Glad you mentioned the person who go into strife was on the BANK FISHING, not in a boat. I can believe you could hit them a speed, never heard of or seen one attack a boat

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And Lyndon you are right - most attacks happen on the bank and it is unusual for attacks on boats. It happens but most people don't make the headlines. I personally nearly had my 10 year old son taken out of the boat when a 4 m croc parked alongside and was in position to leap. We beat a hasty retreat and left. Other members of the fishing clubs in Darwin will tell similar stories about crocs stalking or bumping or even biting their boats.

If you make it to the Pine Creek museum there is the cowling of a motor outboard all smashed up from a croc.

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"Monster crocodile attacked Daintree tourist boat

* By Peter Michael
* From: The Courier-Mail
* November 07, 2009 12:01AM

TOUR operators on the Daintree River face a safety probe after a monster 5m croc attacked a boat and, in a separate incident, a tourist fell overboard."
(Read rest of story on the web)
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Quote "Crocs have been known to attack motor boats, and win, against outboard motors. Four metres isn’t particularly big, either, some get up to six or seven, but it’s big enough to take out a human easily." (http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/254980)

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