Category: Latest Launch

It’s becoming a popular trend with fishers – the use of electric trolling motors on trailer craft to either silently stalk fish in the shallows, or ‘anchor’ over hot spots. This recent launching of a Kingfisher 510 minicat shows how seamlessly a Minn Kota fits on the boat and how the generous decking created by…

Powered by twin 315 hp Yanmars on vee drives, this Kingfisher cat is the third commercial vessel to the same design. The vessel can carry 45 passengers.

Alloy Cats Ltd have a proud relationship with Naiad Design and are delighted with the performance of the latest vessel to be launched – a 9.5 metre Coastguard RIB for Whangamata. Powered by twin 250 Yamaha outboards the craft reached 45 knots in seatrials and gave the kind of soft ride most boaties can only…

A Kingfishercat 1200 has just been launched, destined for commercial crayfishing off the Wairarapa coast. It is powered by twin Yamaha 350 hp outboards and will be beach launched from its own customised trailer on a daily basis.

The latest addition to our range of revolutionary Kingfisher minicats is the 510 centre console. This particular vessel is powered by a 140hp Suzuki giving a top speed of 35knots. In rough harbour conditions just before Christmas it powered straight through a ‘wind against tide’ chop at 30 knots with no hard pounding and and…

Our Roger Hill designed 12 m displacement cat has had its first outing on theTauranga Harbour. Driven by twin 170hp Hyundai diesels on conventional shafts, the craft notched up a top speed of 24 knots. The displacement mode created a strange sensation for those not used to a boat resisting the normal habit of wanting…

[lead]Snapper Fishing Safaris have just taken delivery of their new cat/barge. Surveyed for 40 passengers the vessel will however only take up to 20 on fishing trips.[/lead] The new boat compliments Darryl and Megan O’Keeffe’s other two vessels. Able to cruise at a comfortable 15 to 20 knots, fishers will be able to spend more…