Can anyone identify this? It's strange . . .
 

What is this? Being touted as a 1981 30' Wellcraft Cougar Cat. I've never heard of such a thing, and to me it looks very similar to a 30' Excalibur hull, but the deck is completely different, as are the body lines on the hull. I'm really interested in the boat, I'd remove that hideous glass windshield, and respray the boat all stark white. My 496 stroker motors would fit nicely in it too :evilb:

two more pics . . .

Looks like a strange beast.

Congrats on selling the mistress. I thought you were geting out of the project business?

Kinda weird,but I like it, did you put this in the classic section?

Narrow beam, narrow tunnel, lots of deadrise and probably weighs a ton. That old girl has "pig" written all over her.

Not that much of a project . . . simple accessory swap onto my new longblocks . . . quick paint, could be a neat toy with a pair of 650's in it :)

I like the trip bar on the swim platform.....watch out.

How would you sell something like that w/o giving it away?

I've seen a 30ft wellcraft cat. A guy had it at a Poker Run on Texoma a couple of years ago. Nice guy, REAL nice boat. It looked like a chris cat. It had a different deck with lower freeboard and twin BBCs.

Looks like another experiment of splitting a V bottom in half and adding a 2 ft wide tunnel.

NADA shows 2 models of 30' Cougar Cats.
http://www.nadaguides.com/default.as...41&y=1981&ml=W

Definitely a PIG! not gonna run like a cat with that little tunnel.

That was the original English Cougar built "pleasure" catamaran. It wasn't aerodymaic, but it was very stable. They sold some to Sri Lanka for 'pirate busting', with a 20mm Oerlikon mackine gun. It was the only 30' around that could take the rotational force of firing that big mother over the side. They also sold some the South Africa, that had to be launched and retrieved from a frigate at 25 knots! No small feat.

Brownie:

How'd the boat run? Is the hull capable of attaining any real speed?

Thanks,

Harry

That there is a skater cat. Fer sure.

The first one looks like a Chris Cat.

Looked at one in back of some boatworks in Hollywood Fl about 10 yrs ago.
We had a customer who wanted one, history I guess.
Was warned to watch for transom and bulkhead rot.

I crawled about half way into the nose (full of old interior and rain water)
to check the bulkhead. That's when my "so called" buddy started yelling
SNAKE. Frick, never moved so fast in my life.
He didn't stop laughing for a week.

Looks like the Chris Cat I looked at.

Wellcraft Cougar Cat / Production Years & Quantities
 

@Brownie,
Since many years I'm a real fan of the old Wellcraft Cougar Cat. Some years ago I bought the one and only I could find since many years of searching (the boat of this thread!). It's a 1981 and was in the worst condition you could imagine as I bought it... some months before the owner had to sweep it away.
Restoration is going on; I also made moldings because I believe in the good performance of this boat.
Do you know about how many of them were produced? Which were the production years? I could find the boat only in the 1981 Wellcraft brochure.

Hope you (or someone else) can help.
Gerhard

They only built a few. It was a pleasant boat to run. More like a v than a cat. When Wellcraft started building them in 1984, Everyone tried the new DCPD resin, which gave a fabulous finsh, was tougher than anything else, BUT, it did not make a good secondary bond. When the hull skin lamination was cured, if it was on Friday, when the crew came in on Monday, the secondary laminations, stringers, liner, etc. did not adhere. All those boats with that resin that were run hard, fell apart. No one realized the cause at that time, so Wellcraft quit building them after just a few. The stuff they built in England was strong like bull and gove no problems.

get a nice catamaran "sneeze" off the front of that - might want to keep the glass after all.

Tony Roberts Popped a mold from one that Cougar left behind and sold about 5-7 of them to the Venezuelain Navy, they had Merlin Diesels and Arneson Drives, went about 55 mph. Some Had .50 Cal Machine Gun Mounts...

Is it for sale? It is a wellcraft. I have never seen one before and have seen 2 in the last 2 days.

Get the HIN and check the Coast Guard database to see who the Manuf is.

Is the boat just off Griffen Rd. in Ft. Lauderdale?

30' Welcraft welcat