Boats in Botswana

Botswana is a beautiful country with a wide range of rivers running though it. We want to export our fibreglass boats in Botswana...

Map of the Okavango Delta

Exploring the Zambezi

Lets talk tours on the Zambezi river...


The Zambezi spans hundreds of kilometres and travels through many countries in Africa. The part of the Zambezi that i am going to talk about touring today is from Victoria Falls to Kariba wall on the Zimbabwean side.

Victoria falls to Kariba

Derringer 140

PASSENGER CARRYING CAPACITY - 4 passengers.        

 

Bass fishing in Bulawayo.

There is never anything better than being able to finish work on a Friday and know you can go home, pack your fishing kit, cooler box and boat and be at a local dam within minutes to do some all important bass fishing in Bulawayo.

We have some beautiful Dams in and around our wonderful city and what makes them so special is the simple fact that they are easy to get to and fish out of. Just to prove this point here are some of the dams and their distances from Bulawayo...

Please contact Turbo Glass if you need directions or fishing tips for particular dams.

• Inyankuni 

Bass fishing out of 'kuni' is a great experience, there have been some good fish caught here and is one of the more popular destinations for the avid fisherman. It lies about 80km's from Bulawayo.

ET Dory

PASSENGER CARRYING CAPACITY - 7 passengers.        

 

Aqua Leisure 1645

PASSENGER CARRYING CAPACITY - 45    (subject to Lake Captain authority)

Piranha 160

Passenger carrying capacity - 5 passengers

Wolf 180

PASSENGER CARRYING CAPACITY - 8 passengers.        

 

Coyote 180

PASSENGER CARRYING CAPACITY - 6 passengers.        

Boats in Zambia

For a country of its' size there are certainly not many companies that have boats for sale in Zambia.

This is something we at Turbo Glass would like to change...

Sunset Cruise on the Zambezi

Boats in Zimbabwe

Boats are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made...

I am going to talk a little bit about boats for sale in Zimbabwe, and with obvious reasons, Turbo Glass. We started manufacturing fiber glass boats in Zimbabwe in the early 80's (1984) to be exact. We started with a hull called the Piranha and have never looked back.

Piranha 160

This is our flagship boat and in the last twenty years or so we have sold over 3000. Not bad for a company which has 30 staff members...

Boats in Mozambique

We are hoping to take Mozambique by storm

Sunset on the Zambezi

Having looked into boats in Mozambique i have found a VERY limited selection of what can and can't be found. As such we at Turbo Glass have decided to give the good people of Mozambique a new, fresh perspective of fibre glass boats for sale.

Did you know there are over ten rivers and estuaries in Mozambique where people use them for fishing and commercial use?

Fibreglass vs Aluminium Boats

Alloy versus Glass - the Vexed Question


In my opinion people have been sucked into the old marketing arguments of fibreglass versus aluminium.

Both are excellent materials to use in the manufacture of boats. There is far more value in discussing the design of the actual boats made with each material. For example many aluminium boats are flat bottomed and people immediately assume that this makes them more practical for river usage. Is this because it was flat bottomed or because of the material used in manufacture? Below is the Delta !60, a flat hulled fibreglass boat with exceptional durability and very light weight.

DELTA 160

Zimbabwe Bass Record

This is a story of a bass record in 2001.

Probably the most captivating and sought after subject on every Bass fisherman’s mind - even stronger than mere numbers of bass or tournament winnings - is the thought of one day catching a record fish, or more so, a world record fish. Well, Africa’s Basser’s, we are not far off the mark now.

On Wednesday 8th August 2001, 19 year old Danyal Patel of Buffalo Range in Zimbabwe’s Lowveld hooked and landed a bass that is probably amongst the top forty biggest bass landed on the rod and reel in the world.

Danyal’s fish, caught at noon, regurgitated a bream of 250 grams which would have counted toward overall weight. After the midday catch, the fish was only weighed at 6pm that evening. Having caught and released several fish over 10 pounds and one topping the scale at 14.8 pounds before, he knew when he hooked it that this one was different, and a trophy worthy of keeping. The fish viciously attacked a chartreuse Ark buzz bait with a clacker fished on 17 pound line using a 6’6" graphite rod. Not only does he have a knack of catching big fish but constantly runs rings around his Dad (who owns a Piranha 160) who employs him as a cattleman, an occupation which affords him ample opportunity for a cast or two without being noticed. This time he got caught!

More Charge!!

So...

In the last post i mentioned a few rules, in this one i shall mention a few funny mishaps we have had along the way. Either on route to the river, on the river or even in a lodge by the lake!

African sunset

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger... We believe this to be true, especially after some of the uphill battles we have had to make this trip possible...

We have had broken down cars whilst on route, border problems (when we took the trip to Namibia because of petrol problems) motor problems and other interesting dilemmas!