ALLOY BOAT MAGAZINE Summer 2014 Southern HTO XP776 • Ramco 4750 • Scorpion 610HT • Bluefin 565 Fisherman • Stabicraft 2600 • Frewza F14 • FC650CC
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Point of View
It’s amazing just how many aluminium boat builders there are in New Zealand.
08 The History of Alloy Boats in NZ
Barry Thompson traces the early history of Kiwi aluminium trailer boats and looks at some of those that made a difference.
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Exploring Doubtful Sound
Doug Dukeson likens Fiordland’s Doubtful Sound as NZ’s answer to Jurassic Park.
We take a brief look at the new Marco 880 HT, Aqualine 645HT and Profile 635H.
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Winches & Capstans
There are a number of important criteria to be considered in selecting the correct anchor winch or windlass.
66 Blue Cod Heaven
Dawson Charters have a reputation for providing fishing and diving charters with a difference.
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New boats, new products, interesting things that are happening in the alloy boat world.
Tiller Steer Buyers Guide
Tiller-steer alloy dinghies are undergoing a resurgence. Barry Thompson looks at what’s on offer today.
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92 Soft Baiting with Mike Mike Broome takes us soft bait fishing from a purpose built Commando 5.4 CC.
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All About Soft Baits
Southern HTO XP776 • Ramco 4750 • Scorpion 610HT • Bluefin 565 Fisherman • Stabicraft 2600 • Frewza F14 • FC650CC
Bill Hohepa talks about softbaits and how they work.
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Tackle Talk
The latest and great new products from the fishing world.
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Painting An Alloy Boat
Ron Brown looks at the right ways to paint an alloy boat, be it brand new or in need of a refurbish.
114 Company ProfileSurtees Boats Twenty years in the making and now a leading brand in the Australasian market.
118 Aluminium Boat Buyers Guide
Looking for an aluminium boat then check out our comprehensive list.
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World Class Boats from World Class Builders
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n the early 1970s, the aluminium boat building industry in New Zealand was in its infancy, with few builders and a market that still favoured the ever-expanding brands of fibreglass boats as well as timber and ply home builds. Those earliest aluminium trailer boats were in fact just large dinghies and quickly coined the name of ‘tinnies’. They were for many years the tender of choice, as they took over from the heavier timber dinghy. Eventually, they lost that market to inflatables, which today are offered in a myriad of sizes and styles by dozens of manufacturers both locally and overseas. While there had been some early examples of ‘trailerable’ aluminium boats from boutique builders in the early 1970’s, it wasn’t until the mid to late ‘70s that the first production runabouts and cabin boats became available. Fyran was building a 4.8m runabout, which was the biggest in its range and Parkercraft’s 4.3m Pacer was considered a big runabout. Taumarunui-based alloy builder Ali Craft – better known for its river jet boats – was marketing a 4.8m cabin boat, which at that stage was the only production alloy cabin boat on the market. By the end of the ‘70s there was still no manufacturer building trailerable alloy boats over 5m – apart from a few that built specialist race boats. Around 40 years ago there were probably only a handful of serious players in the alloy boat market, such as Fyran, Parkercraft and the imported Starcraft. There were at the time however over 40 fibreglass builders. Man, how times have changed! Today, aluminium trailer boats account for an estimated 70% - 75% of new boat sales in New Zealand and there are now in excess of 60 brands, offering over 500 models. While Kiwi fibreglass boat builders have had huge pressure in recent years from imported boats, especially from the USA, not so for the aluminium market, which has had very little impact from overseas. Apart from some inroads a few years ago by Australian alloy giant, Quintrex, we have seen very little to compete against the Kiwi home product. There’s no doubt that Kiwi alloy boats are in many ways unique and without question world class in every respect. Our pontoon boats and our hardtops are better than anything else in the world and our exports of these attests to that. So welcome to the premiere issue of Alloy Boat magazine. I hope you enjoy it as much as we have enjoyed putting it together and look forward to catching up with you again in issue #2 which is due for a May 2014 release. Happy boating.
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THE HISTORY of ALLOY BOATS
Of Pontoons & Hardtops In 1971
there were only two production aluminium outboard boat brands available on the local market. Today there are over 60. Barry Thompson traces the early history of Kiwi aluminium trailer boats and looks at some of those that made a difference.
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espite being such a boating nation, New Zealand was surprisingly slow to get into aluminium trailer boat construction. One of the first recorded aluminium boats, a 5.2m launch named Zephyr, was built in Switzerland way back in 1890. It was not until 1931, however, that aluminium alloys were developed that were sufficiently resistant to salt water corrosion. If you wanted a small boat your choice was usually timber or for something larger even steel. GRP (fibreglass) hadn’t been developed and it wasn’t until the 1950s that the boat building industry embraced it as an alternative to plywood and timber. The Americans got started seriously into aluminium (they spell it “aluminum”) runabout production at the end of the World War 2, with companies such as Aero Craft (1945), Larson (1946) and Lund (1948) all producing small runabouts. Australian manufacturers such as Savage and Brooker were building small runabouts in the mid 1960s and today the alloy market in Australia is huge, with the Telwater Group the dominant force, its brand names being Quintrex, Stacer and Savage.
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New Zealand’s earliest introduction to aluminium boats was in the early 1960s from companies such as the Wellington based, Hawker Siddeley International NZ Ltd who built the Australian De Havilland range of dinghies from the 2.7m Topper through to the 4.27m Tempest. However, it was Samuel Parker Ltd that really put the aluminium boat on the map with its Parkercraft range. In the mid 1960s the company offered four models, the 8’ (2.44m), 10’ (3.05m), 12’ (3.66m) and 14’ (4.27m) all offered in a variety of colours or unpainted. Parkercraft became such an iconic name that anyone who talked about an aluminium dinghy automatically called it a Parkercraft – much the same as Zodiac was to RIBS and Hoover was to vacuum cleaners. Parkercraft, under the leadership of Roger Arkell, sold thousands of boats throughout the country and for many years was the dominant brand in the market. De Havilland slipped off the scene, only to have its space filled in by a new player, Fyran, which has become New Zealand’s most enduring alloy boat brand.
Fyran Changes the Market
There was a void between Parkercraft’s big open dinghies and custom-built alloy launches, with virtually no local options in aluminium. Imports were virtually non-existent, although there were a few Australianbuilt boats coming into the country and the trend for owner/operators of local sheet metal shops to build their own boats wasn’t commonplace. But then along came Fyran, a new company started in 1969 by Trevor Fyfe and Graeme Ransom – two guys from the sheet metal industry who had a keen interest in boating – hence the name Fyran. “We just built a 3.5m dinghy for ourselves and it snowballed from there”, says Ransom. Within the next few years the brand grew and so did the size of the boats. Parkercraft were still the major builder of alloy boats but its time at the top was under serious pressure. It didn’t take long before Ransom and Fyfe realised that there was a market beyond the dinghies and so in 1971 they released the Fyran Futura. With the introduction of the Fyran Futura the future of aluminium trailer boats in New Zealand changed forever. Until the 4.57m (15ft) Futura, the biggest runabouts around were from Parkercraft, but they stopped at 3.80m (12ft 6in). Thousands of Parkercrafts were built through the late 1960s till the early 1970s and they established such a reputation that people came to accept this new form of construction without hesitation. While most of the smaller alloy boats were riveted, the Fyran Futura was fully welded from pressed plate. It had a double skin ply and alloy bottom with polyurethane foam built into the topsides and in sections under the cockpit sole. It was designed for outboards to 80hp (top speed of 36 mph) and had a hull weight around 226kg. “We built quite a number of Futuras, plus exported a few to the Pacific Islands and that really got us started with the larger runabouts that just seemed to get bigger every season”, said Ransom. A Parkercraft advert from the early 1960s.
Until the 4.57m (15ft) Futura, the biggest runabout around was the Parkercraft 3.80m (12ft 6in).
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Alicraft were one of the earliest to produce aluminium powercats and they had a lot of success.
The first runabouts were lightweight, with the Futura built with 2mm sheet on the bottom and 1.6mm topsides. “In those days people wanted light boats and that’s where aluminium really came into its own, especially in the tender market”, he added. However, as the boats got bigger Ransom admits that people were pushing for heavier boats that would not only ride better but be more robust in the rougher sea conditions and didn’t mind getting the occasional hard knock.
It wasn’t until the mid to late 70s that Parkercraft made the move to larger runabouts, with the release of the 4.3m Pacer. Like the Fyran Futura it was a big open runabout, but rated only up to 40hp.The other big difference between the Fyran and the Parkercraft is that the Fyran had an 18° deadrise, the Pacer was a quite shallow 12°. At its peak under the ownership of Ransom & Fyfe, Fyran was producing upwards of 350 boats a year, up to 5.0m. In 1977 Fyran was sold and Ransom moved on
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to pursue other interests for a few years and then in 1988 started his own brand, Marco. In the mid 1990’s he sold the business to the current owners and retired from the industry that he was so instrumental in building to the status that it is today. Interestingly, Parkercraft was taken over by the new owners of Fyran a number of years ago and while the smaller dinghy models are still being produced they are marketed under the Fyran name.
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By the early 1980s the number of aluminium boat builders throughout the country had increased dramatically, with, for whatever reason, a considerable number in the South Island. One of those was Stabicraft, an Invercargill-based company that was destined to become New Zealand’s biggest aluminium boat manufacturer. In 1987 Paul Adams and Bruce Dickens built the first rigid hulled aluminium pontoon boat – a Stabicraft 3.5 dinghy. It didn’t take long before others saw the benefits and also popularity of the alloy boat concept and they joined the market. Local Invercargill based Kiwi Kraft was a prime example and like its neighbour Stabicraft is still very much a strong player in the business today. Stabicraft came about from the needs of the local commercial paua industry for a rugged and reliable boat that offered all the best attributes of a RIB, but without the soft tube sides that would not stand up to the rigours of commercial divers. “It was the commercial industry that came to us and said they wanted aluminium pontoons and that’s how it all started”, says Stabicraft’s Paul Adams. Such was the response from the market that the following year the company was already into the export business, with two dinghies and three runabouts to British Columbia in Canada. This was followed in the early 1990s with exports to the USA and Australia. Another first for Stabicraft was the introduction in 1991 of the D-Tube section. “We built round tubes because we wanted the boats to look like inflatables, but once we got out of that thinking we were able to redesign the boats with the D-Tube section and offer a lot more cockpit space – something our customers really appreciated”, said Adams. 1996 saw Stabicraft unveil the 550XC – the forerunner for the XR
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1996 saw Stabicraft unveil the 550XC, the first Stabicraft built for the family and recreational market.
One of the earliest examples of a big alloy boat from Lazercraft.
Sport range. It was the first Stabicraft built for the family and recreational market. Until then the range was aimed at fishermen, divers and commercial operators. “We had always been able to satisfy the demands of the guys buying the boats but it was often the female partner that halted the buying decision, obviously based on the look of the boat. “We knew that if we were going to crack the leisure market we needed to present the boats in such a manner that the other half of the buying decision would be happy. With the 550XC we went a long way to changing the perception of the Stabicraft, although I have to admit it is still sometimes an issue”, said Adams. In 1997 another milestone for the company was the release of its Generation II pontoon design. The first major design change in a decade, it represented a turning point, allowing for more streamlined silhouettes for boats that were more functional and had greater appeal in the recreational market. While Stabicraft is continually refining its designs, the company has never lost sight of the core attributes of the brand, from those earliest boats back in 1987, which are stability, safety, rough water all-round performance and outstanding quality. Since Stabicraft first launched the brand over 26 years ago, many others have imitated them and today the aluminium rigid hull market is strong. With sales nudging 7500, Stabicraft can certainly lay claim to being the biggest aluminium pontoon monohull boat manufacturer in the world. Current production runs at around 450 boats annually, with
exports close to 50%. The one interesting development in the pontoon boat market is the size and the style of boats being built. Today, there are over 20 manufacturers around the country offering more than 175 trailerable models from 3m through to 11m and just about anything over 6.5m is hardtop. There is also a trend towards bigger boats, with hardtop pontoon boats over 7.5m more popular than ever. Examples are the Stabicraft 2850 Supercab (8.70m), Profile 900HW (9.20m) and the Senator RH860 (9.90m).
Ramco Revolution
Ramco has been around since 1986, with boats like the Ramco Sportfisher 650 from 1996.
In 1986 a new name came to the aluminium boat market in the form of Ramco. Established by Hamilton-based Bill Mackrell, the brand was born through the frustrations by Mackrell of not being able to find an alloy boat to suit his fishing needs. “I had a 3m Starcraft and wanted something bigger but couldn’t find anything that suited, so being a sheet metal
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some direction with design and construction. “Quite fortuitously we had a guy name Graeme Ransom on the staff as a sheet metal worker and although I didn’t know it at the time he had already had a lot to do with aluminium boats, having started Fyran many years prior”, said Mackrell. The two of them collaborated on ideas and the end result was the 4.2m Ramco Seeker, the boat that launched the brand that was to become one of New Zealand’s most recognised aluminium boat names. After the Seeker the company just grew and grew with new models added every year, with a trend towards bigger boats and ultimately hardtops. “When we released the first hardtop on the market, based on the 6m Admiral, at the end of the 1980s, we took another huge step forward and started a trend that has certainly continued through to today”, added Mackrell. Construction was much the same in the early years as it is today with full keel bars, longitudinal stringers and cross frames. The company also went straight to the 4mm and 5mm hull bottoms, knowing that the type of people that bought the boats were going to want to go offshore and they wanted to give their customers the security that at least hull-wise they knew they wouldn’t have any problems. “We always found there were plenty of people who wanted an aluminium boat and equally as many that didn’t. I feel there will always be two markets, as what suits one
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owner doesn’t suit another”, says Mackrell. Ramco was successful, according to Mackrell, because he and his staff listened to their customers and fulfilled their needs. “We ended up with a full range of 24 different fishing, weekenders and sports boats from 3.6m through to 7.9m that catered for everyone”. In the first year Ramco built about half a dozen boats and at the height of the market in the mid 1990s, the company built over 500
boats annually. Overall, under the Mackrell stewardship Ramco produced close to a staggering 7000 boats, with the last of those in 2002. Ramco was recently purchased and re-launched by Icon Brands and is making a comeback. Production is based in an all-new factory in Rangiora, north of Christchurch, where the Icon and KwikKraft range of custom alloy boats are also built alongside. Icon Brands has utilised the design
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McLay Boats started in 1987 with the B1650 and B1800, one of which is shown here on the Taieri Bar.
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skills of Christchurch-based Scott Robson Design to come up with an entirely new range of freshly designed boats, although some of the model names have been retained. Robson has been responsible for working his magic on every new Ramco and today the fleet extends to 12 models, from the 4m through to 8.3m.
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Another South Island brand that started in 1987 was McLay Boats, although at that time it was known as Toko Engineering and later became McLay Boats with Steve McLay at the helm. The first boats were the B1650 and B1800, which proved outstanding successes for the fledgling company and went on to establish the McLay brand as one of the most successful of all southern builders. “In the early days we thought we had to make the boats look as good as the GRP competition and so we painted everything, even the bottoms. However, we learnt a few years later we had a unique market that didn’t want the frills and finish of GRP”, said McLay. In the mid 1990s, the company released an unpainted B1700 at the New Zealand Boat Show in Auckland, and, as McLay describes, “sales went nuts”. “This made us wake up to the fact that this was the market and we started only offering the paint as an option”, added McLay. However, perhaps the most significant input the company had in the aluminium production boat market in New Zealand was the introduction in the early 1990s of 5mm hull bottoms as standard on its larger models to 5.8m. “This was something that certainly gave us an edge for a number of seasons “, says McLay. “We saw it as a great selling feature and even though the 4mm hulls were and still are fine, it was a great marketing tool and eventually became standard not just on our boats but is now accepted as the industry standard with other manufacturers”, he added. He also points to the fact that a lot of the imported aluminium boats don’t do so well on the local market because they don’t offer 4mm - 5mm hulls, something that the Kiwi boating public is now expecting. Even today McLay feels that his boats are all ‘work in progress’. “We didn’t do our first hardtop till the early ‘90s and now, although we are still doing a good number of hardtops each year, it is the package boats and the Aussie Fortress range that are our biggest sellers these days. “Export has always been a huge part of our business, especially in recent years as the local market just isn’t big enough for us anymore to be viable”, says McLay. McLay’s biggest export market is Australia and in fact the company has recently designed new models just for the Australian market. Particularly successful has been the McLay Fortress range of open and console style dinghies which have sold exceptionally well in North Queensland. The company has been exporting for over a decade.
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The ‘MARKS1’ 5.3m alloy hull comes in two models – cuddy cabin and centre console. Manufactured locally they are set up as a boat to meet the needs of the dedicated fishing public. The hull, sides and treadplate floor are 4mm alloy and along with the 17° deadrise ensures a soft and stable ride. Both models have underfloor floatation for safety.
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The Surtees 5.5m Workmate was released in 1996 and has enjoyed huge success ever since.
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Having come from very small beginnings 20 years ago, Surtees is now somewhat of an iconic brand in the annals of aluminium boat building in New Zealand. One particular model, the Surtees 5.5 Workmate, has made a significant impact since the first boat was launched in 1996. With over 1500 on the water and production running at around 120 a year, the Workmate 5.5 is still one of the country’s most successful boats in the 5.5m cabin category. The 5.5 Workmate has remained very much as it was in 1996, although it underwent a facelift in 2011. It was in a small shed in Whakatane that Neil Surtees first decided to design and purpose-build an aluminium fishing boat. That finished product looked and performed so well he was very soon taking orders, and so the Surtees business was born. While the initial focus was on servicing domestic demand, Surtees Boats now employs over 40 people who help build 300 boats a year for the Australian and Pacific markets as well as New Zealand. In late July the company reported 205 boats on order.
Hardtop Dominance
Unquestionably, Kiwi alloy boat builders and designers lead the world when it comes to the style, the look, the practicality of the fully enclosed or semi enclosed hardtop. It’s now many years since the first hardtop boats appeared and we started to get used to the idea of what they could offer. Early exponents of the hardtop, such as Ramco, promoted the allweather boating aspects for the serious fisherman. They were right and in time all major manufacturers followed with their own examples. Brands such as Stabicraft, Lazercraft and Southern even followed with fibreglass hardtops as an option.
Today, virtually every manufacturer offers hardtops in its range. Some start as low as 5m, but generally anything over around 6-6.5m is considered suitable as a hardtop model.
Going Smaller
It now seems the aluminium boat market is something like ‘a game of two halves’. At one end there is the hardtop market that is strong and growing stronger and at the other the dinghy market, which is also growing in prominence. The dinghy market has come the full circle, from the first Parkercrafts that started the alloy boat revolution, to the new breed of open tiller steer dinghies that have taken the concept to a whole new level.
The Ramco Explorer 760HT was one of the earliest production hardtops in the mid 1990s.
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The FC range has kicked off a whole new interest in the larger open dinghy.
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In the earlier years the alloy dinghy doubled as the regular tender for bigger boats. They were light, easy to handle and only required a set of oars or a small portable outboard for power. With the advent of inflatables, that changed overnight. However, there still remained a market for the small alloy dinghy, especially for those with beach properties who wanted something small and easily handled by the kids or for some close inshore fishing. A couple of years ago, Fish City’s Ross Christenson introduced to the market the FC range and kicked off a whole new interest in the larger open dinghy. His FC430 (4.3m) was an instant hit and at under $15,000 for a motor/boat/trailer package it represented exceptional buying. “We wanted to introduce a really basic, no-frills boat onto the market, but without compromising the build quality and it also had to be at a price point that made the buying decision easy and ultimately the customer very happy”, he says. This was the forerunner to bigger and smaller tiller steer and centre console FC models and also it started people thinking about how they go boating. There are now a huge number of 3.5m-5m open tiller steer dinghies available and they are fast gaining popularity. (See our Tiller Steer Dinghies feature in this issue.)
Powertrim assistant automatically adjusts drive trim, lowering fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by around 6 % at normal driving conditions. You also get faster acceleration, higher top speed and better comfort. Integrated in the controls, along with many other smart features. We call it easyboating.
what you need to know to save fuel Our trip computer constantly keeps you updated with information, such as fuel rate and distance to empty. This allows you to easily adjust your driving style for the lowest possible fuel consumption. We call it easy boating.
The Changing Market
By the late 1980s, aluminium trailer boats made up only about 5% of the total trailer boat market. Today that’s had a significant shift, and is estimated to be close to 75-80%! Of the 60 plus builders scattered throughout the length and breadth of New Zealand, arguably 80% of the boats are being built by 20% of the builders. While there are those with their own niche market and particular following, many produce less than 25-30 boats a year. Right now the aluminium boat market is generally showing positive signs of recovery, more so it would seem than its fibreglass counterparts. The general feeling is that 2013 will be a steady year with some growth and it will be the manufacturers that introduce new models that will probably do better than most. However, if it hadn’t been for the innovative ideas of those early manufacturers, the industry would not be as strong as it is today. Local ingenuity and the kiwi ‘can do’ attitude has placed New Zealand alloy boats right at the forefront of the world market. •AB
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Marco 880 Hardtop
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he Marco 880 Hardtop is the biggest model yet built by Morrinsville-based Marco Boats Ltd and is certainly one of its most highly spec’d. At 9.20m overall and with a beam of 2.9m, the 880 Hardtop is a big trailerboat. It’s not something you tow without a serious rig and in the case of the owner of the first Marco 880, that’s a powerful Chev Silverado diesel. Marco Boats offers a wide range of high quality aluminium boats, from 4.0 to 9m+ that are suited to both family boating & serious fishing. Marco Boats is constantly developing new ideas to ensure that it stays at the cutting edge of alloy boat manufacturing. Construction is, as expected, to the highest quality and the hull’s bottom and transom are built using 8mm plate, with the topsides being 5mm and the superstructure
4mm and 3mm. The boat is painted all over and finished inside with full fabric lining plus Flexiteak on the soles. A true weekender, the Marco 880 is split into three very distinctive areas, from the accommodation forward to the wheelhouse with helm and galley and the very open and functional cockpit. Forward, there are berths for three with a full length V berth with infill, plus an overhead berth to port. A fourth berth is available in the wheelhouse by converting the dining table. An electric toilet is fitted under one of the berths. The enclosed wheelhouse is very much set up for staying away aboard, with a generous galley and dining area, plus loads of storage options and even a diesel heater to keep the area warm in the winter. Two 12” Raymarine touch screens take up the centre of the large helm and are
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surrounded by functions such as Mercury SmartCraft displays, auto winch and bow thrust controls. There’s plenty of space for plenty of extras. Power for the first Marco 880 is a 265hp Mercury TDI diesel sterndrive that sits under an aft engine box that also doubles as a seriously functional bait station. There’s access both sides through to the full-width boarding platform with gated railing for extra safety when fishing. Other special fishing features include a 300-litre kill/live bait tank and tuna tubes and with a 375L fuel tank capacity, the Marco 880 has a huge trolling range. There is also a separate dive bottle storage area and a salt water wash down system to keep everything clean. +64 7 889 7083 Marco Boats: marco.boats@xtra.co.nz www.marcoboats.co.nz
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Profile 635H
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hen the Profile 635H won the 2013 Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat of the Show: Aluminium Fishing Boat 6 – 7m award, it was yet another accolade for this highly respected and successful aluminium boat builder. The Profile 635H is the perfect combination of a strongly built vessel providing comfort and supreme safety, with the serious fisherman very much in mind. The safety and stability of the pontoons, combined with the innovative wide deck floor is a feature of all Profile boats. It is very seaworthy and offers a very large deck area, yet the Profile 635H is very easily towed around the country. The 635H was specifically designed with fishing and diving in mind, though as with all Profile boats, this model can be customised for general family use. This boat contains a number of features formerly found only on larger boats within the Profile range. A large bait station with the cutting board hinged in two halves reveals a
sink under one side, and an insulated bait bin under the other. The port side king seat is also hinged and when opened reveals a cleverly concealed cooker and chopping board. A toilet is also concealed underneath the for’ard bunks for added comfort. A 6mm hull and auto capstan adds to the ease of operation. For beach launching or backing up on fish, the transom wave deflector greatly reduces water slopping in over the transom. A feature unique to some Profile models, including the Profile 635H, is the extra wide floor area created by Profile’s unique “toe space” design. Anglers will appreciate this feature when dealing with large fish and the feeling of security it provides by allowing a full width flat floor that extends underneath the side pockets. The boat is designed to have a hull length of less than 6 metres. This allows the hull to be put into survey under the more lenient “under 6 metre” survey regulations for commercial operation.
