There are two ways to buy a Kingfisher, and both go through one of our dealers.
Buy a stock boat. Our dealers carry finished boats — rigged, commissioned and ready to go on the water. What’s on the floor changes constantly, so it’s always worth asking what’s available right now.
Or have one built to your spec. Your dealer places the order and we build it in our Tauranga workshop: your configuration, your engine, your fitout, your trailer. Allow six to eight months for a custom build.
Either way your dealer handles the sale, the paperwork and the handover — which also means you’ve got someone local when you need them. Most people come in thinking they want one and leave having chosen the other.
Stock boats available now
Our dealers hold stock, and they’re the ones who know what’s available — it moves week to week, and they’ll often know about a boat before it’s finished.
A stock boat makes sense if:
- You want to be on the water this season rather than next
- You’d rather see and stand on the actual boat than specify one from a list
- The spec is close enough to what you were after
- You’re buying your first cat and want to get going
The trade-off is that the spec is whatever the dealer ordered. That’s usually a sensibly specified, well-sorted package — dealers know their market and they don’t order boats that don’t sell — but if you have strong views about engines, electronics or layout, having one built may suit you better.
Find your nearest dealer or tell us what you’re after and we’ll put you in touch with whoever’s closest and best stocked.
Having one built to your spec
Allow six to eight months. That’s the honest number for a boat specified from scratch, and it moves with the model and with where the order book sits when you order. If that doesn’t suit your timing, say so early — your dealer may have stock, or something already in build that’s close to what you want, but not yet on the yard.
1. Work out what you need, not what you want. Where you launch, how far offshore you go, who’s coming with you, what you tow with. A 510 and a 670 are both good boats; which one is right for you depends on all of the above. Have a read of how a catamaran hull handles the ocean and powercat vs monohull for offshore fishing if you’re still deciding on hull type.
2. Get on one. This is the step people skip and then regret skipping. A powercat feels different from a monohull — at rest, in chop, on the trailer. Your dealer will have stock boats or a demonstrator you can get out on. Most of our owners made up their minds on the water, not on a website.
3. Spec it up with your dealer. Your dealer will work through the configuration, engine, trailer and fitout with you, then quote you a firm price for the boat you’ve actually specified. They know their own market and they’re the ones packaging it, so the number they give you is a real one. They’ll also give you a realistic delivery date based on where the order book sits at the time.
4. Your dealer places the order. Once you’ve agreed the spec and the price, your dealer handles the paperwork and the deposit and books the build slot with us. From there the boat is yours — we’re building it to your order, not to a shelf.
5. We build it. CNC-cut, welded and fitted out in Tauranga. Your dealer will keep you posted, and we’re generally happy for owners to come and look at their boat in build if you’re in the Bay of Plenty.
6. Handover. Your dealer does the handover, the rigging and the commissioning, and walks you through the boat. Trailers are built in-house alongside the boats, so the package arrives matched rather than cobbled together.
What affects the price
We don’t publish prices, because our dealers package and price boats for their own markets and we’d rather you got a real number than a misleading one. But these are the things that move it, in roughly the order they matter:
- Hull size. The single biggest factor. A 450 and a 730 are different propositions.
- Configuration. Tiller, side console, centre console, cuddy or hardtop — the further up that list you go, the more structure and fitout is involved.
- Engine choice. Brand, horsepower, single or twin. Often the second-largest line on the invoice.
- Fitout level. Electronics, seating, upholstery, rod holders, live bait tanks, plumbing, U-Dek decking, lighting. This is where two boats of the same model can end up a long way apart.
- Trailer. Built in-house, sized to the boat.
- Freight and commissioning, if you’re outside your dealer’s immediate area.
If you give your dealer a budget to work to, they’ll tell you honestly what it buys. That’s a more useful conversation than a list price.
Finance and trade-ins
Our dealers arrange both.
If you’re financing, your dealer can sort it as part of the package rather than leaving you to organise it separately. And if you’ve got a boat to move on, they’ll talk to you about taking it in trade — worth raising early in the conversation, because what your current boat is worth changes what’s realistic on the new one.
Where to buy
We sell through a dealer network across New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific — including Tahiti, Samoa and American Samoa.
Not sure who to talk to? Send us an enquiry and we’ll route it to the right dealer for your area.
No dealer near you? Get in touch anyway. Sometimes that means a dealer further afield who’s happy to deliver, and sometimes it means us arranging freight — we’ve sent boats to places a long way from the nearest dealer, including right across the Pacific. Tell us where you are and we’ll find a way to get you on the water.
