Offshoreonly.com - Doug Wright RGR 28 foot cat plug in the works

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Originally Posted by noli (Post 4329270)

This hull is not being built by Skater (Peter Hledin) , rather it's being designed and tooled by Doug Wright Powerboats

Doug Wright Powerboats is owned and run by Doug Wright Sr. [DW Sr] and Doug Wright Jr. [DW Jr]

The design concept is gotten initially from the customer, in this build the customer is (RGR - Rick George Racing) www.fatcatboats.com

The design then gets transformed into a powerful CAD computer by DW Sr.

DW Sr converts the customer's design ideas into a three dimensional rendering via computer aided design methodologies (3D CAD) as seen below

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Next, the 3D CAD is converted into instructions for a mutli-dimensional-axis Large CNC machine [in-house]. This is the tooling portion of the build (DW Sr.). DW Jr then begins to protect the foam for the next steps. DW Jr covers the foam with a blue film, then an orange material that hardens over the foam so that the CNC machine can further mill the plug.

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DW Jr covers the milled foam with what looks to be a blue plastic material, then an orange material is applied and hardens. DW Sr once again instructs the CNC machine to perform a finer milling of what is slowly becoming the plug of the 28 foot cat as seen in below video. DW Jr will then blueprint the plug (hull bottom) to create another magical hull from DW Powerboats.

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Now to finally answer your question...

Ans: on this particular build, it is planned that RGR will pull the mold off of this plug. I'm not sure who owns the plug, I am guessing that RGR will own the plug and thus will own the mold as well.

if you visit the Doug Wright factory, you'll see a Uuuge 38 foot Deep-V in the works. Again using the same process above. That design was gotten from a different customer. In this particular build, DW skipped the plug creation step, and went right onto mold tooling.

P.S. all of the workers, from DW [both of them] down to the workers are all humble, down to earth, easy to converse with folks. This is how I learned all of this.

Request for Corrections: Please add corrections in the above process where necessary.

Request for additional data: If you have pics and/or renderings of the deck, please share with us :)

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Thanks for all the info noli sorry if I confused anyone I should really keep track of all the different builders better