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One of the boys in the Longboard room arranged for McTavish to make this... But I think it has since been sold on...



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The only thing that would bug me over here in WA would be the solar effects on them - they'd cook in the middle of our summers - otherwise they look sensational really , striking sticks

BulldogPup said...

The only thing that would bug me over here in WA would be the solar effects on them - they'd cook in the middle of our summers - otherwise they look sensational really , striking sticks

What if the black was only on the bottom? (I'm not sure if it's on top or not)
U think it'd still cook?

tgladman said...

BulldogPup said...

The only thing that would bug me over here in WA would be the solar effects on them - they'd cook in the middle of our summers - otherwise they look sensational really , striking sticks

What if the black was only on the bottom? (I'm not sure if it's on top or not)
U think it'd still cook?

I still wouldn't turn it upside down on the racks on the journey tho to be on the safe side and leave the b-bag open a bit for venting heat - I like them

Edit: hey TG , be a pioneer and buy one , make sure you post some pics & give us a review mate

^^^
Was/is there any evidence of the Orca Board artwork theory being successful ?

We have been seeing odd currents and a lot of warm water last couple of years. I live at the very south of W.A. and we been catching all kinds of northern fish.

Anyway, late last year, a bunch of tourists headed out on the local whale watching tours and saw something rare as. Watching a humpack and her calf, the lot were rather horrified when a group of around 6 orca's came from nowhere and began a gang attack. The mother humpback fought them off as best she could for quite some time, but she just couldnt take on 6 of them, and they eventually got the calf. But thats nature huh? First EVER sighting down here, divers were not keen on going in the water for a while.

smicko said...


Jamie Chester's article in the latest Western Angler is a bit of an eye opener too, born at 1.5m and a 4.85m specimen being only seven years old. I have always though of Whites as rare, slow growing not terribly fecund creatures.

Starting to think that maybe we should be listening to pro fisherman more than the so called "experts".

Rare?
Endangered?
Hmmmmm?

Not sure were he got his facts from.
Wikipedia says.

Males reach maturity at 3.5–4.0 metres (11–13 ft) and females at 4.5–5.0 m (15–16 ft). Adults on average are 4–5.2 m (13–17.1 ft) long and have a mass of 680–1,100 kilograms (1,500–2,400 lb). Females are generally larger than males. It is widely accepted that the great white shark can reach 6.1 m (20 ft) in length and 1,900 kg (4,200 lb) in weight

GW actually reach maturity at around 15 years of age.

Also have a gestation period of about 11 months and a Female shark may only have 2 to 3 pups in a life time.

Just cause its written in a mag doesn't make it right..

smicko said...

Being a marine biologist I daresay he didn't source his info from a website where anyone has editorial rights

Why don't you send him an email and ask the question.

Or perhaps you could read the article yourself, before you go shooting from the hip like you always do with this subject.

My point above with them being born at 1.5m and a confirmed specimen of 4.85m being only 7 yrs old was to illustrate the fact that they grow a lot quicker than I had previously thought and would only need to survive for a few years before they are pretty much the top of the food chain, Orcas being their only natural predator.

I reckon we need to get the Japs keen on Great White liver so they can do some "research" on them.

Sorry Smicko not really shooting form the hip. Google it yourself if you need to but if Jamie is correct, than the all the others are wrong.

Below is a another quote from Fascinating Facts about Great whites for KIDS.

hubpages.com/education/Fascinating-Facts-About-Great-White-Sharks-for-Kids

It is unknown exactly at this time, but it is believed that great white sharks can live for 30 years or more.

They do not start reproducing until they are about 14-15 years old, just like humans.

It is possible that white sharks can live as long as us!

Hopefully this is something we will learn in our lifetime, as more and more sharks are being tagged and observed by scientists.

I have done a heap of reading over many years on GW and no i don't have a marine Biology degree but that still doesn't make me wrong or "shooting from the hip"

Oh and if you believe the Internet than the biggest threat to GW are actually human beings, that's why they are now on the Icon endangered list

I will go and have a look at his article though thanks but i wasn't responding to his article, i was responding to your comment.

Ohhh **** me Rodney anything that is born at 1.5m, eats it's siblings in utero to get to that size and can reach 2.5m by the end of it's second year is NOT SLOW GROWING. It's a god damned machine!!!

I'm not advocating killing them I'm just saying that they don't seem to be quite as vulnerable as I had thought.

And 17 feeding around one reef is just nuts!! How big is the reef? Where is the reef?

You know I thought maybe 1 or 2 of 'em around Rotto but maybe they are a far more social creature than has been intimated, maybe there's 10 or 20 or 30 that live around Rotto???

As far as fecundity goes, it is believed that females mature at about 15yrs and bear anywhere between 1 and 15ish pups, usually every second year. Obviously if 15 pups were to be born, they'd be a damn sight smaller than the 1.5m quoted, but you'd have to lay odds on a similar number of juveniles reaching adulthood as in a small litter.

Yes they may only have 2-3 pups in a lifetime but they might have a fkn hundred too. No one knows, that's the trouble. Far more research is needed on the subject.

I tried taking pics of the relevant article to post here but the flash ****ed them. Do yourself a favour and spend the $8.50 and grab a copy for a read, it's interesting. I've always had a staunch no kill philosphy on this subject but this article in particular has got me thinking twice.

There's all this hoohaa about how there's more chance of being struck by lightning, or a falling coconut or chopping your knob off in your zipper and bleeding to death etc etc

But one thing I can tell you is that I have personally known two of the victims of fatal White attacks in WA since 2005. The one thing they had in common is that they both spent a lot of time in the water.

Smicko which month mag is the article in. I did go for a look but couldn't find it?

I have spent many years reading and following sharks in particular GW.

All i can say is wish you were right