Soft Eskies & Cooler Bags

A soft esky that treats boat life as the design brief. The Venture Soft Esky runs 46 litres inside a heat-sealed PVC film liner with sponge foam insulation, and the Venture Cooler holds 36 cans in a 25 litre cool cell with every inside and outside part sonic welded, both picked for salt, sun and being stood on. The brief is simple: the cans are still cold at four in the arvo.

Jetpilot Venture Soft Esky - Charcoal

$169.99 AUD

Jetpilot Venture Cooler - Charcoal

$299.99 AUD

Jetpilot Venture Soft Esky - Red

$159.99 AUD

Jetpilot 20L Sealed Soft Cooler

$59.99 AUD

Jetpilot Venture Soft Esky - Pacific Blue

$169.99 AUD

You Have Questions? We Have Answers!

How big is the Venture Soft Esky?

46 litres inside, 42 cm by 24 cm by 32 cm internal, with a sponge foam core and a heat-sealed PVC film liner. That is a day's catch and the drinks, or the whole crew's lunch, in a bag that sits on a tinnie seat and does not rattle.

How many cans does the Venture Cooler hold?

36 cans in a 25 litre cool cell. External size is 44 cm by 29 cm by 35 cm, internal 39 by 23 by 28, and every inside and outside part is sonic welded, so there are no stitched seams for melt water to find.

What is the 20L Sealed Soft Cooler?

The cooler bag: 20 litres inside, room for 24 x 375ml cans or 15 bottles, heavy-duty denier fabric outside with PVC badging, a PEVA lining with foam for insulation and a shoulder strap for carrying it full. It is a stockist piece, so find it through the watersports dealers rather than the cart.

Soft esky or hard esky for the boat?

Soft, for the boat day. A soft esky sits on a seat or wedges in the footwell, does not gouge the deck when the tinnie slaps a wake, and packs flat in the ute when it is empty. For a dawnie and an all-dayer, the Venture Soft Esky and the Venture Cooler are the boat option; the hard esky can stay in the shed for the camping trip.

Does a soft esky leak?

A heat-sealed liner is the difference. The Venture Soft Esky runs a heat-sealed PVC film liner, so melt water stays in the esky instead of the footwell. The Venture Cooler goes further: every inside and outside part is sonic welded, no stitched seams, on a 600D RPET polyester shell.

Will a soft esky fit on a jet ski?

Measure first. The Venture Cooler is 44 by 29 by 35 cm outside and the Venture Soft Esky is 42 by 24 by 32 inside, so it depends on your rear deck and what else is strapped there. On a tinnie or a wake boat they go anywhere a seat is. The Venture line is built for boats, skis and beaches: wet things, hot sun, sand in everything.

How do I clean and look after a soft esky?

Empty it the same day, rinse the liner in fresh water, wipe it out and leave it open to dry out of direct sun. Salt and bait left in a closed esky on a hot ute tray is a smell you own for the rest of the season. Store it open, not squashed under the outboard.

The full rundown on Soft Eskies & Cooler Bags

The soft esky for the boat, the ski and the beach

Seek the Horizon is the Venture line's brief: fishing, touring, long days out, and the soft esky is where every one of those days starts. Two boat eskies and a cooler bag, all picked for salt, sun, fuel splash and being stood on, and all built on the idea that the cans and the catch should still be cold when the ramp queue is at its worst.

Venture Soft Esky

46 litres inside, 42 cm by 24 cm by 32 cm internal, a sponge foam core and a heat-sealed PVC film liner. It is the dawnie esky: bait and lunch going out, the catch and the cans coming back, on a bag that sits on a tinnie seat and does not rattle or gouge the deck. Room for the crew's lunch, and the kind of lid that gets a decal on it by the second weekend.

Venture Cooler

36 cans in a 25 litre cool cell. 44 cm by 29 cm by 35 cm outside, 39 by 23 by 28 inside, with every inside and outside part sonic welded so there are no stitched seams for melt water to find, on a 600D RPET polyester shell. The all-dayer's esky: the run out to the reef, the sandbar at lunch, the drive home with the drinks still cold. Built to cop what a boat hands out and come back next weekend.

20L Sealed Soft Cooler

The cooler bag for the ute, the work site and the beach: 20 litres inside, room for 24 x 375ml cans or 15 bottles, heavy-duty denier fabric with PVC badging outside, a PEVA lining with foam for insulation inside and a shoulder strap for carrying it full. It is a stockist piece, sold through the watersports dealers around the country.

Soft esky or hard esky

Soft wins the boat day. It sits on a seat, wedges in the footwell, packs flat in the ute when it is empty and does not chip the gelcoat when the tinnie slaps a wake. Rinse the liner in fresh water the same day, leave it open to dry out of the sun, and it lasts. The anchor goes in before the esky comes out: jet ski anchors and fenders for when the ski stops.

The rest of the Venture kit

Dry Safe roll-tops for the phone and keys, the 50L Waterproof Backpack and the Handle Bar Bag that straps to the ski are on dry bags and waterproof backpacks. The whole touring and fishing line, vests included, is on Venture Series, and the sun shirts for a day on the flats are on fishing shirts and sun shirts.

Cold cans at four in the arvo is the whole brief. Everything else is detail.