#Streaker sports series

In many of the boat tests I read, some correspondents write reams and reams about the individual items and options that have been added to a boat.

#Streaker sports series

But the biggest reason for the success of the Tournament Series is that it is not only built by perfectionists that love boats, they also love fishing and have learned over the years what’s required in a top sport fishing boat. The 5.85 Tournament Series IV and Yamaha 175hp HPDI combo fits the bill to a tee. There are many items onboard the Tournament that combined, make her an excellent fishing boat, but there are a number of essential ingredients I deem imperative.Ī wide-open and uncluttered cockpit, a heavily flared bow with a sharp entry, well defined spray strakes, wide chines and an engine that isn’t over or underpowered that retains the capability to run long distances economically. Some readers might say that’s a pretty big call, but by the number of these vessels we see at the various fishing tournaments around the country, there are plenty of other fishos out there who agree with me. It’s not that big that it becomes a pain to tow and it’s not that small that it lacks room to fish from, or the ability to handle the rough stuff normally encountered when offshore fishing. And now, having spent some time on this vessel, I’d have to agree this boat is one of the best fishing boats under 6m I’ve have ever had the pleasure to test. Well, not completely different, because our design parameters remain the same, build the best bluewater fishing boat we can. Take the Streaker 5.85 Tournament, it has had four upgrades since 1991, hence its model designation, the 5.85 Tournament Series IV, but it’s completely different from the original model. So we don’t add new models, we re-design and refine our existing range to make them even better, Paul said. We now have what we believe to be the ideal model line-up for our customer-base requirements and manufacturing capabilities. When I asked Paul Savage about the Streaker range, more precisely if they intended adding any new models to the line up, his answer threw me a little. And that’s only one year more than the Savage bothers have been building boats there. If you’d said to me 31 years ago, as I farewell my classmates at Bayswater High School, that the next time I would returned to this Melbourne suburb I’d be a boating magazine editor chasing up information about a new model release I would have laughed at you.īut that’s exactly how long it’s been since I’ve been back to my old stomping grounds. Which was something I did recently during a visit to Streaker’s new 12,000sq ft showrooms in Bayswater, situated to the east of the city CBD. You only have to sit down and talk with Leon and Paul Savage, from Melbourne based Streaker Boats, for a few minutes to find out just how passionate they are about the boats they build. Streaker 5.85 Tournament review on Port Phillip Bay