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Sea Hawk loodlights for the cockpit and foredeck, LED
lighting in the hardtop and cabin, under-gunwale LED
strip lighting, underwater lights and lights set into the
boat’s sides just under the belting. hese are designed
to illuminate the dock or another vessel when coming
alongside at night.
Controlling all the boat’s electrical functions is a CZone
digital switching system. On the test boat, Jonathan at
Northland Marine had already conigured the system
with useful modes, including the day-ishing mode we
used. CZone is monitored and controlled from either the
dedicated panel inside the hardtop, or from the Simrad
multi-function display (MFD).
he impressive electronics package includes a lush-
mounted 16-inch Simrad NSS EVO3 display with wireless
connectivity, the latest CHIRP sonar, Structure-scan 3D
imaging, forward scan sonar, autopilot and Halo pulse
compression radar. he vessel features two 1kW through-
hull transducers, one low frequency and the other high
frequency. A Fusion multi-speaker stereo system and a
GME VHF radio are mounted above the curved glass Sea-
thru windscreen.
he house battery is separate from the starting battery
but both beneit from the extra charging the solar panel
on the hardtop roof provides.LOVES THE ROUGH
As expected with 15 knots of wind from the south,
sea conditions outside Tutukaka Harbour were sloppy.
Nevertheless, we cruised quite comfortably at 25 knots,
the 795’s soft-riding hull taking the 1.5m waves in its
stride and landing softly whenever we became airborne
while performing for the photographer.
he Yamaha 300hp V6 outboard delivered excellent
performance, along with decent fuel economy. At trolling
speed (8 knots) the Yamaha was burning 13 litres per
hour, which equates to 1.2 kilometres per litre. Top speed
was in excess of 40 knots.
As already alluded to, this is quite a wide boat, which
is why it works so well as a walkaround, but Extreme hasThis boat inspires
confidence: it
behaved very well,
no matter which
way I pointed it...