Heritage
Mission Statement
“Stabi-Craft Marine will be the leading international innovator of rigid pontoon trailer boats, offering the best value and representing the brand of choice on boats used for all serious marine sports activity and rescue craft”
Pedigree of Stabi-Craft
At the southernmost corner of New Zealand lies Foveaux Strait, a notoriously stormy stretch of water that separates Stewart Island from the southern mainland. The men who fish there naturally treat these waters with great respect.
It was in 1986 that two local Foveaux Strait fishermen approached the fledgling Stabi-Craft Marine with a brief to design and build a small, rugged, unsinkable pontoon style boat. The key criteria was, it would have to allow them to fish these waters in almost any condition and always bring them and their catch safely back to their mother boat. This began the evolution of a brand that was to set world-class standards in aluminium rigid buoyancy boat design and construction. Even today Stabi-Craft Marine's standards are without equal of performance and safety. Precision build and thorough testing ensures Stabi-Craft's superiority.
Right from the beginning Stabi-Craft Marine instituted a program of research, development, thorough hull testing, and meticulous attention to detail. As a consequence, you can be sure that every Stabi-Craft to leave the factory is built to the highest possible standards of engineering precision. The hull design has been thoroughly tested beyond what you are ever likely to ask of it and the build quality is still there even in the places you'll never see.
Take a good hard look at a Stabi-Craft and you'll see what we mean. Better still, take one for a test run in rough water. You won't want to give it back, because you'll quickly realise that at last you can enjoy adventure with confidence.