performance, durability & portability without compromise
Features
Performance:
- 2HP Honda 4 Stroke with 2 adults (75kg/165 lbs ea) = 6.5 knots.
- 8HP Yamaha 2 Stroke with 2 adults (75kg/165 lbs ea) = 17 knots.
Practicality
- Flat-Out-Boat is only 30 kg/66 lbs for 3m/910 or 34kg/74 for the 3.3m/11 version (folded section) making it one of the lightest but by far the strongest folding boat on the market.
- Flat-Out-Boats can be assembled easily and casually by one person in just 3 (normal Earth) minutes.
- Flat-Out-Boats completely flattens to 10cm/4 thickness x 62cm/24.5 wide x 3m or 910 long or 3.3m/11 in length.
- Flat-Out-Boats are the beamiest boats in their class with a beam of 1.56/5.1 or for the 3.3m/11 it is 1.6m/53 version.
- Flat-Out-Boat has a high 51cm/20 freeboard with two adults on board.
- Flat-Out-Boat has a draft of only 50mm/2.
- Finally the Flat-Out-Boat is easily carried on roof bars, roof racks, campers or trailers, under or on sides of caravans and mobile homes, or stored under a carport roof or flat on walls.
Safety
- All Flat-Out-Boats are made from premium grade composite fiberglass panels using resin infusion creating a very light weight panel, with excellent durability and impact resistance.
- The Flat-Out-Boat hull panels have closed cell cores that if damaged means water is isolated to the damaged area only.
- Flat-Out-Boats have maximum flotation is built in to each panel and all components.
- The Flat-Out-Boat transom is fully molded composite fiberglass with 40mm/1.6 thick built in flotation.
Clever Design and Great Build Quality
- Patented Flat-Out-Boat ergonomic V shaped rear seat design allows for extra working room and a more comfortable driving position for the skipper.
- Flat-Out-Boats patented power transfer system transfers the outboard power thrust via the rear seat to the hull, this relieves the transom of stress and provides and ergonomic V seating arrangement
- Flat-Out-Boats incorporates a unique patented geometry allowing the front to bend up from a flat position to the shape of a conventional bow.
- All Flat-Out-Boats have hinges that are a world patented design consisting of a flexible resin and have been tested to more than 50,000 open and closings and subjected to the harshest conditions of UV and salt water exposure.
- Flat-Out-Boat seats are made from extruded anodized marine alloy.