Stabi craft copy siezed

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hate to think what its like. ali thickness and so on.
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found a stabi response,show welds in bottom photos. Hmm seen worst on nephews boat.

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That welding looks pretty bad, most of it’s sitting on top with very little penetration.

As for the fuel line going through a hole in the alloy with no grommets OMG!
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Originally posted by Kandrew Kandrew wrote:

That welding looks pretty bad, most of it’s sitting on top with very little penetration.

As for the fuel line going through a hole in the alloy with no grommets OMG!
The gromet caught my too. 
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Interesting topic - I'm no expert in IP and patent law, but i presume it would be hard to copyright a pontoon craft globally or even locally (potentially only any particularly unique feature Stabi has designed). Hence the multitude of pontoon competitors in the NZ-built market.
Even if you have a copyright over a particular design feature, how do you enforce that within the economic juggernaut to our north? I'd say snowball's chance...
 
The more important issue I believe, and one which I'd like to be enlightened about from Forum members,relates to these importers being able to bring in and sell products for activities where safety standards are critical.
I have no idea about welding, but I'll assume you guys are right about the quality. 

I mean we're not talking about knock off football shirts, or fake superhero toys here. People will head out to sea on these boats.

I recently dismantled a NZ-sold trampoline (a well-meaning gift from the in-laws) which in my view turned out to be incredibly unsafe and not fit for purpose - important parts had completely rusted through in five years, the fibreglass tubing the safety net hangs off had split in several places, the safety pads were splitting apart and I could rip the stitching with my bare hands etc etc. How these are allowed to be sold in the market here is beyond me.

Surely these boats in question have to receive some kind of safety standard certification to be offered for sale? 
(edit) If not, it just seems nuts.

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Lester, many years ago now NZ had a Standards Institute and everything coming into the country (well legitimately) had to meet or exceed certain standards.  That place doesn't exist anymore, instead we rely on 'standards' & declarations from the importers that are often copied from more legitimate goods. There are no checks, there is no accountability.
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After a bit of cost research.Stabi 1850 with all the bells and whistles ++ trailer 115hp/120 hp 4 stoke nochange out of of about 110k. the knock off seaking roughly 75k land cost of hull 25k you do do the add ons + trailer saving about 30k for simular vessel.

A few number of well known fibre glass boats are imported as hull n decks from china and assembled here,so many inside one another + decks to fill the container.

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