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Rated from 130hp to 200hp, the hull is designed with superior strength and to give a soft ride. Profile boats specialises in high quality aluminium pontoon boats from 4.65m to 9.40m. Based in Napier, Profile Boats operates in conjunction with Firmans Marine, Profile’s exclusive New Zealand dealer. www.profileboats.co.nz
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t looks like a Kiwi Kraft and performs like a Kiwi Kraft but in fact it is an Aqualine. So what’s the difference and why? While Kiwi-Kraft has been the well known brand name of rigid inflatable alloy boat builder Kiwi Engineering & Marine Ltd for 25 years, it was only when Rodney Harris, managing director and founder, saw a need for a strategy to break into the Australian market that the Aqualine brand was introduced. “Selling a boat in Australia with the name Kiwi doesn’t go over well with a lot of Australian buyers, so we thought the easiest thing to do was to change the name to something more generic”, said Harris. The Aqualine range is identical to Kiwi-Kraft, except for a number of new models introduced recently. However, it seems that Aqualine boats are not just destined for Australia anymore, as the company has appointed a sole North Island dealer, Boat City Paraparaumu, and now sells the brand direct from its factory in Invercargill. The underwater hull shape is very traditional, with a fine entry, 20° deep V at the transom and two strakes either side. There is the added benefit of very wide tubes that act not only as stabilisers, but trap air and provide both extra lift and softness of ride. Kiwi Engineering uses its own aluminium boat technology, called Kiwi Hushtec, that incorporates a variable deadrise hull coupled to the cushioning pontoons. This, according to Rodney Harris, is to increase straightline speed and improve manoeuvrability and allround handling in any conditions. The Aqualine 645 is available in single or twin outboard, or single diesel or petrol sterndrive or waterjet. Our test boat was the first with a MerCruiser Diesel TDI 3-litre V6,
a 265hp common rail diesel engine that is a mini power house and gives a top speed of 38.5 knots. Forward is the large cabin with the standard single berths either side, with a cushion infill to form one large double. There’s storage under the squabs, in side trays and in covered side pockets built into the pontoons. Overhead, a large deck hatch allows some access to the foredeck, but also provides a natural air flow and light for the cabin. There’s a bulkhead to starboard for the helm, but the layout is completely open to port so the flow though is uninterrupted and blends the two areas together well. The wheelhouse is available with a rear opening door or completely open. The wheelhouse seating is reasonably simple with a pair of single swivelling buckets on storage bases. However, you can really change things around here and add a galley unit and even a small fridge if you want more overnighting functions built-in. The driving position is fine either seated or standing, with more than enough headroom for taller boaters. Auto anchor allows you to do all the anchoring tasks from the comfort of the wheelhouse. Sliding side windows let in extra ventilation. The 1.72m cockpit is plenty large enough to fish four people without getting in each other’s way. The overhead soft bimini slides out over the forward area of the cockpit when you are looking for some shade or weather protection and slides back out of the way if you’ve got some serious fishing going on. Under the chequer plate sole is a 260-litre fuel tank and an optional kill tank. No matter what you want to call it, Kiwi Kraft or Aqualine, the 645 is a great boat for anyone looking for a rigid pontoon boat of this size. www.aqualineboats.com
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Bigeye eyes alloy market A new brand to the Kiwi alloy boat market, Bigeye, was born out of the need for production hulls based on designs by Skelton Custom Boats, which has 15 years of experience in building alloy boats. The company is able to offer in-house 3D CAD design technology software so as to give the client a complete threedimensional view and can customise any boat to a client’s requirements. After 15 years of building one-off custom boats for clients all over the country the company has developed a range of boats under the Bigeye banner from 4.5m to 8.5m that can be produced at an economic cost. Atomix of Auckland has been appointed the Auckland dealer. “The design and development of the hulls has been fine-tuned over the years to find a compromise between ride, performance and stability at rest, with a very fine entry and 18-degree deadrise at the transom. Bigeye vessels are extremely seaworthy, designed to be capable of handling the roughest of waters”, says Bigeye’s David Pearce.
“Because all our boats have such a wide beam they all have a full-length selfflooding keel cavity, giving stability and displacement at rest that is very notable”, he added. The Bigeye 585HT is a good example, with its beam of 2.45m which gives you an internal work space for up to six fishermen. The freeboard rises from 800mm to 900mm giving you the feeling of
New Volvo V8-430 Volvo Penta V8 engine range continues to grow with new engines based on Volvo Penta’s new generation of state-of-the-art, 6-litre, V8 gasoline marine engines. These engines, just like their predecessor are highperformance engines, loaded with new technology. The new, powerful V8 430hp ( @ 5800 rpm) engine package is compact and light, weighing around 100 kgs less than any other engine in the corresponding classes on the market, resulting in very competitive weight/ effect ratios. At the same time, the new engine is heavy-duty, fuel- and oil-efficient and, thanks to the new catalytic converter, emission levels have been substantially lowered. The new V8-430 meets the US EPA requirements – by a broad margin. The engine also been equipped with VVT (Variable Valve Timing) technology, which optimises torque at low RPMs while maximising the effect outlet at high RPMs, resulting in faster acceleration, increased top speed and smoother, better response in the mid-range. The new engine range have protected exhaust systems made of aluminium to lower the weight, and their exhaust flow has been optimised to achieve the highest possible levels of performance. The engines and the exhaust systems are freshwater cooled, as standard. On top of all these performance improvements and updates, the engines are fully integrated with Volvo Penta’s EVC electronic platform. www.volppower.co.nz
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being safe on board and the three sealed buoyancy chambers in the floor add to your safety. The no-frills layout of this boat lends itself to the angler but can be customised to suit. Bigeye Boats Ltd Ph: (64) 7 378 8171 Mob: (64) 021 453872 E: david@bigeye.co.nz www.bigeye.co.nz
Line 7 release new inflatable jackets Line 7 Life Jacket Distributors Diversified Products NZ Ltd has introduced a new range of inflatable life jackets for the 2013-2014 season. Available in automatic and manual inflation, the high quality jackets are all standards approved (AS4758). Available in multifit sizing for both adults (80-140cm /46kg) and youths 60-90cm 25/40kg with collar configurations of either neoprene or standard along with a 33 gram recharge cylinder for both youth and adult models which attains a 150n rating. These super comfortable jackets are available in Youth Multifit, Adult Multift and Women’s Adult Multifit in the special “La Mer” series . Plus if you are looking for a camo jacket for your next duck shooting trip, the Line 7 camouflage inflatables in automatic or manual are the perfect addition to your hunting/fishing kit. Bargain Boat Bit Outlets throughout New Zealand www.bargainboatbits.co.nz Diversified Products NZ Limited E: bob.tait@diversifiedproducts.co.nz
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A new addition to the range of NZ made Dixon stainless steel boarding ladders is the telescopic three-step ladder made in electropolished marine grade 316 stainless steel and designed to mount on most standard bow sprits or rollers, with a removable pin for ease of use and stowage. It has the usual features of the patented Dixon comfort form tread but configured to make life easier to board when wearing dive gear or flippers. The ladder telescopes out to 1100mm when fully extended and closes down to 600mm. It has been fully tested to a maximum load of 160kg. It may also be factory adapted to mount on or under a swim platform or transom. Dixon Manufacturing Ltd Ph +64 09 422 3595 E: dixon@pl.net www.dixon.co.nz
First Yanmar ZT370 for Image Boats One of the latest boats to be launched by Invercargill based Image Boats is this Cruisemaster 10m. Finished to the usually high standards the special thing about Dark Secret, is that it is the first Image to be powered by a Yanmar 8LV coupled to a Yanmar ZT370 sterndrive. Previously there has been an Image 8.5m with the same engine through a jet unit. The 8LV Yanmar is based on a new 4.46 litre twin-turbo V8 diesel engine, coupled to a sterndrive or gearbox. The 8LV is offered at 320 mhp (239 kW) and 370 mhp (272 kW) and features common-rail fuel injection and
is EPA Tier 3 compliant. In Dark Secret, the owner opted for the maximum power, which gives the 4 ½ tonne boat a top speed in excess of 30 knots. First impressions during sea trials on a very rough Bluff Harbour was low noise levels and the smooth ride, despite the sea conditions. Whiting Power: Ph +64 9 358 2050 E: sales@whitingpower.com Image Boats: Ph +64 03-214 4573 E: dean@imageboats.co.nz
White Pointer 1050 Pro Sportsman the company’s biggest yet. The White Pointer range of boats caters for the serious fisherman who knows what he wants in a boat and the all-new 1050 Pro Sportsman is a stunning example. The new White Pointer 1050 Pro Sportsman is the company’s biggest Pro Sportsman to date and is an impressive machine. Designed by Maxwell & Hall, Naval Architects, the stylish lines of the 1050 Pro Sportsman incorporate a well balanced serious fishing boat with all the comforts of a weekender. This new White Pointer boasts many features such as a new cabin styling and underfloor flush engine installation. The generous size cockpit caters in every respect for the fisherman, while the wheelhouse provides the day comforts and shelter required when at rest or underway. For those wanting to overnight the forward
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cabin provides excellent sleeping accommodation. A shower, head, galley, dining table and everything else you need to stay away can be provided. The 1050 Pro Sportsman has come about from a customer who wanted a boat just a little bigger than the models already produced by this highly respected Gisborne based builder. The 1050 Pro Sportsman is 10.65m overall with a wide beam of 3.1m, so it is still trailerable, albeit with a special permit. Construction is based on 6mm plate for the hull and transom, 5mm on the sides and 3mm superstructure, for an overall displacement of around 5000kg. Power options are twin outboards up to 350hp and petrol or diesel sterndrives to 600hp twin diesels. Boat number one is powered by a single Volvo D6 370hp diesel, through a DPX leg. White Pointer Boats Ph +64 06 868 6519 E: tony@whitepointerboats.co.nz www.whitepointerboats.co.nz
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Enduro Boats set new standard Designed by Andrew Fink, the attention to detail and creative approach to the range is indicative of his experience and expertise within the marine industry. With dedication to quality the Enduro 4100 Series was developed, delivering all the attributes of a larger vessel but the versatility and manoeuvrability of a small boat. A soft ride is attributed to a 14 deg V whilst stability is enhanced by both the wide beam and large
reverse chine. The 4100 is available in tiller steer or centre console options, plus a variety of seating choices. The 4100 is designed with 3D CAD software and cut on CNC machines, giving precise accurate construction. ALM Group – Ph 07 850 5512 E: sales@almgroup.co.nz www.almgroup.co.nz
DMW Trailers Turning 40 2014 sees the 40th year that Hamilton based DMW Trailers has been un business. Established in 1974, the company has built up an enviable reputation for innovative and functional design, that has placed DMW Trailers amongst this country’s longest standing and leading trailer manufacturers. From modern premises in Hamilton, DMW Trailers specialise in building trailers for PWC and small tinnies through to trailers for the largest trailerable boats. Their range of Premier Series Multiroller Trailers are custom built to suit most boat brands and models, and are held in high regard in the marine industry. DMW Trailers apply a 5 Year Structural Warranty on the chassis and a 1 Year Warranty on all compoQ UA L I T Y nents. DMW Trailers use Trojan trailer components IFY EC and all parts and accessories used, meet the high standard required. Spare parts are also all available from the factory. The company also specialise in general trailer 1 repairs, refurbishing, regalvanising, W.O.F work plus 2t 0i n g 1 9 7 e4b r- a the installation and overhaul of braking systems. l www.dmwtrailers.co.nz
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With Surtees Boats celebrating its 20th anniversary this year it was the icing-on-the-cake to be awarded Emerging Exporter of the Year at the BNZ Bay of Plenty Export New Zealand Awards 2013. The awards are a hotly contested annual event in the Bay of Plenty, with some of the best businesses from Rotorua, Whakatane and Tauranga all vying for recognition for their exporting prowess in a select group of categories. For Neil Surtees, who has resolutely remained in the region since founding the business in the early 90s, it was gratifying to be recognised for his company’s export achievements from the market that has supported the brand for two decades: the local market. It was in Whakatane itself that Neil Surtees first decided to design and purpose-build an aluminium fishing boat. That finished product looked and performed so well he was very soon taking orders, and so the Surtees business was born. While the initial focus was on servicing domestic demand, Surtees Boats now employs over 40 people who help build 300 boats a year for the Australian and Pacific markets as well as New Zealand. www.surteesboats.com
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The Boating Guy praises new Yamaha Ultra-experienced boater, fisher and diver Ian Miller is full of praise for his new Yamaha F200 engine, the world’s lightest 200hp 4-stroke outboard. “This is easily the most impressive outboard I have ever owned,” he says. Miller, who has been boating since he was six, is perhaps known for the years when he was The Boating Guy, offering free, independent and impartial advice at the Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show. Miller recently took delivery of his latest boat, a brand new Extreme Profisher 700. A 7-metre dedicated fishing platform, Miller’s Profisher 700 has a centrally mounted island fishing station, large capacity fuel and water tanks and, therefore, a significant amount of weight to push around the ocean. “I was worried that the four-cylinder F200
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would not have enough torque for my heavy boat,” he admits. “I thought I would probably have to go up to the 225hp V6. “Boy, was I wrong! The F200 has plenty of grunt! “It has at least as much torque and power as the V6 – and it is a whole lot lighter and much smaller, too!” Miller also describes his new F200 as very user friendly and very quiet and particularly likes Yamaha’s patented Shift Dampener System. With “about half a tank” of both fuel and water on board, Miller’s fully rigged 7-metre Profisher weighs in at a hefty 2375kg. Despite that, its fuel consumption at cruise is approximately 1.1 litres per nautical mile, even with three people on board. www.yamaha-motor.co.nz.
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Rayglass did it with a Protector RIB and now it seems that Kiwi Kraft has also done it, by taking a standard PWC and wrapping a ‘boat’ around it. In the case of the Kiwi Kraft 390 Jet, a 160hp Kawasaki 4-stroke was planted into a 3.9 m pontoon boat. The centre jockey seat layout has been given the addition of a high screen and forward seat, plus there is a casting deck forward with storage under. To be used for shallow water fishing and white baiting, the all-alloy boat also has plug in wheels. With these in place and a 12-volt winch the boat can be pulled over the ground and in extremely shallow water. www.kiwikraft.co.nz
Baxter Industries also designs and builds aluminium powercats, such as the B650WC. The Baxter B650WC (work cat) is a 6.7m x 2.5m powercat that has a displacement of 2200kg (approx..) with four crew, 2/3 fuel and engines. The forward cabin has a sliding, lockable door providing great storage for gear or can be converted to a double berth. The cockpit is huge and being a powercat it is extremely stable. The B650WC has a top speed of 76km/h with two Mercury 115 FourStrokes. Baxter Industries are continuously adding to their vast range of boats and also have larger cats available and have some conceptual designs underway in 10m+ vessels. Baxter Industries Ltd, Ph +64 27 699 1002, E: sales@baxterindustries.net
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Sea Blade provides superior seakeeping It’s interesting to see just what New Zealand boat builders are doing, especially away from mainstream centres. Orca Engineering & Marine, based in Rotorua, is currently involved in a project based around a very unique boat called the Sea Blade, involving the US Navy Seals. The Sea Blade is a joint US-NZ project, with US Company Navatek providing the design grunt usually reserved for making advanced warships or super-fast and stable commercial vessels. With the Sea Blade it is all about the hull design. It looks like an unusual trimaran with an aggressive central hull and skinny outriggers. Flat surfaces extend from the hull and the pronounced tunnels give the appearance of a modern art piece more than a highly efficient craft. The Sea Blade is the brainchild of Navatek Ltd, a Hawaiian company that claims to be at the forefront of innovative naval design. The Sea Blade is the result of research into finding a craft to be used by US Navy Seals that was highly capable and sea worthy within a given size and speed range. The Sea Blade style hull design has been around for a few years in a rudimentary form. With Navatek’s stable of innovative and talented designers they were able to throw modern technology at the design. Navatek approached Rotorua-based Orca to build the boats and the relationship has proven very successful. Following on from those initial export orders, Orca is now offering the Sea Blade on the local market. Recently one was completed as a water taxi for Cathedral Cove and a couple of Sea Blade 22s have been built as RIBs, using Lancer inflatable Hypalon tubes, in an RIB open layout and cabin version and will be released as a RIB at the Auckland On-Water Boat Show opening on 26-29 September. Orca Engineering & Marine Ph +64 7 349 2977 E: info@orcaengineering.co.nz www.orcaengineering.co.nz
RSD Kitset range proving popular The RSD Kit range is enjoying success with the expanded range of pleasure and commercial craft available as alloy kits from 4m to 17m. This range of mono’s and catamarans are available as alloy kit sets for professional boat builders or a D.I.Y. enthusiast to build in his engineering workshop. The models available as kits are all based on proven boats in operation in NZ, Australia, Asia, Middle East and Pacific Island. The alloy kits are quite comprehensive and have been developed by the designers who have worked as boat builders so have been able to create very builder friendly concepts for the boats with emphasis to produced boats that do not require specialist boat building skills, just good engineering and sheet metal skills. Plus each design has the construction structure designed to Australian and NZ survey standards. As part of its package Robson Design supplies detailed assembly sequence images of how to build the boat in up to 40 stages as well as the standard construction plans.
The RSD monohull range for pleasure boats is available in a variety of sizes from 5.5m to 10m The RSD range for Pleasure Craft Mono Hull includes a new 5.5, 5.7, 6.0, 6.5, 7.5, and 10m. The RSD catamaran pleasure craft models have proved popular with a new 9m model under design to add to the 10 and 11m models and the new 12m RSD 412 and 415 which is replacing the 410 series of which four have already been built in the last few years. Robson Design can also custom design or modify an existing boat in its range to suit clients personal requirements or arrange construction for a partially built or completely turnkey vessel for any of the kits by one of the affiliated quality builders throughout the world. Robson Design +64 21 320 874 + 64 3 356 3111 E: scott@robsondesign.co.nz The RSD 914 HT is one of the models available from the RSD Pontoon range.
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BOAT TEST: Southern HTO XP 776 Text by Barry Thompson
New Direction The XP776 is described as the
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It’s a boat that serves a dual role, both as a serious bluewater fishing boat and a weekender. But probably its looks are just as important. And it looks great, with soft curves and a finish that while not only being extremely functional, will appease the ‘other’ half of the buying equation. Hardtops as we know can sometimes look ugly when added as an afterthought to a boat that in its open form may have been a very respectable looking vessel. However, not so with Southern as all its hardtop models have been purpose designed right from the initial concept and hence are visually balanced from every angle. The XP776 is not a new model, and it has proven to be one of Southern Lazer’s most successful boats ever. But the latest models do have a few changes, both to the topsides and to the underwater sections.
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suppose”, says Peter. “I liked the brand so much I bought the company”. While the boats will still be built from the same factory in Mosgiel, Dunedin, the dealer network will be consolidated to just four. Production has been geared for about 30 boats a year, with four on the factory floor at any one time and most of those are expected to be in the larger end of the Southern range. Construction is 6mm alloy on the hull bottom and 4mm on the topsides, with a GRP hardtop. The presentation of the XP 776 is exceptional and you’d be hard pressed to find an alloy boat with a better finish. Most of the boats are fully painted and I was impressed to learn that there is no ‘bog’ in the hulls.
Ride is Right
When you go for a run in a boat this size on a choppy Auckland harbour it’s hard to be critical about the ride and handling. It’s an easy boat to drive either seated or standing and with the protection of the hardtop you feel very secure and safe. One thing I noticed immediately I stepped aboard was the stability of the boat at rest, thanks to wide
outer chines. With two people standing on one side the boat doesn’t heel much. However, being a hardtop it’s going to still lean into the wind so trim tabs are essential. The outer strakes have now been changed from square and flat to a concave shape, which is designed to retain the stability but also provide better lift. The inner strakes have also been shortened to reduce aft lift at speed. The fine entry bow and high sides tend to keep the spray off the deck and although we did experience a few wakes we never took a drop over the gunnels. Our test by was powered by a Yamaha 250 outboard which returned a top speed of 47mph @ 5700 rpm. On the day I found around 36mph an easy cruise speed and the boat felt really comfortable in the 20 knot winds and short sharp harbour chop. At trolling speeds the 250hp Yamaha runs around 2.4L/h @ 600 rpm. It’s a boat that would be very comfortable with 200hp although I would like to see at least a 225hp outboard for a boat of its size and weight. At the other end of the range, a 300hp would not be an overkill and the boat would handle it easily.
The Southern is available with outboard or sterndrive power.
Changing Times
The names of Southern and Lazercraft have been synonymous with aluminium trailer boats for many years, with both being built in the Dunedin area. In 2009 Southern purchased the Lazer brand and the two combined into one company, Southern Lazer. In July this year, Southern Lazer’s biggest dealer, Peter Carlson (Family Boats) and business partner Noel Davies bought Southern Lazer and for now are marketing the boats strictly under the Southern brand. There has also been some increase in the model range from four production boats to eight and by the end of the year it will be extended to ten. These range from the 6.45m, XP646, through to the 9.00m XP896 and all are hardtop models. “It’s like the Remington advert I
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The Southern HTO XP776 is a very upmarket alloy boat that is perfectly pitched to take on both the alloy and fibreglass boat markets. The XP 776 is rated for outboards or sterndrives from 200hp - 300hp and while the majority have all been powered by a single outboard, there are a few now with the
MerCruiser TDI diesel. “This engine is really popular with anyone wanting to take the boat seriously gamefishing and runs on ‘nothing’ when trolling”, says Peter.
An infill makes the cabin a massive double berth and there’s also a fully plumbed toilet under a squab.
The cockpit provides a huge working space for fishers with plenty of storage and rod holders.
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The dashboard is another area where a GRP moulding has been used and it’s plenty big enough.
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The XP 776 is rated for outboards or sterndrives from 200hp - 300hp.
Maximum speed of a previous XP776 tested with a TDI 265hp V6 was 44.0 mph @ 4000 rpm. Comfortable cruise was about 25.5 mph at which the engine used around 20L/h. At trolling speeds around 7-8 mph the fuel usage dropped to a miserly 8L/h! If you do opt for the sterndrive package there are some external changes with the installation, with the engine box protruding into the cockpit by 600mm, but the bonus is it serves a dual role as a double aft seat.
Multi-tasking
For the guy who wants a ‘tinnie’, but his wife wants a ‘fibreglass’ boat, the XP776 is going to fill that slot nicely. It’s got all the best attributes of both, from the generous cabin with head and full-length berths to the huge cockpit with rod racks, live bait tank and rocket launcher. The cabin is fully lockable, fabric lined so there is not even a sign or hint of aluminium anywhere and well ventilated via an overhead Maxwell hatch. A hatch in the forward bulkhead provides access to the deep anchor
locker should you need to get to your anchor tackle. Move out into the cockpit and it’s obvious to see that Southern has made sure that there is a place for everything. Rod holders are plentiful as are double tier side shelves that have been made to handle long rods. A massive underfloor wet locker forward of the fuel tank is big enough for four dive bottles and dive gear or as a secondary space to stow the catch of the day. The side decks are wide and flat and a
The transom area incorporates a live bait tank as well as rear deck access.
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There is loads of storage in side shelves and under the sole. great spot to sit while fishing. There’s even a strengthening support bar under the lower shelves so you can use them as a step and high coamings make the cockpit safe for small children. Standard seating is a pair of fully adjustable king/queen back-to-backs on GRP moulded bases with huge storage under. However, you can have just about any seating style you like, including a bin seat aft. The dashboard is another area where a GRP moulding has been used and it’s plenty big enough. Our boat had a Lowrance HD10 MFD, VHF, Fusion stereo, plus all the necessary switches and dials. While our test boat was what Southern refers to as the open version (no rear
bulkhead), you can have a fully closed-in wheelhouse with rear doors and a totally reconfigured seating arrangement that even includes a small galley – everything you need for overnighting. When you’re fishing you often don’t want carpet, so Southern has split the removable carpet into two sections, which means the area under the hardtop can still have the warmth and comfort of the carpet while the rest of the cockpit is chequerplate alloy. The transom area on the outboard version features a live bait tank to port with a Manta bait board in the centre above split storage spaces – the lower one for the batteries and the spaces above for your fishing tackle. A walkthrough on the
starboard side leads onto large boarding platforms built into the portofino stern, with an alloy drop-down ladder also standard. Overall, the Southern HTO XP776 is a very upmarket alloy boat that is perfectly pitched to take on both the alloy and fibreglass boat markets. It is exceptionally well built and finished and as a weekender or a day boat, the XP776 provides all you need in a boat this size. If you want the same but slightly smaller, the Southern 746 is available and for those who want something bigger then the Southern 816 is the same as the 776 but with a 300mm longer cockpit. •AB
Performance & Fuel
SPECIFICATIONS Model: Priced from: Price as tested: Type: Construction: LOA: Beam: Deadrise: Trailer make: Height on trailer: Trailerable weight: Engine capacity: Engine: Propeller: Power options: Fuel capacity:
Notable features:
Southern HTO XP776 $NZ130,000 $NZ169,000 Hardtop Aluminium 7.80m 2.50m 20 degrees Southern (Alloy) 3.10m 2200kg 200-300hp Yamaha 250 19” 3Bld SS Outboard or sterndrive 250L
Manufacturer: Southern Boats sales@southernboats.co.nz www.southernboats.cxo.nz
Carpet throughout, live bait tank, keel wear strip, painted finish, stainless deck hardware, LED lights. Notable Options on Test Boat Lowrance HD10 MFD, Lenco Tabs, Maxwell RC6 winch, Fusion Ipod Stereo, Jabsco Toilet, Manta bait board, VHF, 6-year warranty.
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Exploring Doubtful Sound - a Jurassic Adventure
Back in 1770 Captain Cook spotted the narrow entrance to what is now called Doubtful Sound. He was ‘doubtful’ as to whether there would be enough wind to adventure in, explore and sail out again. Naming it Doubtful Harbour, Cook sailed away in Endeavour, leaving the sound unexplored. Twenty-three years on, in 1793, Malaspina’s Spanish expedition was the first to explore and chart Doubtful Sound. Two hundred and fifteen years after the Spanish visited, the 2008 Propeller magazine expedition followed. This was an opportunity for our crew to explore, feel the power of nature, experience the remoteness, and soak up the peace of Doubtful Sound.
