Well despite the weather we launched the Mushulu 12 today. The weather was 15 - 20 knots wind with scattered showers. The photos look nice and calm but as soon as we were outside the breakwater it was .5m + swells with a steep chop created by wind against the tide with white horses everywhere.

As it is a brand new motor we were unable to give it too much power to start with but even with only quarter throttle and two adults (big fellers) and two kids the boat was lifting up onto the plane, it just wanted to go. We all got very wet from the spray but we shipped very little water and only had a tiny amount to bail out every now and again.

We launched at Pelican Park on the Redcliffe peninsular and after a bit of running around in the heavy chop we decided to take a run up the Pine river and find some smooth water. By this time we had been running over an hour so were able to give a few burst of full throttle. The boat leapt out of the water and was straight on the plane before we knew it. I would estimate we were easily doing 20 Knots.

In all we were on the water for two and a half hours with the motor running the whole time.

I must say the boat handled extremely well even in the rough conditions, can't wait to get the motor fully run in and give her a real work out hopefully in calmer conditions.

We are scheduled for a fishing expedition at 4.30 am tomorrow.

Regards
Alan & Kyle







It's great to see them finally out on the water. Speaking with Alan tonight, Alan, Kyle and the Grandkids been out fishing everyday since launching the boat 5 days ago.!

you can see their Mushulu 12 build photo's on our website in our "boatbuilding forum"
regards
Mark
www.bowdidgemarinedesigns.com