![]() ![]() What’s been your favourite donk over the years? I used to like Yamahas, but now I’m liking how the boat performs with Hondas. Solid with twins, manoeuvrability is great – that’s why ab divers love them. Power-plants: twins, singles or triples – what sort of horsepower hound are you? I prefer the singles with the horsepower that’s available. If your boat was a car, what would it be? A fuel-injected, late ’60s Monaro. Before that I built 14 at Greg’s factory. How many individual 6m OceanPros have you punched out? 44 out of the factory in Munro, Victoria. Then he offered me a full-time job and eventually I started building 6m boats on my own. I offered to work for nothing, just for the experience. What got you into boats in the first place? I picked up the Yellow Pages, went to “B” for boat building and found Greg Salmond. My best is an 11ft bronzie – and the odd white back in the day What do you get up to in your spare time? Farming sheep, hunting, 4WDriving, camping and land-based shark fishing. Name your poison, rum or beer? Whisky and beer when relaxing anything goes when I’m fishing. Job: Boss man/Head Builder/Accountant/Office Bitch And then there was Ron Johnson from the classic class, who is still wondering what the hell he just got himself in to! ![]() The Captain’s crew have collected the responses from the privateers, who filled in the details in their garages and driveways the production crew, who delivered their surveys neatly and on time and the commercial class, who made us pick them up, but considerately laminated them to a commercial-grade finish. So c’mon guys, what have you got to lose? The Captain trusts you will promptly divulge all company secrets. This is serious business – it’s The Captain’s first (un)official Boat Builders’ Survey. ![]()
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