Bar Crusher 560C Apache

- Good finish throughout.

- Lots of x-factor

Extras on top of the standard 560C fit up are deluxe seats, special paint work, and a nicely fitted-up trailer with Fulton winch and Fulton jockey wheel. The trailer has special low-profile tyres fitted to smart mag wheels and its colour scheme is co-ordinated with the boat on its back. The use of US military drab paint in conjunction with black and raw alloy certainly sets this boat apart from many.

Heaps of terminal tackle may be stowed neatly in the Plano Tackle drawer system, built into each pedestal seat box. The aperture to access these trays is on the inside while the front fascias have a sturdy foot rest for the seat occupants.

The aft edge of the flat top has a raised fence with a round rail on top and a sturdy passenger grab rail on its vertical edge.

The hard top offers good head height for those standing behind the screen. The top pivots on rear axles with gas struts on the front corners compressing to bring the front edge of the top to and locked down on top of the windscreen. In foul weather this will be welcome should you not have clears fitted and it will also reduce wind resistance when highway towing.

If you need some rod holders, there is no shortage, with fifteen of them coming standard on the Apache.

The aft-end of the Apache features an almost full-beam-width tray inside the transom bulkhead. It stops short of the walk-through transom door that is accessed by folding down the rear bench seat and removing the nylon gate that slides into the aperture.

On this tray is installed the dual battery set up along with the isolator switches, while the 50-litre livebait tank is installed in the top on the port side of the bulkhead.

Running into this chop, the hull cut through the lumps effortlessly with the clears above the very sturdy windscreen keeping any spray away from occupants.
Going astern, the rear boarding platform sits high due to a good level of buoyancy in the aft end so backing down on rampaging fish won’t be an issue; no need to walk the plank to the bow to do the fighting.

Cutting at angles over the running sea at the bar showed the boat had a sensible attitude with no broaching. We expected no less; this is the environment they were designed for and it performed exceptionally well all round. In this case, the Bar Crusher certainly lived up to its name!