Originally Posted by reef_king
Is that for a 7m ? and is the 7m really a 7m (23ft) hull or is measured the way most do now and is really only a 6m ? (20-21ft)
Is that for a 7m ? and is the 7m really a 7m (23ft) hull or is measured the way most do now and is really only a 6m ? (20-21ft)
Its excatly 7m from the front of boat, not including bowsprit, to were the engines get bolted on to, not to the back of the walkway in between the engines. U can get them now in the 2.5m or a 2.8m wide one but mine only measures 2.3m wide, he also makes 5.6m-8m models(that i know of, but is a complete customizable builder and i don't know of any that have the exact same setup).
ty
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Are you saying this is a 7m Cat with a 2.3 metre (7.5 feet) beam ????....U can get them now in the 2.5m or a 2.8m wide one but mine only measures 2.3m wide
Thats what i wrote.......!!!!
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Yeah that's what I thought you said, just wanted to make sure it wasn't a missprint
So it's no only the yanks that try and make little boats into bigger boats, err that should be longer boats without due respect for the beam! Cheap way out but doesn't do the lengthened boat justice.
Last edited by Kerry; 19-07-2007 at 08:42 PM.
maybe it was made like that, to improve performance,not just save cost? Interesting how most of the time Kerry you wont give advice until you have all the facts, yet sometimes you just shoot off at the mouth with very little facts at all!
Hummm, Kerry i have 2 questions? Have you every seen a coastal cat in the flesh? If answer yes to this, have you ever been in a coastal cat?
Ian
Ian,
Regardless of seeing any cat in the flesh, any cat what so ever, it simply begs the question why anybody would take a 5m cat (as suggested) and turn it into a 7m cat without loosing some of the characteristics and ending up with ill bred greyhound!
Like this isn't the first time this has been attempted and the results generally don't favour a boat actually designed as if from scratch. Similar in the states Cats are designed more to meet trailer requirements than actual sea capabilities so one ends up 7m designs extended to 10 metres maintaining the same beam with the excuse being thay have to keep the beam less than trailerable restrictions, well that's a load of BS, either built a Cat as a proper Cat or not at all and a 7m cat with a 2.3 metre beam is nothing more than a cheap way out as obviously it has been adpated from a much smaller cat and simply extended, nothing more.
It really does not give you a 7m cat unless you believe in shiny greyhounds, regardless of what spin or excuse you want to put on it.
So Ian it really is nothing more than a half breed and not a Cat designed from scratch taking into consideration length v beam ratio's. Lets face it if it was designed from scratch then it simply would not have a 2.3m beam, would it?
Regards, Kerry.
Last edited by Kerry; 20-07-2007 at 06:17 PM.
Kerry, You know absoultly nothing about Coastal Cats, or how their built... so stop jumping to conclusions, babbling on about B.S and greyhounds.
The diffferent hulls sizes have different moulds and modifications, and i did not say the 5.6-8m models all come from the same mould. My boat had a 2.3 mt beam from the mould for that year(2004commercial hull), the reason he makes a 2.5mt beam one now, not the 2.3mt beam is cause the mould has been changed to 7.3m not 7m and a slighltly different hull(2006). I do not know the width of the 5.6mt.
ty,
P.S Who is to say a 7m cat has to be 2.5m?
P.P.S The hull is a semi-planning hull and works it way through the water not over it .
So why did he originally make a 7 metre, 2.3 m metre beam cat
Who said anything about it having to be 2.5m? Not me! Why stop at 2.5 metres anyway????....P.S Who is to say a 7m cat has to be 2.5m?
2.8m wide? So what's the main reasoning for a spread of 2.3m to 2.8m beam in what is basically a 7m boat?....U can get them now in the 2.5m or a 2.8m wide one but mine only measures 2.3m wide...
Last edited by Kerry; 20-07-2007 at 09:45 PM.
The 2.8mt beam is desinged 4 carrying more load on the deck and are used mostly by spanner crabbers that need the extra load handeling charcteristics.
My model with the 2.3m beam is by far the softest riding boat he makes(most of the pro's in CC around here that are line fishing use this hull because its so soft and the distances they have to travell 50-60nmls in almost any weather), with the 2.8 mt one not as soft in the way it works itself through the water but more stable.(of course) theres also a few mackeral fisherman up north who use the 2,8mt for the extra deck load carrying they have.
The boat was desinged ground up with this beam and it works exceptionally well.
U probally can't find any advertising info on them is because he doesn't need to advertise, the boats sell themselves, and he doesn't have to spend thousands on advertisng like the kevla's,noosa's, ect.
Last edited by reef_king; 21-07-2007 at 09:12 AM.
Is this the 2.8 metre version or the 2.3 m beam version?....The boat was desinged ground up with this beam and it works exceptionally well.
Last edited by Kerry; 21-07-2007 at 09:18 AM.
Both are
ty
So this comment is not correct then?Their taken off the mantacat hull design, changed a few things to become a COASTALCAT
However would explain why a 7m Cat ended up with only a 2.3m beam!
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