"THE EXPLORER' NEXT LEVEL OFFROAD BOAT BUILD! -EXPLORE BUILDS 

Looks like a beast mate!!! Do yourself a fav and ditch the old 1/2/both/off battery switch and get a blue seas system add-a-battery system.... takes away the need to ever having to remember which battery you are on and accidentally leave it on both and drain both batteries. It’s a automatic combiner relay (ACR) which links the battery’s together when it senses charge and disconnects when stopped, preventing ever discharging the starter. Trust me they are the business for dual batteries for boats 👍

Awesome mate! Love seeing behind the scenes on stuff like this. Can’t wait for the up coming vids!!

Awesome goals for a boat. We camped last year with a friends boat in Montana. Got the bug now to do more boat camping, so I bought a Silver Streak boat for my own. Now to tackle a off road trailer. Thanks for sharing your ideas.

Sounds like you should have built a centre cab walk around mate. I’ve had both and you get plenty of fishing space in the CC but you can’t beat the dry and comfort of the centre cab. Sick boat but after a few trips in some shit weather you’ll understand my point. Love the vids though keep them coming 👌🏻

So bloody jealous Bakes, this looks awesome. Congrats on everything you're doing and I can't wait to get back to Oz and take my little rig out on the water once again!

The amout of hours welding tho.. 🥸🤤 Lol solid work and craftsmenship, keep it up from nz 🤙

new 79 series and new boat! living the dream in debt... enjoying vids lately

Nice Matty , one cool peace of gear. It’s going to look awesome behind the dual cab.

Boat looks awesome dude, looking forward to more vids with you using it

Passed ya heading north on the Gateway Bridge early last Friday morning,boat and wagon looked like a awesome set up 👍

Great looking boats and trailers. Great video Matt.

quality bit of kit mate! congrats!

Legend matty, awesome episode as usual

fitted out very well Matt, when you deck armour the gunells do the top of the hard top to protect the paint

Happy day's mate, enjoy the new boat and make some great content.

Love the merc.. great all rounder boat and 17 rod holders bro

Unreal 👌 love the videos mate

Beast of a trailer mate. Nice work👍

Nice rig Matt just a tad jealous top looking setup you will have ball with that boat CHEERS MATE

Great job man, did you forget the boat straps at 16:01 mark? You should show some bloopers 🤙

This is almost too flash Matty, very jealous. Keen to see all the adventures!

Mint boat definitely made some great choices on the extra modifications, I’m really sold on the green though

Perfect choice in outboard the pro xs’s are the way to go. She will be a weapon

absolutely amazing job

Awesome boat

Nice ski pole set up would come in handy when you remove the bait board!

What a weapon 🔥

Nice great times ahead

Put some seals under your deck lids going to be noisy others wise and will also seal from water entry

Enjoy mate. Ive got the 5.6 with the 200 she is a weapon

Boat came up sweet mate. 👌

Put a seat where the bait board is that slides in the same way so it's removable.

Looks awesome , why the 6 stud wheels and hubs might've been better matching the 5 stud of the tow vehicle that's the only thing I can see to change , look forward to seeing it used.

awsome vid mate very nice set up

Great wide side deck coamings. Overall a great, well thought out boat; thanks for taking the time to post. I'm on the search for a smaller version as I already own a 5.25 side console (I don't like side console due to the list to right side when underway - yes Trim Tabs fix it but...)

That is a sick boat mate.

sweet boat.

scupper is the word you were looking for

The black anchor ;)

Your Boat is not only really cool - but you are really cool 😎 Awesome setup, I wish I could lend my hand to do the same, but I’m not great with building things, I really wish I was, as it would be great to have a set up like yours. Great job 👍

Awsome vessel bit different to what we have in nz , most newer mercs have great fuel pumps no need for a primer bulb

Would be good to see the trailer set up. Good work

Nice one mate! I have their 5.6 CC I put an electric anchor winch in mine but also a bow mount minn kota with auto deploy. Shoulda just went the electric

Great boat only thing I like to have is a foam filled hull mainly to reduce that tinny slap which I find very annoying plus it provide a degree of extra safety

Great looking boat but you're going to find a few issues with the height of the bow. It will act like a sail in the wind and you will sorely miss not having an electric trolling motor with spot lock. Still, have fun exploring this great coastline of ours.

I've got very similar hull, 25 feet, basically the same thing except fiberglass and your deck is much nicer. I've got twin 175 Suzuki's though ;) I can push 55 knots.

