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BAR CRUSHER 535CR Review

Bar Crusher’s reputation for producing quality rigs with an offshore pedigree is proven.
The word “cute” is hardly a one that springs to mind in any conversation involving a Bar Crusher. It is, however, the very word my wife used when she first spied the compact 5m (or thereabouts) hull on our computer screen.
“That’s a baby Bar Crusher,” my four-year-old son volunteered. And he kept going form there: “It’s the same colour as Thomas (The Tank Engine)”; “Why doesn’t it have a roof?”; “Can we take it fishing?”
He’s sharp, my boy, and with those statements he perfectly summed up the Bar Crusher 535CR. FAMILY TIES
When Team Bar Crusher rolled up to the Patterson River boat ramp on Melbourne’s north-eastern shores with its big new 730HT in tow, I couldn’t help being drawn to the edgy little runabout that had brought along as a camera [...]

Quintrex 630 Freestyler Review

The new 630 Freestyler platform is designed on this new Apex Hull and is multipurpose craft with equal parts sports, entertainer and fishing boat.
Innovation in aluminium boat building is hardly new. In fact there are multiple companies using proprietary manufacturing processes to build aluminium craft that ride remarkably like fibreglass boats. It has traditionally been a difficult thing to do, but advances in technology have enabled companies like Quintrex to develop some very sweet riding boats.
Innovation for Quintrex is in their DNA and before this new Apex Hull which we will look at closely shortly, they first developed the flared aluminium bow in 1968, followed that with the Millennium Hull in 1999, the Blade Hull in 2011 and now in 2017, the Apex Hull. It has been in development since 2016 and while the Blade Hull will remain, I expect the Apex to catch on quickly. It is that good. WHAT’S ONBOARD
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