The Stabi-Craft 759 SuperCab sets off from mothership Tutoko, for another days adventure
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Destination | Fiordland
Text by Doug Dukeson
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n the April 2004 issue of Propeller magazine, after boat testing the Southern Sportz 770 HTE owned by charter operator Greg Dawson, we vowed we would return to the depths of the South Island for an adventure, to explore Fiordland. Just over four years later, with the help of the same Invercargill based Greg Dawson, we were to make it happen. Eight like-minded trailerboat owners, and good friends – some invited back from the last Dawson adventure – arrived from various corners of NZ and met at Invercargill for the start of the adventure. Borrowing a 759 SuperCab (as featured in the July/August issue of Propeller magazine) from Stabi-Craft and a Kia Sorrento from Southland Vehicle Sales as the Stabi tow vehicle, we followed Greg Dawson towing his same Southern Sportz 770 from Invercargill to the lake edge Manapouri Hotel, a trip of only about an hour and a half. Over a meal and a nice Southern ale or two that evening, we met with Phil Wornall of Fish Fiordland, who was to tow us over Wilmot Pass the next morning.
Southern to take its rightful position. One of our team later asked Phil if he minded attacking his trailer with a hacksaw, and he replied in his unhurried relaxed manner “No, ….not really – it’s not my trailer!” A short time later after safely strapping the boats to the trailer, we were on our way towards Wilmot Pass, the most expensive road per kilometre, ever constructed in New Zealand. It took two years, (1963-1965) to construct the 22km road, specifically to transport the equipment and personnel essential for building the Manapouri Power Station from lake Manapouri to the construction site at Deep Cove, 180 metres below the normal lake level. We stopped for a couple of photo opportunities on the way, a team photo, looking back at the famous Wilmot track. At this first stop I mentioned to Phil that one of the tyres on the trailer seemed a little flat. Giving it a kick in his typical ‘not a problem’ manner he replied ‘Yep, it does’, he went on to explain ‘As we travel, she’ll get a bit warm and harden up.’ ‘Righto’ – I thought – ‘this man has done this trip hundreds of times, we are in safe hands!’ To be honest, even at its steepest, (a 5 to 1 gradient, one of NZ’s steepest) I felt in safe hands and the recently snow graded roads were in good condition. Phil knew his stuff and I was more than happy to be riding pillion rather than behind the wheel. The Wilmot Pass Road is the only public road to Doubtful Sound, but it doesn’t link up with any other road. It runs from the end of the West Arm of Lake Manapouri to Deep Cove, where we were to launch our boats Phil charges $450 for the first boat or $600 for two boats (each way) an account we did not flinch to pay, considering the potential hazards and the security of having Phil’s experience behind the wheel.
Crossing Lake Manapouri. After a good nutritious breakfast, it was off to the ramp near Pearl Harbour at the eastern side of the lake. Phil met us and guided us across Lake Manapouri (NZ’s second deepest lake at 440 metres) – often referred to as the ‘Lake of many islands’. At about 2 degrees above freezing we were thankful we had chosen hardtops for our adventure. The setting of the majestic, snow covered Cathedral Mountain range, dense native bush right to the lake edge, sandy beaches and coves dotted along the coast, offered something for the eye throughout the entire 45 minute journey to the West Arm, home of the Manapouri underground hydro-electric power station. ‘Over the hill’ – Wilmot Pass After a little background information on the power station the boys were ‘amping’ to get over the mountains and into the sound. As Phil backed the first vehicle down to the water’s edge – a 22-seater ex-commercial passenger bus – I thought to myself ‘I bet the boys on the assembly line in Japan would have never dreamed the bus would see its final years out as a tow hack!’ The second vehicle, an older Nissan Safari, arrived as the bus pulled the Stabi clear. Greg ran his Southern up on the ‘Wilmot Pass multi-fit trailer’, unfortunately the bowsprit was a little too long and a post on the front of the trailer would not allow us to push the boat far enough forward onto the trailer. Fortunately, Phil being a bit of a character and a handy man, reached into the back of his vehicle, pulled out his trusty hacksaw and soon redesigned the trailer post to allow the
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Welcome to ‘Jurassic’ Doubtful Sound Once Phil had delivered the boats safely into Deep Cove, it was time to hook up with Richard, our very knowledgeable skipper and host for the trip, skippering the very comfortable and well-known Tutoko, a 16.6 metre vessel built by Gough Bros in 1971. Also onboard as crew and Richard’s ‘first mate’ was Alan, a seaplane pilot helping out during his off-season, another with a wealth of local knowledge and a bloody good cook – later confirmed by my bathroom scales! Once we were tied alongside and loaded our gear onboard it was time for a quick run down on the boat by Richard – another southerner with a laid back sense of humor and relaxed approach to life, his famous ‘onboard’ line of, ‘that reminds me of a story…’ which was always the start of an entertaining tale or joke.
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Destination | Fiordland Pulling out of Manapouri in preparation for the Wilmot pass crossing
He started, ’the rules onboard Tutoko are simple… there are no rules! That is …apart from having a great time’. He continued, ‘We will get up and start breakfast when we hear you guys scratching about, and finally, would the last one to bed please turn off the lights!’ Those rules sounded pretty bloody good to us, and not wanting to miss the entertainment, Richard was usually there with us most nights to turn off lights. After the introductions, it was time to break away and explore on the advice of Richard some of the outer spots – we heard there was a low approaching – and if we wanted to experience some of the fishing about the exposed entrance of the sound, now was the time to take a crack at it. At over 40km long and 434m deep, Doubtful Sound is the deepest and second largest of the West Coast fiords – we had some serious area to explore. It was at this time, as we climbed into the boats, it quickly become apparent there was to be a blue team in Greg’s blue Southern and our red team in the Stabi-Craft. Allan had made some sandwiches for us to take out with us for lunch. Unfortunately for us, the blue team had taken the whole supply, ‘innocently’ thinking it was their provisions. It seemed that the ‘no rules’ policy applied on the water as well. The blue team stopped for a dive on Bauza Island which lies about a kilometre inside the Sound entrance, while we of the red team continued out to fish a rocky outcrop called Hares Ears, just outside the Fiords entrance at Febrero Point. The onemetre swell did not impede our taking a good catch of blue cod. There was continuous banter over the VHF between the boats which was further intensified once we had discovered we had no lunch onboard – we soon pulled up anchor and moved across to the blue boat who generously passed us over a bag, which we assumed was our lunch, discovering inside – a loaf of dried out unbuttered bread and a packet of salt and vinegar chips! Oh well, better than nothing! After fishing another couple of spots for blue cod we were soon back to the warmth of our mother ship, Tutoko, anchored that
night in the sheltered waters of Blanket Bay, home of Blanket Bay Hotel (a fishermen’s base), one of the few signs of human activity in the sound outside Deep Cove. Our mother ship, the Tutoko was specifically designed for Fiordland, perfectly set up to provide comfortable accommodation for up to 10 clients. Fiordland Expeditions, the business Richard trades as, offer extended live aboard charters from one to as many nights as you have available. The charters are fully catered and almost everything required for your activities and living aboard is supplied, and therefore all we needed to bring was our personal items, and refreshments. The sleeping quarters were warm and comfortable, considering there were eight of us who had earlier enjoyed crayfish, venison and blue cod, all washed down with a beer and red wine or three, although early on there was fierce competition for bunk positions and the second night for the extra set of earplugs I had brought along! That first night, safely moored in Blanket Bay, with a delectable feast consumed, it wasn’t long before the mocking was again up and running, fuelled now by a rum or two.
To be fair, the red team had brought home a ‘reasonable’ catch of blue cod, which was understandable; after all, the blue team were at a slight disadvantage having two of their team out of fishing action, while below the surface collecting crayfish which we certainly appreciated when it was served up that evening. The teams soon moved on with any mutual respect that we had all enjoyed a great feast brought to the table as a joint effort as a result of both teams. Listening to the dive debrief was unbelievable. The spot they were dropped on was alive with crays, there was little need for searching as the blue boat dive team, Dave and Paul, described the dive best as “a visit to Pak and Save” first filling their catch bag with crays, only to then empty them out, to collect the bigger ones that were tucked in behind the smaller crays originally collected! The visibility was fantastic, basically unlimited. They went on to describe the decent down which took them through a 2 – 3 meter layer of fresh water, then into a confused hazy mix of fresh and salt water followed by the clear deep saltwater layer below. Other than the crayfish, our divers experienced a wide range of marine species including black coral, said to grow into spectacular ‘trees’ of black coral up to 3 – 4 metres high. It is little wonder Jacques Cousteau named Fiordland as one of his top ten dive spots of the world. The next morning we woke to grey skies with the mountains covered in mist, the weather had deteriorated as we had expected. Although a little dark and drizzly, enthusiasm was certainly not dampened and after wholesome Tutoko breakfast of sausages, baked beans, hash browns and the staple breakfast blend of scrambled eggs and crayfish we were on our way. It was about this time four of the team of eight thought they should start taking their medication to avoid the inevitable onslaught of gout. Today being our first whole day to explore the vast wilderness of Doubtful Sound – the second largest of the 14 fiords in Fiordland National Park, (three times longer and 10 times larger than the better known Milford Sound) we decided to head north into one of the two subsidiary sounds – Thompson Sound. Both boats headed up together and
Wilmot Pass is reguarly cleared by snow plows throughout the winter months
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A Dive spot 1 - Bauza Island. B First fishing spot, Hares Ears off Fabrero Pt. C Night 1 and 3 - Blanket Bay
D D OC Hut and deer hunt - Deas Cove E Fish spot 2 - Thompson Sound entrance
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Dive spot 2 - Masterhead Night 2 - Precipice Cove Fish spot 3 - Bedulo Reach Start/Finish Point - Manapouri
Destination | Fiordland explored the new DOC hut built in Deas Cove in Thompson Sound. It is a modern yet basic Hut recently built at a cost of around $550,000 – which has distressed some of the locals. I presume the remoteness has something to do with the costings, although a remarkable setting for those wanting to get right away from it all. At times the skies cleared and it was relatively pleasant however when a little unpleasant, the combined diversion of the pursuit for blue cod and Groper, the majestic scenery and the wildlife about us, kept the team (dressed in full wet weather gear) more than distracted from the less than perfect weather conditions. The Stabi-Craft 759 SuperCab had plastic clears which we pulled back often and fished under the hard top overhang, keeping relatively dry most of the time, not that it bothered anyone onboard, we were consumed by our surroundings and experiences. From there it was off again to explore and fish more of the 40 kms of waterways. After a good fish at the Doubtful entrance the day previous we thought we would try the Thompson Sound entrance – unfortunately the results weren’t quite so fruitful. The blue team had more luck right outside Deas Cove where we started, rewarded with a 10.9 lb Blue Cod – and they sure let us know about that over the VHF. Bugger – the pressure was now on. We tried several spots including Pendulo Reach (a fairly busy intersection), in the deep, in the shallows, under waterfalls and river mouths. With the evening setting in, time was running out and we were soon due back at Tutoko for the official weigh-in. We spotted the blue team diving at Masterhead, and we put a semi-desperate call in to ‘the local’ Richard (hoping the blue team might not hear) asking for a magic spot that may assist us to attain the big one to beat the trophy winning ten-pounder that the blue team had onboard. Richard directed us to a river mouth, which luckily saved us a ‘downtrou’ that night. Unfortunately for the blue team whose dive kept them out a little longer, meant they were not back on time for the agreed official weigh in, and as you could imagine that was the topic for debate around the table that evening, while anchored within the tranquil waters of Precipice Cove,
Scott entices another Blue Cod onboard in Bradshaw Sound, the second subsidiary sound of Doubtful Sound. In the evenings, away from the jovial debating and chat within the Tutoko, you could understand why the area is often referred to as ‘the sound of silence’ absolute peace and stillness. Wednesday arrived, our second and last full day within this majestic paradise We headed off reasonably early to ensure we gave the day 100%, in an attempt to ensure we, the red Stabi team could today return with our heads held high. We started not far from Precipice Cove and collected a cod or two, until fishing went quiet, a competing fur seal came swimming alongside, time to move on we thought. This was going to be the day of nature and all its creatures it seemed. Bottlenose dolphins ran alongside, guiding us back towards Deas Cove where the blue team had caught the ten-pounder the previous day. We tried a spot or two before we arrived at Deas Cove to find the blue team back trying their luck on their spot again. Greg had wandered off with his rifle past the DOC hut towards a slip, with the hope of spotting a deer, while the blue boat boys had a dive and fish back at Deas Cove. We came across a nice hole still within sight of the blue boat – sure enough we had found a great Blue Cod spot. We spent the next 30 minutes drifting across the hole installing confidence that we could now return to Tutoko today with our heads raised. While working our hole, we heard three shots ring out. Yeah right we thought – Bloody Greg having us on again! We continued drifting across the hole a little longer before we heard
Our entertaining and very knowledgeable skipper; Richard a proud voice on the VHF asking us to come around to the next bay to give Greg a hand with a little job. Yep the Blue boat had done it again – just when we thought we had them with our healthy Blue Cod catch. Greg took us about 200 metres into the bush to show us not one but two deer!!! Not something the Auckland boys see back home, and a good opportunity Greg thought for a couple of Aucklanders experience carrying a deer out. Good on ya mate – as a Speights drinking southerner would say. What a day, Blue cod, crayfish and now venison – what more could you ask for???
A couple of deer added venison to the menu
Dressed to do battle in less than perfect weather conditions
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We ventured back to Tutoko feeling very proud of our efforts – seeing as we carried the deer out, we became one team again. Luckily we had a couple of hunters onboard who managed to do a pretty good job of boning and butchering the deer, enabling the team all to take home a pretty good feed of
Paul weighs in his trophy 10lb cod
crays, blue cod and venison. That evening we all celebrated together recalling our activities Our warm and comfortable and experiences of the mothership - Tutoko previous three days in Doubtful sound and surroundings. Day four arrives spiral tunnel drive down into the depths of and unfortunately, our time to leave this tranthe mountain via the access tunnel to the quil wilderness was nearing. Waking again power station where we viewed the turbines in the beautiful Blanket Bay, I look about the in action – quite an experience and a nice surrounding area, feeling humble, while enerbonus added to the end of the expedition. gized by the physical grandeur of Doubtful After the power station tour it was back in Sound and its neighboring mountains. the water, motor across Lake Manapouri, The time spent with the Tutoko team was into the cars for the tow back to Invercargill fantastic, whatever ‘blows your hair back’ for one last meal together and debrief of the whether fishing, diving, hunting, kayaking, adventure. bush walks, or just taking in a scenic cruise, The inclusive boating expedition of 140 Richard and his team will guide you as he nautical miles, right back to Pearl harbour, did for us, to where it’s happening. After our Manapouri, the StabiCraft 759 SuperCab, farewells to Richard and Allan it was time to powered by a 250HP four stroke Yamaha head back over Wilmot Pass. consumed approx three quarters of its 275 litre tank – quite reasonable considering the amount of time we spent idling, exploring The tow back at slow speeds investigating holes and When Phil dropped us off four days holding in position over holes and alongside earlier I had asked him on the side whether waterfalls, attempting to catch the illusive he could organise a quick tour of the Power groper. Petrol is available in Doubtful sound, station – which he said he would check on. delivered by a tanker, barged over every Once we arrived back to the Manapouri Wednesday at a cost of around $3-00 per side, Phil drove us to entrance of the litre. Power station. It was then a two-kilometer The Kia Sorento (Limited model) we used for the tow vehicle towed exceptionally – the whole team were ‘blown away’ by the performance, which we all thought was a bit miss-matched up against the 759 StabiCraft SuperCab. The whole Sorento range is powered by a 2.5-litre DOHC turbocharged common rail diesel engine that delivers 125kW of power and 392Nm of torque. The standard 5-speed automatic transmission equipped with sport shift stood up well, offering a towing capacity of 2.8 tonnes, towing well and extremely economically. We have approached Kia Motors regarding a press vehicle to put through its paces – look for the write-up in the next issue of Propeller magazine.
In Summary
The fishing banter continued into the evenings
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Our Propeller magazine 2008 expedition into Doubtful Sound will be an adventure never forgotten by any of us – the Tutoko team ensured that! Good friends enjoying an abundant, unspoilt wilderness, a place of many moods; one minute clear blue skies and sun-drenched, the next mysterious and mist-cloaked. If you ever get the opportunity to visit Doubtful Sound, grab it with both hands and go! •AB
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BOAT TEST: RAMCO 4750 Prelude
-------------------ng An Icon i d n a r b e R --------------------For a boat under 5m you’ld be hard pressed to find anything that would ride better.
A name that epitomises the very heritage aluminium boat building in New Zealand is still a strong player in the market. Barry Thompson checks out one of the smallest models in the all-new range.
A few years ago I was reintroduced to Ramco, a brand that I have seen develop through highs and lows since its inception 27 years ago. Over the many years is has always been one of the most successful and better known brands of alloy trailer boats in the country. The Ramco brand has always been at the forefront of new design and styles and the latest models are no exception. Now built in Rangiora, the Ramco brand has undergone a revamp in recent years and the end result is a very practical, well priced range of boats that are designed to suit local Kiwi boating. The quality, design and finish are certainly very apparent and the current owners are continually looking at ways to improve the existing models as well as adding new ones. The extensive dealer network of the 1990s has gone and there are now only a select few based around the country.
New Designs
In recent years the whole range has been given a make-over by talented Christchurch-based designer Scott Robson, who was given the task of redesigning the entire range. His eye for the aesthics has always been one of his strengths, especially in the larger 10m plus
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powercats and monohulls, where he has carved out a highly respected reputation. His interest in designing and in the early years building offshore and marathon racing powerboats has also been transposed into his ability to get the best out of the performance and handling of the boats he now designs. The Ramco range has benefited from his experience in both areas. The 4750 is one of 12 models in the new Ramco range and the smallest of three cabin boats that carry the Prelude branding. The others are the 5050 and the 5450 Preludes, which essentially are just larger versions of the 4750. The 4750 Ramco prelude is an entry level aluminium boat that is unashamedly pitched to the fishing market, although it is equally well suited as a crossover boat for family boating. The construction is aluminium alloy, with 3mm sides and a 4mm hull bottom. The hull is all CAD designed and the plates are pre-cut before arriving at the Rangiora factory, so the precision fit of all components is spot-on. The 4750 weighs in at around 360kg for the hull only and has a trailerable weight of approx. 600kg. It is light enough to be towed behind a standard passenger car and also the single axle trailer doesn’t require the extra expense of brakes.
Standard Layout
The layout is very much typical small cuddy cabin with an open area under the fordeck with a generously sized anchor locker in the forepeak. Nice to see that the tradi-
A nice clean workable cockpit with plenty of space for fishing.
tional plastic moulded Ramco anchor hatch has been retained. A forward hatch – which will be increased in size on future models allows easy access for anchoring duties. Less than 1m headroom means there’s not even enough sitting headroom, but a full width squab is available if you want to cover the chequer plate cuddy cabin sole. The sole carries on through to the transom and as this is an area that is going to be mostly used to toss dry gear, I feel it
The Ramco 4750 Prelude is an exceptional entry level cuddy.
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needs a rear upstand/footrest that would stop anything working its way back into the cockpit. Soft tube matting was used in the test boat which I love as it takes away that cold alloy feel under bare feet, especially when winter fishing. Seating is twin swivel bucket seats on fixed pedestals and there is the option of single or twin back-to-backs. This will, however, encroach into the fishing space in the cockpit. If you want extra seating, the
A Cule hatch allows easy access for anchoring chores.
The layout is very much typical small cuddy cabin with an open area under the fordeck. best deal is a large, removable cooler/fish bin with a squab, that can be left behind when not required. Across the transom is a wide and deep tray which houses the battery and provides more storage space. Twin tote tanks can be stowed under. Rods can be secured in full-length side shelves or in any of the four coaming rod holders that come standard with the 4750. Keys, cellphones and sunnies have their own dedicated space either side of the twin bucket seats. There’s no storage under the sole, with the space providing airtight buoyancy compartments. The style and type of canopy you have on the Ramco 4750 is your choice, but I have to admit that I really liked the purpose built bimini from Auto Upholstery & Canvas that was on the test boat. This provided shelter from the sun, but was also high enough to stand under. Often canopies that slope down and button onto the screen are too low on a boat this size and get in the way. Add some
clears to the bimini and you have all the protection you’d ever need. Best thing is it can all be rolled up and hidden inside a sock cover and folded down out of the way.
A neat little compartment for your keys, phone and sun glasses.
Tight & Dry
I got to run the 4750 in calm to choppy waters off Gulf Harbour, Auckland and I can’t say I was at all surprised as to how well it ran. Robson Design has a reputation for soft riding performance-based hull designs and the Ramco 4750 Prelude is no exception. The 17 deg deadrise hull carves through the short
The Ramco 4750 is rated for outboards 40-60hp, with our boat presented for the test with a Mercury 50hp 2-stroke.
There are storage spaces in the transom, with tote tanks stowed below.
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BOAT TEST: RAMCO 4750 Prelude Standard features are the wide flat coamings with built in rod holders and full length trays either side.
chop and apart from some wind induced spray we remainded totally dry no matter what direction I ran the boat. For a boat under 5m you’d be hard pressed to find anything that would ride better. It feels firm and doesn’t have any of those aweful ‘tinnie’ sounds or rattles. This is a small boat with big boat attributes. The Mercury 50 gave the boat a top speed of 32mph @ 5500 rpm, running a 15” pitch 3-blade alloy Mercury propeller. I found
a nice cruise speed of 25-27mph @ 47505000 rpm. The Ramco 4750 is rated for outboards 40-60hp, with our boat presented for the test with a Mercury 50hp 2-stroke. This has proven a popular option for the 4750 and although larger engines and 4-strokes would be suitable, the 2-stroke certainly helps hold the package price below $NZ30,000. Auckland Marine Centre package the boat with the 40hp Mercury 2-stroke, a
single-axle DMW trailer, bimini, fish finder and a load of extras for $NZ29,990. Yes, that’s under $NZ30,000! The Ramco 4750 Prelude is an exceptional entry level cuddy that is more than suited to sheltered water fishing, towing water toys or cruising to a quiet bay with the family. Finish, presentation, style and performance are all first class. •AB
Performance
SPECIFICATIONS Model: Priced from: Price as tested: Type: Construction: LOA: Beam: Deadrise: Trailer make: Height on trailer: Trailerable weight: Power: Propeller: Power options: Fuel capacity:
Notable features:
Ramco 4750 Cuddy $NZ17,499 (hull & trailer) $NZ29,990 Cuddy 4mm/3mm alloy 4.75m 2.05m 17 degrees DMW 1.89m 600kg Mercury 50hp 2-stroke 15” pitch 3-blade alloy 40-60hp Tote tanks
Manufacturer: Ramco Boats, Rangiora, North Canterbury, NZ +64 3 313 3560 sales@ramcoboats.co.nz www.ramcoboats.co.nz
Alloy chequer plate sole, wraparound screen, folding dive ladder, battery box & isolation switch, bilge pump, navigation lights. Notable Options on Test Boat Lowrance X5 fish finder, bimini, VHF radio, PVC tube matting.
Boat Supplied by: Auckland Marine Centre +64 9 579 7981 sales@aucklandmarine.co.nz www.aucklandmarine.co.nz
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Selecting a Winch or Windlass There are a number of important criteria to be considered in selecting the correct anchor winch: vessel size, length and displacement, anchor and chain size, windage and anchoring.
