Buying a New Boat in South Africa

[FrankZ]

[quote=Nordic cat;200604]

Originally Posted by fastcat435

If I understand this correctly, you have orders for 15 Fastcats to be delivered between now and the middle of 2010? So 15 boats in less than 24 months, that is one every 7 weeks on average. This is excluding demo/test boats like the one you are doing in Basalt fibre that you posted on another thread.

Can you confirm this?

The number of boats currently in production or delivered has nothing to do with the certifiying body you mentioned in the first post of this thread.

As it appears to me this thread was started with the end of baiting one user and not to discuss all the builder that build in South Africa and how this body impacts them this thread is now closed.

[freetime]

Originally Posted by fastcat435

After delivery of the contract after the boat will be fine

Greetings

Gideon

Sounds good!

[knottybuoyz]

Originally Posted by Nordic cat

[This is excluding demo/test boats like the one you are doing in Basalt fibre that you posted on another thread.

First basalt fiber hull ready.... NauticExpo

Basalt fiber hull fc455 ready - AFRICAN-CATS - NauticExpo

[Ex-Calif]

Originally Posted by Nordic cat

There have been a few questions regarding buying a boat in SA. I have done a bit of research on this and found the South African Boat Builders council,

See: South African Boatbuilders Business Council (SABBC) (S.A.B.B.C.) (ID: 60680) - Maritime Companies, Sites and Services CATALOGUE

This council regulates the local industry and does not accept members until they have and maintain a good tack record, be it towards customers or suppliers.
I'm not sure but I thinkl they need to build more than one boat per year as well.

I opened this thread to post one more link. It appears the South African Boatbuilders Business Council has been reorganized as the South African Boatbuilders Export Council.

The link above is to "business card site" not to the original http://www.southafricanboatbuilders.co.za/ - This site does not work for me.

The new SABBEX is located here - There are member listing so you can see who are members yourself.

It does not appear they "regulate" the industry. They promote the industry.

SABBEX | South African Boatbuilders Export Council

I just figured it would be appropriate to post the best info we could.