Cootacraft Boats - reviews please

[weasel]

gidday Mark say hello to barbara and juicy holmes down there at coota if the boats handle that area they will handle most places

dave

[mookyandlumpy]

Big Ram with a pair of 200 HO's

drool ... some day

[HH565L]

For those of you who might be interested in seeing how a Cootacraft BIG RAM is built, click on the following link.

http://www.fishnet.com.au/forums/viewtopic.php?t=86607

I have been for runs in both the GUN SHOT and the BIG RAM and they are awesome boats.

Regards,
Spiro

[Cootac]

Wow Mark,
Great read and congratulations to you and your crew on building a terrific product. They look like the bees knees.
Tim

G day all , thank you all for the responce to coota craft thred ,we tray to build every boat to each customer mods.it very funny we have never build the same boat jet,so it goes to show to all off as that we are all difrent, thats way we build each coota craft too each customer . Mark

[TJ Bear]

Hello Mark

Was having a look at the Cootacraft web site and have a couple of questions. You state on the site under the heading of construction that you use dininycell to build your full hight longitudanul and transvers frames and it is 50 times stronger than any ply. Can you tell me where you get this divinycell as I use lots of the product and as I am aware about the strongest product Diab make is H200 Divini which is about the same density as marine ply and it costs a mint. We use H200 where through hull fittings go through the cored sides of hulls so the fitting can be tightened without crushing the core. If Diab are now making a core that is 50 times stronger the ply I would love to know of it and so would my Diab rep.

You also say that the little ram was designed and built in your first little shed, well the fact is that the hull was designed and built at Yatla on the Gold Coast, was drawn up by John Haines and the first plug was build in the R&D section of Haines Yatla. The boat is blatant flop of a V133 Sea Wasp. I have absolutly no issue with people flopping such boats as they are great little boats not available new from the original manafacturer same thing happens with the 445F, V19 and Formula 233 I just wish people would not infer that they designed the boat, it is a copy of a haines V133 sea wasp, give credit where credit is due for the design as it rests on the shoulders of John Haines.

[siegfried]

TJ ya cranky bastard, dont ya know anything , the state of QLD was actually designed, built and now inhabited by Victorians and John Haines and Don Aronow were both originally from Geelong .....i think ,he got shot by tasmanian ab divers in Florida if I remember correctly.

[TJ Bear]

Thanks for the laugh siegfried 100% on the money