Intending to develop what was already a good boat, he teamed up with a veteran Isle of Wight boat builder with many years experience in power cat development and manufacture to produce a new plug and mould for a 5m craft. The Wight Cat, which will be seen on the floating pontoon at Seawork 2013, is the result.<\/p>\n
A handpicked team of skilled boat builders, experienced in one-off builds, work together to produce boats to the customers individual specifications. Asymmetric hulls are used to minimise wake interference and to produce a softer ride with minimum pounding. There are many benefits from the asymmetric design. The boat will carve turns, can safely maintain speed in rougher conditions, has high transverse stability, reduced wetted area, a reduction in vertical acceleration and low wash. The Wight Cat Five O is designed with a self draining deck, sealed under deck compartments. It has a shallow draft, large cockpit area and a generous internal freeboard. With this design, the boat benefits from being able to use small power units.<\/p>\n
The Wight Cat on sea trials was fitted with twin Tohatsu 30 hp engines, handling well and with a top speed of 26 knots. With a marine engineer and outboard dealer on board, the general consensus was that the boat could be powered with new generation 20 hp outboards and still produce good performance.<\/p>\n
Wight Cats offer a bespoke build with many options, with the versatile design the suited to applications including commercial workboat, angling, dive boat, rescue craft and other emergency services work, fish farm workboat, harbour taxi and more.<\/p>\n
The design is available in open boat, T top, or cabin versions, with the many options available including side door, bow steps or ramps, bait station, cockpit seating, and dive bottle racks. One off composite mouldings and stainless work can be fully catered for. All composite materials are marine grade and Lloyds approved and all deck hardware is marine grade 316 stainless steel.<\/p>\n
Wight Cats have CE type approval Category C for six persons, 2m swell and force 6 winds.<\/p>\n
Two Wight Cats will be on the Seawork pontoon, T-top and cabin versions, both powered by twin 30 hp Honda four stroke outboards and capable of comfortable speeds in the 24-26 knot range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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