The QuickFlow ™ patent pending ballast system is the secret to Bar Crusher's stability. The hull has a cavity built in to the bottom of the hull, low in the boat near the keel. This cavity is open at the transom and when the boat stops, it fills with water lowering the boat onto its chines. This lowering of the boat so that the outer corners of the hull are just sitting in the water, gives greater stability. When the boat moves forward the water is jettisoned immediately and the boat flies up on to the plane faster than many other boats.

The QuickFlow ™ ballast system is used because of the relatively light weight of the plate aluminium hull. If a deep V was used without the ballast system the hull would sit high in the water (at rest) and roll from side to side with the wave action. To get the very best of all variables, (smooth ride, stability at rest and light to power and tow), the QucikFlow ™ system provides the optimum combination of these variables and has overcome the key disadvantages found in flatter bottomed, traditionally designed aluminium planing hulls over the past 35 years.

The Rigideck ™ rigid subframe and fully welded floor gives the boat a true commercial strength build quality. The subframe consists of six fully welded (Not stitch welded !) stringers which run from stern to bow. The stringers are folded to provide additional strength and surface area for welding. The stringers then have sections of plate welded between to make the whole sub floor into a fully boxed and triangulated frame.

To add further strength, the checker plate floor is welded in to the hull. This is then pressure tested to ensure the individual buoyancy cavities do their job. This floor is not only tough, it is quick and easy to maintain with a quick hose out. There are no little holes around the edges and underneath the floor to trap old fishing tackle, old bait and bad smells.

Bar Crusher can offer this engineered design by using the very latest plasma cutting and welding techniques to bring a fully framed, commercial strength, welded hull to the end buyer at a very reasonable price. Until recently these techniques could not be used due to very high capital equipment cost and high labor cost. Now these precise, fast machines for cutting and welding aluminium plate can be used to build super tough quality at a similar price to the light weight pressed sheet "tinnie".

The WaveSlicer ™ strakeless non pounding hull design has brought about a change in the way many people think. It is one of the very few production boats that has a smooth hull without strakes. The reason for this is that the hull has been designed very carefully to ensure that it has the ideal amount of surface area, chine and V to allow the boat to cut beautifully through chop, hold it's course in a following sea and turn hard and flat with out turbulence over the prop.

Boat design has always been a compromise between variables to produce a boat that has behaves a certain way under a given set of conditions. Generally speaking, a deep V provides a smooth ride but a little more roll at rest. A flat hull with a shallow V has great stability at rest but is harder riding. Bar Crusher's answer to this dilemma is to provide you with a moderately deep V hull that incorporates the QuickFlow ™ system to provide the stability at rest.

In the past, many boat designers have automatically fitted or moulded strakes or rridges under a planing hull. Bar Crusher believe that the strakes on the bottom of most other boats can cause pounding and increased turbulence. Increased turbulence can cause prop aeration, (air is created around the propeller which causes the prop. to spin free and over rev).

Bar Crusher boats turn and maneouver beautifully without cavitation. Bar Crusher's super responsive design adds a real safety margin and provides further confidence when negotiating Bar Crossings. Bar Crusher's light weight and smooth hull means they plane quickly with minimum power.