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When commercial cray divers and trout fishermen look for a boat, they have one thing uppermost in their minds – it has to be tough enough to withstand the rigours of daily use in all weathers. That means a boat which is built like a tank, to take the punishment dished out by hundreds of days on the water every year. It has to perform day-in, day-out and be a safe vessel to work from. If it thrives on neglect – or at least needs little in the way of regular maintenance - then so much the better. If they can’t break it, it’s got to be good! It hardly needs a genius to work out that a boat the commercial boys use probably has several potential benefits for the recreational boater.

It certainly didn’t take the guys at Hooker boats very long to see that the average boaties also want a boat that’s tough and safe, just like the commercial lads. They want some different features – after all, commercial craft are notoriously spartan in their approach to creature comforts – and a few optional extras, but overall, the hull above everything else needs to be solid and dependable.

Hooker have a very succinct motto: “Home safe every time.” Safety has to be any boatbuilder’s number one priority and Hooker take it very seriously. All their boats are of hand-laid fibreglass construction and built to survey. Very few other manufacturers can claim that. They don’t contain wood, so they don’t rot. They use more fibreglass than most and the solid, brutally tough hulls which commercial fishermen took to their hearts so quickly are heavier than most of their competitors’. That’s one of the reasons they are so stable and give such a soft, dry ride. Hooker also build with underfloor positive floatation and have done for years, leading the way long before others were required to follow by new regulations. They comply with current and future laws.

Hookers also come with many standard features which are considered extras (and charged for accordingly!) by many other manufacturers. They use only the best hardware – all 316 grade stainless of course – and because these guys know boats, it’s in the right places.

Boatscene have just been appointed as North Queensland’s sole Official Distributor for Hooker Boats. If you are thinking about buying a new boat and you want a no-nonsense, rugged, superbly designed and carefully thought-out fishing boat you owe it to yourself to have a good long look at the Hooker range.