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s they say, “there’s no substitute for size”! Anchor winches (windlasses and capstans) also should be selected with safety in mind – you must be able to rely on the winch in extreme conditions. The anchor winch is often the most ignored piece of equipment, in terms of routine maintenance, on a boat and should be selected with that in mind. The windlass be regularly serviced (at least once a year), so it is in prime condition to work in any
circumstances. In smaller trailer boats the selection on offer is fairly extensive; in fact most manufacturers provide models that are suitable for vessels from about 5 metres upwards. The maximum pull and continuous pull ratings of a windlass are all that matter. In smaller trailer boats the selection on offer is not huge; in fact most manufacturers provide models that are generally overkill for this range. A minimum of 600 watt motor
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power is the overriding consideration – any less and the winch is working too hard in deeper waters. Most manufactures supply DC electric motors with suitable wattage to give the optimal working capacity required. However, it must be remembered that DC electric motors do heat up with long or repetitive retrievals of the anchor. As a rule of thumb, you should not continuously run the windlass for more than about 7 to 9 minutes at a time
for your trailer boat and the motor should be allowed to cool down before the next use. Most modern windlasses have retrieval speeds that allow retrieval of the anchor from quite deep depths without the motor overheating. Some manufacturers say that the run time of a winch has little connection to the wattage of the motor. Quite often the opposite is true. All motors are of a certain efficiency so there is always waste heat. The more heat energy there is(more powerful motor) the less the run time. Other considerations have a larger part to play. Worm gearboxes only have a efficiency of ~50% efficiency so compared to straight geared winches they will characteristically have less run time because of the waste heat from the gearbox has to be radiated. Windlass speed is important, as all DC type units have a limited running time, because of the heat generated. For any given windlass, the time for it to reach its maximum recommended running temperature will vary depending on the load placed on the windlass – the greater the load the higher the amp draw and amps generate heat. – 8 to10 minutes is about the maximum. Most of today’s anchor winches operate in excess of 25 metres per minute, so care must be taken when retrieving the last few metres of rode as the anchor can slam into your bow roller and possibly cause damage. Remember, the anchor goes out only marginally faster than it comes up – the gear ratio is the same. In fact, depending on the type of anchor you are using, “freefalling” the anchor is no faster than “motoring’ the anchor to the bottom and, in fact, motoring the anchor down gives you superior control when anchoring your boat. There are free-fall winches (designed to electrically or manually de-clutch) for deeper water when you may not want to “motor down” the anchor and rode. These are worth considering, but certainly not essential for safe and accurate achoring. However bear in mind that anchors ‘swim’ in the sea at high speed (freefall). In particular, Danforth type anchors glide like a ray, but a plough type may reach the seabed moments after the chain. Boaters need to be aware that after a free fall, there is no guarantee that the anchor will be presented to the seabed correctly. Windlasses come in two forms – manual and powered (electric or hydraulic). A manual windlass lets you do the work, while internal gearing or a ratchet drive makes it easier. These windlasses are above deck and are very simple to install. However, these days, there are very few manual windlassed available on the market. The reliability and ease of use of powered windlasses has seen the
manual windlass teeter on the brink of extinction. Electric or hydraulic powered windlasses allow a motor to do the lifting and are controlled remotely by deck foot switches or helm station controls. For smaller boats, up to about 15 metres, 12 or 24 volt DC electric motors are most commonly used. Hydraulic powered windlasses are seen more on larger boats over about 20 metres. The two basic types of windlass are differentiated by the drive shaft orientation. Deck thickness and under-deck space are the two main considerations when deciding which of the two types to fit. Vertical windlasses make up the majority of anchor winch sales and, on trailer boats they are used most commonly; however the newer generation of horizontal winches that
Calculate ground tackle weight (anchor + chain + rope = ground tackle weight). Calculate the maximum pull (total ground tackle weight x 3 = maximum pull).
are available are worth consideration if room in the anchor/rode locker (chain or rope/ chain) is at a premium. Vertical windlasses (drive shaft is vertical) are characterised by situating the winch (windlass or capstan) “topworks” above deck and the motor and gearbox below deck. Vertical windlasses provide a 180-degree wrap of the anchor rode (all chain or rope & chain) around the chain wheel giving optimal rode control, minimising slippage and jumping. The chain or rope/chain exits the chainwheel through the chainpipe down into the locker. Two factors come into play. The rode is being “forced” into the rode locker by the windlass and also gravity allows the rode to drop into the locker. Therefore, it is vitally important that the rode locker has sufficient volume for all your rode (chain or rope & chain) to “drop” into the locker. As a rule of thumb, when all the rode has been retrieved, there should be a minimum of 200 mm between the top of the rode pile and the bottom of the below deck gearbox/motor. Horizontal windlasses are mounted completely above deck with gypsy and capstan located to either side. They provide a 90-degree wrap of the chain around the chain wheel, which while it does not provide as much contact length as does the 180-degree wrap of a vertical windlass, a horizontal
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windlass may be the preferred option as rode locker space is being taken up by the windlass gearbox and motor. The only way to rate anchor winch performance is by looking at what a winch will lift and at what speed. Two things to consider are the maximum pull capability and the working load of the winch, which is generally 1/3 the maximum lifting capacity. Horizontal winches offer greater environmental protection to the drive unit (motor and gearbox) but are generally harder to service and, in most cases, they have to be removed from the deck before any maintenance/repair work can commence. The below deck portion of vertical winches must be sprayed with a protective coating such as CRC Soft Seal and NEVER Denso tape as it acts as an insulator and will not allow heat to dissipate. A clever method of protecting your motor within the rode locker is to spray with soft seal and then slip a plastic bottle of an appropriate size, with the bottom cut off and top removed, over the motor and secure it into place. This allows airflow and minimises salt water splashing all over the motor, while preventing a build-up of condensation as the motor cools after use. Maximum pull or stall load is the maximum short term or instantaneous pull of the winch. Working load is considered to be the load that the winch is pulling once the anchor is off the bottom. Safety guidelines suggest that the pulling capacity of the windlass should not be less than three times the total weight of the ground tackle. To determine your required maximum pull capability, complete the calculation below: Calculate ground tackle weight (anchor + chain + rope = ground tackle weight). Calculate the maximum pull (total ground tackle weight x 3 = maximum pull). In other words, the maximum pull should be three times the weight of your total ground tackle. You should never anchor off your winch or use your winch to draw your boat to the anchor spot. The anchor winch is designed to pull up a dead weight and should not be subjected to the loads imposed on it by your boat riding at anchor. Manufacturers recommend that when riding at anchor, or while under way and also when your boat is on its trailer, you cleat the rode and take the load off the winch. Another system for all-chain rodes is a chain stopper that takes any snatch loads while the windlass is in operation.
Setting The Anchor
To make sure that your boat stays where you anchored it, it’s a good idea to take two immediate bearings. Select two items, one
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If an anchor is caught in rocks or other hidden debris, special care is required to retrieve it. As most large rocks don’t “give” very easily, brains over brawn will usually win over and minimise the risk of damage to the anchor, chain and fairlead set-up; not to mention the windlass. If your anchor is caught and it will not come free from the ground, follow these steps: 1. Let out some rode so you have slack rode to play with 2. Make the rope off on a bollard or cleat. Do not use the windlass a mooring point! 3. Start doing points of the compass using the boat engine’s power to possibly clear the anchor. An important consideration in any anchoring system is the chain length and weight per metre. By reducing chain size/ weight you are directly reducing the anchor’s effectiveness. All anchors, regardless of type, require a minimum of 1.5 times the boat length of chain to assure safe anchoring; however, anything over and above will offer even more peace of mind. Boat displacement is the major influence determining the necessary chain size. Chain size will be determined from the intended conditions e.g. inshore cruising, coastal cruising, inshore fishing, charter [commercial fishing], anchoring depth, weather conditions, etc. It is worth noting that all manufacturers emphasise and state that the winch is designed to raise the anchor once clear of the bottom and in no way is the winch designed to break out a stuck (or kedged) anchor. An over-capacity winch will withstand far greater punishment than one merely of the minimum size necessary.
Here’s a brief run-down on a selection of equipment from various manufacturers: Maxwell (New Zealand)
Maxwell anchoring products are renowned for their reliability and performance throughout the pleasure boating, commercial marine, and superyacht markets. Maxwell’s range of windlasses, capstans and accessories is extensive, providing anchoring solutions for vessels from 5m to 120 metres. When first released in 1995, the Maxwell Freedom rope/chain anchor winch revolutionised the global marine market in terms of performance and reliability. Its innovative, compact design and elegant styling made the Freedom winch the primary choice of both boat manufacturers and boat owners around the world. Although the Freedom series is not longer manufactured, Maxwell has continued to evolve and improve its existing range of innovative rope/chain and all chain windlasses as well as their range of capstans. The RC6 and RC8 free-fall windlasses were introduced to satisfy the need for small boat, deep anchoring fishermen who demanded fast recovery of their rode and anchor so they can quickly get to that next fishing spot. www.maxwellwinches.com
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Muir produces a compact range of horizontal windlasses which are ideal for installations where chain locker space is at a premium or not easily accessible. These compact deck units have durable marine housings enclosing the motor and gearbox. All running gear is designed for durability and performance, being manufactured from marine grade bronze with chrome or traditional polished bronze finish. The smaller Muir in-line capstans are highly efficient, lightweight vertical capstans for boats up to 10m. Handling rope up to 19mm (3/4”) the Muir capstans have a one-piece integrated gearbox/motor assembly that delivers more power and speed than is normally associated with conventional gear systems.
Suitable for anchoring, davit and general use Advance 300w - NZ$745.00 - up to 7 mtr Advance 600w - NZ$845.00 - up to 10 mtr Fast recovery, Small and low current draw
Suitable for boats up to 5.5mtr 30kg normal pull Easywinch - NZ$575.00
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The Muir Storm VR600 is a free fall winch with a capacity of 300kg max load.
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All winches give you fast recovery with plenty of reserve power and low battery drain. Auto brake prevents back run for safety and control. Install or remove in minutes. NEW ZEALAND made. Lower ratio models are available for slower speed utility and docking operations.
The award winning Muir Atlantic and Storm series provide strength of conventional vertical windlasses but with advanced and innovative concepts. Recognised for their sleek curved lines, they are available in low profile (VR) or capstan (VRC) configurations, with models to suit all recreational and commercial vessels up to 35m. Using the latest in efficient windlass drives, the Atlantic series provides effective and rapid anchor retrieval with high speeds up to 25 metres per minute on some models, whilst also allowing smooth deployment of the anchor rode and chain. Available in New Zealand through Lusty & Blundell Ltd. www.muir.com.au
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Small alloy boats only need a capstan such as the Quick Tumbler fitted to the Ramco 601HT.
Quick (Italy)
Quick offers an extensive range of winches, from simple and very efficient capstans to more sophisticated vertical and horizontal winches. Quick has recently released a new automatic free-fall system to its range. The freefall technology applied to the Genius models allows the gypsy to be stopped to retrieve the anchor, by just touching the “up” control. By pushing the “down” control, the brake is released and the gypsy can turn freely (free-fall system operates). To stop the gypsy during free-fall, just press the “up” control. The Genius models admirably suit the requirements of those who have little space below deck or on deck. They are compact and easy to install, ensuring top perfor-
mance. In addition, they are provided with a pressure lever. The new Prince series of vertical windlasses are ideally suited to mid range and larger trailer boats, starting with the DP1/300 , through to the DP3/1500. The new Prince DP2E series (600/1000/1100) windlass’s are equipped with an epicyclical gearbox, that provides much higher efficiency (40% compared to equivalent traditional gearboxes). They are available with and without a drum and are manual free-fall. Quick also offer an extensive range of capstans under their Tumbler and Totem range. www.marinedirect.co.nz
Lewmar (United Kingdom)
Lewmar offer a wide selection of both vertical and horizontal designs, which are sleek and attractive to complement your boat. The smallest is the Pro Sport series which is lead by the rope and chain ProSport 550, a winch designed for boats up to 6m. The unit has manual freefall and two gypsy sizes to choose from. The none freefall Pro Series 700 and even stronger Pro Series 1000 are designed for the larger trailer boats and small cruisers. The Pro Fish 700 and Pro Fish 1000 are both freefall models. The vertical V700 is another winch from Lewmar that is ideal for trailer boats. It has a 316 stainless steel housing and a sleek flushmount design that hides the motor down below. The V700 now comes with a gypsy able to accept both 6mm and 7mm chains. Lewmars C Series Capstans provide almost effortless rope control at the press of a footswitch. Stainless steel components combine strength, anti-corrosion and durability with a beautiful, polished finish. At the recent Sydney Boat Show, Lewmar released the all new CPX0 anchor winch that is designed to fill the gap at the smaller end of the CPX range for boats between around 7m-12m. Powered by a 500W motor, the unit pulls up to 410kg and has two different rope/ chain gypsy options suit 6mm, 7mm and 8mm DIN766 standards, together with 6mm, 8mm, 1/4” and 5/16” ISO. A stainless steel stripper comes as standard for robustness and longevity. www.lewmar.com
The Pro Sport series is the smallest in the Lewmar range of rope and chain winches.
he Seawinch C400 is a popular rope anchor winch available in vertical or horizontal configuration.
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Seawinch (New Zealand)
James Nilsson Ltd builds a wide range of Seawinch high spec, vertical drive all-chain windlasses and specialises in rope capstans for the smallest boat to super yachts. The Seawinch capstan range offers a wide choice of power and speed from high speed anchor hauling, medium speed utility and furling winches to low speed, high power docking winches. So well sealed that they will run under water, the Seawinch range are all fitted with back running preventers for safety.
James Nilsson is New Zealand’s oldest established winch maker and specializes in custom builds to suit specific customer requirements. The Seawinch C400 is a popular rope anchor winch available in vertical or horizontal configuration and is widely used also as a pot hauler. At the other end of the scale, James Nilsson manufactures large sheet winches for boats to 50m, with pulls in excess of 20,000kg. www.jamesnilsson.com
Lofrans (Italy)
Made in Italy, the modern design, the quality of the materials, the simple mechanics and the high level of reliability, have led to increasing demand for these windlasses. The opportunity to choose a mix of versions of the same model, different in power, sizes and finish, allows you to get a custom product to satisfy your technical and esthetical needs. Most Lofrans anchor windlasses are available with a choice of two different electric motors – a powerful electric motor which is faster and has
Lofrans X series vertical windlasses are suitable for power boats from 6m to 27m.
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South Pacific (Australia)
South Pacific’s series of electric anchor windlasses suit both power boats and sailing boats, from 4.5m to 18m, by using up-todate technology to ensure excellent water resistance, high performance, low current draw, and easy installation. They ensure that you can avoid having to stand at the bow to lift the anchor in rough seas. Just one push on the up-down switch and up comes the anchor. South Pacific produces a series of horizontal and vertical windlasses. Instead of traditional, very low efficiency worm gears, South Pacific windlasses are manufactured with spur gears, which have 92~95% efficiency. Also, the 82% efficiency high torque permanent magnet motor has replaced the usual low efficiency series wound motors. This reduces heat formation and dramatically lowers battery current draw. The windlasses are lightweight, compact, and have stainless steel parts to ensure reliability and durability. In the case of an overload, the electric brake is activated to protect the windlass against potential damage. The South Pacific range in available in NZ through MarineXpress (www.marinexpress.co.nz) www.southpacific.com.au
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The Easywinch has been designed and made especially for small boat owners (under 5.5m) who find anchor rope hauling a tiresome and exhausting job. External parts including the capstan are all aluminium with stainless steel shafts and fastenings. Fitting simply involves drilling some holes (no large holes to cut) through the deck and bolting into position. Generally, if the deck is strong enough for an adult to walk on then no reinforcement is needed. This means the Easywinch can be fitted almost anywhere. Easywinch also offer the Advance 300w and Advance 600w capstan winches. They feature stainless 316 capstan, highest power to size/weight ratio. Suitable to be mounted anywhere, either in the anchor locker, on a davit arm for pot hauling. No need to periodically spray with sealants to protect below the deck components.
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Stress Free, has the power up and power down feature as well as the fully engineered freefall mechanism, all executed with the flick of a switch from the helm. Advantages of the NG Series: the winch will freefall at up to 600 feet/minute, the drum can only free spool whilst there is weight pulling down so once the anchor hits the seabed the drum will automatically stop, and in the event of an electrical failure the drum can be mechanically moved off the drive system to allow the anchor to be deployed. The unit is cover by a 3 year warranty for recreational users. The reliability of the Stress Free Anchor Winch is backed up with a 36 month warranty to recreational users and 12 months to professional fisherman and/or charter operators. www.stressfreemarine.co.nz
Kiwi Ezy (New Zealand)
The new Kiwi Ezy drum winch is just as the name suggests, its easy to install and so easy to use. Manufactured in New Zealand, the Kiwi Ezy drum winch has been designed for boats that have limited anchor locker space. This drum is capable of holding 10m of chain and 50m of 10mm rope. The Kiwi Ezy winch is available in 12 or 24 volt and is utilizes Quick winch running gear. The stainless steel drum has simple to use power up and down functions and a 90 deg gearbox to make installation into compact spaces a lot easier. Suitable for boats to around 5.6 metres, the Kiwi Ezy drum winch mounts in the anchorwell and can be hidden from view. www.marinedirect.co.nz
The Kiwi Ezy drum winch has been designed for boats that have limited anchor locker space.
Stressfree Marine manufacturer the world’s first free fall drum winch.
The size below deck (protruding into anchor well or cabin area) of these winches is appreciably smaller than most winches on the market. www.easywinch.co.nz
Stressfree (Australia)
Stressfree Marine manufacturer the world’s first free fall drum winch, which is proving extremely popular on both sides of the Tasman. The Stress Free drum winch designed to fit into the anchor well with an anchor roller positioned in front of the hatch opening to assist the laying of the rope from one side of the drum to the other and to stop any rubbing on the boat as the rope and chain spools on and off the drum. The Stress Free is manufactured in 4 models to suit boats from 4m – 10m plus and each model comes in 2 versions: Standard (power up/power down) and NG Series (power up/power down and freefall). The standard Stress Free is power up and power down and will lower and retrieve at 80 -90 feet/minute whereas the NG Series
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BOAT TEST: FC 600 CC By Freddy Foote
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The FC 600 is a big open centre console boat that’s designed for serious fishos.
There are plenty of spaces for fishing from the open bow to the uncluttered stern.
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The FC 600 is fitted with a Maxwell RC6 winch and has an open anchor locker with built in fairlead. The FC 600 CC is quite a revolutionary boat with a lot of features that have never been incorporated into such a boat before. The end result being a culmination of ideas from the fishing fraternity and a bit of kiwi engineering know how to bring together a boat that allows everything to work. Ross Christensen says that in designing the new FC600 they had to set about getting a combination of all the good points of the good hulls and point them together. “Everyone wants a nice light weight boat to tow, but then you get out to sea and it bounces around which then lends itself to not being very stable. Then of course, the deeper the vee you put into the design of a boat, the less stable it gets. It’s a real hard compromise to get a boat that’s light enough to tow and to not have huge horsepower on it, but also has the stability at rest.” “We’ve also incorporated a gull wing design that has been successful in our smaller models.” The FC600 also sees a separate ballast and flooding keel system incorporated into its design. Essentially, there are two systems. Aft,
there is a flooding keel, which floods when the boat is at rest, making the craft ultra stable, then when underway the water drains quickly out. In the forward section there is a controllable ballast system, enabling the skipper to bring onboard the desired amount of forward ballast, and then to dump it when not needed. A large leaver is located between the twin pedestal seats at the helm. Open the valve, and at around 20mph the pick-up will fill the front 200L tank in around a minute. To empty the tank, move the lever to ‘Empty’ get the boat in motion and it will drain the water quite quickly. “In mine and Craig Archers experience in offshore and water ski racing, we learnt that you can achieve a lot better ride and performance by having a little extra weight up the front in rougher conditions - it makes the world of difference,” says Christensen. “I don’t think there is anything in this configuration currently on the New Zealand market which has a passive live bait tank, a 180L flooding keel chamber and a 200L ballast tank.” “I’d done a lot of research and a lot of reading about what everyone was saying about centre consoles. The general consensus was that they were largely nice boats, plenty of room for fishing – but there was no shelter.”
Protection Focus
The transom features twin platforms and a large dive ladder.
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One of the first prerequisites for the 600CC was a double console, so that a driver and passenger can be immediately behind, with a further two standing behind that, and all four being protected from the elements. Testing the absolute limits of trailerable boat design, the 600CC features extended gunnels and a raised sheer line to achieve ergonomic access around the sides to the foredeck area – and it works very well. “I think that for any true centre console, it has to have fishability, so you will be able to follow any big fish right around this boat if you need to.” The FC 600CC features a ‘passive live bait tank’ meaning it doesn’t have pumps and has been cleverly integrated into the aft floor area. Like other FC Boat models, by removing the lower bung, the sump area can be
A huge dash with room for big MFD screens and there’s also a neat storage tray above complete with drink holders.
The flooding keel helps with at rest stability.
converted into a live bait tank. The natural movement of the boat on the water will keep in oxygenated, and when underway will quickly drain the water out. “It will then flood to water level, and if you leave the bung out, the movement of the hull will ‘pump’ water in and out, keeping the well oxygenated and your baits alive. The new 600 has is a pick up through the hull so at any speed the baits get a good supply of water, there is a tap to close or regulate flow if required. With most boats having big transom sections to house oil tanks, batteries and
other onboard systems, Fish City saw this as a massive compromise on cockpit fishing space. And in wanting a centre console, they set about ways to maximise the after cockpit area. So what they did was to remove a big and bulky transom area, and elect to house all the batteries and systems under the helm console. During the build process a smalltubed tunnel is built into the floor of the boat to feed cable and wiring through at a later stage for the engine installation. The result being a non-clutter aft area, giving anglers the ability to fish right to the rear of the boat. “We wanted a boat that you could really get into these aft corners, and that’s why the boarding platforms aren’t too big, it’s all about being able to get as close to that fish as possible.” The aft corners feature a great fold down seating arrangement, that when not in use for passengers, the seat lifts up and folds pretty much flush into the corner sections. At the helm, a large console is nicely finished with a carbon fibre look and has plenty of room to place all the necessary instruments, gauges and controls. Underneath there is plenty of dry storage for all the days gear, and given that this area also accommodates the onboard systems such as batteries and oil etc this can be accessed from a second hatch forward.
The rear seats hinge up out of the way when fishing. Note the passive live bait tank, a feature of all FC boats.
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The two alloy pipes are breathers for the ballast tank and let you know when it’s full. In the bow area, the floor has been raised to provide more surface area. This design feature essentially gives the boat a false floor and provides more underfloor storage for dive bottles and whatever gear you may wish to store here. A large chilly bin with squab is position in front of the helm console and provides another place for passengers to sit. On a nice calm day it’s always a great place to sit, and given that the boat has a forward ballast tank it should be a good place to sit even on the rougher days.
The bulwalks are wide enough to walk around while still fighting a fish.
First Run
After going over the boat with the boys at Fish City I organised to go out with them when they did their first sea trial. I was interested as to how it would perform and handle serious sea conditions. Well as it turned out when we got on the water it was reasonably calm, so the best I got was to check out the calm water handling and collect the fuel and speed data. Running a Mercury 115, 4 stroke and a four blade Trophy 17” prop the FC600 ran 36.0mph @ 5800 rpm. We had 180 litres of
fuel aboard and the Smartcraft guage was indicating 36.5 lph. Interestingly when we dropped all the clears around the bimini, the speed increased to 37.8 mph. Just goes to show how much drag there is. Stability was great with just two aboard and the boat handled well in the very calm sea conditions. However sometime in the new year we are going for a serious fishing trip off the West Coast out of Raglan, when we should learn just how good this boat is in an environment it has been designed for. •AB
SPECIFICATIONS Model: FC600 CC Builder: FC Boats NZ Country of Origin: Designer: Ross Christensen / Kim Bertelsen $NZ60,000 (estimated) Priced From: Type: Centre Console Construction: Aluminium 5mm/4mm LOA: 6.00m Beam: 2.50m Deadrise: 20 deg Trailer Make: Voyager Height on Trailer: 3.10m Trailerable Weight: TBA Engine Capacity: 115-150hp Engine: Mercury 115 EFI Propeller: 17” Trophy Power Options: Outboard Only Fuel Capacity: 180 litres
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Blue Cod Heaven
Invercargill based Dawson Charters have a reputation for providing fishing and diving charters with a difference. They may be a little unorthodox in their approach, certainly packed with humour and above all provide an experience that you’d struggle to find on any other charter.
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his was the NZ Propeller Magazine’s second Dawson Charters experience and once again we had our serious fishing mate Mike Butt along to join Doug Dukeson, Dave Broadley and myself. Greg Dawson, the owner of Dawson Charters, arrived at Blenheim Airport to pick us up, with unpaid assistant and resident comedian Richard Murrell. Right from the minute you are picked up and driving off in the van you know you’re in for another interesting and unpredictable trip.
First stop was the vineyards around Blenheim where we stocked up on a few bottles of Cloudy Bay, Hunter and Nautilus. Leaving the graceful ambience of the vineyards we then stopped off at the old Okaramio pub which is now closed, where we experienced a culture shock. Run by the unconventional Hadlee, the pub was a famous watering hole that dates back to around the end of the 19th century. In its early years it was a regular refreshment stop between Blenheim and Havelock. However, as much as we enjoyed our 2nd and 3rd and 4th pint of
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the locally brewed Bays Gold, we had to get away to Havelock where our Southern 770 awaited to take us out to Dawson Charters’ Marlborough base in North West Bay, Pelorus Sound. Home base is a neat Kiwi style bach – ‘crib’ in the South Island – that offers all the right amenities, a beautiful bush location and a deep water wharf for all tide access. There’s even a quad to help you get up the path to the house, should you have already found Dawson Charters start to the trip a little over exerting.
Destination | Pelorus Sound
Snapper Alley- Yeah Right!
Day one consisted of a snapper trip to Kenepuru Sound where Greg was adamant the big snapper were still there to be caught. He had spot X marked on his GPS and we were keen to hook straight into these famous Kenepuru snapper. Mike caught the first one and it was all looking good. But that was it. One snapper and hardly a bite later. We cruised on down the sound to have lunch at Portage Hotel – another great destination if you are ever in the sounds and one that can be easily accessed by car from Blenheim. On the way back we stopped off and picked a feed of oysters off the rocks. They are plentiful and very succulent. With a sack full, we then headed off to get some fresh mussels from one of the many mussel farms scattered throughout the Sounds. Greg talked to one of the local mussel harvesters and after a rundown on how the farming is carried out, we were allowed to stripping a few of New Zealand’s finest greenlips off a strand or two. That night it was a huge feed of seafood – well, oysters and mussels, anyway. The remainder of the meal was supplied courtesy of the local butcher.
The blue cod were so prolific that we caught our limit in such a short time we had to stop fishing almost as soon as we got there.
Ohana moored at the wharf in Miro Bay, the homebase for our charter.
The destination on day two was the outer islands and bays of the Marlborough Sounds, with a trip across to the infamous French Pass. It was right beside the entrance to French Pass, with the tide roaring past at a full 7 knots, that we anchored over some of the most voraciously hungry fish I have ever come across. The blue cod were so prolific that we caught our limit in such a short time we had to stop fishing almost as soon as we got there. Mind you, getting there was a great trip, especially as a lot of the area was totally new to me. Every drop of the line was an instant blue cod. One bite, one fish! To make the fishing a little more interesting we also had the occasional barracuda take the cod on the way up, but fortunately we managed to extricate them before they got aboard. As if the barracuda weren’t giving us enough action, Doug hooked up a small mako, which ran his line almost totally off the reel. With the nylon screaming as the mako headed off like a freight train, it suddenly did a mid-air pirouette, threw the bait and swam off into the swirling waters of French Pass.
