Waves And Wheels Receives First Doug Wright 36 Carbon Cat
12-11-2022 | 09:41 AM
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12-11-2022 | 10:34 AM
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they are still doug wright boats and tagged and titled as such. think of the waves and wheels edition as a pkg, no diff than buying a badlander edition bronco, or back when Bill pyburn did the Platinum edition skaters, or a Larry Smith Scarab, just some custom features from an outside vendor.
12-11-2022 | 10:42 AM
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I would have to disagree with you on comparing the W&W DWs to the "Platinum Series" Skaters, of which some were built/rigged/completed in-house at Skater (see attached pics of the last "Platinum Series" 388 built in-house for David Branton - "Voodoo"). If you want to compare the W&W DWs to any Skater model, they are most similar to what Skater offers as a "kit boat", which is when a customer buys a boat in primer only, with no paint/interior/rigging/engines etc. All you get for a kit boat price is the completed boat with tanks, deck hatches and windshield installed. The latest example of one of these Skaters is the 388/450R rig that Steve Bareman bought as a kit boat and then did all the paint/interior/rigging himself. Steve also purchased the engines already installed through Skater - which is an option for their kit boats. Through the decades, Skater has sold many kit boats to dealers and private customers. I've owned several Skaters that started life as kit boats, there's a lot more of them out there than people know.
12-11-2022 | 10:54 AM
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I would have to disagree with you on comparing the W&W DWs to the "Platinum Series" Skaters, of which some were built/rigged/completed in-house at Skater (see attached pics of the last "Platinum Series" 388 built in-house for David Branton - "Voodoo"). If you want to compare the W&W DWs to any Skater model, they are most similar to what Skater offers as a "kit boat", which is when a customer buys a boat in primer only, with no paint/interior/rigging/engines etc. All you get for a kit boat price is the completed boat with tanks, deck hatches and windshield installed. The latest example of one of these Skaters is the 388/450R rig that Steve Bareman bought as a kit boat and then did all the paint/interior/rigging himself. Steve also purchased the engines already installed through Skater - which is an option for their kit boats. Through the decades, Skater has sold many kit boats to dealers and private customers. I've owned several Skaters that started life as kit boats, there's a lot more of them out there than people know.
12-11-2022 | 11:13 AM
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I was only trying to point out the fact that some of the Platinum Series Skaters were completed in-house at Skater - though you can purchase a Skater kit boat (which is basically what W&W is doing with DW). I wasn't trying to compare build quality in any way. Sorry for taking this thread slightly off-topic, as I've heard good things about W&W and wish them the best in their new endeavor with DW.
12-11-2022 | 11:29 AM
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I'm sure there is confusion with PBC and everyone assuming they are DW hulls...because they had been for years. I'm not sure it was made clear what was going on when they transitioned to their own stuff. Who knows if that had anything to do with the Cig fiasco and what transpired after, and that may be what that comment in this article references. Clear as mud and probably none of anyone's business anyway 
