My World Cat 2665, was hooked behind a truck and sent on her way for the fitment of two brand new motors. After a successful journey of no less than 150kms the driver suddenly felt a jerk, looked in his mirror and for a moment thought he'd had been smoking his socks...

On his right hand side was a World Cat 2665 on a trailer traveling at a high speed slowly over-taking his vehicle currently doing around 70km/h....

After realizing that this World Cat and trailer was no longer attached to his vehicle, he thought it best to close his eyes and say a prayer. At that stage the World Cat was making her way to the centre of the island, with oncoming traffic. She was running at full speed on a jockey wheel, aiming straight for the oncoming traffic. His prayers were answered, she veered to the right, went straight across the road, missing some oncoming traffic, went off the road on the other side onto farm land and straight into a tree.

When they eventually got to her, expecting the worst, all they found was the two tied down straps with a break capacity of no less than 15 000 lbs had snapped!! The World Cat had move forward by no less than 2 meters, snapped a chain that was holding her bow down! It was just incredible! Her damage was limited to a 1 meter gash on the inside of the starboard bow and some minor scratches. The attached photographs speak for themselves.

Piet Visser, the proud owner had the following to say "If this was any other boat, she would have been in pieces. To withstand that kind of impact means it had to be special boat." The World Cat had some minor damage she had since being repaired and she will be fishing in the upcoming events.

Piet Visser, and avid fisherman, keen brandy and coke drinker and an experienced Skipper had this to say: "Now more than ever I'm more than comfortable in taking my family out to sea. As a owner of no less than 5 previous owned boats, I can assure you I will never buy anything else again but a World Cat. They don't just comfortable and practical boats, but also damn strong."

Piet had some sound advise for those people who tow their boats. Invest in a decent Jockey wheel. It's the jockey wheel that prevented the boat and trailer from digging into the tarmac and rolling over.