Hooke Line and Sinker
unleash the beast project.
From
www.HookLineSinker.tv
In 2009 Nick and Andrew
have joined forces with Yamaha to attempt an
ambitious project to transform a beat-up
Bertram 23.
Currently powered with a
big, thirsty and very unreliable (the boys
have already had to be rescued!) sterndrive
powerplant, the plan is to re-power ‘Beast’
with a brand-new Yamaha 350 four-stroke V8
outboard! Yes, it will be fast, it will be
super reliable and it will become the
ultimate fishing boat!
As well as getting a new
motor, Beast is going to be
restored into a new boat! She'll be stripped
back, her interior will be thrown away and
replaced, her trailer will be fixed up, and
over the course of the Hook, Line and Sinker
2009 season Beast will be reborn.
Alright Beast
fans, time to fill you in on all the goings
on with our beautiful Bertram 23 project
boat. As we speak, she is in a shed in
north-west Tasmania in the capable hands of
well-known fibreglass fabricators
Penguin Composites, about to be fitted
with a very serious hull extension capable
of carrying the awesome Yamaha 350 V8
outboard. Now this is not something that you
do without careful consideration and, as
such, David Mercer, the boss at Penguin
Composites, has engaged the services of
Launceston design firm Allmasts to come up
with a pod design that will enable the boat
to fully exploit the performance
capabilities of the big Yamaha.
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