With the large gold plinth for Boat of the Show: All Purpose Family Boat 7m standing beside it, Offshore Boats’ 650 HT was hard to miss at the recent Hutchwilco NZ Boat Show.
The latest offering from Northland manufacturer Offshore Boats is the 750 HT (hardtop). Jonathan Barlow and his team took their sweet-riding, Alan Walker designed 650 HT (Boating NZ, October 2020) as their starting point, retaining the same 2.4m beam but adding a metre to her length.
This is a big boat in every sense, with a price tag over $NZ500,000. So what do you get for half a million dollars plus? Barry Thompson went North to Tutukaka to find out.