< Ohana cruises across the calm waters of Pelorus Sound
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Destination | Pelorus Sound
Oyster gathering in the Keneperu Sound
In D’Urville’s Wake
The fishing excursion at French Pass had come after a big day, which saw us leave our home base in Miro Bay, cruise past Maud Island and through the Waitata Reach and on to the Chetwode Islands. Initially that was plan A, with plan B to keep going on to French Pass and maybe if time and weather permitted doing a circumnavigation of D’Urville Island. As it was, going all the way to French Pass and back was as much as we could get in.
French Pass was named by Dumont D’Urville when he sailed through it in 1827. The Maori name is Te Aumiti, which is a shortened version of ‘Te Aumiro-o-te-kawaua-Toru’ means “the swishing currents of the shag Toru’, the place where Kupe’s pathfinding shag was drowned by the current. First stop was shallow reef off the Western side of the Chetwode Islands (named in 1838 by Lieutenant Chetwode) where the sounder showed plenty of baitfish. Our seriously keen fisho mate, Mike, was
Waiting patiently for the snapper in snapper alley!
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certain the snapper would be lurking around the steep faces. He was right and although the pickings were slim we did get a few reasonable fish aboard. As the weather was fine and the sea hardly rippled we set off to Clay Point where some locals had said it was a great dive for crays. After opting to try that on the return trip in the afternoon, it was straight on to French Pass. To really understand French Pass and its whirlpools, eddies and raging tidal flow, you have to be in it to really appre-
Destination | Pelorus Sound
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ciate what it’s truly like. Photos just don’t do it justice. The Southern 770’s Yamaha 225 4-stroke was noticeably feeling the pressure from the tide rip as we headed into the more open channel on the eastern side of the beacon in the centre. Although you can pass around the other side it’s certainly rockier and a dangerous approach at low tide or if you are not experienced in boating in the area. Skipper Greg had to push the throttle down for a few more rpm just to get through at low speed. Our return run was equally as interesting as the current was pushing us faster than we really wanted to go. For a trailer boat it’s not a problem either way, but for a slow displacement cruiser or yacht, it’s not a place I would like to tackle without first making sure you’ve got everything exactly right. This is a place that would offer you no second chance! The tide rip was way too strong to fish anywhere close to the centre of the Pass, even with sash weights, so we pulled over to shore and anchored in a calm eddy. As I said before, the blue cod virtually jumped into the boat and getting the limit for the six of us
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Destination | Pelorus Sound Dave Broadley in a very relaxed mood between bluecod plundering.
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BOAT TEST: SCORPION 610 HT
The Scorpion 610 HT is the biggest selling boat in the expansive Scorpion range and has been designed unashamedly towards the fishing enthusiast.
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As the hardtop evolution continues, so do the brands on offer and the choice is becoming harder and more complex for buyers. While in essence they are all designed for a similar purpose, every boat is different and each possesses some trait that either will or will not appeal to you. One company that has been building hardtops for many years and takes huge stock in customer feedback is Sportcraft Boats Ltd, manufacturer of the Scorpion brand. Recently it released the new upgraded 610HT, an entry level hardtop that at just a few dollars over $40,000 for a complete package is extremely sharp buying. The 610 has proven a very successful hull for Scorpion and apart from the hardtop model is also available as a centre console and in various cabin versions. Jamie Black, MD of Sportcraft Boats Ltd, says that the 610HT was designed with specific criteria. “First it had to have a 5mm hull to ensure softness of ride, a cabin with bunks long enough to sleep on, but still having a big working space in the cockpit. “We achieved the right balance between cabin and cockpit by putting on a small hardtop, which not only cuts down the windage while underway, but maximised cockpit fishing room while offering the protection expected from a hardtop”, says Jamie. It was also important to be able to offer the boat with as little as 90hp, while still achieving adequate performance. To be honest I was quite surprised with the power choice. When I first saw the Scorpion 610HT, I thought I would find at least a 115hp or even a 140hp outboard on the transom. Not so. Here was a 2-stroke carburetted Mercury 90hp, which on first impression seemed a little small on horsepower for a boat of that size. Again, not so!
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Engine Choice
The 610HT is unquestionably a perfect package for any fisho.
Jamie pointed out that it’s partially due to the big displacement (1.38 litres) of the in-line 3-cylinder engine that gives it the required low down grunt to pick the 610HT up onto the plane. The 90hp, 1.5-litre OptiMax is even better and if you still want more power, then the OptiMax 115hp and 125hp are also suitable. Both are based on the same engine platform as the OptiMax 90hp, so you gain the extra horsepower without any extra weight. The OptiMax 90hp is 33kg heavier than the 90hp 2-stroke and also a few thousand dollars more expensive. There are a few 610s that have been sold with the even larger 135hp OptiMax, which due to the extra weight changes the dynamics of the boat and so Jamie always recommends adding trim tabs, something he doesn’t feel necessary with the smaller engine packages. However I don’t really think you need the extra horsepower, as the Scorpion 610 HT runs exceptionally well with the lower horsepower. On a mirror smooth Tauranga harbour the 610HT slipped easily onto the plane at around 2500 rpm, with a very low transition. From a standard start and the throttle pushed all the way forward, the acceleration was impressive for a boat of this size and with only 90hp. “While we find that the 90hp engine is more than suitable for most people, we do recommend that if you are crossing bars or boating with, say there or four divers all the time, then a 115hp or even a 125hp outboard is a better choice to compensate for the extra weight”, said Jamie. Top speed was a respectable 38 mph @ 5500 rpm and on the calm waters both in the harbour and outside where there was a long, low swell. I found in the open water the
We used a new VW Amarok to tow the Scorpion 610HT.
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best cruise around 26mph @ 4500 rpm and there was still plenty in reserve if I needed to suddenly use more throttle. The three-blade 18” Vengeance propeller proved the perfect match for the 90hp 2-stroke.
Balanced Layout
The designers have certainly achieved what they wanted in providing a boat that offers a balanced layout between cabin comforts and a workable and efficient cockpit. Up front the twin 2m berths offer a genuine option for overnight accommodation and with an optional infill you end up with a very large double berth. There is good storage under the squabs, plenty of natural light from the overhead Maxwell hatch and a generous 1.27m sitting headroom. “We get a lot of comments from clients that say the generous height in the cabin and the length of the squabs, yet still retaining a very big cockpit are some of the factors in their decision to buy the boat”, says Jamie. The interior is fully lined ,with no hint of alloy anywhere, a cabin light is standard and the aft bulkheads provide both extra storage and access to the rear of the helm. You have the option of an electric or portable toilet under the centre squabs plus a privacy curtain. Access through the forward hatch for anchoring is okay, but in a boat this size I would opt for a full windlass so you never have to leave the helm. While the standard boat comes with an open anchor locker, if you fit a windlass the whole bin can be sealed. The hardtop, as already explained, was designed to maximise the cockpit fishing space, but still offering sun and all weather protection and on all counts it works well. By
Twin moulded seats are standard and there’s space under the aft deck for twin 45 litre tote tanks. not having it fully enclosed on the sides not only cuts down the windage but it also means you can fish from the driver’s seat. The long hardtop is the perfect place for the aerials and a built in rod rack. Toughened glass forward screens and a pre-mount means they are all ready to accept a wiper should you require one. I wouldn’t have a boat like this without one, preferably two! The large flat helm offers space for up to a 12” MFD screen and all the instruments and switches you’d need in a boat this size. There is a large storage area forward, with a full-width alloy handrail offering some extra security for your passengers. I commented to
Jamie that I would like to see an upstand to stop small items falling back into the cockpit, something that is now planned for all 610s in the future. On both sides there is a small shelf for your keys, phone and other accessories. Twin Hi-Tech seats with upholstered cushions mounted on fibreglass bases are standard, but you do have the option of back-to-backs should you require more seating. “Most boats seem to have the twin swivelling forward bucket seats and a padded removable fish/esky bin, which gives you seating for four, but can be left at home if you want more fishing space”, says Jamie.
There are storage spaces in the transom, with tote tanks stowed below.
Flat Side Decks
Storage in the cockpit is limited to fulllength side trays, with optional rod racks available and a transom shelf that also contains the battery. I particularly liked the wide, flat side decks, which is something that fishos will really appreciate. While there is no fuel capacity under the treadplate floor as all the space is taken up with air buoyancy, there is room for a pair of 45L tote tanks under the transom deck. These take up no more floor space than the standard 25L tanks. Naturally, being an alloy boat there is the option to change the design of the transom area with the addition of bait tanks and walkthough options. The standard boat doesn’t have any of that, apart from a good sized boarding platform either side of the outboard pod, convenient hand holds, plus
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The cabin offers great height and 2m long berths.
Plenty of space for large MFD screens. a drop-down ladder. The outboard pod is a great place to hold the scallops or mussels until you get home, or you can use it as a berley bin. It may be over 10 years since the Scorpion 610 first appeared, but the metamorphosis over that period has resulted in a much improved boat. The hull has been changed to a more pronounced gull-wing design with wider chines to improve stability and offer a softer and drier ride. The hardtop also has an all-new look. The 610HT takes the design to a new level and is unquestionably a perfect package for any fisho looking for an extremely well priced, well finished and well proportioned entry level •AB hardtop boat.
SPECIFICATIONS Model: Priced from: Price as tested: Type: Construction: LOA: Beam: Deadrise: Trailer: Height on trailer: Trailerable weight: Engine: Propeller: Power options: Fuel capacity:
The anchor locker can be left open or fitted with a capstan/winch.
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Internal & external lights, GME VHF, lined cabin & hardtop, twin tote tanks, CPC rated, baitboard, fishfinder Notable Options on Test Boat Painted hull ($3500)
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Hand Control A look at tiller-steer dinghies I
While tiller-steer alloy dinghies have been with us since the 1960s, it is really only in very recent years that they have seen a resurgence. Barry Thompson looks at what’s on offer today.
n the beginning there was no choice. Aluminium boats were tiller-steer only. Something around 3-4m that suited your Seagull outboard. Centre consoles, runabouts, cabin boats and hardtops had not yet arrived on the design table, so your choice was very limited. However, it was the humble open 12 and 14 ‘footers’ that the whole aluminium boat market has grown from. During those development years the style and size of alloy boats changed and as engines grew in horsepower so did the boats in size to accommodate them. Fibreglass boats escalated at an explosive rate, however for a while the alloy market lacked traction and was seen as the poor man’s fishing option. Larger tinnies however eventually gained some traction in popularity and numbers and before long the ‘tinnie’ reference became less used and was replaced by what the boats were, aluminium. Pressed boats gave way to plate and raw
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unpainted hulls got all spruced up with paint. The new-generation ‘tinnie’ had arrived. While the production of bigger trailerable cabin boats and hardtops exploded in the 1990s and beyond, the market for smaller open dinghies didn’t expand at the same scale. Most of the major manufacturers offered them, but they were not now the mainstay of the business and in some cases virtually cost more to build than they could retail them for. With the growth of the RIB, the small dinghy suffered another blow, as they lost the yacht tender market and were relegated back to a handy little boat for the kids to use at Xmas during the holidays. As outboards became more reliable, and cheaper in real terms, the tiller-steer dinghy regained its acceptance and today there’s hardly a holiday home on the coastline that hasn’t got an ‘old’ Parkercraft or Fyran sitting either under or beside the house.
Back To Basics
But fear not, the age of the dinghy is back and today, with a little help from some very enterprising manufacturers, the open tiller-steer dinghy is again an important sector of the aluminium boat industry. While some manufacturers have gone completely away from dinghies, there are some that have embraced them to the extent that they are a mainstay of their production. The reason for their continual success probably has a lot to do with affordability as much as practicality. In the earlier years a dinghy was very much a 2mm-3mm thick pressed alloy hull with two or three bench seats, a short foredeck on the larger models and an open pressed floor with transverse ribs showing proud. Generally if they filled with water they sank, with some offering closed cell foam under the bench seats as the only buoyancy. Some early models were also all riveted, but today welded seams are the norm. They were basic, simple, light and easy to handle. They were designed to be given a hard time and built tough, so tough that it is not uncommon to find 30 plus year old tinnies still being used today. (The author has a Parkercraft 10 that was built over 20 years ago and it’s still a great little boat that looks like surviving another 20 years). Australian aluminium boat builders such as Quintrex and Brooker have for many years been very strong in the tiller-steer alloy boat market and over the years have certainly perfected the style and look of this sector of the market. While neither has ever gained much traction in New Zealand, Quintrex has remained the dominant brand in Australia. Kiwi buyers it seems love what the local manufacturers offer and for brands such as Fyran and Ramco, sales of tiller-steer boats remained strong right through till the ugly arrival of the GFC. Things change but they stay the same, as the saying goes, and built out of a desire to get back to basics, new brands have emerged to fill the gaps left in the market. If you went out today to look for a suitable 3.3m-5m open tiller-steer dinghy you might be very surprised at the options available. There are around 20 brands and 60 models available from local suppliers and that’s not including Quintrex which has a staggering 24 models available from 3.58m to 6.13m. Apart from Brooker (Australia) and the Fyran Smartliner (China) everything else is built locally. In many cases the same open dinghy tiller-steer hull is also available as a centre console or side console and in some cases as a runabout. Hull thicknesses vary from 1.6mm to 4mm, with 3mm about average and sizes range from 3.1m to 5.0m. We take a look at some of the brands and what they are offering for the coming season:
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features are 4mm alloy hull and transom, sealed chequer plate floor, self-draining anchor locker and relocatable upholstered rear seats. Just released is a new jockey seat version of the 4100 Enduro. www.andrewfinkmarine.com
FC BOATS
Unquestionably the FC brand has been a runaway success, with over 200 sold in the first 18 months of its release. The model range in the dinghy style starts with the FC390 and includes the ultra-popular FC430 and the newer FC500. Both the larger models are also available in centre console and now side console. Generally sold as key start packages, the FC range has set a new level of acceptance for this style of boat. The finish is excellent and the boats, while being basic in layout, are extremely functional and fisho-friendly. Standard features include a short foredeck with anchor locker and storage under, wide side shelves, and a built-in passive bait tank. Built from 3mm/4mm aluminium, these boats are built tough, and the super wide gullwing hull design ensures the ultimate in ride and stability at rest. High sides, wide side decks, swivel seats
and great storage add to the features you would usually only expect to find in a much larger boat. www.fishcity.co.nz
FYRAN
The name has been very much part of the Kiwi alloy boat market since the earliest years and is still one of the most recognized of all the alloy boat brands. The dinghy range has always been a big part of the model line-up, especially the four models in the 3.85m to 4.90m range. From the Fyran 8 to the spacious Fyran 16 and the wide-bodied 385, the dinghy series is based on tested and proven designs which have been developed by Fyran and Parkercraft for New Zealand conditions over the last 40 years. Easily stowed or towed, light and economical, easy to maintain and built to take the knocks, the Fyran dinghy range is multi-functional and extremely user-friendly whatever the purpose you intend. The positive flotation dinghy design features oversize seats that provide tested reserve buoyancy for the boat, motor and passengers in the event of a mishap. Recently the company has added the
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A new brand last season, the Hamiltonbuilt Enduro 4100 is 4.3m overall and built on traditional open dinghy lines. Designed by Andrew Fink, the attention to detail and creative approach to the range is exceptional. The 4100 is the first in the new range. 3D Cad design combined with in-house CNC machining technology ensures accuracy, strength and quality. Some notable
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KINGFISHER
Tauranga-based Kingfisher boats are produced by Alloy Cats NZ Ltd and have a reputation for the highest quality workmanship. The same company is the contract builder for the FC range of boats, as well as larger power cats and monohulls for both the recreational and commercial markets. The company produces three standardsize dinghies under the Kingfisher brand – the 370, the 430 and the 490. All three feature a 3mm hull with a 12mm plywood sole and a 20” transom. Weights vary from 145kg for the bare hull of the 370, through to 185kg for the 490. The 490 is a larger version of the 430 for
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all-new Fyran Smartliner boats to the range. They come in three sizes, 360 (3.6m) 400 (4 m) and 450 (4.5 m). So far, these boats are unique. They are constructed of marine grade aluminium, but have a high quality fibreglass floor liner. The benefits are lightness, low maintenance, less noise and vibration and most importantly for NZ they are cool underfoot in summer and warm underfoot in winter. Each boat comes complete with seats that are chequer-plate textured for non-slip. These have styrofoam inserts for buoyancy and safety. Recently, Fyran introduced the 389 Pontoon boat to its range. It’s a rugged little boat, great for fishing, diving or as a tender. www.fyran.co.nz
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Like many aluminium boat builders, Marco Boats tend to use the same hulls to produce other models in the range. The open boat range is designated by the Tiller Dory name and consists of the 400 Tiller Dory, 440 Tiller Dory and the 480 Tiller Dory. However, the 440 and the 480 are also available in runabout and cabin styles. The 480, at 4.90m LOA with a beam of 2.10m is a ‘big’ little boat with a large workable internal space. Standard is a chequer-plate sole, enclosed forward locker with anchor well, rear boarding platforms, deck rails and Vibra-Stop pads. Designed for outboards to a maximum of 60hp, the bottoms of the 480 and the 440 hulls are 4mm and the sides are 3mm. The 440 Tiller Dory is designed for outboards to 40hp and the 400 Tiller Dory to 30hp. www.marcoboats.co.nz
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New Zealand boat designer and manufacturer McLay Boats has one of the most comprehensive ranges of aluminium fishing and trailer boats in the country. The unique McLay Fortress design allows for a sharper entry, permitting a better ride and less spray. Reverse chines allow greater stability with a larger deadrise. Floor height is reduced to the bottom of the boat resulting in a lower centre of gravity. The new Fortress range of boats is available in tiller-steer, side console or centre console and in sizes from 4.4 to 5.5 m. They have lots of great standard features including extensive fitting of closed cell foam in addition to the air buoyancy to meet both Australian and CE standards, which makes them virtually unsinkable. The boats are built strong and tough, with 4mm plate bottom and 3mm
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sides, with the fully welded 3mm chequerplate floor providing a real stiffness to the boat. There’s no question that the boat is designed for fishing, from the casting deck forward to the bait tanks aft. In the tiller-steer version you have five blind sockets for the seats, so you can mix and match where you want to sit and thereby it’s easy to get the balance of the boat right when underway. www.mclayboats.co.nz
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There are two dinghies in the Scorpion trailerable range, the 360 at 3.60m and the larger 400 (4.0m). Both are very traditional and basic tiller-steer dinghies, built tough and designed for a purpose. They are fully welded with 3mm chequerplate hull bottoms, twin cross seats foam filled for positive flotation, a quarter deck and two full length stringers to take a floor if required. The standard boat has no separate floor. Both boats are lightweight and require minimal power, with a 15hp-20hp being suitable for either. They also only require a T-bar style trailer and are small and light enough for beach launching. www.sportcraftboats.co.nz
BAXTER
Baxter Industries is a New Zealand design and fabrication company that offers a vast range of aluminium boats starting at 4.5 m. All design is completed in-house with the use of modern CAD programs and all the welding is certified. The B450 is available as a centre console or open dinghy tiller-steer pontoon boat. Construction is 2.0mm tubes and 3mm hull bottom, with built-in hard chines and a 15° hull deadrise aft. The tubes are individually sealed with baffles to create nine individual air chambers plus under floor air chamber for extra safety. As with all boats designed and fabricated by Baxter Industries, they can be customised to suit the buyer. baxterindustries.net
BLACKDOG CAT
Certainly one of the more interesting of the tiller-steer boats, the twin hulled Blackdog Cat 4X2 has fast gained a strong following. The Blackdog Cat 4x2 SS provides exceptional manoeuvrability and versatility. Standard features on all models include front handles, ski rope points, two rod holders, self-draining scuppers, solid handrails and non-slip tread.
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Two models of the 4x2 are available, the SS (Standard Series) and the XL (Extra Large). The XL model has the same proven performance as the SS. Enhanced features include a larger work platform and increased storage. Weights are a little heavier than the SS, with a tow weight of 520kg and a dry hull weight of 280kg. Internal beam is 1720mm and the boat can take up to 70hp. www.blackdogcat.co.nz
BLUEFIN
There are two tiller-steer pontoon models from Bluefin, the 420 APB and the 480 APB. Both are constructed with 3mm hull bottoms and are suitable for outboards 15hp – 25hp. Features include a bow rail, front storage seat, separate anchor compartment, rear seat, handrails, grab rails and full buoyancy chambers. Built in rear transom steps making getting aboard easy. Towing weight of the 420 APB is only around 400kgs, the 480 APB also has a front rod rack built in. The 480 APB is also available in a centre console version with either a single pedestal seat or with a squab-topped fish bin as an option. www.sportcraftboats.co.nz
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COMMANDO
Commando Boats NZ Ltd is a division of Metal Designs Ltd, manufact uring a diverse range of quality aluminium pleasure craft and commercial barges, including three tillersteer models under the Trooper name. The smallest is the 3.1 Trooper and like the larger 3.6 Trooper and 3.9 Trooper is built with 3mm hulls and all share the same 1.72m beam. Being pontoon-style boats they have built-in buoyancy and unsinkability coupled to great stability and ride. The Commando 3.1 Trooper has three tested buoyancy chambers, and weighing in at an impressive 120kg, it really is a light heavyweight. This boat has a huge internal volume, generous beam and the safety of a higher freeboard. The Commando 3.6 Trooper is the bigger brother of the ever-popular 3.1m Trooper, while the 3.9 Trooper goes a step further with eight fully sealed pontoon sections to provide positive buoyancy and give it a generous beam. www.commandoboats.co.nz
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This very active Nelson based alloy boat builder is a quiet achiever, with a wide range of open, cabin and hardtop models based on both conventional monohull and pontoon formats. The DNA 420 pontoon boat is packed full of standard features, such as grab rails, heavy-duty fendering, three individual sealed pontoon chambers, two bench seats and a sealed chequer-plate self-draining floor. Construction is 3mm for the hull and a 2.5mm tube thickness, with a 16° deadrise at the transom and a dry weight of 170kg. www.dnaboats.co.nz
FREWZA
Frews Marine, in Invercargill, produces a number of smaller dinghies including the F14, which is available also as a cabin or console model. The F14 pontoon dinghy is 4.4m overall with a 1.2m internal beam, offering a
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great fishing platform. The dry hull weight is around 200kg, with bow rails, scuppers, twin bench seats, anchor bin, four rod holders and a separate outboard pod as standard features. The Frewza 4.1 is a high-sided dinghy with excellent deck and storage space. Like the F14, it also comes with plenty of standard features and is available with either a 15” or 20” transom. The 3.4m pontoon dinghy is as rugged as its 4.1m counterpart, but about half the weight at 100kg. It too is well equipped and is ideally suited to outboards up to 15hp. www.frewzaboats.co.nz
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At 3.6m overall, the 360 is the smallest in the Kiwi Kraft range and its only true dinghy. The 360 has a generous beam of 1.82m and an internal beam of 1.18m. Based on a 17° deadrise hull, the pontoons are constructed in 2.5mm and the hull 3mm, with an all-up weight of around 115kg. The 360 is suited to outboards up to 30hp. Finished to the same high standards as the rest of the extensive Kiwi Kraft range of boats, the 360 comes with twin hardwood seats, two pontoon storage holders, rear boarding steps and a rope storage bin. www.kiwikraft.com
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Built in Rotorua, there are two full alloy dinghy models available from Orca, the 3.8 and the 4.5, although a rotary moulded plastic 3.2m pontoon boat with an aluminium hull and transom is also offered. The 4.5m version is also sold in cabin
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or console variants. The 3.8 has three watertight compartments making up either sponson, with 2.5mm and 3mm alloy used in the construction. Standard features include a plastic hatch in the pontoon, anchor well and grab rails. The larger 4.5 has 4mm plate on the hull and D-shaped pontoons, with six airtight compartments and an extended outboard bracket. A wide rubber rub rail, rubber deck grip bow rails and even a centre console can be added to both models. www.orcaengineering.co.nz
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SENATOR
The Senator pontoon range is ideal for serious fishing and diving. The spacious cockpit and wide top pontoon design are key features, along with the solid construction and stability ensuring a soft ride. The extra buoyancy high in the pontoon sides combined with the multichambered construction provides the ultimate in safety. The IS380 and IS400 have a high level of stability and load carrying, and are also available in centre console configuration. Their full-length storage shelves along the sides for tackle or whatever and bench seat can be slid forward and back to suit your differing needs when travelling or fishing. The sealed deck is drained by two screw-in duckbill scuppers. They have removable and movable seats, and the anchor locker has good capacity. www.senatorboats.com
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Osprey calls its dinghies, Osprettes, a small, versatile and multi-optioned range that encompasses three different sizes of boat, from 3.8 m in length to 5.0m. They come with a choice of different internal layouts to suit. The smallest are the 380E and the 380S, both entry-level pontoon designs. The difference between the two is that the 380S has higher sides, twin seats with squabs, rod
holders and more storage than the 380E. The 450S is the ideal big dinghy with all the seating, storage and stability you’ll ever need. It is well suited to a 40hp on the transom. Construction is 2.5mm and 3mm and the boats all come with a chequer-plate sole and bench seats, plus rear platform/ step. www.osprey.co.nz
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With a deep hull with high sides for added security in rough conditions, these unsinkable boats are ideal for the family or the serious fisherman. Standard features include 3mm hull and 2.5mm pontoons, chequer-plate non-skid floors, multiple separate air chambers, plus bench seats and bow rails. They are available for either 15” or 20” transom heights.
