Trade-A-Boat — January 2018

Australia. As mentioned, cat hulls can
be tricky to drive and get used to, but in
this case the 3100 literally drives itself
and does not need major fine tuning or
aggression on the throttles to make it
perform. Simply get on, fire up the twin
Suzuki 300’s and off you go – and at
whatever speed you like!
Big boat and big ride is what you get
out of the 3100 – it’s quite phenomenal
to say the least. Crossing the Moreton
channel to Tangalooma wrecks on the
best of days can be a torrid ride on any
boat due to wind over current and fair

swell encountered. The test day was

tackled in 12-15kts SE winds and with

the typical slop over to Tangalooma

which is about a 25km run, we sat at

an average speed of 27-30kts, and only

burning a combined 57-65Lt/h.

I have tested this hull with twin 250’s

some time back and in 25kts winds

doing the same run to Tangalooma,

we averaged speeds of 25-30kts,

although that time you were holding

on a bit tighter in the foul conditions.

Regardless, this hull tackles the rough

with ease and when dropping back to

common cruise speeds of around 20kts

it gets even better, and the economy

drops further to around 40Lt/h

combined – and that’s exceptionally

light for twin 300hp four-strokes. To try

and pick faults in the 3100’s ride would

be like drawing blood from a stone, or

catching a 2m flathead – it’s not going

to happen.

THE WRAP

Again, this is a really difficult boat to

find negatives as it’s well-appointed

with good finishes throughout, it suits

74 trade aboat.com.au