Trade-A-Boat — February 2018

M aritimo has become a world force among luxury boatbuilders and according to marketing manager Greg Haines, this is due in part ...

I f ever there was a vessel that gathered together the traditional and the modern, the laidback and the vibrant, then Back Cove ...

T he Jeanneau Velasco 43F is a beautiful boat and Sydney Harbour a beautiful place, but the day of our test was far from it. The ...

I first saw the Arvor 855 Weekender – briefly at the 2015 Sydney International Boat Show where it quickly sold. I was impressed ...

quick specs Hatteras 45 PRICE AS TESTED $2.47m MATERIAL GRP TYPE Planing monohull LENGTH 13.59m BEAM 5.03m ENGINE 2 x 1150hp Cat ...

T he first thing you notice about the Aquila 44 is the volume of the foredeck over the front third of the sponsons. Oceangoing c ...

F ishing tragics Troy Russell, Dennis Minuti and Anthony Raco are the ringleaders of the Sydney-based fishing team Band of Broth ...

I t is hard to imagine where Australian luxury motoryacht builder Maritimo can go, having arrived at the gates of perfection wit ...

I f you ever thought alloy side consoles were only worthy of tackling calm to moderate conditions within the confines of dams, r ...

90 tradeaboat.com.au AGB Archive THE COMPLETE BOOK OF BOATS AGB History STORY & PHOTOS STAFF ...

tradeboats.com.au 91 Australia’s FINEST AUSTRALIA’S GREATEST BOATS IS OUR CELEBRATION OF THE BEST TRAILER BOATS MONEY CAN BUY. F ...

The first AGB, run in 2010, was held at picturesque Pittwater, NSW. It was a shoestring operation thrown together to celebrate t ...

tradeboats.com.au 93 AGB History OPPOSITE BOTTOM LEFT TO RIGHT The Haines Signature 485SF impressed as an all-round fishing plat ...

Port Stephens played host to the second AGB, dubbed the ‘War On Water’. Kiwi upstarts Stabicraft fl ew in to take the alloy gong ...

tradeboats.com.au 95 AGB History A Kiwi winning an Aussie award? Actually, you all won, really, if alloy is in your blood. We th ...

The third episode of AGB moved interstate, this time south to Victoria’s Queenscliff. Known for rough water when Port Phillip Ba ...

Joining Bar Crusher on the podium was another household name: Cruise Craft. The Queensland-based company’s 685 Hard Top took the ...

Wait! 2014? What happened to 2013? Well, we got lazy. No, despite the workload we do love running AGB. The truth is, someone sma ...

tradeboats.com.au 99 OPPOSITE CENTRE LEFT TO RIGHT Evolution’s 600 Apex Extreme looked great in a wrap and scored highly for Sta ...

The AGB roadshow rolled back to the chilly waters of Victoria for 2015, but this time to pretty Lakes Entrance in East Gippsland ...