WINTER 2011
The latest edition of Modern Boating magazine is out now!
The latest edition of Modern Boating magazine is out now!
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All the answers
A. A non-slip deck, regardless of how wet, is taken care of by marine carpet.
Q. Is there somewhere to thaw and prepare bait without turning life into a smelly mess?
A. You can't miss the workstation above the engine well.
Q. Somewhere to keep the drinks cold and keep the catch fresh on the way home?
A. That's pretty much looked after?although the 'somewhere to put a fish' you want to take home without covering everything in slime and blood is restricted to 'pan size' fish. It's called a live-bait tank, which also serves as the icebox, so you're probably going to have another icebox on the deck behind one of the bucket seats, but there's room for that. Plus, there's a tackle box behind the other seat. And I haven't yet mentioned a tackle locker each side of the aft end of the cockpit.
And then old reliable:
Q. Is there somewhere to stow rigged rods securely, hopefully with room enough to include a decent landing net?
A. There are racks along the side pockets, plus a rocket launcher across the (optional) bimini arrangement. You could stow 10 rods in this boat and still have space for a landing net.
As for family stuff, it covers all that, too.
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Q. A transom door and boarding ladder?
A. It has both.
Q. What about an aft lounge that comfortably seats two adults or sundry little people?
A. Yep, and it folds out of the way when not needed. And there's the requisite loo, too, inside a cabin spacious enough to it in comfort. (Although for privacy you'll need to arrange a curtain on the cabin bulkhead?which isn't too difficult.)
There is one question that can't be answered in the affirmative, though, and that's no, you couldn't sleep an adult on the bunks. However, the kids will be more than happy. In a sub-6m boat, the only way sleeping-size bunks can be made to fit is to sacrifice cockpit space and that won't make a fishing boat tester too happy.
The hull's handling characteristics are great for family boating, too. On the day we tested this boat we had to hide up in the mangroves to find some place to pose some fishing shots and none of the travelling around to get there was any kind of hassle.
The Haines Group hulls are invariably fine performers on a rough day and if the mood suggests tearing around towing things with screaming, laughing friends or kids aboard, even a Haines Group boat like this (that the 'zooming-about-in-low-slung-things-with-a-massive-powerplant-on-the-back' crowd would perceive as a 'family' boat) can be relied upon to perform predictably and safely somewhere past sensible limits.
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Q. Is there somewhere to thaw and prepare bait without turning life into a smelly mess?
A. You can't miss the workstation above the engine well.
Q. Somewhere to keep the drinks cold and keep the catch fresh on the way home?
A. That's pretty much looked after?although the 'somewhere to put a fish' you want to take home without covering everything in slime and blood is restricted to 'pan size' fish. It's called a live-bait tank, which also serves as the icebox, so you're probably going to have another icebox on the deck behind one of the bucket seats, but there's room for that. Plus, there's a tackle box behind the other seat. And I haven't yet mentioned a tackle locker each side of the aft end of the cockpit.
And then old reliable:
Q. Is there somewhere to stow rigged rods securely, hopefully with room enough to include a decent landing net?
A. There are racks along the side pockets, plus a rocket launcher across the (optional) bimini arrangement. You could stow 10 rods in this boat and still have space for a landing net.
As for family stuff, it covers all that, too.
read on below advertisement
Q. A transom door and boarding ladder?
A. It has both.
Q. What about an aft lounge that comfortably seats two adults or sundry little people?
A. Yep, and it folds out of the way when not needed. And there's the requisite loo, too, inside a cabin spacious enough to it in comfort. (Although for privacy you'll need to arrange a curtain on the cabin bulkhead?which isn't too difficult.)
There is one question that can't be answered in the affirmative, though, and that's no, you couldn't sleep an adult on the bunks. However, the kids will be more than happy. In a sub-6m boat, the only way sleeping-size bunks can be made to fit is to sacrifice cockpit space and that won't make a fishing boat tester too happy.
The hull's handling characteristics are great for family boating, too. On the day we tested this boat we had to hide up in the mangroves to find some place to pose some fishing shots and none of the travelling around to get there was any kind of hassle.
The Haines Group hulls are invariably fine performers on a rough day and if the mood suggests tearing around towing things with screaming, laughing friends or kids aboard, even a Haines Group boat like this (that the 'zooming-about-in-low-slung-things-with-a-massive-powerplant-on-the-back' crowd would perceive as a 'family' boat) can be relied upon to perform predictably and safely somewhere past sensible limits.
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