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The Pursuit 8 Amphibious is designed and built by Auckland company Assault, which manufactures a range of conventional RIBs for Family Boats. It’s a sturdy, practical boat which both performs on the water and is easy to launch and stow. The design is a development of the current Pursuit 9m and 11m models, but with a completely re-designed hull and transom for optimised performance with the integrated three-wheel amphibious system developed by Orion Marine.

Family Boats was already importing Gemini RIBs from South Africa, but decided to develop their own models for the NZ Market and particularly to suit Orion amphibious systems. Family Boats will still be running the Gemini hull in some models, but for the Pursuit 8/9

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