Itll come down to how well the hull is prepped gusseted braced and all over engineered

Not sure how much I'd be trusting it to go 25miles offshore

It could be a bloody good boat but 35k is alot of $$ too when an nz built boat isn't that much more for a similar size alloy hull and trailer package like an f21 frewza

I hope it gets seized and crushed into frying pans at the border.

Recently I purchased a 6m Alloy pontoon boat brand new. Not a Stabi but a brand with decent market share. The owner of that company told me that 35% of the hull price was materials, the rest was labour, overheads and off course some profit.

I can see this from both sides.
I don't know how much the price difference is between the boats, the genuine and the copy.. But for some it is the only way they can afford to get out on the water.

I don't like buying big ticket items sight unseen, and I don't like seeing large dollops of cash disappearing out of the country. We are screwing or economy up.

I don't like that the comes see fit to barely ignore copyright laws, and do as they do. I could almost guarantee though, that there was a new Zealand person who instigated this move thinking here is a way I can make a few dollars. If so, he is a traitor..

While I believe in the freedom to make a product and sell it for a price of your choosing, if the NZ boat industry is pricing boats to high, they are making it attractive for imported copies.

Steps wrote: if the NZ boat industry is pricing boats to high, they are making it attractive for imported copies.  I dont think they are..  The competition is very feice.. just got to look at how low many put the powering options on most brands these days...well below min power ... just to put more hulls on the water on smaller budgets.  The 'show deals.. which are usually  pre and post deals and if done homework can usually get all yr round..  And if it wasnt for exports a lot of shops could be closing down...

Will be interesting to see this thing in the flesh when it arrives in in NZ early jan.

visually they are so similar to the Stabicrafts that it makes you wonder whether they Chinese crowd somehow got the CNC cutfiles data - perhaps even some sort of computer security breach at some point?

Bounty Hunter wrote: visually they are so similar to the Stabicrafts that it makes you wonder whether they Chinese crowd somehow got the CNC cutfiles data - perhaps even some sort of computer security breach at some point?

Why would you support this which is what you are doing when you buy ANY Chinese made product