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One of the biggest manufacturers of alloy boats in the country, Invercargill-based Stabicraft offers only one standard dinghy model. The 4.3m 1410 Explorer is suitable as a tender vessel, or inshore fishing and diving and as a general runabout. With raised coamings, the 1410 Explorer is designed to be a safe, low maintenance option for small boat buyers. The 1410 is built with a 3mm hull and 2.5mm tube thickness. Weighing from as little as 145kg, the 1410 is suited for outboards 15-30hp and is easily towed and handled. www.stabicraft.com •AB
Three sizes are available – the 3.5, 4.4 and 440 Wide Body. The 4.2 is simply a larger version of the entry-level 3.5, but is also available with centre pedestal and seat. The all-new 440 Wide Body is designed to maximise internal space while retaining the advantages of an unsinkable pontoon design. It is available in differing configurations including as a dinghy with a tiller-steered outboard or centre console with a remote controlled outboard. www.silverdalemarine.co.nz
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BOAT TEST: Stabicraft 2600 Supercab By Freddy Foote
One of Stabi’s Best Officially released at the 2013 Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show, the new Stabicraft 2600 Supercab is a heavily revised version of the outgoing 2570 Supercab. There have been a few changes including some innovative changes to the hull and pontoons. Freddy Foote jumps aboard and checks it out.
The new 2600 Supercab features Stabicraft’s ‘Arrow Pontoons’ and ‘Game Chaser Transom’ These design refinements, which were first seen in the 1850 Supercab, have made their way through to six models so far. Stabicraft says the benefit of the Arrow Pontoons is in reducing the impact area under the shoulders up front and extending the hull at the rear has meant the waterline length has been increased, providing more buoyancy aft to hold heavier engines and improving the ride. Add to that the Game Chaser Transom, and Stabicraft says the profiling of the transom has made ‘chasing the game’, or backing down, a lot smoother and easier. The changes also aid in manoeuvring in tight spaces. So let’s get to it, what are these changes like out on the water? The 2600 has certainly benefited the most from these design changes and I must say it performed really well in the rougher conditions.
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BOAT TEST: STABICRAFT 2600 SC
In slightly choppy conditions the 2600 Supercab and Mercury Verado 300hp combination did 43 mph.
- gets Better! On the water I noticed the changes straight away. The deeper V in the hull has made the 2600 more buoyant in the water, so much so that the pontoons now sit out of the water when at rest, meaning that the boat will tend to rest on one pontoon. This however is only evident when the boat is lightly loaded with minimal fuel, gear and passengers. Load it up, and you’re not going to notice it.
Underway, the boat performed really well and handled with ease any rough water we could find to throw it at. The only negative comment I would make is that like any boat of its style and size, it was prone to leaning over in the wind. However, the addition of some trim tabs would soon fix this. The boat comes from the factory standard with the trim tab mounting plates already fitted.
The bait station is now standard and the live bait capacity has increased to 80L.
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Internal Upgrades
Not only has Stabicraft made changes to the performance characteristics of the 2600 Supercab, but there have been numerous internal changes to the model, too. There is now a massive 420L of fuel capacity as standard, a 450L kill tank and provision for a through-hull transducer. With all of these features, the boat should be good for pulling in plenty of fish. The bait station has become standard (formerly an option) and Stabicraft has increased the live bait tank’s capacity to 80L and given it a split cutting board lid and sealed storage underneath. The layout is fisher-friendly, with knie slots, more cup/ tackle holders and rod holders. This boat was a few months old at the time of testing and its owner had very few options fitted, so it is more like a ‘bare boat’. Among the few options specified from the Stabicraft factory were a rear boarding ladder, wash-down kit, Softrider pedestals and the full ‘Crush Orange’ paint. This is a colour scheme that was hard to miss out on the water on the dull day of our test. The inside of the cabin and wheelhouse are fully lined with quality marine carpet, which gives a warm and quiet feel to the boat. The helm area is neat and tidy and with a two-tiered configuration it has more than enough room to mount large multifunction displays for navigation and sonar. This particular model had engine instruments mounted above, whilst below a large Humminbird display was flush mounted into the dash. To starboard was a VHF, whilst to port were a couple of switch banks for other onboard systems. Forward in the roomy cabin, there is generous storage space in the form of side shelves and space available under the V berth for things like optional toilets or fresh water reserves. Above, the foredeck features a large deck hatch with tinted window, with further access available via the wide side decks. Seating on this particular vessel was in the form of twin pedestal bolster seats with lift-up bases for extra height and back support. Both seats are adjustable forward and back as well as up and down. The standard aft seats provideadditional passenger seating. The seats fold up flush, so when fishing you can get right into the corners to play your fish. Footrests are forward of the helm and passenger seat, whilst the passenger has the added benefit of a forward handrail for when underway in choppier conditions. The 2600 comes in two hardtop configurations, the open hardtop model as seen here with drop-down clears, or an enclosed version that comes with bi-folding glass doors, separating the cockpit from cabin and helm area. Sliding side windows provide extra ventilation from both sides, and a wiper will clear any spray from the starboard side of the windscreen on those really rough days. A port-side wiper is available as an option. Large side shelves run the length of the cockpit and provide ample room for rods, gaffs, etc. Above, a rocket launcher provides further storage for up to eight rods. Aft, a boarding platform on either side of
The 2600 comes in either the open hardtop model as seen here with optional drop-down clears, or an enclosed version
The helm area is neat and tidy and with a two-tiered configuration
the outboard provides access in and out of the 2600 Supercab, and there is a two-step T-bar boarding ladder. A three-step ladder is also available as an option, as too is a threestep ladder for the bow should you wish. One thing I noticed was the size of the boarding platforms, which didn’t seem to be as big as on previous versions of this model (2008 759 Supercab) that I had tested in the past. However, even though the surface area of the platforms themselves is a bit smaller, Stabicraft has done something quite clever and incorporated a small step into the transom. So instead of divers having to step over the transom, a small step halfway up allows them to easily climb back into the 2600 Supercab. The large bait station in the centre of the transom will keep every fisherman happy. A large live bait tank built in underneath can be filled either by a switch at the helm, or manually when underway by opening an inlet valve under the transom. To starboard, a wash-down allows you to keep everything clean during the day’s fishing.
Getting There
Big bowrails provide added security if you need to go on the foredeck.
To get to the fishing spots, power options include single or twin outboards up to 300hp, with a minimum 225hp outboard needed to power the 2600 Supercab. This particular version was fitted with a 300hp Mercury Verado. Underway and in slightly choppy conditions we managed to get 43mph out of the
The cockpit layout is fisher-friendly.
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2600 Supercab and Mercury Verado 300hp combination. The Mercury Verado 300hp outboard performed very well and provided more than enough ‘get up and go’ for the 2600. The hull is rated for outboards from 225hp upwards, and I feel something like the 225 would perform very well also with the 2600 hull. Overall, I really liked the new 2600 Supercab. The only changes needed to make the boat perfect for me would be the addition of trim tabs (which this boat is getting in the near future) and for my own preference I would add the bi-folding doors to make it an enclosed hardtop. Whilst I had mentioned that this particular boat is more of a bare boat put on the water at a budget, it doesn’t have to be like that. What I like is Stabicraft’s massive options list. Instead of throwing everything into the boat as standard, the company provides a big list of what it thinks the customer might like. Everyone is different and will have their own list of requirements, and it’s almost a certainty that everyone will be catered for at the time of order. It’s big and bold and will handle anything you throw at it. This is the type of boat that
Stabicraft has done something quite clever and incorporated a small step into the transom
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The cabin and wheelhouse are fully lined with carpet, which gives a warm and quiet feel to the boat.
Storage is plentiful throughout, including this extra large underfloor wet bin. you would have no hesitation in taking out to Great Barrier (this one has been out there a couple of times already). Stabicraft is a company that has ‘continuous improvement’ as an in-house motto and you know the best will always get better; it has definitely hit the mark. •AB
The orange crush paint scheme certainly stands out.
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Notable features:
Battery and oil tank compartment, 450L fish bin with waste pump, bait station with integrated live bait tank, bilge pump and well, Stabi bollards, windscreen wiper, port and starboard sliding windows.
2600 Supercab $156,000 Alloy Pontoon Hardtop Aluminium 7.92m 2.49m 22 degree2 Stabicraft 3.15m 2925kg 225-300hp Mercury Mirage 17” Single/twin outboards 420L
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Notable Options on Test Boat Mercury Verado 300hp, two- step boarding ladder, full paint, Humminbird multifunction display, VHF, 2 x upholstered ocean bolster seats with flip-up front, rear folding corner seats.
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Mike (Havoc) Broome and Doug Dukeson take another look at the ART of soft bait fishing.
Plenty of space for three fishos and plenty of storage plus places for the rods.
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I’ve got a . . . (GULP)
softie! Now I’m the first to admit that everywhere, in every article, we get bombarded with this revolutionary new way of catching a fish! Pundits are raving about the lack of smelly bait, no berley and just the simple art of throwing a rather simplistic, wobbly bit of fake bait, to hook the elusive catch! There are books, seminars, rods, reels, records, weights, lines, leaders, hooks and more choice of lures than you can scan with two eyes (one for the lures and one for the credit card!) They come in all sorts of garb – tubs that leak all over the place, scents that are supposed
to entice even the most nonchalant of biters, sealed packets with zip locks that don’t lock – let alone open, colours that make it all a fashion parade rather that a hunt, and names like some pre- pubescent bollywood boy band! I don’t know anyone in my circle of fishing mates who hasn’t bought a little reel with pretty coloured braid, a slight, two- or onepiece rod that bends like a reed, three sizes of jig heads and five packets of assorted
floppy soft things that resemble fish or crabs but are coloured like you’ve had a half a tab of acid or eaten something that resembled a funny mushroom taken from the foothills of Mt Taranaki! If the truth be known, I’ve been an advocate of “soft bait” fishing for the past 10-12 years. What success I’ve had, I have managed to glean from articles, the odd seminar and good old fashioned “get out there and have a go!” I have managed to catch some decent
Author Mike ‘Havoc’ Broome with a big snapper caught on a softbait.
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fish as well! Everything from 5kg john dory to kingfish and snapper up to 9kg! I’ve been busted off, out fished the “bait boys” and generally had a good success rate even in hard fishing times. I’ve managed to get my head around the new knots (braid to leader and leader to jig head) and I can even tie them in partial darkness and within a few ticks should I need to! Now while all this is great, there is an ‘art’ here, and let’s not forget it. It is rewarding and a great way to get stuck in on light gear.
Fishing the Firth
Doug Dukeson and I had the chance to check out the Commando 5.4 a while ago, and what a rig to get into the softies on! We met up with the new owner for a day out in the Firth of Thames. If you’ve never fished the Firth – do it! Coromandel is right across the way and after launching at Kaiaua we were soon scything our way across the Firth of Thames. The day before, Hayden, the owner, had been out and had managed to catch snapper of around 3.5-5.5kg! This is great fishing in a largely un-fished area and at a time when larger fish are proving hard to come by, and most of the ‘biggies’ are way wide and north (Barrier and the Mokes).
And still the big ones kept coming.
Good electronics are a must if you want to find the fish.
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Alloy Boat co-publisher, Doug Dukeson hooks into another nice snapper.
Out here there are pipi beds, scallop beds, mussel beds and mussel farms. We were over the beds within 15 minutes and sitting in 7m of murky water (the result of the river’s outflow).
Personal Gear
We had a range of gear, including Okuma reels and Composite Developments rods, (Okuma V40A with an X-Factor rod) but we also had a couple of Shimano 4000 FI with a Shimano Raider 2 piece rod. (Mike’s note: sadly my V40A died on me a while ago – Lasted 10 years though! RIP (boo hoo, BUT luckily I had a spare, the 4000 FI! Still going after 12 years!) Interestingly Hayden and I both had the same love of our Okumas and we both agreed that when this company entered the NZ market they didn’t exactly do it right. They brought in their lower range products and in the early days didn’t really do themselves any favours. Luckily for them – and us – they got it right and they have proved a reel manufacturer to be reckoned with! Great product and very reliable! We set up the sea anchor (drogue) and managed a drift of 1-1.5 knots – about right for a ¼ or ½ ounce jig head. By drifting in this fashion it took only 10 minutes before we were hauling in and releasing very nice & legal snapper! Our policy? If you have to measure it, put it back – and make sure that a fish is at least 5cm over its legal minimum length before you decide to keep it! I have always adhered to this and it would be awesome if many more would take this as their own policy. The sustainability of our fishing resource is in a real spot of danger at present regarding limits and sizes. While we were busy having a great time and carefully releasing our snapper a “long liner” entered the Firth, much to our consternation!
Now long liners don’t discriminate between barely legal or large. You only have to visit the supermarkets or larger fish markets to realise this! I have had the displeasure to visit several, and one wonders how they measured them? Obviously with a regulation “under sized” MAF ruler! (Remember those?) Or perhaps they have a huge roller that flattens and lengthens the poor little buggers prior to non-existent fisheries inspections! I don’t have a problem with the long liners
We also learnt that not all soft baits are soft baits! There are soft baits and then there are plastics!
earning a living – I just want better protection of our wonderful resource! Hadyn told us that after these guys have left it usually takes weeks before the fish come back – wonder where from? Your place?
Hunting the Quarry
Anyway, back to the task at hand. Soft baiting is a great way to fish, and a great way to spend your time fishing. It feels to me more pure in some ways, a bit like fly fishing, where your time is spent hunting the quarry and exercising your ability to angle. Choosing a split screen fishfinder and GPS system on your gear is the perfect set up. This is an area I would say many budding fishos could do with a bit of direction.
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Look for the fish on the bottom, and slightly off the bottom, a continual mass of fish (it needn’t be a huge mass) from bottom to a few metres up usually signifies them feeding. In this way you can tell if this is the case or they are just schooling around! Being able to tell whether a group of fish are in feeding mode obviously increases your hook-up rate and catch tenfold! By utilising the GPS in split screen, you can gauge drift speed (use your drogue if need be) and also get right back on the ‘hot’ spots!
Slackless Braid
Casting forward & outwards, in the direction you are drifting, keeping the slack out of the braid, and allowing the bait to come “back” to the boat is pretty much the technique of the day. It allows for a wide spread of area fished and for nearly every cast and slow retrieve we were attacked by fish, resulting in a large number of hook-ups! If the tide is running faster than the drift (thanks the drogue) casting forward of the boat, behind the drift, also made for exciting hook-ups! After keeping a few fish and releasing numerous, we decided to change tactics and head into deeper water for the chance at an early biggie! With a spectacular view of the Coromandel we headed into 11-12 metres and set up the same pattern as before. Unfortunately the biggie today was not to be, but kahawai and several reasonable snapper were caught and released. We also learnt that not all soft baits are soft baits! There are soft baits and then there are plastics! Hayden pointed out many so called soft baits are indeed plastic and do not break down! Snapper have been caught looking very much the worse for wear and, upon opening them up, guess what? They have had plastic baits, totally undigested, and indigestible, inside them! I don’t know about you,
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Exciting Fishing
No doubt about it, soft baiting is an exciting fishing experience and so easy to manage – what I mean is you can really get into this bigtime and get right into the hunt, or if cruising is more your style but you feel the urge to have a fish, simply break out the tackle, grab 1
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All About Soft Baits
Bill with XOS Trevally.
Bill Hohepa talks about softbaits and how they work.
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four snapper on that one soft bait. That was pretty impressive. Since those days, the soft bait has come into its own. The tackle shops can’t keep up with demand so it seems and everyone is doing the soft bait thing, including me. So lets take a look at the Bill Hohepa version on how soft bait works so well and lets look at the basics of fishing. First of all there are absolutely no rules when it comes to catching fish. Some say you must do this or do that or you won’t catch a thing. “Year right!” I say, but more on that shortly.
Colour,Movement & Smell
Three things attract fish, colour, movement, and smell. The soft bait has all three going for it. They are soaking in a certain mixture in their packets and this clear mixture seems to have the secret ingredients when it comes to attracting fish. The example is: If you toss a soft bait in the water and do nothing else, your rod tip will begin to dance in little jerky motions. This is caused by the reef fish and other small fish like leatherjackets, maomao picking away at them. Toss in the similar soft plastic, which is not soaked in the special brine, and do nothing else, the rod tip won’t dance, in fact you can leave
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them in all day and unless a snapper grabs it, it will be the same as when to tossed it in. So the brine that the soft bait is in works as the attractant to the bait. Now the colour part. Soft baits come in a huge variety of colours; green, fluoro, brown, red, yellow and all sorts of combinations. The colour is another imitation part of the bait or lure. It looks to the fish similar to something they know to eat. The movement bit: They come in a variety of shapes, depending on what movement is required. Some have a big knob at the end and this is there to vibrate as the bait is retrieved. That vibration attracts fish as well. Some are a tear drop shape with a fine tail, and this is designed to swim in such a way as to make the predators think it’s in trouble, and a fish in trouble doesn’t last too long before it becomes something’s lunch. So with all three fish attracting elements they can’t miss really. Some people catch fish solely with soft bait, even when their mates are fishing ordinary bait like pillies, squid and the like, and they’re not even getting a bite. Why does that happen? One interesting thing about fish’s feeding habits is they eat a lot of fish just like us really. The fish they eat are usually damaged in some way or just sick.
A snapper taken by drifting with a ‘pogey’ soft bait in its mouth.
Take a bird work-up for instance. The predators are attacking baitfish and bits of fish drift to the bottom to be hoovered by and snapper and other fish. It’s bite time and everything is electric, and all the fish want is a piece of the action, this is a good time to drop a soft bait with a wiggly tail as the wiggly tail attracts. So there’s a lifetime of fish feeding habits that you need to understand and take advantage of.
Be A Jerker
Your soft bait jerking away in front of a big snapper for instance will get its attention, basically from habit. It will come and have a look, and then all of a sudden something inside him will tell him to take it, and then all hells lets loose as he grabs the soft bait and he’s off. Because he’s done that, his action will immediately spike the curiosity of his mates, and they go into “Where’s mine” mode. They will follow their mate on the hook along as he heads for the surface, still trying to get a piece of the soft bait action. So here’s clue number one, if your mates got a fish on, cast behind where you think his fish is and start retrieving your bait very slowly. There’s an 80% chance you’ll hook up one of the snapper following behind. In my opinion soft baits are up there in the ways to catch fish scale. As I said above there are no rules in fishing. If a fish wants what you’re offering he will grab it; it’s as simple as that really. As I said, we didn’t do a thing to make our soft baits come alive; they just sat on the bottom and they still caught good snapper. The range of fish the soft baits have taken is amazing, just in my case; I’ve caught over 15 different species of fish. The 10.2kg trevally in the picture was a real surprise. Some of the snapper I’ve caught on soft bait have been well over 9kg. John Dory, kingies, everything seems to like them, even the two frost fish in the photo.
Colour Choice
Soft baits come in a huge variety of shapes, sizes and colours.
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What are the popular colour patterns? Well the nuclear chicken, which is red and green, is very popular. Shops seem to sell out of those the fastest. I personally like a soft bait called a pink shine, which is pink and white. These colour come in a range of shapes and sizes. The common soft bait for fish up to the 30m mark is a 5 inch jerk shad, or perhaps a ‘pogey’. They come in 3 inch and 7 inch as well. There are plenty of shapes, and when it all boils down it’s your own preference really, what works for you, and this is usually decided by your end result. Some people think that soft baits are useless because they’ve never caught anything on one. Well like all fishing it’s about trial and error and of course patience, keeping the eyebrows up. No Bastard fionts here buddy. I am even willing to let Barry Thompson have his ragged right if he really wants - reminds me of Woman’s magazines - but who am I to judge. No paragraph spaces after each paragraph unless it’s a new section. No Bastard fionts here buddy. I am even willing to let Barry Thompson have his ragged right if he really wants - reminds me of Woman’s magazines - but who am I to judge. No paragraph spaces after each paragraph unless it’s a new section. Followed by Bodycopy text with no paragraph spacing, at 8pt Helvetica Roman with italics option, bold and black, heavy and Condensed and Extended all as standard default options. •AB
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Tackle Talk Kilwell Trokar Softbait Hook
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The Trokar TK130 Flippin softbait hook is a straight shank heavy wire softbait hook that is intended to be used when casting softbaits with no extra weight or just a just small ball sinker or split shot on the trace. The Trokar Flippin softbait hook features a heavy wire that will withstand the test of time and is unlikely to straighten out. The hook features a small plastic keeper B.A.R.B. for increasing the durability of the attached softbait. Lazer Trokar hooks are famous for their surgically sharpened needle hook points that ensure anglers of all skill levels will be able to effectively penetrate the fish upon hook set. The Trokar TK130 Flippin softbait hook is available in sizes: 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0.
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Kilwell RXB30 Baitfeeder
This Kilwell RXB30 Baitfeeder reel is a perfect size for softbait fishing but with the addition of a baitfeeder system it will excel at straylining too. The reel features 9 ball bearings plus 1 roller bearing, a stainless steel mainshaft, instant anti-reverse and a twin drag bait feeder system with micro click adjustment. The anti-twist line roller, and forged aluminium spool make these reels suitable for mono or braided line. This new smaller size RXB30 has a capacity of 160yds/10lb 0.31mm mono (300m PE1) and retrieve ratio 5.5:1.
Raymarine Chirp DownVision CP100
Raymarine’s DownVision and CHIRP sonar, previously found only in Dragonfly and the latest a Series models, is now available as a stand-alone module, capable of connecting to any Raymarine a, c, e, or gS series MFDs. The new CP100 network sonar module (which comes with a choice of transom-mount, plastic thru-hull and bronze thru-hull transducers) can easily be retro-fitted to any existing MFD with the LightHouse interface or purchased as part of a new Raymarine MFD package. With two distinct CHIRP sonar channels, the CP100 delivers photo-realistic images of the world beneath the boat. This allows users to simultaneously experience high-contrast fish-targeting sonar and photo-like CHIRP DownVision imagery of bottom structure. Unlike conventional sonar, the CP100’s advanced CHIRP sonar transmits .com across a wide spectrum of sonar signals, creating much higher fidelity ymarine www.ra sonar returns in both DownVision and fish-targeting sonar modes. Raymarine’s new CP100 network sonar module is now available nationwide from Lusty and Blundell’s network of leading marine dealers.
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Jig Star rods have evolved after many years of jigging with some of the world’s most renown jigging rods from Japan, Taiwan and SE Asia. Impeccable design has seen a perfect blend of the best Toray High Performance graphite from Japan and resins to produce a high class, advanced jig rod design. Particular attention has been made to the eye-catching stealthy aesthetics and minimalistic build resulting in the lightest Jig Star ever! The increased length offers a longer butt length and longer reach than before yet still saves weight making Jig Star rods easy to fish all day, every day. All Jig Star rods are complete with a distinctively embroided rod bag.
The Ninja rod features Fuji PSS reel seat with the latest ALPS SSMNZG guides and custom componentry. The blank is part painted a metallic grey and compliments the current Shadow rod range. The Katana Nano is built to premium specifications, featuring Fuji PSS reel seat, Fuji MNSG guides and custom componentry to create a stealthy modern classic. The blank also features Nano technology which effectively improves blank strength and resilience. Katana is part painted metallic black and will be very competitively priced amongst the best rods on the international market. Jig Star Ninja and Katana rods are a 5’2” medium fast, parabolic design which is designed to easily jig in the Japanese jerk/crank style.
Hi Tech Bait Tank Options
Hi Tech Plastics have devised two live bait tank combo solutions for those wanting to catch bigger fish along with their standard range of DIY tanks. The benefit of a Hi Tech Plastics live bait tank is that all their products including their live bait tanks can be customised to suit any boat or boat owners ideal tank set up. There are two different pump set up options, either a portable aerator pump or a more permanent transom mounted option. All tanks and lids are New Zealand made for that added reliance and longevity. The Hi Tech Plastics portable option is best suited for boat owners that don’t have any transom space or would like to remove the tank when not in use. The Portable option comes complete with tank, small lid, bung, handles for transport and tying down for safety, and a Rule 360 GPH Portable aerator pump. Prices start from $NZ 290.00. The Hi Tech Plastics transom mounted option is the ideal live bait tank for those with enough space on the transom step The transom mounted combo is a fresh water flow tank with the Rule 500 GPH pump located on a detachable bracket stics below the water line on the rear of the boat. The Hi Tech Plastics Transom comes Hi Tech Pla 43 3 3 3 complete with tank, small hatch, handles, mounting cleats at base of tank for fixing or 4 8 7 Ph: +64 strapping to transom or back of boat, 2m of hose, female inlet, and hose attachment tics.co.nz as pl ch te hi E: sales@ for $NZ 458.00. Hi Tech Plastics is a Hamilton-based company and proudly New Zealand-owned and operated, even using New Zealand based suppliers to ensure the utmost quality of their diverse range of products.
Daiwa Demon Blood
JDemon Blood uses the latest graphite’s and specialised composites to open up a whole ew world of fishing.. By using bias wrap construction for an ultra strong, fine diameter blank the DB rods resist twisting, improve casting accuracy and have greater hook setting power. Built for optimal performance the DB rods use Fuji’s silicone carbide guides and the M tip guides to eliminate line wrap. Being so light these guides really accentuate the blank characteristics delivering crisp responsive performance, ultimate power and allows for elective line heat dissipation. The new Demon Blood uses the simple principle of “more muscle and less fat” to produce a fantastic range of saltwater rods.
