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Every name tells a story, or so they say. The mental image conjured up by the name of these boats just about sums it up. Tough as a drover’s dog on steroids and built for the worst bar crossings the East Coast can throw at them, these boats are built to be bullet-proof. All boats perform well in a dry, well lit showroom. Not nearly as many perform under the real world conditions you are going to use them in. Bar Crushers perform because the whole company is based on a solid, reliable product.

The conditions routinely encountered when boating and fishing in the Far North impose enormous demands on a boat. Long runs offshore to outer reefs in what is often pretty ordinary weather expose any weakness in a hull’s design and performance. If you can’t fish in 15 to 20 knots of breeze, you won’t be using your boat too much up here. You need a hull that’s tough and dependable. And it should give a smooth ride too.

That’s where the Bar Crushers score so heavily over so many of their competitors. They are built with massive, solid, under-floor frames which are properly braced. The much stiffer, harder, higher-temper materials used create a whole which is incredibly rigid. Comparing them with the average tinnie is like putting a tank and a soda can side by side. They use heavy plate for all floors and hulls and have never had a single structural failure. The structural strength has to be felt to be believed.

Notice how we used the word felt, not seen in that last paragraph. That’s because it’s most evident in the ride. The sharp entry of the bow cuts through waves and the incredible stiffness of the hull doesn’t allow the flexing that you normally feel in an aluminium boat. You just don’t get the deflection under stress which is normal in lesser boats. You also really feel the difference in a following sea. Bar Crushers don’t have the same tendency to broach that others do, so not only is the ride smoother and easier, it’s safer too.

Attention to details is what separates the winners from the also-rans when it comes to the harsh marine environment. Look at the wiring in a Bar Crusher for example – they use proper tinned wire, quality US made switches and fuse boards from NZ. The connections are all glue-filled and heat-shrunk to keep that corrosive salt air and water at bay. You won’t run into problems just after your warranty’s run out in one of these. They are built to last and to keep on giving you dependable, safe boating for years. Look a little deeper and you’ll see that everything about a Bar Crusher is built with longevity and reliability in mind, because safety is not an option; it’s an obligation.

If you are looking for a hard-as-nails, go-anywhere, trailable, offshore sport fishing machine, then you owe it to yourself to take a long hard look at the Bar Crusher range. Make yourself a list of the features you want in a boat. You’ll probably find that most of them come as standard on a Bar Crusher.