Sports the all rounder
Wide and stable under way and at rest, dry riding, and quick for the size of engine on the back. The family boat, the ski boat and the club safety boat.
- Lengths
- 4.0 to 8.0 m
- Guide power
- 50 to 300 hp
- Ride
- Lively and dry
Over fifty.Lands soft.
Explorer has built RIBs by hand in the West Country since 1989. Four hulls, each boat made for the person who will drive it, and an XTREME that rides soft through rough water at more than 50 mph.
1989building RIBs since
4 to 10 macross four hulls
70 mphthe XTREME's top end
Out where
it gets lumpy
Port Isaac, Rock, Padstow and the run between them. Explorer boats doing what they were built for, straight from Explorer's own albums.
Four hulls, four rides
Dive the load carrier
A deeper hull and an extra wide beam, so a full dive team and their kit travel fast to distant sites and the boat still sits steady when everyone stands up at once.
- Lengths
- 5.5 to 10 m
- Guide power
- 150 to 600 hp
- Ride
- Planted under load
Xtreme the fast one
An ultra deep vee with a fine bow and a heavy layup. Soft through rough water at over 50 mph, good for 70, and it throws a big clean wake for wakeboarding.
- Lengths
- 5.5 to 10 m
- Guide power
- 150 to 600 hp
- Ride
- Soft at speed
Jetrib nothing below the keel
A diesel engine and a waterjet in place of a propeller, built on the Sports or Dive hull. For shallow water, yacht tenders and workboats. The JETRIB 700 seats twelve as a crew tender.
- Lengths
- 4.75 to 10 m
- Guide power
- 125 to 500 hp
- Drive
- Diesel waterjet
The angle is the deadrise: how sharply the bottom of the hull rises from the keel. The deeper the vee, the softer it lands.
Spec your RIB
Drawn to scale against a 1.8 metre person. Figures are from Explorer's standard model chart; other sizes are built to special order, and layout, colours and engines are yours to choose.
Built for one
driver at a time
No Explorer comes off a production line. Each one is specified with its owner and built for them, and the work is now moving from Cornwall to the Long Workshop at Winham Farm, near Cullompton.
- On the benchA DIVE 850 with twin Honda 150s is the next new build, with a SPORTS 560 demonstrator alongside.
- In developmentA hybrid boat using Nissan e-Power technology.
- TubesHypalon, tapered or high buoyancy, on any model.
- HullFlared bow for lift and a dry ride. High transom for strength, and to keep water out in reverse.
- Yours to chooseLayout, seating, colours, electronics, and an engine from any manufacturer.
- Made hereMouldings, tubes and fittings are made and assembled in Devon and Cornwall.
Who drives them
- Rock Sailing and Waterski ClubSki patrol, rescue and training, CornwallSports 525
- Exmouth Powerboat SchoolTuition, charter and wakeboarding, DevonSports 550
- Sandbanks MarinaMarina workboat, holding lines against wind and tideWorkboat 800
- Dive charter, BonaireTwin Evinrude 150s, sunshade and dive platformDive 780
- Tropo Fish Farms, GhanaCarrying staff out to the fish cagesWorkboat 800
Feel it
for yourself
Explorer keeps demonstrators at Rock and Padstow. Tell us what you want from a boat and we will put you in the hull that suits it.
Rock
Padstow
Talk boats
Also from Explorer
GRP and polypropylene tenders and rowing boats from 2.25 to 3.0 metres, and ex-demonstrator RIBs when they come up.
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