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BOAT TEST: FREWZA F14 Fisher
Southern Gem
Frewza may not be regarded as a mainstream brand, but when you’ve built over 500 boats and current production is close to 150 boats a year, you can justifiable say you are a serious player in the aluminium boat industry.
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hen designer Brendan Frew and his wife Kirsten started Frews Marine Ltd eight years ago the concentration was on the 4-5m open tiller steer dinghy market, but as time progressed the emphasis started to go towards the cuddy boats, of which the Frewza F14 Fisher is a major part. Brendon says that their cuddy range is now as popular as any of their open dinghies. “I see a big future for the brand in this market and the response we have had to the F14 and the larger F16 has been very encouraging”, he adds. Currently the company produces a range of boats from 2.8m right through to 9m from its Invercargill factory and doesn’t just restrict itself to production boats. “We have an attitude that we can built just about anything anyone wants in the way
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of alloy boats and so over the years we have produced quite a few custom boats”, added Brendon. So who’s buying the F14 Fisher? According to Brendon it’s quite diverse, from the first-time boat owner to those who are more ‘senior in years’ and are wanting something smaller and easier to handle on their own and doesn’t cost $300 to fill the tank. I can certainly relate to that! To date, most of the Frewza boats have been sold locally, although there has been some export to Canada and the Pacific Islands. The brand gained some great international press when a few years ago a trio of young boys drifted for 52 days off Tokelau Islands in a Frewza open dinghy. “The resulting rescue and the fact that our boat was still very much as it was when
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The facia is plenty big enough for the usual engine monitoring instruments. the boys set out for their fishing trip was great for the brand”, said Brendon. Since then the company has exported many more boats to the Tokelau Islands.
Easy Driven
The Yamaha 40 pushes the F14 to 26 knots.
Traditionally, pontoon boats had a reputation for being very flat in the bow sections, but not so the F14 Fisher. The design features a fine entry hull, with a 16-degree deadrise at the transom. The pontoons are built in 2.5mm alloy, with the hull sections all 3mm. The boat we tested had the optional 4mm hull as this was the owner’s choice. The F14 Fisher , like
all the Frewza boats, has three separate air compartments in the pontoons and a separate sealed underfloor compartment, which makes it virtually unsinkable! Stability at rest is excellent and the hull at speed is easily driven, having positive tracking and quick response to helm changes. The screen is at such a height that when I was seated I had a line of sight just over the top of the alloy surround and yet no wind was in my face – just the right height I reckon. My test day on Tauranga Harbour was all flat water, which ideally suits a small boat like the F14 Fisher. As expected it was free of
The Frewza F14 is an extremely practical entry level pontoon boat.
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Practical Layout
Being only a small cuddy, the forward space is strictly for storage, with a cargo rack to stop any gear working its way back into the cockpit. A one-level treadplate sole runs from bow to stern through the 1.2m beam cockpit. Anchoring can be carried out from the cockpit, with an easy reach to the open anchor locker. A walk-through screen is available but I don’t see it being necessary. There is also the option of fitting a small capstan and even a drum winch. Space behind the screen is provided for either a small flush-mounted or bracketmounted fishfinder on the dash. Our test boat was fitted with a bracketed Raymarine Dragonfly. The facia is plenty big enough for the usual engine monitoring instruments,
A big practical cockpit that is ideal for fishing. vices and easily driven. The F40 Yamaha is ideally suited and although the boat is recommended to 60hp, I found the 40hp to be more than enough. Despite its size you may wish to take this boat offshore, and while I am sure it will ride well in choppy water, remember it’s still only 4.4m long. Top speed with two aboard and a full tote tank was 30mph @ 5800 rpm, running a Powertech 10” three-blade stainless prop. What impressed me was how easily the F14 Fisher got onto the plane and maintained it at low rpm. We were still planing at 2000 rpm doing 7mph. About 22-25 mph was a sweet cruise range, with the fuel consumption certainly dropping as we got off the higher rpm range. Flat-out the Yamaha F40 4-stroke was indicating 15.3L/h and when I dropped back to 22mph this decreased to just 8.4L/h. That would give a range of around 92NM on a single 45L tote tank.
Anchoring can be carried out from the cockpit, with an easy reach to the open anchor locker.
switch panel and extras such as a GME VHF and stereo head deck. Storage is available in full-length side trays as well as full-beam shelf across the transom. There’s still space underneath for a couple of tote tanks and the battery. One of the options on our test boat was a wooden bench seat, which extends the seating to five. This can be either fixed in place or removable. Standard seating is a couple of plastic swivel seats forward on cantilevered bases complete with storage compartments. Again, the transom area can be customised to include a walkthrough space as well as a bait tank or an extra boarding platform. Standard layout is a single port side platform with handholds and drop-down ladder.
Being only a small cuddy, the forward space is strictly for storage.
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The wooden bench seat is an extra.
Keeping Up With Demand
Due to constant demand for the small boats in the range, Brendon admits that the development of the larger cuddies has been somewhat held back. However, that seems to be changing now, with a 5.5m hardtop due for completion shortly and a number of boats in the 6-6.8m range now launched or in development. “Last year we built 104 boats and this year that will be closer to 150, of which a growing proportion is the larger cuddies such as the F14 Fisher and F16 Fisher, plus we are seeing a demand for bigger hardtops”, says Brendon. With around 70 F14s built since the first was released just over three years ago, the demand has grown steadily for this practical entry level pontoon boat. Brendan and Kirsten and their team pride themselves on building boats to the highest standards, incorporating high-grade materials with excellent craftsmanship. The F14 Fisher certainly ticks all the boxes. •AB
Performance & Fuel
SPECIFICATIONS Model: Frewza F14 Priced from: $NZ25,000 Price as tested: $NZ34,000 Type: Cuddy 3mm / 2.5mm Construction: LOA: 4.40m Beam: 1.75m Deadrise: 16 degrees Trailer Make: Mudgway Height on trailer: 1.70m 560kg Trailerable weight: Power: Yamaha F40 4-stroke Propeller: Powertech 10” 3-blade S/S 40-60hp Power options: Fuel capacity: Tote tanks
Manufacturer: Frews Marine Ltd +64 03 2131442 +64 0274 301 014 frewsmarine@xtra.co.nz www.frewzaboats.co.nz
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Baitboard, bilge pump, navigation light package Notable Options on Test Boat Raymarine Dragonfly MFD, GME VHF, Rockford stereo, wooden bench seat.
Fuel capacity = 45 litres Note: Range is based on 90% of fuel capacity, in calm conditions.
Boat Supplied by: Conder Marine Limited +64 07 542 3935 +64 027 451 2353 condermarine@xtra.co.nz www.outboardmotor.co.nz
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as we Some people go the extra mile for a great paint finish on a boat 593XR. saw a few years ago with harlequin paint on this Stabi-Craft
Why Paint Your Alloy Ron Brown (Altex Coatings) looks at the right ways to paint an alloy boat, be it brand new or in need of a refurbish or just a touch up.
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s the aluminium trailer boat fleet in this country continues to increase (It is reported alloy is out-selling GRP 3 to 1), the quality and standard of finish has become a key issue for more and more existing, new and prospective owners. It is also fair to say the days of the alloy “tin dinghy” or “tinnie” as they were called have passed as we see the design and construction of aluminium boats become more sophisticated, appealing, and purpose built to individual owners’ needs. The aluminium construction medium allows greater versatility with one-off designs, and the ability to build for local operating conditions and requirements Gone are the days of leaving the raw aluminium finish; owners are now demanding
shiny finishes, bright bold colours, large graphics with fair smooth surfaces that you can see your own reflection in. The additional expense to achieve such results can add substantial sums to the overall cost of a new boat, but the owners of the larger 7m to 10m trailer boats see this further financial outlay as an enhancement to their new vessel. Also, there is an ever increasing number of boat owners both new and existing who now wish to customize their unpainted aluminium boat with a coating system that also will improve the appearance and increase the resale value. But painting aluminium is not all that easy, as this construction material has a few idiosyncrasies that create problems for the
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unwary. Let’s start by looking at some of the key factors that you, as the boat owner, boat painter, and/or prospective owner, need to be aware of. Firstly the metal forms a protective layer on the surface known as “the oxide layer” which must be removed prior to applying any long-term coating system, whether it is a clear or coloured paint film. In fact once you have removed this oxide material as part of the metal preparation process, it will rapidly reform within a very short time frame, sometimes in just 20 minutes. Failure to remove the oxide layer prior to applying your etch or anti-corrosive primer system may compromise adhesion and/or system performance.
The paint inside is just as important as that on the outside.
Boat? Failure to properly prepare and prime aluminium can lead to the primary cause of paint failure on alloy boats. Typically manifesting itself as hard salt-filled blisters around items such as skin fittings, or as worm or filament-like blisters radiating from a damage point, this type of corrosion is called “filform corrosion”. Aircraft manufacturers have long used specially formulated anti-corrosive primers to prevent this condition forming under coating systems. Developed originally for military aviation use, these sophisticated primers are the key to arresting this type of corrosion. Aluminium is one of the lease noble metals in the galvanic series, which means that it will tend to be sacrificial to most other metal construction materials such as mild steel and stainless steel. Thus if aluminium is put into direct contact with these more noble metals it will suffer very badly from dissimilar metal corrosion. For example, using stainless
steel screws or bolts directly into aluminium causes severe pitting and metal depletion – often resulting in blistering and delamination of paint and filler materials. In an effort to prevent this form of corrosion, boat manufacturers use plastic washers and sleeves [tubing] to prevent the different metals from making direct contact with one another. So if you are a boat owner who wishes to fit your own rod holders, electronic equipment, rocket launchers etc. to aluminium, always ensure the metals are correctly isolated from each other using plastic or nonconductive washers and sleeves, etc. Where isolation is a problem there are some proprietary products such as “Duralac” which come in an anticorrosive paste form, packed (like toothpaste) in tubes. Now that we are aware of some of the key elements that can destroy the decorative, and so called protective coating systems on aluminium boats, what should be used and what procedures need to be followed, paint wise? Well, the first consideration is to decide what level and type of finish you the owner desire. What are these options? I believe there are three, and in no particularly order, they are:-
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Option One A fully faired / smooth, high gloss system that looks much like a premium superyacht finish. To achieve such a high degree of finish requires a lot of time and expertise. Employment of a competent marine painting contractor is the best recommendation. This process can take approx 12 to 16 hours of labour a square metre from the bare metal to the completed finish. The process required for this premium finish is, to degrease and abrade the metal using a solvent wipe, and then sand with coarse abrasive paper, this is to provide a surface profile the full coating system can hang on to, as smooth/ shiny metal will not aid adhesion. The metal then receives a special acid / conversion treatment process, followed by the special military spec. etch primer, and then one coat of epoxy primer to seal off the prepared metal treatment process. Then starts the surface filling and fairing process to create a level and smooth surface, normally epoxy resin / microballoon compounds are used , and depending upon the amount of panel distortion, this filling material is applied in 5mm to 6mm
Nasty scars like this can happen easily through general wear and tear. With the right products and methods it can be repaired.
layers until the desired level surface fairness is accomplished. Some boats can have as much as 12mm to 20mm of filler in places. Once this process is complete, the paint coating system is applied, by spray,
consisting of 2 to 4 coats of a high build primer / undercoat, which is sanded, then two coats of epoxy sealer, which is also sanded with fine paper, prior to the topcoat application. This finish coat is a very high
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Option Two This coating system can be applied by the professional or by you, the boat owner. There are 4 simple stages to follow: * Stage one – Degrease and abrade all the surfaces to be coated. This requires a 10-litre bucket of fresh clean warm solution of Altex Yacht & Boat (AY&B) “P40 Pre-Painting Cleaner” in water. This solution is applied by scrubbing with a coarse green 3M Scotchbrite pad, followed by a thorough rinsing with plenty of fresh water. Check that the surface is “squeaky clean” by ensuring the rinse water shows no breaking but sheets over the surface. If there are any water-breaks, then the surface must be re-cleaned. *Stage two – The same day as the metal preparation is completed, and as soon as the water wash off is dry, immediately apply by spray or brush and roller one thin coat [you must be able to see the metal through this coating, hence it must be thin] of AY&B “121 Aluminium Primer” a two-part anti-corrosive adhesion primer, that is mixed 1 to 1 with its converter [hardener] then thin 50% with E10 thinner – i.e. a 1:1:1 volume mix ratio. This is the military spec product I referred to earlier. This product will be touch-dry within 20 to 30 minutes. * Stage three – After 2 hours and within 36 hours spray or brush and roll two coats of AY&B “No.3 Epoxy Primer Undercoat”. This product is also a 2 part coating that is mixed 4 parts to 1 with its converter. Thinning is needed for spraying with Thinner E10 at between 5 to 10% and for brushing / rolling it is recommended the slower Thinner U22 is used; the amount varies from 5 to 10% depending upon the weather conditions, wind, air temperature and humidity. After overnight curing for 8 to 10 hours, sand smooth with 220 to 280 grit paper, and then dust off. The No3 Is a light grey colour and has when cured prior to sanding , a semi gloss finish, that allows you to check that your painted surface is smooth and fair, and is acceptable. If this is not the case, and you can easily see plate distortion from welding, identify these areas, mark them, sand the surface and proceed with filling and fairing. If the filler thickness is going to exceed 2mm we suggest epoxy / microballoons are used, and if under this thickness, a quick setting polyester filler is recommended. Once the filler is cured and sanded, reapply the No3.
* Stage four – Spray apply 3 wet on wet coats of AY&B “Elite Pro~Spray” high gloss 2 part polyurethane mixed 1 : 1 with the Pro~Spray Converter. Thin as required for optimum spray atomisation with Thinner U20. Or for those of you who wish to brush paint, we have specially formulated AY&B “Elite 321 Brushing Polyurethane” two-part high gloss polyurethane especially for this process. It is recommended that at least two coats are applied to ensure the Elite 321 achieves sufficient film build to yield full protection and good life expectancy.
Option Three Apply a clear coating system called “Magnum FMJ “ to maintain the bright silver colour of the aluminium, and stop the
surface degradation that occurs with outdoor exposure to salt water and other contaminants. This process requires the metal to be degreased, and then acid treated to prepare the surface for the clear “Magnum FMJ” coat. This is best applied in one even thin coat, unthinned. This exterior coating has excellent resistance to petrol, oil and diesel, so when filling your boat any spillage should not remove this coating. So, if you are still a little confused, need more help, or wish to discuss preparing and coating your aluminium boat, regardless of size, please call my company’s free technical help line 0800 4 7208435 or look at our website for further information: www.altexcoatings.co.nz •AB
The paint finish on this aqualine 645HT is as good as it gets - and it’s all down to preparation and application.
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BOAT TEST: Bluefin 525 Fisherman
Family Resemblance
At a fleeting glance the 525 Fisherman may look just like the 600 Fisherman…. but it’s not!
The Bluefin 525 Fisherman is effectively a scaled down version of the popular 600 Fisherman, but in a more compact and less expensive package. Barry Thompson checks out the newest addition to the ever growing Bluefin range.
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he things that really impress me when I look at the Bluefin and also the Scorpion range, which are both made by Sportscraft Boats, is not only the quality finish but also the exceptional value for money. What you get in the total package is very impressive. Certainly, being a manufacturer and retailer helps as there is no middle margin to consider, something that in the case of the Bluefin and Scorpion boats is passed onto the client. Jamie Black of Sportcraft Boats Mt Maunganui makes no pretence about marketing his boats as value packages and points out that a client can always up-spec. and add what they want. It just depends on how much they want to spend. “The main reason behind developing the 525 Fisherman was we had clients who liked the 600 Fisherman but wanted something smaller, lighter and could be powered by a lesser horsepower engine”, says Jamie.
Twin forward seats are standard , but there are options.
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due to the shorter length and took a lot of the forefoot out of the bow. This removed excess forward buoyancy and allows the 535 to be more stable at rest, while in no way adversely affecting the hull’s ability to handle a moderate sea”, he says. One thing I noticed was just how ‘slippery’ the 525 Fisherman was onto the plane and the fact that it retained the planing attitude even at very low rpm. We had flat calm, glassy smooth water for the test and apart from a low swell off the Mount never really got to give the boat a testing run. The construction is solid and with a 5mm bottom there’s a feeling of stiffness about the boat, plus there’s no ‘tinnie’ noise when underway.
Second Take
He adds that when they designed the new boat it had to perform well with a Mercury or Honda 60hp and ride as well as
the bigger 600 Fisherman. “We changed the 17 degree deadrise hull considerably by adding wider chines
Just need some softbiat rods now!
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At a fleeting glance the 525 Fisherman may look just like the 600 Fisherman…. but it’s not! The basic difference is size and volume, with the 525 losing some of the length of the cabin and the cockpit, plus the cabin top and screen are modified to suit the dimensions of the smaller hull. The 525 Fisherman, just like the 600 Fisherman, is really a bit of an all-rounder, but more targeted at those who want a bare and robust fishing tinnie. It’s the type of boat that you can easily take a few blokes out in, and you can be at your favourite fishing spot fishing comfortably; throw in some dive gear and a couple of bottles, and you can dive, too. Add some extra seating aft, and you’ve got a good family boat too, with plenty of storage for’ard in the cuddy cabin. The 525 has an open layout with an adequately sized boarding platform on each side of the outboard pod, with the port corner featuring an aluminium boarding ladder. For divers and swimmers, a grab rail has also been welded onto the rear of the transom to aid in re-entering the boat. Our test boat came with two tote tanks, which rest on the floor, a small piece of aluminium extrusion on either side stops them sliding forward into the cockpit. While you can’t have an underfloor fuel tank as that
The bow section has been fine tuned with a stepper entry.
area is used for positive buoyancy, a stern tank can be fitted as an option. The transom also has a shelf built into it and the battery sits below, but housed up off the floor in its own compartment. Below that rests the bilge pump.
Sizeable Cockpit
Even though the cockpit has been decreased in size from the 600 Fisherman it’s still quite sizeable, with long side shelves running right up to the forward seating area.
The cockpit is open and very workable for 3-4 fishermen.
Two rod holders each side are situated along the coamings. Seating consists of two basic single seats, with fibreglass moulded storage space underneath. Should you want a different seating configuration, a king/queen style arrangement can also be fitted – a better option if you’re looking at a more childfriendly layout. A removable bin seat is also a good option and can double as a fish bin. Additional small storage shelves are on either side of the helm, a great place for keys
and cell phones. A handrail runs right along the edge of the forward dash area, and is great for passengers to grab onto – especially if things get rough. Forward in the well-protected cuddy cabin, there is plentiful storage space available in the cabin sides, in the form of two large side shelves. No bunks here, as the primary design focus of the 525 Fisherman is to maximise the cockpit space at the compromise of some cabin area. Above, a large aluminium deck hatch provides good access to the anchor locker, so that the anchoring chores can be done by hand. At the helm, the skipper is protected by a three-piece acrylic windshield and a bimini top provides protection from above. The configuration gives most users enough standing headroom to drive, and drive seated should they wish. The dash is made up from raw aluminium (remember we’re budget boating here) but nonetheless it’s still tidy. Our test boat had the engine instruments already mounted, but upon ordering you could specify to have your fishfinder mounted here, with the engine instruments alongside. The 525 Fisherman was powered with a Mercury 60hp FourStroke EFI BigFoot. Top speed was 31mph. So what is a BigFoot and how does it differ from a standard engine? BigFoot engines are built with a
Plenty of space under the aft deck for a couple of tote tanks.
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The open anchor locker can be fitted with an auto winch.
larger, heavier-duty gear case, larger gears and shafts (up to 33% larger than standard outboards) and a larger propeller. The BigFoot’s propeller has up to 20 per cent more surface area than a standard outboard propeller, providing more working surface for greater overall thrust, acceleration and manoeuvrability. On a heavy boat, which a standard outboard may have trouble getting up onto the plane, the BigFoot’s larger propeller can dramatically improve performance – at the cost, of course, of a little bit of top-end speed. The boat is rated to 90hp, which is something you would perhaps consider if you plan to do a lot of your boating with 3-4 divers or fishos. However I was impressed by the ‘grunt’ of the BigFoot, which really gives great bite from low idle and helps maintain the rpm at the top end. We ran a 13” pitch three-blade alloy propeller and you could feel the boat would have no problem handling plenty of extra weight. Back on the trailer and the Bluefin 525 Fisherman sits on a single-axle trailer. The rig has a trailerable weight of around 820kg and without a canopy it stands 2.3m tall so is going to fit under most carports. It can be dropped to fit under a standard garage door of 2.1m height. Overall, it’s a great package to get you •AB out on the water.
The 60hp Mercury 60 EFI is a great match.
SPECIFICATIONS Model: Priced from: Price as tested: Type: Construction: LOA: Beam: Deadrise: Trailer Make: Height on trailer: Trailerable weight: Engine capacity: Engine: Propeller: Power options: Fuel capacity:
Notable features:
Bluefin 525 Fisherman $30,500 $33,000 Cuddy Cabin Aluminium 5.25m 2.30m 17 degrees Sportline 2.3m 820kg 60hp-90hp Mercury 60 EFI BigFoot 13” P 3-blade alloy Outboard Tote tanks
Manufacturer: Sportcraft Boats Limited +64 07 928 7193 Tauranga sportcraftboats@clear.net.nz +64 07 889 7193 Morinsville alan@sportcraftboats.co.nz www.sportcraftboats.co.nz
Acrylic windscreen, Anchor locker, Battery box and switch, Bilge pump, Boarding ladder and platforms, Fully welded chequerplate sole, Navigation lights, Wiring loom. Notable Options on Test Boat Humminbird sounder
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Boat Supplied by: Sportcraft Marine Ltd Tauranga 07 928 7193
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COMPANY PROFILE | >>
SURTEES BOATS Building a Passion 20 years ago, Surtees Boats was born when company founder Neil Surtees decided to design and build himself an aluminium boat to use for fishing off the Whakatane coast.
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t the time, Surtees, a boilermaker by trade, knew a few fundamentals about boat design, but had a few ideas of his own he thought could work and so incorporated them into his build. He was into jet boating and knew a few things about what made a good boat great, and wanted to craft a stable boat that could cross the Whakatane bar with ease, and wouldn’t ‘bang’ in the water when underway. Not too much to ask, right? As Surtees believed, the beautiful thing about working with metal and aluminium in particular is that over successive boats, you can modify and fine tune ideas until they are perfect. Starting in his shed at home, the first Surtees, aptly named the 6.1 Barcrusher, was born. When that first boat hit the water and the locals at the ramp saw the new craft as a finished product and the way it performed on the water, many were so impressed they asked him to build a boat for them. It started off being very local, the company didn’t advertise, and all sales were generated via word of mouth and with very low overheads – Neil building the boats in his shed, he was able to build the kind of boats that he wanted and that customers wanted.
and fishermen recognise the high quality, stability, safety, and practical features of Surtees Boats. The thing is this reputation has largely spread via word of mouth,” says Sheaff. “Surtees Boat has always been an innovator, and in the early days there was a lot of testing on the earlier boats, experimenting with bow shape, spray rails etc.” “Back then the flooding keel was something really innovative and people were flocking to get a boat with that feature. Up until six years ago we were still the only boat with that feature, and today we are still the only company that offers boats with such ballast capacity – other brands are only offering half the capacity we have.” “The flooding keel innovation wasn’t something new to maritime. Neil knew ships have been using flooding ballast tanks for
Growing the Business
years, so why not use a similar design in trailerboats, and it works.” It was also not unknown in trailer boats with a deep-V Hunt 14, (4.3m) designed by Ray Hunt, the inventor of the deep-V hull form produced in the UK in the mid-1960s. This had a constant-cross-section flooding chamber down the centreline, holding 159kg of water. The hole in the transom was the same cross-section, and when the boat accelerated from rest, the ballast stayed where it was and the boat moved forward, up and away from it.
As the fishing community saw more and more Surtees fishing boats the business continued to grow. Over the years, the company remained at its SH30 Kawerau site, a few more sheds were added and the company operates there to this day, still producing the boats that Neil started building on his own 20 years ago. Surtees now employs over 40 people and builds 300 boats a year for the New Zealand, Australian and Pacific markets. The company is now classed by many as one of the top aluminium boat brands on both sides of the Tasman, with hundreds of new boats going out the doors of its Kawerau factory. What has made the brand so successful? Managing director Phil Sheaff says it’s innovation. “I think the boating public
“It was a very dark time in the company, and it almost caused Neil to walk away completely if it had not been for a group of supportive friends who pitched in to help.”
Though the story of Surtees has largely been one of success and triumph, there have been some darker times in the company’s history. The design, performance and reputation
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of the boats here in New Zealand quickly caught the eye of an Australian retailer and in the early 2000’s Surtees entered into a distribution agreement for Surtees boats into the Australian market. Unfortunately the agreement was broken and the Surtees designs were taken and manufactured in Australia under a different name, something that still doesn’t sit well with the owners of Surtees. “I think that really hurt Neil, and it still hurts to this day,” says Sheaff. “It was a very dark time in the company, and it almost caused Neil to walk away completely if it had not been for a group of supportive friends who pitched in to help.” Fast forward to more recent and happier times, all of the new boats are now CAD designed, with aluminium being precision cut by plasma cutter for improved accuracy. “We’ve always been innovators from day one, Surtees were one of the first New Zealand aluminium boat builders to shift to plasma cutting. Plasma allows for quicker and more accurate cutting of aluminium sections for boat construction, with accuracy within ± 0.5mm.” Not only has the company grasped new technology and been an innovator, but it has also adjusted the product line-up to suit market conditions. In 2008 the company made the decision to build a smaller model, the now widely popular and successful 485. “The global financial crisis hit in 2008, and we needed to produce a boat that was smaller, cheaper to run, and more affordable for people to get into boating. More importantly, we needed to provide a great aluminium boat under 5m for under $30,000. The market demanded it and we responded.”
