It is a great boat but yes the weight is very much an issue (but its a trade off), I think even the terminator would have difficulty moving that thing around on land haha.
I went our again today in the bay for another fish, this time I went past the opening of the heads and into pure ocean. It was all going very well, I have these soft plastics with pheromones that have seemed to hit the mark. I had 3 snappers and wanted to go back in as that would enough for me.
The thing about Jervis bay is it is a pit stop if you like of the sea for hump back whales on their migratory route from Antarctica up to the tropics around North QLD and the south pacific. Normally the mothers take their calfs in for a break between aug-nov on their way south back to antarctica. To my surprise a whale breached about 30 meters from me, now being a bit stupid I slowly got closer to make sure I wasnt seeing things. And suddenly another much larger beast (the mother) breaches and decides to flick my yak up side down.
This was not a fun moment!!, still about 2 miles offshore and every thing everywhere!. I tried to get up on the yack to use my weight to flip it back over....15 mins later and on my 7th fatigued try I got it up. I thought I was ok despite losing my phone, shoes, and rods!!!!!. Yet to my dread the hull was full of water making the boat very unstable and at the mercy of the current. I finally made it back to land and was a very amusing moment for the onlookers to see me try and manipulate the hulf of a thing in a manner to get all the water out!.
One thing I cant understand is how the water got in, I had all hatches sealed when the hump back capsized me, let the hull was full!.
Anyway was quite a drama but nobody can predict to be capsized by a whale!,,,even those classy folk in their adventures and revs would have had the same fate lol!
Holy crap, i would of freaked out.
I was listening to a comedian and he said that he reacts the exact same way regardless if a White shark was about to attack him or if he had a piece of seaweed bump into his foot. Ha ha ha , that cracked me up.
Wow i'm glad it worked out for you, if you panic it only makes things worse, easier said then done though. If i was going offshore i wouldn't mind a small electric motor to pop into the mirage drive well if the drive failed or you couldn't manage to get back .
I have seen some hobie owners actually drill a hole for a small electric motor directly through the middle of the mirage drive cassette plug and keep it under deck.
If they get in trouble they pop out the mirage drive and pop in the cassette plug with the motor attached. Of course batteries not included.