Australian Members

[Oskar 26M]

Hi all
This is a list of those members of this forum who have identified themselves as Australian in the 'Location' field of their Profile. There might be more.

I will update the list periodically. It was last updated on 17 July 2008.

State ... Username ... Location ... Joined

Australia (Unknown State)
AUSSIE ... AUSTRALIA ... 18/08/2007
byllxrtr ... Australia ... 18/05/2007
CPT Haddock ... Australia ... 19/05/2007
DreamerNat ... Australia ... 26/08/2007
jim wiltshire ... Australia ... 2/01/2007
John Woods ... Australia ... 9/05/2005
lapidoradeo ... AU ... 23/05/2007
Lenny ... Australia ... 21/11/2007
MadelineDD ... Australia ... 13/08/2007
sbrfrstre ... Australia ... 18/05/2007
United_Storm ... Australia ... 22/08/2007

ACT
Lease ... "Canberra Oz; 1995 26X ""MACMAC"" Tohatsu 50" ... 18/11/2005

NSW
Boblee ... "Riverina Australia ""TRUST ME"" 2006 26m 50hp e-tec" ... 10/08/2006
Clemo ... Goulburn, NSW, Australia ... 30/12/2007
crackles ... Sydney, Australia ... 22/07/2005
edurbin ... Newcastle.Australia ... 10/02/2005
gbstewart ... Sydney, Australia. 2006 26M ... 10/11/2007
Grimo ... Sydney - Australia ... 17/03/2006
Halycon ... Australia, Lake Macquarie 9/10/2006
Ian Brooke ... Sydney Australia ... 25/09/2005
johnnymagic ... SYDNEY AUSTRALIA ... 28/11/2005
netto ... sydney australia ... 19/05/2008
No Fixed Address ... Sydney Australia ... 29/02/2004
Peter K ... Sydney,Oz ... 2/01/2008
peterh0019 ... Sydney, Australia ... 4/12/2007
Robert Florida ... SYDNEY AUSTRALIA ... 7/05/2005
rockman ... Singleton NSW Australia ... 10/06/2006

Qld
blueyes ... Brisbane Australia ... 9/12/2007
Codes ... Gold Coast Australia ... 6/07/2005
davidbagnall ... Brisbane Australia ... 23/08/2007
frenchaussie ... "Brisbane QLD Australia 06 26m ""Femme de la mer""" ... 6/02/2008
Hurley ... Queensland Australia ... 26/05/2005
kadet ... "Brisbane, Australia. 2008M ""WickedWave"" ETEC 60" ... 2/10/2007
med ... Gold Coast QLD Australia ... 10/02/2004
Mike Burrows ... Brisbane Australia ... 29/06/2005
mjheath ... MOOLOOLABA (AUSTRALIA) ... 12/03/2006
MoretonBayBaz ... Redcliffe Qld Australia ... 29/01/2008
Nautek ... Tingoora, Queensland, Australia ... 14/07/208
Peter HK ... "Brisbane Australia. ""Sundowner""- a Mach28" ... 11/02/2006
Phillip ... Sunshine Coast Australia 2000 26X Tohatsu 50hp ... 27/11/2004
sorcha ... brisbane australia ... 16/02/2007
turtonr ... South Brisbane,Queensland Australia ... 15/10/2007

SA
dave_p ... South Australia ... 2/02/2007
Tas
Tas ... as time goes by ... ... 2/04/2008
Vic
AJ ... Melbourne Australia ... 3/05/2005
AyBee ... Melbourne Australia ... 3/10/2007
brianhar ... ... 20/05/2008
Capn Vinnie ... Melbourne Australia ... 20/05/2008
golfbrucey ... melbourne ... 10/03/2007
Jack Sparrow ... Melbourne, Australia ... 3/04/2007
Mistral ... Patterson Lakes, Melbourne, Australia ... 25/03/2008
MrBarry ... Melb, Oz; 06 26M E-tec 60 ... 27/07/2007
mylollies ... Melbourne Victoria Australia, 26M ... 22/04/2008
Nick ... Melbourne, Australia..2007 M..Un-named as yet.....50 HP E-Tec...MACM1673L607 ... 18/04/2008
Stephen Mooney ... Melbourne Australia ... 19/04/2005
SteveP18 ... Melbourne, Australia ... 16/03/2005
ubi_est_via ... Melbourne Australia ... 5/08/2007

WA
Bill Fowlie ... Mandurah, Western Australia ... 20/03/2005
Bob Johnson ... Western Australia ... 9/08/2007
Gelly ... Perth Western Australia ... 23/07/2004
mtb_gary ... Perth, Western Australia ... 16/01/2008
Oskar 26M ... Perth Australia, 2007 26M, 60hp E-tec ... 24/03/2008
puggsy ... Perth Western Australia ... 2/02/2008
TheDart ... Karratha, WA, Australia ... 26/06/2008

[Aloha]

Just wanted you to update your list in WA. I am listed under "Aloha" and I am from Perth, WA.
Bought my boat in March, 08 from Phil at Synergy and have done quite a few mods to it.
I will send some photos to update.

Kind regards

ALan

[Oskar 26M]

Hi and welcome Aloha Alan.

As Mistral noted in the other thread, it would help if you modified the Location part of your profile to reflect key location, boat and motor info...
Meanwhile I've added you into the list of West Aussies,and assume that (since its from Synergy in 2008) you have a 26M.

Happy sailing

[puggsy]

Welcome aboard, Aloha...If you are in the Perth Metro area, I may get to meet you on the river...
I'm keen to see your mods. Puggsy

[standfast]

Hello,
I have been following this web site for a while and the info everyone provides is very useful, so it is time to dive in and contribute as well. Please add me to the member list. My wife and I bought a 26x earlier this year and we reside on the Sunshine Coast in Qld (I haven't worked out where the location details are stored yet - any clues?)

