Owning a cruise is certainly a good experience. Team members are grateful and very helpful at all time. Quality time with my daughter Layla navigating while I seat back and have a beer. Best days with Zero stress is being on the water. Go Cruise craft! Would of never experience fishing until I own one…
Mate I have to say I’m totally impressed with my 635 outsider. The quality of the boat and its finishes are 2nd to no-one . The way it handled coming home from busted head into that 20 – 25 kt NW was impressive. The comfort level of this boat is 10 out of 10 .…
I started with an Outsider 625 and I now have my dream boat ,an Explorer 720ST. I now fish in the Gold Coast waterways with my grandchildren and also take family and friends up to the Bunker Group to do some fabulous reef fishing.
We purchased our Explorer 720HT in December 2018, it was the first boat we have owned. All of the research around safety, quality of build and finish, reliability, after sales service and the resale value have been well and truly vindicated and we are very happy with our 720. We mainly use our boat for…
He’s one of Team CruiseCraft’s most active members and a guru of offshore fishing as well as in stainless steel marine fabrication – David Green. Always willing to share advice and a first port of call if you are trying to figure out how to modify or repair something made of stainless steel, or even…
In a bizarre twist to traditional on-line internet romance stories, Graham Wells married his true love on Valentine’s Day – a gorgeous CruiseCraft Outsider 685. His first wife, Amanda attended, wearing black and flashing visual daggers at the new lady in Graham’s life who he said: “… is looking even more beautiful than the day…
Julie Daffy persuaded the CruiseCraft factory to build her a cruiser version of an Outsider 625 fully fitted with embroidered dashboard mat and seat backs, beige upholstery in the cockpit and Mocca suede in the cabin, a rear dining table, mood lighting, an up-market sound system, long range tanks and fresh water supply, special seat…
Kevin is a one of the industry’s most respected marine identities and an incredibly talented boat builder. He’s a second generation member of the famous Nichols boat building family. Now retired from active boat manufacturing, Kevin is a regular host at Team CruiseCraft events. Known under his call sign of Broomstick in fishing tournaments, Kevin…
He’s too modest to admit it, but Bill is an absolute guru on bar crossings and offshore fishing techniques. Most weekends he’s out on his specially kitted Explorer 685 teaching people the safe way to cross the notorious South Passage Bar between South Stradbroke and Moreton Islands. When not dicing with surf, pressure waves, wind…
He’s earned the nickname of CruiseCraft’s media tart – Brendon Tait. After a brilliant trip to fish the Boyne-Tannum Hook-Up, Brendon not only won one of the prize boats on offer, but he also appeared three times in one edition of the Gladstone Observer. Not only that, he followed it up with two appearances in…
Brett Lee started his lifetime association with CruiseCraft boats when he was just 10 years old. He fished for bream in a 10 foot timber dinghy built by Kevin Nichols when Kevin was doing his boat building apprenticeship. Brett ‘s father, Cec was a stalwart in the Southern Cross fishing club in Toowoomba. The club…
Not many kids grow up with a cougar as a playmate, but Jay Furniss pictured here, did. He and Mal McInnes have been mates since the Ark and from when Mal once owned the Golden River Zoo at Mildura in Victoria’s north-west. Pride of the exhibits was a house-tamed and trained cougar which even once…
Brett’s name is famous through south-east Queensland fishing competitions as a snapper guru. Look down any tournament board in a south-east Queensland offshore fishing competition and the odds are that you will see Brett’s name. He has won enough fishing rods in these competitions to impressively stock a tackle shop. Always ready to share his…
Bruce covers plenty of miles in his 2002 Outsider. As the third owner of the boat which undertook rescue work at Tweed Heads before being on-sold to another owner in Western Australia, Bruce put a fair bit of effort into tidying up the boat. He uses the boat for family outings to Rottnest Island and…
Meet Greg Morris from Boomi in northern New South Wales – successful farmer, recreational pilot, crop duster pilot, thrill seeker, rodeo clown and owner of an Explorer 685. Greg previously owned a 26 foot Sea Ray but figured: “It just didn’t have the zip for crossing the coastal bars” which he regularly visited in northern…
Luke Deighton undertook a fantastic, complete restoration of a CruiseCraft Stinger 506. He’s yet another member of the Deighton family which figures regularly in team CruiseCraft newsletters. They travel to great places from their home in Brisbane and they have shot some spectacular photos. As well as being an offshore fisherman of some repute, Luke…
Steve and Darelle Deighton are stalwarts of Team CruiseCraft. Often seen travelling in the company of Steve and Lyn Murray and Graham and Kath Taylor (who also have red-trimmed 685’s), they’re regulars up at 1770 and the Boyne Tannum Hook-Up. Always ready to give some great advice and a few waypoints to newcomers, the Deightons…
This couple has encyclopaedic knowledge about great places to go in a CruiseCraft. Keen fisherfolk (Kathleen has amassed a wall of trophies), they’ve also built up a wealth of knowledge about the performance of different propellers, fuel economy and best travelling speeds. They’re the ones to see about the best places to stay when you…
Sally Jones from Southport on the Gold Coast is one of Team CruiseCraft’s most active photographers. Here’s an example – a great sunset shot when fishing down the Pin (that’s the Jumpinpin Bar area between North Stradbroke and South Stradbroke Islands at the northern end of the Gold Coast). Sally managed to secure personalised CC575Q…
Danny Burke, (better known in local circles as Danny The Barber) sold his Power Cat 2600 to secure a CruiseCaft Resort 6 for his family which includes wife, Kim, and daughters Rubie and Ella. And why the change? “When I saw how well Resorts performed in choppy water, I realised that we didn’t really need…
Now this is how to travel in Executive comfort and style – Ken and Billie Hunter use their luxury cruiser as an upmarket caravan when on the road. With the opening of the Western Australia demersal fishing season (which in general terms is that group of fish which live near the seabed in deep water),…
Mark Larsen loves heading to Fraser Island with his Explorer 685. He easily secured pole position on this barge trip going over from Inskip Point to Hook Point at the southern end of Fraser Island. Mark is a regular on-water traveller to distant offshore fishing locations. He also has a great eye for detail, keeping…
We’re very, very fortunate to have a great diversity of interesting folk in Team CruiseCraft and Eddie Sheppard from Western Australia is right up there with the best of him. The ex-South African is he pretty handy with a rod and reel, he also logs every species of fish he catches. So far the score…
Rob and Kath Edmonds know that showing lots of red makes us turn green with envy. What a life these guys have. A holiday home up at Mossman (north of Cairns) where they keep their Outsider 685 and regular visits from their sons Kieran and Rowan, both keen fisherman. Kieran is such a considerate son.…