Brands & Models
These are our own concept designs, created by our team, for where the bowrider goes next. Some of this technology already exists in other categories; most of it has never been combined into one hull.
Our concept designs for the next generation of bowrider: auto-retracting roofs, suspension hulls, electric drive, fold-out tables and night-time radiant lighting.
The bowriders that come up most often when readers ask us where to start.
The world's best-selling bowrider size, in its most accessible form: light, simple and easy to tow.
US$38,000 - US$52,000 new
The refined mainstream benchmark: quiet, dry, and beautifully finished for the money.
US$72,000 - US$95,000 new
The previous-generation classic. Millions of families learned to boat in one of these.
US$8,000 - US$22,000 used
A carbon-framed hardtop that folds flat into the rear deck moulding at the press of a button, exactly as a convertible car roof does. Open for the run out, closed for shade at anchor or a squall on the way home.
Combined with retractable side clears, it turns an open bowrider into a weather-proof day boat in fifteen seconds without losing a single seat.
Active suspension seating already exists on offshore boats. Our concept takes it further: an isolated inner deck module riding on computer-controlled dampers, so the passengers move less than the hull does.
The result would give a light aluminium hull the ride comfort of a much heavier fibreglass one, without the weight penalty on the trailer.
Silent electric drive for the last mile into an anchorage, then petrol or diesel for range. Electric propulsion suits bowriders unusually well because most owners run short distances and stop for hours at a time.
Fold-out cockpit tables that rise from the sole, dedicated ski-biscuit storage tubes moulded into the gunwales, tool-free fishing conversion kits that clip into the same sockets as the seating, and radiant neon perimeter lighting that turns the boat into a night-time social space.
Every one of these ideas is aimed at the same target: making a single hull convert faster between more roles.