Customer Feedback
Changing Times
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Customer feedback and interaction has always been incredibly important to the company and was widely evident even in the early years of the brand. “We’ve always listened to customer feedback – it’s incredibly important. A lot
The 8.5 Gamefisher is Surtees’ biggest production model.
of features we incorporate into the boats have come directly from the end user of the product.” “A few years ago we released the 5.5 Hardtop. When we designed it, we designed it in such a way that people could retrofit it to their existing 5.5 Workmate. The response was overwhelming, with a number of people who just loved their boat and now can make it even better for a relatively low cost.” “We find that our customers are especially passionate about the brand, probably just as much as us in some cases. You only have to walk into the office of our sales
manager, Cliff Schick, and see the wall of photos of their boats and their latest catch sent in by proud owners. I don’t think there are many brands our there where customers share that amount of passion for the product.
CE Rated
Whilst Surtees Boat are not CPC (a New Zealand Coastguard Compliance Rating) rated, they are however CE rated which is a much higher level of compliance – all stemming back to Neil Surtees’ original philoso-
The new Surtees 5.8 is proving a popular model.
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phy of over engineering the boats. The CE rating allows Surtees to export boats straight into Europe and the United Stated without any questions asked. “Getting a CE rating on our boats was extremely complex and took two years, but for the long-term gains it’s worth it. The CPC rating is essentially a five page document. Whilst it is good, we feel the CE rating gives us more credibility in the international market.” Engineering strength has always been a selling point with Surtees, and something the company is proud to talk about.
“With Neil being a boilermaker by trade, all of the boats have been over engineered. In fact, the company has had not a single hull failure in 20 years of manufacturing. The stringers are fully welded to the hull, not stitched. The tread plate floor is fully welded and the gussets are all fully welded in. The strongest part of the boat is under the floor where you can’t see it – if that doesn’t move, the rest of your boat isn’t going to move.” Such is the engineering strength of the boats, even dating back to the early models, one of the very first Surtees boats to be built – boat number 7 – was only just recently sold, having been owned by its owner for 18 years. The owner selling it for more than he paid for it! And like many Surtees owners, upgrading to a new model, a 7.3 Game Fisher. October 2012 also saw the addition of Surtees’ very own paint booth, situated a few minutes down the road from the building factory. “The painting booth gives us more control over the entire build process and we’re proud to say that our paint finish is now ‘car’ like.” As demand grew for the brand, the company took steps to streamline and improve the manufacturing process.
Personal Touch
‘Every boat is built by a single person, almost like a kitset. Boat model parts are built en-mass by different departments in the factory, and when the boat’s builder is ready for the next stage of the build, he literally goes and gets the piece from a shelf and welds it into place. “We have two departments – the parts department where they make dashboards, cabin tops, etc., and we have the boat builders who build the actual boat. At the end of a build, the boat builder who built the boat will weld his initials into the back of the boat for that personal touch.”
The first ever Surtees, the 6.1 Barcrusher. “We think the personal touch is quite important and people like to know that a boat was built by a person. We still get people coming up to us at boat shows in Australia asking us what manufacturing robotic systems we use, and we say ‘nah, we use Kiwis mate.’”
Continuing The Passion
Fast-forward to 20 years later after the first boat hit the water the company has grown significantly. Five shareholders including Neil Surtees own the company, and like Neil, share a combined passion for quality boats. The company now produces one boat every 4.5 hours, with production to target 400 boats in the next year or two. The company has a handful of dealers around New Zealand (4) with the Bay of
The 5.5 Workmate is the company’s most enduring and successful model.
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Plenty and Central North Island sales handled direct from the factory. 10 dealers retail the boats in every state in Australia and there is one dealer in New Caledonia. The export market accounts for 60 per cent of Surtees’ production. Today the Surtees customer base is right across the board. From the young and keen fisherman, to the more experienced users who want a good all round boat for a variety of boating applications – all sharing the same passion for the brand as the people who build them. Though Neil Surtees isn’t active in the company on a day-to-day basis, he is still a shareholder and has an active interest in the design and production of boats coming out of the factory. With 20 years passed; the company will strive into the next twenty. •AB
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Make/Model LOA Beam Hull Const Type ALLENCO 4.6 Runabout 5.20m 1.86m 6mm Runabout 5.00 Runabout 4.70m 2.17m 6mm Centre Console 5.3 Cuddy 5.70m 2.17m 6mm Cabin 5.5 Cuddy 5.80m 2.27m 6mm Cabin 5.9 Cuddy 6.28m 2.27m 6mm Cabin 6.25m 6.50m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop/Cabin 6.60m 6.90m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop 6.70m 7.00m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop/Cabin 6.80m 7.10m 2.45m 6mm Hardtop/Cabin 7.50m 7.80m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop 8.00m 8.30m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop 8.50m 8.80m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop 9.00m 9.40m 2.80m 8mm Hardtop * All hulls also available as pontoon boats and larger boats overwidth. . ALTEC 6.8m 7.10m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop 7.0m 7.20m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop 7.6m 7.80m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop 8.5m 8.70m 2.70m 8mm Hardtop 8.8m 9.00m 2.70m 8mm Hardtop 9.0m 9.20m 2.70m 8mm Hardtop 10.5m 10.50m 3.00m 8mm Hardtop AMF Viper 720 7.20m 2.50m 8mm Hardtop Cobra 750 7.50m 2.50m 8mm Centre Console Viper 770 7.70m 2.50m 8mm Hardtop Cobra 850 8.50m 2.50m 8mm Hardtop AMF PRO SPORT 580 Pro Sport 5.80m 2.25m 6mm CConsole/Cabin/Runabout 610 Pro Sport 6.10m 2.35m 6mm CConsole/Cabin/Rnabout/HT 660 Pro Sport 6.80m 2.45m 6mm CConsole/Cabin/Rnabout/HT 720 Hardtop 7.20m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop 770 Hardtop 7.70m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop/Cabin BAXTER C 420 Jet 4.20m 1.64m 5mm Runabout C 460 Jet 4.60m 2.00m 5mm Runabout C 510 Jet 5.10m 2.00m 5mm Runabout B 540 5.44m 2.35m 5mm Cabin B 590 5.90m 2.35m 5mm Cabin B 600 SC (Cat) 6.00m 2.43m 4mm Hardtop B 600 6.00m 2.40m 5mm Cabin/Hardtop B 635 6.58m 2.40m 5mm Hardtop B 650 WC (Cat) 6.79m 2.43m 4mm Hardtop B 750 7.50m 2.50m 5mm Hardtop B 800 SC (Cat) 8.79m 2.5m/3.1m 5mm Hardtop BIG EYE 450 4.50m 2,00m 5mm Centre Console 550 5.50m 2.41m 5mm Cabin 585 5.85m 2.41m 5mm Hardtop 630 6.30m 2.45m 5mm Cabin 700 7.00m 2.50m 5mm Hardtop
Make/Model LOA Beam Hull Const BLADERUNNER 5m cat 5.00m 2.45m 4mm 5.5m 5.50m 2.45m 4mm 6m Cat 6.00m 2.45m 4mm BLUEFIN Bluefin 620CC 6.20m 2.30m 5mm Bluefin 620HT 6.20m 2.50m 5mm Bluefin 650HT 6.50m 2.45m 5mm Bluefin 665HT 6.65m 2.50m 5mm Bluefin 700HT 7.10m 2.50m 5mm Bluefin 720HT 7.20m 2.50m 5mm Bluefin 720 WK 7.20m 2.50m 5mm Bluefin 769HT 7.69m 2.50m 5mm Bluefin 769 WH 7.69m 2.50m 5mm BLUEWATER Bluewater 5.4 5.90m 2.30m 5mm Bluewater 5.8 6.00m 2.30m 5mm Bluewater 5.9 6.40m 2.50m 5mm Bluewater 6.1 6.60m 2.50m 5mm Bluewater 6.5 6.70m 2.50m 5mm Bluewater 6.8 7.00m 2.50m 5mm Bluewater 7.3 7.50m 2.50m 5mm Bluewater 7.5 7.70m 2.50m 5mm Bluewater 7.7 8.00m 2.50m 5mm Bluewater 8.5 8.70m 2.50m 5mm Bluewater 8.9 9.10m 2.50m 5mm Bluewater 9.3 9.50m 2.80m 5mm CIRCA Circa 6.0 6.00m 2.40m 5mm Circa 7.3 7.30m 2.50m 6mm DIYNO KITSET 361 3.65m 1.67m 3mm 501 5.05m 1.93m 4mm 601 6.06m 2.12m 4mm 701 7.11m 2.41m 5mm 801 8.13m 2.48m 6mm DICKEY Custom 750 7.90m 2.50m 6mm Semifly 28 8.80m 2.80m 6mm Custom 800 8.90m 2.50m 6mm Custom 900 9.50m 2.83m 6mm DNA 531 Sport Fisher 5.30m 2.02m 5mm 551 Sport Fisher 5.50m 2.28m 5mm 621CC 6.15m 2.41m 5mm 721 HT 7.21m 2.50m 5mm 761 HT 7.61m 2.50m 6mm 821 HT 8.21m 2.50m 6mm 850 HT 8.50m 2.50m 6mm 941 HT 9.41m 2.50m 6mm ENDURO 4100 4.30m 1.88m 4mm EVERYMAN 430 4.30m 2.00m 4mm 470 4.70m 1.86m 4mm 500 5.00m 2.10m 4mm 550 5.60m 2.05m 5mm 595 5.95m 2.35m 5mm 635 6.35m 2.35m 5mm 685 6.85m 2.50m 6mm 750 Sportfisher 7.65m 2.50m 6mm 750 Gamefisher 7.65m 2.50m 6mm 800 Gamefisher 8.20m 2.70m 6/8mm
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Type Centre Console Cabin/Hardtop/Console Hardtop/Cabin
Centre Console Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop
Cabin Cabin Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop
Cabin/Hardtop Hardtop
Runabout Cabin Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop
Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop
Cabin Cabin Center Console Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop
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ALLOY BOAT BUYERS GUIDE 3.8m - 11m Make/Model LOA Beam Hull Const EXTREME 460 Sportfisher/CC 4.60m 1.86m 4mm 540 Sportfisher/CC 5.50m 2.10m 5mm 570 Sportfish 5.75m 2.22m 5mm 610 Gameking/CC 6.18m 2.50m 5mm 650 Gameking/SF 6.65m 2.50m 5mm 700 Gameking 7.20m 2.50m 5mm 750 Gameking 7.60m 2.80m 6mm 850 Gameking 8.60m 2.80m 5mm 950 Gameking 9.54m 2.94m 6mm 1100 Gameking 11.00m 3.10m 6mm FARGO 430 4.30m 1.80m 3/4mm 480 4.80m 2.06m 4mm 570 5.70m 2.10m 4mm 620 6.20m 2.40m 5mm 680 6.80m 2.40m 5mm 800 8.00m 2.50m 6mm 850 8.50m 2.50m 6mm FC BOATS FC 390 3.90m 1.82m 3mm FC 430 4.30m 2.02m 4mm FC 500 5.00m 2.06m 4mm FC 580 5.90m 2.46m 5mm FC 600 6.00m 2.50m 5mm FC 640 6.40m 2.50m 5mm
FYRAN Smartliner 360 3.50m 1.37m 1.6mm Smartliner 400 4.00m 1.70m 1.6mm Smartliner 450 4.50m 1.91m 2.00m 12 3.54m 1.52m 1.6mm 13 3.85m 1.55m 1.6mm 14 4.36m 1.75m 2mm 16 4.90m 1.74m 2mm 385 3.85m 1.80m 2mm 440 4.24m 1.80m 3mm 450 Fisho 4.50m 1.95m 4mm 475 Rebel 4.75m 1.76m 4mm 500 5.00m 2.19m 4mm 530 Rebel 5.35m 2.07m 4mm 530 Horizon 5.35m 2.07m 4mm 560 Horizon 5.60m 2.19m 4mm 575 Rebel 5.77m 2.19m 4mm 575 Pursuit 5.80m 2.20m 4mm 595 Horizon 6.09m 2.18m 5mm 595 Pursuit 6.09m 2.18m 5mm 600 Horizon GT 6.09m 2.10m 5mm 600 Pursuit GT 6.09m 2.10m 5mm
Type Cabin/Centre Console Cabin/Centre Console Cabin/Hardtop/Centre Console Centre Console/Hardtop Hardtop/Cabin Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop
Dinghy Centre Console Centre Console Cabin Cabin Cabin/Hardtop Cabin/Hardtop
Dinghy Dinghy/Centre Console Dinghy/Centre Console Cuddy Cabin Centre Console Centre Console
Dinghy Dinghy Dinghy Dinghy Dinghy Dinghy Dinghy Dinghy Runabout Runabout Runabout Cabin Cabin Cabin Cabin Cabin Hardtop Cabin Hardtop Cabin Hardtop
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Make/Model LOA Beam Hull Const Type 640 Pursuit 6.35m 2.18m 5mm Hardtop 645 Pursuit 6.51m 2.34m 5mm Hardtop 650 Pursuit GT 6.51m 2.34m 5mm Hardtop 695 Pursuit 7.05m 2.34m 5mm Hardtop 760 Pusuit GT 7.60m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop HAMILTON MARINE Jet 132A 4.20m 1.90m 5mm Runabout Jet 141A 4.60m 1.90m 5mm Runabout Jet 151A 4.70m 1.90m 5mm Runabout Jet 152A 4.70m 1.75m 5mm Runabout Jet 161A 5.00m 1.90m 5mm Runabout ELITE 5.8 Elite 6.10m 2.30m 5mm Cabin 6m Elite 6.50m 2.35m 5mm Hardtop 6.4 Elite 6.40m 2.35m 5mm Cabin/Hardtop 7.45 Fishfinder 7.45m 2.50m 5mm Hardtop 7.5 Fishfinder 7.50m 2.50m 5mm Hardtop 8.25 Fishfinder 8.50m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop 8.25 Fishmaster 8.50m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop 8.25 MasterJet 8.73m 2.80m 6mm Hardtop 8.50 Fishmaster 8.50m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop 8.50 Fishmaster Wide 8.50m 2.70m 6mm Hardtop 8.75 Fishmaster 9.00m 2.70m 6mm Hardtop 9.0 Fishmaster 9.25m 2.80m 6mm Hardtop 10.4 Cruisemaster 10.50m 3.10m 6mm Hardtop KINGFISHER 370 3.70m 1.57m 3mm Dinghy 430 4.30m 1.73m 3mm Dinghy 490 4.90m 1.95m 3mm Dinghy 500 5.10m 2.08m 5mm Cabin 575 5.80m 2.30m 5mm Cabin/Centre Console 650 6.50m 2.50m 6mm Cabin 705 Custom 7.05m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop 795 Custom 7.95m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop 800 Cat 8.00m 2.85m Cat Hardtop 875 Custom 8.75m 3.00m 6mm Hardtop KWIKKRAFT 661 Offshore 7.10m 2.40m 6mm Hardtop 761 Offshore 8.10m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop 861 Offshore 9.10m 2.70m 6mm Hardtop 922 Offshore 9.60m 2.80m 6mm Hardtop 1022 Offshore 10.40m 3.30m 6mm Hardtop MARKS 1 525 5.25m 2.06m 4mm Cabin/Centre Console MARCO 400 Dory 4.00m 2.05m 4mm Dinghy/Side Console 440 Dory 4.40m 2.05m 4mm Cabin/Runabout/Dinghy/Console 480 Dory 4.90m 1.90m 4mm Cabin/Runabout/Dinghy/Console 510 Thresher 5.10m 1.90m 4mm Runabout 520 Dory 5.20m 2.07m 4mm Cabin/Runabout/Dinghy/Console 520 Angler 5.20m 2.07m 4mm Cabin/Centre Console/Runabout 550 Striker 5.50m 2.07m 4mm Cabin/Centre Console/Runabout 570 Angler/Striker 5.70m 2.20m 4mm Cabin/Centre Console/Runabout 600 6.00m 2.20m 4mm Cabin/Centre Console/Hardtop 625 6.25m 2.20m 4mm Cabin/Centre Console/Hardtop 650 6.50m 2.49m 5mm CConsole/Hardtop/Walkaround 700 Souwester 7.40m 2.49m 5mm CConsole/Hardtop/Walkaround 760 Souwester 8.00m 2.49m 5mm CConsole/Hardtop/Walkaround 880 9.30m 2.90m 8mm Hardtop MCLAY Fortress 410 4.00m 1.780m 4mm Dinghy Fortress 4.4 4.40m 1.85m 4mm Dinghy/Console
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Sportsman 461 4.60m 1.85m 4mm Fortress 4.8 4.80m 2.00m 4mm Fortress 5.0 5.00m 2.00m 4mm Fortress 551 5.50m 2.08m 4mm Sportsman Package 521 5.18m 2.00m Sportsman 551 5.50m 2.08m 5mm Fisherman 571 5.65m 2.20m 5mm Sportsman Package 571 5.65m 2.20m Fisherman 581 5.80m 2.28m 5mm Sportsman Package 591 5.95m 2.20m Fisherman 611 6.10m 2.28m 5mm Fisherman 601 6.10m 2.28m 5mm Fisherman 631 6.35m 2.35m 5mm Fisherman 671 6.75m 2.35m 5mm Cruiser 681 6.75m 2.35m 5mm Cruiser 721 7.20m 2.35m 5mm Cruiser 751 7.45m 2.45m 5mm Cruiser 781 7.80m 2.48m 6mm Cruiser 811 8.10m 2.48m 6mm Cruiser 931 9.30m 3.00m 6mm Walk Round 1100 11.40m 3.09m 6mm ORCA Seablade 19 6.52m 2.25m 5mm Seablade 22 6.70m 2.43m 5mm Seablade 24 8.29m 2.65m 5mm RAMCO 4750 Prelude 4.75m 2.05m 4mm 5050 Prelude 5.05m 2,10m 4mm 5050 Sportsman 5.05m 2.10m 4mm 5450 Prelude 5.45m 2.10m 4mm 5450 Prelude 5.45m 2.10m 4mm 5500 Dominator 5.45m 2.10m 4mm 5800 Interceptor 5.80m 2.25m 5mm 6020 Fisherman 6.02m 2.20m 5mm 6250 Fishmaster 6.25m 2.33m 5mm 7010 Provider 7.01m 2.50m 5mm 7450 Seahunter 7.45m 2.50m 5mm 8450 Ultimate 8.45m 2.50m 5mm
SCORPION 360 Dinghy 3mm 400 Dinghy 4.10m 1.90m 3mm 440 Runabout 4.40m 1.90m 3mm 470 4.70m 2.17m 4mm 500 Bowrider 4.80m 2.17m 4mm 535 Cuddy 5.35m 2.20m 5mm 610 6.10m 2.30m 5mm 670 Wheelhouse 6.70m 2.40m 5mm 730 Wheelhouse 7.30m 2.40m 5mm 850 Wheelhouse 8.50m 2.45m 6mm 890 Wheelhouse 8.89m 2.80m 6mm
Type Runabout Dinghy/Console Dinghy/Console Console 4mm Cabin Cabin Cabin 5mm Cabin Cabin 5mm Cabin/Hardtop Hardtop Cabin Cabin Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop Hardtop
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SENATOR MC 540 5.57m 2.38m 5mm Cuddy Cabin MC 600 6.00m 2.38m 5mm Cuddy Cabin MH 630 6.49m 2.38m 5mm Hardtop MH 670 7.15m 2.5m 5mm Hardtop MH 700 7.3m 2.5m 6mm Hardtop MH 760 8.0m 2.5m 6mm Hardtop MH 800 + Wide beam 8.35m 2.7m 6mm Hardtop MH 850 Wide beam 8.8m 2.7m 6mm Hardtop MH 920 Wide beam 9.3m 2.7m 6mm Hardtop Offshore 1020 10.80m 3.10m 6mm Hardtop SKELTON CRAFT Bardozer 3.5-4.8m 2.00m 5mm Centre Console 6.50m 2.50m 5mm Harttop Phantom 6500 Phantom 7000 7.00m 2.50m 5mm Hardtop Phantom High Bow 7.50m 2.70m 6mm Hardtop Ocean Series HT760 7.60m 2.90m 6mm Selium Hardtop Carbon Series 8.0-10.0m 2.8-3.5m 6mm Selium Hardtop SEABOSS 550 5.50m 2.42m 5mm Cabin 580 5.80m 2.42m 5mm Cabin 600 6.00m 2.42m 5mm Cabin 620 6.20m 2.42m 5mm Cabin/Hardtop 670 6.70m 2.42m 5mm Cabin/Hardtop 700 7.00m 2.50m 5mm Cabin/Hardtop 750 7.50m 2.50m 5mm Hardtop SOUTHERN All Lazercraft products have been discontinued and will be custom manufactured only. XP576 CC 5.90m 2.20m Centre Console XP646 CC 6.50m 2.40m 5mm Centre Console XP646 HTO 6.50m 2.40m 5mm Hardtop XP676 HTO 2.80m 2.45m 5mm Hardtop XP696 HTO 6.90m 2.50m 5mm Hardtop XP746 HTO 7.50m 2.50m 5mm Hardtop XP746 HTE 7.50m 2.50m 5mm Hardtop
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Make/Model LOA Beam Hull Const Type 3.4 3.40m 1.65m 3mm Dinghy 4.1 4.10m 1.75m 3mm Dinghy F14 4.40m 1.75m 3mm Dinghy.Cabin/Console F16 4.95m 2.00m 4mm Cabin/Console F18 5.75m 2.20m 4mm Cabin/Console/HT 605 6.05m 2.30m 4mm Hardtop/Cabin 680 6.80m 2.30m 5mm Hardtop FYRAN 389 Pontoon 3.80m 1.69m 3mm Dinghy 479 Pontoon 4.75m 2.04m 3mm Cabin/Centre Console 559 Pontoon 5.60m 2.20m 4mm Cabin/Centre Console/HT 599 Pontoon 6.00m 2.25m 4mm Cabin/Centre Console/HT HARDY 4 4.0m 1.78m 3mm Cabin 4.7 4.7m 2.06m 4mm Cabin 5.25 5.25m 2.17m 4/5mm Cabin/Centre Console 5.4 5.40m 2.17m 4/5mm Cabin/Centre Console 5.7 5.70m 2.17m 4/5mm Cabin/Centre Console 6 6.00m 2.30m 5mm Hardtop 6.5 6.50m 2.30m 5mm Hardtop KIWI KRAFT 360 3.60m 1.82m 3mm Dinghy 390 3.90m 1.95m 3mm Cabin/Cabin 470 4.70m 2.00m 3mm Cabin 515 Fisherman 5.20m 2.10m 4mm Cabin 550 Fisherman 5.50m 2.20m 4mm Cabin/Hardtop 590 Sport 5.90m 2.30m 4mm Cabin/Hardtop 660 Sport HT 6.60m 2.40m 5mm Cabin/Hardtop 720 Sport HT 7.20m 2.50m 5mm Cabin/Hardtop 780 Sport HT 7.80m 2.50m 5mm Hardtop 780 Overnighter 7.80m 2.50m 5mm Hardtop ORCA 3.8 3.80m 1.60m 3mm Dinghy 4.5 4.50m 2.05m 4mm Dinghy/Cabin/Centre Console 5.4 5.40m 2.33m 5mm Cabin 6 6.00m 2.40m 5mm Cabin/Hardtop/CConsole 7 7.00m 2.40m 5mm Cabin/Hardtop/CConsole 7.0 Party 7.00m 2.40m 3mm Party Pontoon 8.0 Party 8.00m 2.50m 3mm Party Pontoon OSPREY Osprette 349 E/S 3.50m 1.68m 2.5mm Dinghy Osprette 380E/S 4.00m 1.68m 2.5mm Dinghy Osprette 450S 4.50m 1.95m 3mm Dinghy / Console Osprette 495 5.00m 2.15m 4mm Console Classic 520 5.20m 2.25m 4mm Centre Console/Hardtop Classic 565 5.65m 2.25m 4mm Centre Console / Hardtop Classic 590 5.90m 2.25m 5mm Cabin Plus 610HT 6.10m 2.25m 5mm Hardtop Classic / Plus 650 6.50m 2.50m 5mm Cabin / Hardtop Classic / Plus 700 7.00m 2.50m 5mm Cabin / Hardtop Classic / Plus 750 7.50m 2.50m 6mm Cabin / Hardtop Plus 800HT 8.00m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop 850HT 8.50m 2.50m 6mm Hardtop Profile 465C 4.65m 1.80m 4mm Cabin 520C 5.20m 1.98m 4mm Cabin 545C 5.45m 1.98m 4mm Cabin 585C 5.85m 2.14m 5mm Cabin 585CC 5.85m 2.14m 5mm Centre Console 585H 5.87m 2.14m 5mm Hardtop 600H 6.00m 2.18m 5mm Hardtop 635H 6.40m 2.30m 5mm Hardtop
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