With a retail value of over $230,000, this year’s Surtees/Yamaha Grand Prize will be won by one lucky visitor to the 2020 Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show at the ASB Showgrounds in Greenlane Auckland on May 14-17.

Built for fishing, the 7.5m 750 Game Fisher (enclosed cabin) features a double walk-through transom, with two live bait tanks and an enclosed platform, complete with protective pushpits, for safer fishing in offshore waters. There is also a premium Surtees bait station with twin drawers and four rod holders.

Designed to improve stability and handling the boat’s equipped with Anti-Roll™ ballast stability control and Safety Buoyancy airtight flotation compartments.

While the F300 is the pinnacle in Yamaha’s latest generation V6 outboard range, the boat will also be fitted with other top-end Yamaha technologies – including a ‘drive-by-wire’ electronic throttle and the company’s renowned CL7 Command Link Plus instrument control panel.

The Hosking custom tandem trailer is fitted with a Trojan Hydrastar Direct Brake system and wireless brake controller.

A comprehensive Garmin marine electronics package features a GPSMAP 8416xsv MFD and a GPSMap 952xs, Blue Chart g2 in the cockpit. Connected to them is a GMR Fantom 24 radar and a Garmin CHIRP fishfinder, complete with an 1kW Airmar CHIRP transom-mounted transducer.

To hold the boat in position over a deep-water reef or ensure it drifts in a controlled matter, a remote controlled 36-volt Minn Kota electric trolling motor will be installed on the bow, complete with quick release bracket and socket.

Other practical extras included in this stunning package are the Ocean Blue outriggers, twin Hi Tech Plastic carbon deluxe bolstered seats, Exalto Pantagraph wipers, a large Icey Tek chilly bin, Century Batteries battery banks and a ScanStrut waterproof wireless 12V phone charger.

The vessel also comes with a complete set of Okuma fishing gear – combination rod and reel set worth over $5000. Included is an Oceansignal EPIRB and a year’s worth of Yamaha Marine Insurance. There is even a Lifetime Coastguard Membership and a Coastguard Day Skipper Course.

Tickets to the 2020 Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show are now available on-line at www.boatshow.co.nz. All tickets bought online also earn a bonus entry into the Surtees/Yamaha Grand Prize draw and are automatically entered into the draw for a powered Viking Kayaks’ Reload package worth over $8000. Tickets bought before 5pm on December 18 also automatically go into a special draw for a Haswing electric trolling motor worth $1600.

What: Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show

Where: ASB Showgrounds, Greenlane, Auckland

When: May 14-17, 2020.