Dive boat - help needed?

[foxfish]

Guys, I am considering buying a new dive boat & really like the look of this one Ceasar Thunderbolt
I have searched the net but cant find any "real life" reports on the boats performance. I note it is South African built, any one know anything?

 

[grunter]

is it a larger version of a "zap cat", they race them in SA and i think there is a cicuit in UK. a friend of mine has/had one. i think he had a fifty on the back, turns on a pound coin. he soon after prolapsed a disk...and last i heard was trying to sell it.

 

[Loveboater]

This looks like a bigger version of a Zapcat - my girlfriend used to have a one and she really rated it for spearing and mucking around
I met the guy who organises the Zapct racing in the UK, there are usually a few for sale.Seen them on ebay and they go for about £3k with engines and bits.

 

[foxfish]

Thanks guys, you are right but much bigger than a zap cat. This one is 17.5' x 8.5' & has been designed for leisure rather than racing. However she will do 100kmh with the recommended 90hp motor. That much I do know but was hopping someone had tryed or at least seen one in the flesh (PVC).

 

[grunter]

thats alot of deck space, sounds good, 100km/hr sounds scary....

 

[scottie3030]

oh man, i want one but ive just bought a new boat and the girlfriend would go nuts :head 100kmh foxfish your a bad bad man

 

[fearthespear]

Chuffin' 'ell that is a fast bit of kit! Better rope your kit down tight!

At least you'll waste no time getting to your fave spots... We've got an inflatable and I always worry about puncturing with spear tips, bass spines, stringer needles etc etc. Don't know how much you're thinking of spending but what about something like a Boston Whaler? I recon that would be the perfect spearing boat....

 

[josedesucre]

Dont know anything about that boat but, ... it seems to me that you are thinking about something else, besides spearfishing, or not?
Of course that thing would be a lot of fun, but it doesnt look particularly well designed for diving/spearfishing. Try to imagine bouncing around (not at 100, but even at 50 kph) with a lot of spearguns, fish, fins, iceboxes and other stuff on that flat deck. :hmm

 

[foxfish]

Well some good points but I presently use a 15' ally catamaran & I am a qualified boat builder so I feel confident with the design. The Thunderbolt is supposed to be a very robust boat capable of taking on some big seas at speed? However I am not to keen on ordering a boat without at least some input from an owner rather than a salesman.
Total cost delivered with 90 Evinrude ETec = £10000.