BOAT REVIEW
By Erwin Bursik
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N the banks of the Kowie River, adjacent to the Eastern Cape’s hamlet of Port Alfred, Supercat’s walk-on mooring at the yacht club and marina displays a few of the craft this boatbuilding company manufactures. When I visited recently, in front of me floated their flagship — a 67ft super yacht — two 29ft Slivers and their latest redesigned Supercat 590 (the original of which I reviewed in SKI-BOAT magazine back in 1998). They are all magnificent. The awesome picture on this page encapsulates the vari-
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ety of incredible craft that are produced from start to finish at the Supercat factory which is situated on a small holding just inland of this town’s industrial area. Dennis Schultz, together with his sons Neil and Clinton, have been building offshore ski-boats and yachts for many, many years. Initially they built the legendary Supercat 620, 520 and Witblitz, then they began specialising in their version of a displacement craft.To date they have manufactured over 60 of the 29- and 38ft models. These are mostly based in the Indian Ocean islands, but also as far afield as the Bahamas. The Supercat 590 Multisport has been largely redesigned
