290DC Offshore Dive Boat Video

Here's the newest video of the World Cat 290 Dual Console, The Ultimate Offshore Family Fun and Dive Boat... This video was a review done by Dean Travis Clarke of Sportfishing Magazine.

Cat vs Mono - Check Out This Video

Evinrude created a video to explain the differences between the catamaran hull and the mono hull designs, and what to look for while purchasing a catamaran... whether it be a World Cat, Glacier Bay, Twin Vee, ProKat or other... or even a mono-hull! There's a boat for everyone! Take a look if you haven't seen, it's quite informative.

290 Express Cabin Moving Along

The 290EC continues to move forward, we now have the stringers and bulkheads installed in the hull and are starting to fit the hull with tanks and rigging... I'll get some photos to update the stiffening and rigging processes. Everything is fitting together nicely so far, we're working hard on the head/cabin liner plug, which is the most difficult part of the project. I've included a photo of that process here, it's tedious and not too exciting... but extremely important to designing and bringing to life a high end boat.

Once we're done with the head/cabin liner, we'll build the mold and pull the first part to be included in our first prototype. A few more weeks until that is done, but we're building the hull liner, the dash, and lids mold next week... so stay tuned for updates on those processes. Next week will be a busy one!

Be sure to email us at pde@worldcat.com if there are any items you have questions on how we go through the boat design and boat construction process, hopefully everyone is finding this blog informative and interesting.

Happy Easter to All!

290EC Deck #1 Built

We finished building the first 290EC deck part today, it looks great! This will be the deck used on prototype #1 which is scheduled to be completed May 2nd for dealer and customer feedback as well as extensive water testing.

Next week we'll start rigging this deck, and fitting vendor parts. The 290 hull for proto #1 will be completed next week, so we'll be able to start on that as well. Once we verify rigging and fit, we begin setting up jigs and fixtures to ensure that we build each and every 290 Express Cabin to the tight tolerances we expect.

This boat is going to be a great addition to our sportfishing cabin boats!

Additional 290 Hull Mold

We've completed our second 290 series hull mold... this will be a welcome addition to our plant and quickly become a necessity with the addition of the Express Cabin and Center Console models in order to meet retail demand.

If we continued with only one hull mold this would mean that we could only build a 290 series boat every other start. This is because we build our hulls over a two-day period in order to maximize the benefits of a properly cured skin coat.

Day one consists of spraying gelcoat, and skinning the hull to approx 70 mils. We allow this to cure overnight in order to ensure that the proper hardness is reached in the skin coat which protects the finished surface.

Day two consists of adding the bulk laminate which consists of layers of bi-axial and tri-axial materials, and foam coring above the waterline. Once they are done with bulk laminate, they finish day two by installing the transom, stringers, and the bulkheads.

Adding this second mold we mean that we can start a 290 series boat every single day, and considering we build one boat per day, that's a lot of capacity! Once we get the metal framework glassed onto the hull mold for rigidity, mold care will then properly bring it up for the first two production parts by buffing, sealing, and applying release agent. After building the first two parts we'll perform final tooling to take the mold to 1000-grit finish, and it'll be ready for years of high-quality production parts.