OUT OF AFRICA
The Fusion 19 on test is the personal boat of our long-term Queensland boat tester, Kevin Smith, who has been raving about how good it is to anyone who will listen. The problem is, Kevin is an expat South African, and the boat in question hails from Knysna, 500 kilometres west of Cape Town. Anyone else see a possible conflict of interest? Our editor did, so in a cultural exchange Kev was set loose on Sydney Harbour for an Arvor review, and I winged it north to Morton Bay to see if the Focus was really the boating revolution of the 21st century.
If you believe the promotional material from Fusion boats, their 19 is the answer to every boatie’s dream. It’s claimed to be six boats in one, satisfying every water sports option from wakeboarding through family cruising to game fishing. In wakeboarding mode, the front and rear storage tanks can be filled with water for 600 kilograms of ballast and a more pronounced wake. Dump the water,
