Yup! I got the itch again… Those who knew me in the earlier days will understand I’ve had and done a few classics… This is the new project. No great rush, just going to chip away at it. Not hotrodding it, just going to turn into a patina’d daly driver. Plan to have this for a few years…
It’s a 1954 Ford F100 pickup. From California originally, left hand drive. Motor is a Y-Block 272 V8, has 4 barrel holly carb. Plenty of bits missing but I’ll sort that.
Another successful annual Bro Tip! We headed to Great Barrier again on a fairly calm weather pattern. Nothing much over 10 knots the whole time and a bit of glass.
We tried a bit of everything, and caught Kahawai, Snapper, Red Snapper, Cod, Trevally, Blue Maumau, Black Maumau, Terakihi, Kingfish, Shark, Granddaddy Hapuka etc. Lets just say the freezer is stocked for a while!
We even had a 2.5m Bronze Whaler Shark munch fish heads off the boat (Simon hung them on a rope). That shark hung around a while, pretty awesome sight!
I Hooked a 5 foot Hammerhead shark on a live bait and it stripped out about 300m of line in a minute. That fought hard! Even used the gimble on that one!
We spent time at Channel Island on Glass and hooked into 3x massive kingfish on jigs. They fight hard! I got broken off on 20, 100 and 130lb line! Next time wire trace!
During a Marlin session, we towed a few lures off the back of Barrier and a Marlin rose just in front of the boat. It doubled back and chased the lure but didn’t commit. Next time 
Great trip. Simon is a great brother and friend, and I really love this annual trip.
Time for another adventure! I got Jackson up at 4:30am and drove up to the Glenariffe Stream, up in the Canterbury backcountry. We had a great day, he’s casting really well and he also hooked a nice brown trout. He’s a great lad, no complaints, and is a natural caster. Love him…
We had Vishal and Gopika down for a holiday, so took them for a nice walk to the Devils Punchbowl in Arthurs Pass. Decent walk, good fun, great company!
I’ve starting on a wee project. This is a fish catcher to catch live bait for the boat. A bit left to do on it but you should get the idea. Basically a water cooler bottle with top inverted.
Some pics from Jack’s 8th birthday. Great time had by all!
Just some cool pics with my lawn mowing buddy Livvy! She never lets me mow the lawn without her! She’s started driving it too!
Just a nice moment with family playing games…
Livvy and me went to Auckland to see the family and do the office Chrissy party. We both had a great time and she was a great girl. I think she felt all grown up!
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