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Ocean Max Offshore 24 passes the test
First small offshore sportsfisher in NSCV 2C survey. Cool kingfish wrap extraBehold Sydney fishing identity and recent charterboat skipper, Vic Levett’s new Ocean Max Offshore 24 Centre Console with cool kingfish wrap from Marine Graphics in Melbourne. You won’t miss it coming. Look out fish!
Significantly, this is the first small boat to pass the new national Australian Marine Safety Authority’s (AMSA’s) National Standard for Commercial Vessels (NSCV) and, specifically, 2C Survey for a boat less than 7.5 metres in length.
Due to arrive in Sydney by the end of the week, the new sportsfishing charterboat will be legally able to carry six paid anglers and one skipper on fishing safaris as far as 15 nautical miles offshore. This covers a lot of key fishing grounds like The Peak, 12 Mile and a bunch of lesser known reefs and hot spots that Captain Levett has been fishing for decades.
Meeting the AMSA survey standards wasn’t a stroll in the park for the Gold Coast boatbuilder Ocean Max or motivated Captain Levett from Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Safety tests of the foam-filled fibreglass hull involved stability and swamped checks whereupon (as the photo shows above) the 24 remained upright and stable, making it virtually "unsinkable".
"We had to jump through a lot of hoops and over a lot of hurdles and AMSA had to modify its legislation for us to get this boat into 2C survey. The existing criteria were for 9-10 metre vessels, but when the boat comes down in size those parameters don't work," explained Jason Wellington-Stones, the Principal of Ocean Max Marine and a qualified shipwright, to BoatPoint and boatsales.
"We’ve managed to keep the design of the boat to the original specifications while gaining 2C survey and, in so doing, we’ve set a precedence for Ocean Max," Wellington-Stones added, before making the point that AMSA considers each boat for survey on a case-by-case basis.
Operating as OceanHunter Sportsfishing, Captain Levett’s Ocean Max Offshore 24 will be powered by a 250hp Yamaha four-stroke outboard and fully operational in Sydney in June after meeting yet more engineering, electrical and survey requirements.
The standard Ocean Max Offshore 24 specifications include anodised aluminium rails and centre console frame, stainless-steel fuel and water tanks, stainless steel 316 deck fittings, underfloor kill tanks or ice boxes, captain’s chair for two people, walk-in centre console, built-in tackle storage, forward bow seating with storage, and side pockets with six rod storage racks.
"I wanted a US-style sportsfisher, something special and in survey," Captain Levett told us. This is the seventh Ocean Max Offshore 24 to be built, with most of the boats fishing in North Queensland waters, though one is in South Aussie. The hull is a variable-deadrise design with a 20-degree transom angle and 2.50m beam. It sure looks like it can take whatever Mother Nature throws its way.
At-a-Glance
Price: The base was with standard specifications is $99,900
LOA: 7.30m
Beam: 2.50m
Draft: 0.45m
Weight: 1680kg hull only
Deadrise: 20 degrees (variable deadrise hull)
Fuel: 500 litres
Max. HP: 400
Max Weight: 450kg
Max persons: 6@90kg
Freeboard: 880mm
Construction: GRP with closed-cell foam flotation
Charter: OceanHunter Sportsfishing, see www.oceansportsfishing.com.au
Boat details: Ocean Max Marine,www.oceanmaxmarine.com
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