We have owned trailer sailers for around 20 years now so I am used to the mods game and am starting to get stuck into the Mac. Ours is a secondhand boat but is still in a relatively vanilla condition so I have a blank canvas to work with. I'll keep you all posted.

Cheers,

[Hamin' X]

Your location is entered from the User Control Panel link, located below the banner ads. Click on the link then click on the profile tab. Find the location field and enter your location, boat type, engine type, name of boat, serial#, etc., all in the location field.

Welcome aboard.
~Rich

[Oskar 26M]

Welcome standfast and happy X sailing

I have added you to the list of Aussie Mac sailors, but please also follow Hamin' X advice and use the Control Panel to add some extra information to the 'Location' field in your Profile.

Queensland now tops the list of known Aussie Mac Sailors, with 16 members.

They are:
blueyes, Codes, davidbagnall, frenchaussie, Hurley, kadet, med, Mike Burrows, mjheath, MoretonBayBaz, Nautek, Peter HK, Phillip, sorcha, standfast and turtonr.

[The Mutt]

I have altered my profile as required.

Linda and I are the proud new owners of Scott's 1997 MacGregor 26X.

We are yet to see the boat in real life as the ship only arrived at Port Kembla on the 21st of Oct which was yesterday, and won't berth until the 24th of October meaning that we have to wait for customs to x-ray the container then unpack for inspection, probably won't see it until the 30th October, not bad as it was due to arrive in Australia on the 1st October!

I think it was sailed to Australia from the US.

Glenn

[Boblee]

Welcome all the new members and old ones who have joined the aussie section.
Strange that there doesn't seem to be any NT members as Phillip (Synergy) said he had received quite a few enquiries but the transport costs were prohibitive.
Hopefully there is someone up there looking for a really well equipped cruising mac next year AFTER we have a look at the Kimberlies.
Bob

[Mistral]

Welcome to the forum Mutt

Hopefully you won't have all the hassles I had when my boat arrived. It took 3 inspections by ASIC, because of the wood, etc. and than in the end I found that the porta-potti was still full. So much for the inspections. Make sure you take a toolbox with as you might have to put the trailer together. They put the wheels on and boat on the trailer for me, but had to put the fenders, etc. on. You might also require a light board and cable might be to short.
Hopefully this helps a bit and happy sailing afterwards.
Dirk

[The Mutt]

Thanks for the heads up about the potti. Obviously a vigilant inspector.

We are putting the axles, wheels, tyres and guards on ourselves, the shipping yard has agreed to lift the boat and trailer with the fork lift or hoist while we attack everything with rattle gun, we will have our work ute there with all the tools, hope they unbolted everything it can really slow things down I have to weld it back together.

Glenn

[Boblee]

the porta-potti was still full.

Crikey thats unreal, talk about buying a used boat how slack is that.
As for the inspectors doing their job no wonder we have quarantine problems here.
You were very lucky it didn't cost you big time for importing some bug not as though you had any control over it but you would be the one paying.
Mutt
Usually doesn't cost a lot to get the blokes in the yard to assemble everything so all you have to do is bleed the brakes in Sydney anyway.

[The Mutt]

Well Boblee I enjoy putting things together, we have built our house, done extensions, ripped out the coil springs from our 1988 Range Rover and fitted small truck air springs (that was an interesting job) and am currently replacing the Rangies V8 with an Isuzu 3.9 litre diesel, when finished it will be turbo charged.

These are the big things we have been doing, then the MacGregor ........... well might start with a couple of blue water seats on the stern coupled to a targa bar holding the solar panel, that will help run the Engel fridge/freezer. First of all get the boat home and get the trailer registered then work out where and what to do first, I'm a fiddler.

I can work in fibreglass, steel, wood, canvas, leather and other materials, I can spray paint, have experience in electronics and hold an ameteur radio licence.

When I grew up if I didn't know how to do it then I asked questions, did courses and worked out how to do it, my fetish I suppose is that I don't like not knowing how to do anything.

While I'm at it does anyone who has imported their oun boat have an Australian-United Sates Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) document filled out by MacGregor Yacht Corp. It would be nice to keep the duty in our pockets instead of paying it to Customs.

Glenn

[Boblee]

G'day Mutt
Wasn't meaning you shouldn't assemble your own trailer just that the blokes there don't/didn't mind making an extra bob or two and for me travelling 800 k's was pretty happy to have it done, had enough trouble just trying to find a trailer plug to fit our vehicle without worrying about anything else, I just wanted out of the joint.
A bit of a fiddler myself a sparkie by trade but there isn't a lot that I can't do or turn my hand to especially when stuck, which is fairly handy when wandering round the bush and now the waterways, I guess you will have plenty of fun modding your boat which to me has been half the fun.
Bob

[The Mutt]

G'day Bob

The guys are happy to get a few boxes of beer for lifting the boat and trailer and letting us loose while they continue loading the waiting trucks, we do a lot of work 2 minutes away from their yard repairing new trucks, vans and tractors that are damaged in transit all of them straight off the boat, we repair the dashes, door trims etc that get damaged before distribution around Australia.

We were there today (Thursday), we went to the point to look out to see how many ships were waiting to enter the harbour, there was one ship anchor, as the MSC Krittika which has our container onboard won't dock until Friday that must be it.

I agree with you, modding your car or boat is part of the experience, for some reason a lot of wives don't agree.

Glenn
(The Mutt is an old nickname given to me in the early 70's)