by The Captain | Jan 3, 2021 | Articles, Project boat
Lack of experience or budget didn’t slow the Palumbo brothers down. After three years, their Invader is finally finished and the boys are already ankle-deep in fish blood and cray legs. How’s life on the WA coast? We’re only 5km from the coast and it’s a...
by The Captain | Oct 27, 2020 | Articles, Project boat
Veitch Boats has all the hallmarks of boat-building success. A steady stream of boats is rolling out the door, with a nine-month waiting list. The factory floor is full of bustling builders and apprentices, smart investors with expansion plans, plus a growing list of...
by The Captain | Jul 26, 2019 | Articles, Project boat
The Nub-Tub is finally ready for the fit-out phase. We take her to the experts at Johnson Bros Marine who say, “We’ve never seen anyone want to fit this much shit to a 4.5m boat in our lives.” Trav and his cohort of contractors have slogged away on the base for three...
by Travis Godfredson | Dec 6, 2018 | Articles, Project boat
When The Captain made the big decision to saw off the transom of Nub Tub, he couldn’t bear to cut up his baby. So he called in Josh Hammond from Ocean Custom Marine to do his dirty work. The Captain’s project boat, Nub Tub, wasn’t supposed to get...
by admin | Dec 5, 2018 | Articles, Project boat
The Nub Tub gets a flash new glass-encrusted Thermo-Lite floor. The Captain has a declaration to make to all future Whitepointer owners. The 445F project boat known as Nub Tub , sitting in the Whitepointer factory in Cann River among the eucalypts is not the reason...
by The Captain | Mar 13, 2018 | Articles, Project boat
Time to rip and strip Nub Tub, the Captain’s Haines Hunter 445F back to bare bones before building her back up to survey class, courtesy of Erick Hyland from Whitepointer glass boats in Cann River, Victoria. Erick shares his version of events… The...
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