56 Boating New Zealand
I love the ride and the layout
- it’s a proper fishing boat.
TOP The middle pane of the
windscreen opens to provide
ventilation. Exalto wipers deal
with any spray.
ABOVE The cockpit shower
provides hot and cold freshwater.
RIGHT Undercover features a
clean transom with a full width
boarding platform.HIGH SPEC
Undercover is very well-equipped, from the usual range of
Surtees options – removable rod rack and dive bottle storage,
a retractable canvas cockpit awning for shade, transom bait
station, clip-on cockpit seating, washdown and a freshwater
cockpit shower – to LED lighting, a Marinco spotlight and Lone
Star drum winch on the bow.
Nick has ftted an inverter: the cooker is electric, there is a
100-litre electric hot water cylinder and the fridge runs of 12
or 240 volts. A pull-out pantry is a cool feature.
Te electronics are high spec as well and include radar and
a top-shelf Panoptix 1kW single frequency transducer for the
fshfnder module. A bracket-mounted 15-inch Garmin GPS
Map XSV multi-function display takes pride of place on the
dashboard, with the usual suite of Mercury Smartcraft gauges,
assorted switch panels and controls for the anchor winch,
spotlight and Bennett trim tabs flling the helm console.
A Garmin VHF radio and Fusion stereo head unit are fush-