Challenger Boats teamed up with Boat City and Auckland Marine Centre to invest heavily in tooling for updated decks and hardtops and to ramp up production. The 720 Hardtop (HT) is the company’s flagship model – the largest Challenger in a line-up of five models sold exclusively through Boat City and Auckland Marine Centre. Backed by robust manufacturing and retail strategies, there’s a Challenger model to suit every family’s budget.
Like the rest of the Challenger range, the 720 HT’s fibreglass hull is designed by Terry Reid, who has also worked with highly regarded aluminium boatbuilders AMF and White Pointer. Solidly built in hand-laid GRP, and soon to be CPC-rated, the 720’s distinctive hull, rather unusually for a GRP trailer boat, has no planing/lifting strakes. It