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Features: Advantages

While choosing a boat, it is important to know what a boat has to offer, and what you expect of a boat. Because you naturally want the most advantage for your money. The PortaBote offers many advantages in all aspects.

Financial advantage

  • This lightweight boat only requires a small motor to perform optimally. This means a low fuel consumption and a low purchasing cost.
  • A smaller motor also means less erosion of the transom, also for your motor when hitting a rock.
  • The polypropylene hull is able to resist hitting a rock, tree trunk, or stones.
  • The polypropylene hull is erosion- and rust free.
  • The PortaBote is maintenance-free. So no more high maintenance costs.
  • The 10-year guarantee on the hinges and hull make the PortaBote a smart investment.
  • The PortaBote (in its folded form) is small and lightweight. This makes it unnecessary to buy a trailer, large storage space, or a permanent spot in the port.
  • The chance of theft is remarkably smaller, because the boat can be stored indoors.
  • It is possible to transport several boats on one car.
  • You will no longer be dependent on rented boats or an expensive resort when having boat trips to hard-to-reach locations. In the future, you will simply take your own boat with you.
  • The PortaBote takes up little valuable space on the deck of your yacht.

User advantage

  • The polypropylene hull is extremely light, which allows one person to do all the procedures. From the transport to in the water.
  • The PortaBote is easy to transport.
  • A small motor means that the installing and transportation of the motor is easier.
  • The colour of the hull is that of the material. Therefore, the colour can never fade or leave.
  • During a collision with a rock or tree trunk, the PortaBote´s hull absorbs 90% of the shock, by denting in, after which it easily glides over the obstacle, due to its light weight.
  • Because the material is elastic, the hull regains its original shape after impact.
  • The PortaBote can carry 367 kg in people and/or material.
  • The PortaBote only needs 11cm of water to be able to sail.
  • Making the PortaBote ready only takes a several minutes.
  • The polypropylene hull is able to absorb 90% of all shocks due to waves. This makes the PortaBote extremely stable and comfortable.
  • The PortaBote is unsinkable, even when completely filled with water.
  • The PortaBote can be used everywhere: from turbulent waters with waves up to 2 meters, to shallow creeks.
  • The PortaBote is easy to transport, by car, airplane, boat, or even on foot.
  • Rowing the PortaBote is very easy. It does not deviate from its course, and is lightweight.
  • It can also be converted to a complete sailing boat.
  • No childhood diseases. The PortaBote has been produced for 30 years, and over 60.000 have been sold worldwide.