Needs a beer holder in the center console

What's the thought process behind running a standard ball hitch instead of an offload articulated hitch, trailer looks well heavy duty and your planning on taking it remote, surely you want that piece of mind of knowing if the trailer goes its not taking the car over with it.

Did i pass you guys on the bruce highway at yandina this morning??

What a rig

Hey Matt, would you mind sharing what sort of top speed she gets at WOT?

Unreal boat Matt! I’m from UK, this looks sick, one thing we all love is a cold frothy and didn’t see any cup holders! Surely a needed accessory!? Also keen for some Explore Life merch, and chance of shipping to UK? Ollie 🤙🏻

Honda for the win!!!

Nice boat and trailer just reckon might be a little under powered by the time you load it up with all the gear you said about. Be interested to know top speed and fuel figure ect those mercs are a good thing

Are you allowed to have fuel lines and batteries in the same console?

I wonder what is the wall thickness of profile in this trailer frame? Is that trailer is strong enough for this type of boat?

Should get some wet sounds speakers for it 👌

You should wrap the engine, keep the black but change the red highlights to match the silver, sick build though

What's the hold up with the '79??

i bet you'll regret "the old missus can have a bit of a sun bake" :)

I tell ya now from living in Cape York for 12 years Mate. Those Guards are way to low to the tyres and they will constantly scrub until something gives way. Maybe fine for around Brisbane and Bitumen but mark my words. Do Yourself a favour and raise the suspension clearance under them Guards matey.

I'm with you mate, bit of a novice, but, one thing that i think you'll want is an electric anchor winch, makes life a whole lot easier and even more so when she gets stuck down there

Absolutely shit hot mate. How good is that Trailer. The only thing I would change, would be to make the windscreen and roof foldable so you could fold it down when going off road down tight tracks. It may restrict your access to some areas which would fully suck. Maybe you could get the boys to hinge it for you. Look forward to watching future missions with this awesome set up you’ve got🇦🇺🦀🦀🦀🦞🦞🦞🐊🐊🐊🎣🎣🐟🐟🐟🐟🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🤠🤙🏝

Howdy, just about to grab the Green Machine you had in this video. It’s now in WA. Not sure what power it had on the back when you used it… but in now has x2 60hp Yami on the back. Question is, what sort of fuel consumption did you get & WOT? - I’ve brought pending sea trial, as I’m working away atm. Did it have enough balls ? Trev.

Matt just wondering how people flush there motors when touring with their boats

21:50 Scupper drains

Any more episodes with this boat?

Great Boat and vid. I got the first 5m from John and its a weapon so love what you have done for this one. @fishingwithjt

Merc Looks odd without a foil on the leg, very nice boat though

You pay for that boat?

With all the colour coding I would of definitely re wrapped the motor and replaced the red with silver.. that would really top it off.

Yammie all the way

Whats the total boat & trailer weight? Always hard to tell

Wondering why you wouldn’t go dual Lithium batteries for reduced weight and additional battery usage.

Put deck armour on the top

Ripper boat matty, you need the auto mated anchor winch. Save you leaving the console or having a designated deck hand

2.1 beam????? Is that right? Seems narrow for a boat that length

koks island off carnarvan. Have spear 40 kg mackerel out there. Unreal spearing . And best camp site is in the inside dori and berny island. In the gap. Big mackerel. Need big spearo GEAR to land them. Unreal camp site Matty. Done it in. In the 80s. Kiwi Pete. 80 Mackey per trip in those days.

No electric Anchor coming Mate?

merc all day mate

What about an electric winch setup?

How did you get wavebreak with no people hahaha

What’s a weapon like this worth roughly?

How much for this boat motor trailer package?

So how much it cost mate ?

Scuppers

Definitely a fan of the Mercury, I’m surprised it couldn’t handle more HP then the 115? Was this due to cost Matty or is that all the transom is rated to?

Good morning Please I would like to know the average price of your boat 🛥 Thank you very much Clovis Miranda Aloha

Would have went bigger if possible, and centre cab.

Why did you sell the boat?

instal an electric ancor winch

Scupper

No live bait tank

There’s no way those in built deck hatches/ storage will keep water out without good seals and a positive dog system

2:34 Hint of cheeks ..............2:36 full view of cheeks

Too flash to take off-road! Shame you can only go 115. name the boat black anchor with that Merc on it 😂 you need an electric motor

The word is pronounced off, not oof 🤦

Looks great...I'm not a fan of stickers and logos on everything, bit tacky. Can't watch ifish for that reason. Best ofluck

Who's paying for all this stuff?

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