new boats

[noname]

went and had a look at a few boats today while out with richard, gotta tell ya's, a bit dissapointed in the new quintrex hornet and top ender range. cant see anybody who knows a little about boats buying these boats! it seems more emphisis is being put into how good they look sitting on a trailer, than how good they should be to fish out of, which they also claim. hmmm. come in spinner!

[Hellcat Dan]

i have herd they are not to bad to fish out of but they are very plane for the money you spend i would not own one but lots of people love them i think bang for buck the blue fin tomcat are a better set up and stabler and faster then the horrnet

[shortie]

Quintrex seem to gear and market their boats toward the first time boat owner.

They are very pretty. Lotsa fairings and plastic to make it look good.

What was amusing was seeing a lady who has been selling boats for 8 months trying to sell a boat to a guy that has been fishing 30 plus years.

Also looked at some signature's. Nice looking boats but the max rating HP on them was really bad for their size.

[Feral]

Considering Quintrex are currently being done for price fixing (applying pressure across all the dealers that stock them), I'd be leary about them, despite them being good boats, your probably paying to much.

[Mcq]

check out the height of casting decks on a hornet,wouldnt want to be in one on the bay with a bit of chop,blue fin the way to go.

[noname]

a friend has the 4.75 phantom, with a 60 4 stroke, flat out is 36 mph. pretty quick considering it has as much weight in it as my haines.

140 ltr fuel

120 ltr live well

2 live bait tanks

3 stories of flooring

2 m 70 batteries

2 130 ah deepcycles

105 lb bow mount

then there's safety gear and fishing gear, lugg in another 200 kilo for both he and i, and that's not to bad performance wise i think. also the floor isn't timber, it's plastic cutting board material. hmmm. it rides pretty well and very stable, but in the bay, take ya raincoat, seems to be a very wet boat out there. his also has the large reverse strake up front running 2/3 of the way down the boat. but overall the best boat of this type i have been in.

[noname]

another friend has a 4.75 trail craft centre console he's thinking of selling, as he works in the mines out whoop whoop and comes home for 4 days and flies back for 10, it's not getting used much now, he just put in a big furuno color sounder and garmin color gps bimini top and a 2nd battery, i can honestly say that i didn't mind fishing out of that either, and we have been in some crap let me tell ya. some of the worst conditions i've seen in the bay and it performed nicely, but just got wet, it's only water ay. so thats another 1 to think about. and i can get it at the right price too.

[Hellcat Dan]

the phantom is what made me fall in love with blue fins the hellcat has a slightly different hull shape witch makes them heeps dryer i had my boat heading over to mud through about .5 meter chop at 80-85 kmph and did not get a drop of water in boat i think they will change hull after they see so much sucecess in hellcat

[noname]

admittingly it was about a metre that we were hitting quarter on, the worst place for any boat and a good solid 15 plus consistantly. i reckon honestly his would go between 1500 and 1700 kilo, any idea of what yours weight in at

[STU]

tried out a skeeter top ride glass boats rule haha

[Hellcat Dan]

i have no idea it would go about the same i think as moost of floors are honey comb floors witch cuts down the weight (so i have been told) i will have to haave a look to see how much it weighs

[paulymassy]

bluefin hellcat all the way haha!

[noname]

hard to beat em ay, will be looking at the lab sports boats too, i know their race boats were made well, and boogie too.

[STU]

If you could have a skeeter for the coin I paid before the dollar went crap you would be laughing like me. haha

[Hellcat Dan]

i was looking at a few of them on you tube they go hard and look rely stabe at high speeds

[Hellcat Dan]

stu your boat dose ride nice i would have def thought hard if dollor was good

[noname]

ace racing, ski racing. that site had a lot of props for sale, if you need to keep it in mind. found the site by mistake while searching for the lab website, if it helps.

[Cando]

STU wrote:

tried out a skeeter top ride glass boats rule haha

Make shore you can swim first.... I wish my girl was as wet as a skeeter.... lol:ohmy: :silly:

[STU]

Ive had no troubles maybe its the driver

[Hellcat Dan]

i will check then out thanks for that

nole i can not swim thats why i did not buy one have you seen the one on qfm site on the sand bank

[noname]

buggar, can't find the website for them now. doh

[STU]

To many blue fin lovers here to compete with only one skeeter no one to back me up I feel left out Not.

[noname]

a lot of bloody boats out there, i will continue the hunt tomorrow. RACE.

[paulymassy]

my dream boat sunseeker 37 sportfisher

[noname]

poor ol max biaggi, the gp rider. had a boat built with get this. 130 rooms. they do it tough. also noted kimi raikonen, monaco f1 gp last year convienently crashed or stopped near his yacht, kicked off the suite and kicked back with friends so it looked, what a life ay,

[Cando]

STU wrote:

To many blue fin lovers here to compete with only one skeeter no one to back me up I feel left out Not.

lol... mate... I would kill a glass boat it a month..

Tin all the way :laugh:

[dhess]

noname wrote:

a friend has the 4.75 phantom, with a 60 4 stroke, flat out is 36 mph. pretty quick considering it has as much weight in it as my haines.

140 ltr fuel

120 ltr live well

2 live bait tanks

3 stories of flooring

2 m 70 batteries

2 130 ah deepcycles

105 lb bow mount

then there's safety gear and fishing gear, lugg in another 200 kilo for both he and i, and that's not to bad performance wise i think. also the floor isn't timber, it's plastic cutting board material. hmmm. it rides pretty well and very stable, but in the bay, take ya raincoat, seems to be a very wet boat out there. his also has the large reverse strake up front running 2/3 of the way down the boat. but overall the best boat of this type i have been in.

How on earth does he fit that much crap into a 4.75m boat?

How is the plastic floor? Does it work well? I am keen to replace the floor in my boat with plastic type decking or checker plate aluminium.

[noname]

the only problem i have heard him talk about is the carpet is comming away from the material used now, bit a glue and all good again.

[dhess]

How rigid is compared to the usual ply? Sorry to crash the thread will start a new topic on this.

[noname]

if your worried about it flexing under foot, no need to, can also get mouldy if not aired out. it feels like a concrete slab to walk on. no problem for you to have a look at some time. he's an easy going lad. anytime is good.