Stabicraft 2050 Frontier boat test

Stabicraft has expanded its centre-console fishing line-up with the 2050 Frontier, the new flagship of its open-boat range featuring a heavy-duty plate alloy monohull beneath Stabicraft’s renowned Arrow Pontoons.

The hull is available in Adventure, Sportfish and Profish packages. Our test rig was equipped with the Profish pack and arrived on a deluxe GFAB drive-on tandem-axle trailer, sporting a 200hp Yamaha four-stroke outboard mounted on the extra-longshaft transom.

The recommended power rating is 150 to 200hp, and I believe the hull would perform more than adequately with the entry-sized motor because it really rips along with the 200hp motor. 

On Brisbane’s Moreton Bay, we recorded a top speed of 41.5 knots (76.8km/h) with two adults onboard. Holeshot was also super quick and there was no let-up in power and torque delivery through the mid-rev range. 

This new Stabicraft is fun to drive. The controls are smooth and responsive, the steering light and direct but with enough feedback to give you a good idea about what’s happening below the waterline. With a modest 16-degree deadrise, the hull sits quite flat and stable through turns – it’s also exceptionally stable at rest. 

During our test, we found the most economical cruising to be 16.4 knots (30.4km/h) at 3000rpm, for a fuel burn of 15.2lt/h. These numbers yield a range on the 200lt fuel tank of around 380km (205nm). 

The 2050 Frontier is a wonderfully fine-tuned and refined new boat with a creatively designed interior. The front casting deck and storage area, for example, is a marvel of design innovation.

Beneath the 1.8m x 2m casting deck there’s a huge storage space with 600lt capacity, accessed via a reinforced and gas-strut supported hatch lid. Cleverly, this storage space’s front face/wall is removable, allowing you to slide heavy items into position.

Three more storage compartments are built into the top of the casting deck – one in the forepeak and two side lockers that double as fish boxes. There’s a separate anchor locker with provision for an optional SARCA anchor with electric drum winch and rode. 

Other notable bow features included the optional trolling motor plate and Garmin electric trolling motor, sturdy bow rails and grab handles, EVA rubber flooring, and a plug-in pedestal bucket fishing chair.

The 2050 Frontier is available with different helm consoles. Our test rig came with the two-person-wide version with the sports steering wheel and controls offset to the port side. It’s topped with a folding, toughened-glass windscreen to reduce the boat’s height for easier garaging.

The broad, flat fascia panel has ample space for a large, flush-fitted multifunction display as well as engine gauges and switches. The portside steering wheel is comfortably to hand and well positioned to drive the boat whether you’re standing up or seated on the double-width helm seat.

The helm seat’s backrest is reversable, so you can pull it forward to sit facing aft to watch the fishing action. There’s more storage space beneath the helm seat and under the console’s footrest, as well as a neat storage tray for keys, charts and other small items just under the seat top. 

Owners can option their boat with a pair of suspension helm chairs or have just a single chair in front of a narrower helm console. 

The 2050 Frontier is loaded with fishing features, including 2.43m-long enclosed rod lockers beneath each ultra-wide side coaming. In the centre of the transom, there’s a bait station incorporating a livebait tank and cutting board plus an aft-facing vertical rod rack.

Fold-out alloy seats in the transom corners double as steps leading out to the rear boarding platforms, where a folding ladder is located on the starboard side. 

The cockpit’s overall measurements are 3.2m x 1.8m wide, and the beam is 2.3m. There’s only around a metre of space behind the helm seat box, but that’s enough to allow an angler or two to fish over the transom.

Our test boat included a lot of options, which is reflected in the significant difference between the price of a standard boat and our rig as tested, but this is a pretty special boat. It’s perfectly packaged and ready to fish wide offshore, or to travel to the Top End or FNQ to fish barra rivers and creeks.

Brisbane dealer Northside Marine also offers entry and mid-level packages. 

• Price from: $144,135
• Price as tested: $192,739
• * Pricing as of October 2025

• LOA: 6.32m
• Beam: 2.3m
• Hull weight, dry: 875kg
• Fuel capacity: 200lt
• Power, as tested: 200hp Yamaha four-stroke XL
• Test boat courtesy of Northside Marine

A FULL REVIEW OF THE STABICRAFT 2050 FRONTIER CC PROFISH RAN IN THE OCT-NOV (40.5) ISSUE OF CLUB MARINE MAGAZINE. 

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