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Minor Offshore 36 M


Brawn and luxury in equal measure from this Finnish flagship. Meet the Tonka toy of the sea. From £277,000


Nick says...


I was a late starter when it came to the wheelhouse love-in sweeping these pages, but a recent trip to Finland sold me on the idea. Mainly because of the 40-knot boat you see before you...


aybe it comes from a boyhood spent playing with Tonka toys, but I believe


there is something intrinsically appealing about solid well- engineered sturdiness. It taps straight into the male synapse from a very early age and never leaves us. It’s why so many men lust after Land Rovers and wear Redwing boots despite living in London. We can’t help it. There’s just


something about that tough, unbreakable, uncompromising nature and the surfeit of ability that fires desire, whether we have a genuine need for it or not. The Finns know a thing or two


The whole lower console section tilts to adjust wheel and throttles


about uncompromising nature, living as they do in beautiful but often very harsh surroundings. And they like their boats too – Finland has the highest boat-per-adult ratio in the world. So it’s not surprising that if you want an aquatic


Redwing boot, Finland is the place to look. The tough, all-aluminium Buster boats are built here and it’s the home of Botnia Targa, suppliers to the Thames River Police. But more recently a new name is emerging from this super-cool super-tough all-weather marine world – Minor Offshore.


Built for action


Like Botnia, Minor builds boats for commercial use, supplying the police, harbour patrol and rescue work, and those commercial roots seep through into the rest of the range, giving them that desirable “man boat” vibe. The Offshore 36 is the largest of this high-performance sterndrive range, and looks built for action as soon as you cast off. High topsides encircle the now-classic working wheelhouse shape, with long deep side windows flowing forward to the reverse-sheer windscreen. Sliding side-doors


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