all right sea breeze brains. Here's a question for y'all. Do you know of anyone with an electric guitar on a boat.
I can think salt and wetness would rust it in 2 seconds. But it just might work, Amps that use battery's would mean no need for 240 to be going.
Would be cool to jam on the water with the nice sound of an electric guitar.
Our boat had a genset and 240 volt plugs
we would take a drum kit and guitars out to Abrolhos for the big bank season.
in the afternoons about twice a week we would pull up and surf a couple different waves
someone would fire up the genset and turn on the marshall 100 watter
We would blow the place away , wish some of those sessions I had footage of......
Sometimes a couple of boats would tie up on the full moon when we were doing a two or three day pull and everyone would get on the piss, we would eat coral trout and Crays and have a jam.
It was the best two seasons of my life
Damage to guitars was where the jack lead goes in and the pickups , you would have to take strings out like 3/4 sets for the three month season and use the solder kit to resolver the jack plug as that's where it always rusted like a bloody anode..
pickups would get sandpapered back after after a couple seasons,,,, the amp died once on a rough day and we got a new tube choppered out with pizzas one arvo when we were full of piss,,,, cost us 400 for the pizzas 20 of them 150 for the tube and 1000 for the chopper.... 8 of us there in so it was like $200 for 2 and a bit pizzas each....
This was 20 years ago and $200 was about a day and a half's wage but after months of eating fish it was ok..
That was before charter boats even went out there and the fish were thick, you would dive and spear a coral trout for tea and basically take your pick out of 15-20 of them for the best eating size one....
The bait would get salted and the supply boat would drop you off a tonne or so at a time enough for 10 days fishing ,,, by the 8,9th day it stunk so bad and these were the days we didn't surf off the boat...
we would take the dingy over so you so you couldn't hear the music...
Its amazing how much noise five or six drunk fishermen can make with a drum kit set up on an island miles from nowhere
Than I went to the mines .,,,,,, what a sellout
Select to expand quoteRazzonater said..
Our boat had a genset and 240 volt plugs
we would take a drum kit and guitars out to Abrolhos for the big bank season.
in the afternoons about twice a week we would pull up and surf a couple different waves
someone would fire up the genset and turn on the marshall 100 watter
We would blow the place away , wish some of those sessions I had footage of......
Sometimes a couple of boats would tie up on the full moon when we were doing a two or three day pull and everyone would get on the piss, we would eat coral trout and Crays and have a jam.
It was the best two seasons of my life
Damage to guitars was where the jack lead goes in and the pickups , you would have to take strings out like 3/4 sets for the three month season and use the solder kit to resolver the jack plug as that's where it always rusted like a bloody anode..
pickups would get sandpapered back after after a couple seasons,,,, the amp died once on a rough day and we got a new tube choppered out with pizzas one arvo when we were full of piss,,,, cost us 400 for the pizzas 20 of them 150 for the tube and 1000 for the chopper.... 8 of us there in so it was like $200 for 2 and a bit pizzas each....
This was 20 years ago and $200 was about a day and a half's wage but after months of eating fish it was ok..
What boats were you on? I did big bank bank in 2003/2004.
All double gear fighting for that imaginary line!
No fun on our boat!
Select to expand quoteUnderoath said..Razzonater said..
Our boat had a genset and 240 volt plugs
we would take a drum kit and guitars out to Abrolhos for the big bank season.
in the afternoons about twice a week we would pull up and surf a couple different waves
someone would fire up the genset and turn on the marshall 100 watter
We would blow the place away , wish some of those sessions I had footage of......
Sometimes a couple of boats would tie up on the full moon when we were doing a two or three day pull and everyone would get on the piss, we would eat coral trout and Crays and have a jam.
It was the best two seasons of my life
Damage to guitars was where the jack lead goes in and the pickups , you would have to take strings out like 3/4 sets for the three month season and use the solder kit to resolver the jack plug as that's where it always rusted like a bloody anode..
pickups would get sandpapered back after after a couple seasons,,,, the amp died once on a rough day and we got a new tube choppered out with pizzas one arvo when we were full of piss,,,, cost us 400 for the pizzas 20 of them 150 for the tube and 1000 for the chopper.... 8 of us there in so it was like $200 for 2 and a bit pizzas each....
This was 20 years ago and $200 was about a day and a half's wage but after months of eating fish it was ok..
What boats were you on? I did big bank bank in 2003/2004.
All double gear fighting for that imaginary line!
No fun on our boat!
I was in Santa Cruz and pandamoneum
did a few years on new sydney as well
than Santa Cruz 2
than over east live coral trout on jennelly got to surf the swains and a few waves off Bowen love coral trout was phenomenal, I'll try find a few pics and throw them up.
old school
back in the day all the boats had sick names, magic bus , tardis etc etc
late 90,s
there was some proper underground chargers in the industry
so many waves between Perth and greenhead offshore that break like indo on their day
no name dropping but the crew off Nebraska used to charge one of the Thompson boat skippers was an ex Aussie champ, their was the lanno shaper, the lads from Cervantes, it was the days of no quota on the crays and single crew or two on the deck, 80-100 pots was most of the licence sizes.
one set of dive gear on the boat, snagged pots in the breakers, diving with no bc or weight belts
doing dives on the second bank to retrieve pots in 30-35 metres and you would hit the bottom at the top of the bank look down to the lower edge and it would be 45-50 metres plus in good vis ,,,,, come up and just say naaaah man that ones in the never never.....
Getting stalked by sharks as ya pulling pots out of caves and the crays in their would start screaming like crazy and the Noah's would come.... open the bait lids and flick the bait out would buy your way to the top...........
when the big noahs would come in you would pull the floats down three or four times and the other lad on deck would winch you up holding onto the pot straight over the tipper.......
people would fish the breakers hard in the reds run as there as there was no quota and boats 60-70 foot would lose windows regularly from set waves punching them out....
one fella was on two boats boats that rolled over on deck and no one would let him on their boat as he was Jonah he did a fill in day and that boat ended up launching over the reef right in front of lanno pub.......... we had to go out and drag them off total disaster.........
Everybody loves it when somebody brings a guitar.
Cos it's way better to hear somebody try to play a crappy rendition of a popular song, than just hear the album version played by professional musicians over the soundsystem
