AFL premiership winner posts photos of sunken boat
Mark LeCras posts photos of a boat in a little bit of trouble, saying he had not forgotten to put the bungs inA former premiership-winning AFL footballer has shared the dramatic moment his fishing boat sank while on a fishing trip on the weekend.
Mark LeCras, the former forward with West Australian AFL team West Coast Eagles and a fishing enthusiast, posted several images on social media at the weekend showing a boat, a West Australian-made Assassin 660 Dhufish trailer boat, after it sank.
LeCras was quite laconic about the incident. “If ya not getting bogged or sinking a boat then your (sic) not having a crack,” he wrote on Instagram.
However, he made a note of telling his followers on Instagram that yes, the bungs were in the boat.
The 7.6-metre, circa $150,000 trailer boat is optimised for WA waters, and is one of Assassin’s best-selling models.
The series of images show the boat below the surface of the water with just its hardtop showing at water level and then ringed with airbags to keep it above the water as part of the salvage process.
No location was given for the incident, although some of the images show the boat was dragged up on what appears to be a remote beach. It also appears the boat may have inverted, with most of the tubes used for the rocket launcher broken from the bracket that supported them.
Bunbury, WA-based Assassin Boats builds a range of alloy hardtops with either a legally trailerable 2.5-metre beam, or an extra-wide 2.7-metre beam.
It makes a range of 6.8-metre and 7.7-metre island cabins, runabouts that vary from 6.8 metres to 7.7 metres, and hardtops from 7.7 metres to 9.7 metres.
LeCras played 219 games for the West Coast Eagles, kicking 441 goals during his career.
He was in the Eagle's premiership team that beat Collingwood to the flag in 2018, retiring from the top tier of professional football after the win.
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