Tsunami Boats
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Printed Date: 23 Jun 2026 at 10:17am
Topic: Tsunami Boats
Posted By: dive'n'fish
Subject: Tsunami Boats
Date Posted: 14 Feb 2018 at 10:08pm
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Has anyone here owned or been out in a Tsunami pontoon boat? Keen to hear peoples experiences. If they have had problems e.g. should they have got a 4mm hull instead of standard 3mm hull? Looking at a getting a 5 to 5.5m built possibly  
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Posted By: MikeAqua
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2018 at 8:47am
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3mm seems light to me for a 5m+ boat. |
Posted By: Dagwood
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2018 at 8:44am
| Used to be built by a guy called Richard Hill - still the case? |
Posted By: CanadianJohn
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2018 at 8:54am
| 4mm would have made for a quiter more solid feeling boat. but 3mm will still keep the water out. my 5.5 surtees had a 3mm hull. would have preferred 4 but did not stop me from buying the boat. |
Posted By: Garry 23041
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2018 at 5:03pm
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My dive buddy has one. I think it's 5.3. It's been around forever and taken a real blokes boat beating and never blinked! His is flatish in the stern which makes it a bit bumpy at times but it's an excellent beach launch machine with the little flat stern area. Put the yam 90 4 stroke on at repower and it's to heavy. the little 2 cyl light weight 4 might have been the ticket. We have been out in some big stuff in the boat and it's been to the garden patch a bunch of times. It's not the recomended boat for those things but just saying it will hang in there but you will experience discomfort like any small boat. Thin alloy might get a few dents in it but it's not going to fail in our experience. We also had a Marco 7m that everyone said was to light and it was a nice riding comfortable fuel efficient boat we really rated. |