Millennial buying habits have had a profound impact on the marine industry. A generation of people keen to spread their resources on a wide range of pastimes (rather than committing it all to just one) has fuelled significant growth in boat share and yacht charter programmes. A lot of mainstream boat design, even from boatbuilders with very clearly defined histories, has also begun to ease away from specialist applications in pursuit of broader flexibility.
We’ve certainly seen the impact of that in the exponential upsurge of fast multi-purpose weekenders and big voluminous powercats. And in Rodman’s aptly named Evolution line, we have a fisher-cum-cruiser that treads very much in step with that modern trend. Like the smaller Evolution 1090, the 1290 is designed to transfer all of Rodman’s famous offshore fishing pedigree into a brighter, more spacious, more seductive cruising package – and one of the most vital elements of that is elevation.
As on boats like Bavaria’s award-winning SR series and Aquador’s lovely new HT line, Rodman has increased the volume on the 1290 Evolution by raising
