hebrides

	Hebrides boats are professionally moulded from quality materials throughout. Only stainless steel or other marine grade hardware is used. Click on the pictures to have a closer look at some of the design features and details of our boats.
	We fit a stainless steel keelband to protect the keel of our boats. This strip prevents wear when grounding the boat on a beach for example and is fitted as standard to all our boats.
	All our boats come with a set of oars and rowlocks ready fitted. The rowlocks and sockets are cast from a marine grade alloy, oars are of varnished wood.
	As standard we supply an outboard motor pad fitted to our boats to allow an outboard motor of up to 8Hp to be fitted.
	We optionally fit a sternlocker to some of our boats. There is an opening in the lid allowing a fuel tank to be placed in the locker with the hose permanently fitted through the lid in the closed position.
	The stern locker (where fitted) has a stainless steel catch allowing it to be locked with a padlock.
	We fill the keel with foam for bouyancy and glass over it to give a flat clear deck over the majority of the boat. Footrests for rowing are moulded into the floor, a recess catches water and collects it to be bailed out of the boat.
	On the 440 the hull is rolled inwards to form a smooth wide gunwhale in one piece. This makes the moulding process more difficult but results in a very nice finish.Please note that the 400 hull is not finished this way, it has a small outward turned lip with a rubber moulding over it as a finishing trim.
	Stainless steel mooring eyes are fitted bow and stern, bolted through a pad moulded into the hull to spread the load.
	We are working on a system to drain water from the hull when the boat is not in use. This raises the floor above the waterlevel, a valve is opened allowing rainwater to drain out. We hope to have this ready for the next production run.
	Another ongoing development is a sailing version. Again this is not ready for public sale yet but is still under developement.