The perfect garage-friendly alternative to aluminium runabouts, the FF 1650 is blessed with a quality of ride that few boats in its size class can match. A glassed in reinforcement bar frames the dash and creates a platform that’s rock solid even when pounding through serious slop. Yet remarkably, the FF 1650 is incredibly stable at rest despite its relatively shallow freeboard. 

Able to be powered by outboards as small as 50HP, the compact rig is perfect with a four-stroke or direct injection outboard in the 70-90HP range. It’ll even tow tubes and skiers when the mood strikes you. Compact enough to tow behind smaller vehicles, the FF 1650 is a great little adventure machine for exploring backwater creeks yet it’s equally at home on larger bays and the odd trip offshore is well within the scope of its capability. 

The sparse interior is a boat pimper’s delight with numerous options available to tailor it to individual needs. If you’re entering the boating game for the first time or you’re keen on upgrading that tinny for something with a bit more substance, you have to put the FF 1650 on your shortlist.