With a professional career in Australian motorsport spanning over 30 years as a driver and later team owner, John Faulkner has engineered and built most of his own racing cars, from driving factory team supported sprint karts to in house built current spec v8 supercars.

Under the team name JFR, John Faulkner Racing evolved from Karts, Group A Toyota’s, Nascar and Australia’s premier category V8 Supercars.

The first prototype TOWCAM was ready in 2003.

The very first time it was deployed while feeding it back to our lures one of the crew was watching the TV screen in the saloon.

With a large mouthful of watermelon spraying over the teak cockpit he yelled

"MARLIN! MARLIN! There’s a Marlin on the camera!"

All eyes searched the spread, nothing! We hadn’t set the recording button either, so we had to listen to him all day about this Marlin we missed

The fish was getting bigger each time he reminded us. (True story)

12 years on, Two Queensland GCGFC championship top marlin boat awards and two outright tournament wins, all the while testing and developing TOWCAM units at sea.

Utilizing a race car component rapid prototype profiling machine to achieve low surface pressure and dive range along with gravity center and later with the technology improving and getting deep drop vision from the depths became another challenge.

We unveiled TOWCAM at the biggest boat show of the year Sanctuary Cove, TOWCAM was not on sale but the valuable feedback highlighted the demand out there with not only the seasoned pro-charter and game boat skippers but the smaller sportfish boats wanting quality vision as well.

Showing easily captured and unrivaled stunning color underwater strike vision from several custom game boats using TOWCAM and Pole cam’s vision exclusively, our display stand was assured of a crowd.

Proudly John was there showing off his product explaining how good a bait & switch tool he had and signing the odd autograph for those that recognized the veteran race car driver.

TOWCAMhd has been on the backburner now for a few years waiting for technology to catch up then John got sick and further plans to launch were put on hold, the first three batches of TOWCAMhd were launched late 2019 and quickly sold out.

TOWCAMhd development slowed almost to a stop with covid 19 putting many components on the waitlist we have now steady progress as changes were made early and testing was limited we are happy with the package but tweaks are continually being tested as the world opens up from the pandemic.

We, at TOWCAM, are quietly working away at the whole process while we watch the world consume new products and mainly stay at home.

So our market has changed to people wanting to fish from their home base and not travel.