Zapcats

What are Zapcats?

Zapcats originate from South Africa where since the early 80’s local crews have raced inflatable boats down treacherous rivers and along rugged coastlines. Developed from life saving surf rescue craft for racing and leisure, Zapcats are designed to cope with a huge variety of sea conditions from flat calm lakes to large breaking surf. Since these days, inflatable boat technology and design has come along way, finally evolving into the highly capable, versatile and robust Zapcat. The boats are inflatable catamarans with 50hp engines that reach up to 50mph on the water, but are inherently safe through having propellers in purpose designed and built propeller guards.

A Zapcat also gives the user the ability to reach speeds and carry out manoeuvres that simply could not be attempted by craft of a similar size, pulling in excess of 2 'G' in the tightest of corners

Since its explosive entry into the UK sports market in 2001, Zapcat Racing has seen rapid growth within the sport and has become the world’s largest one-design powerboat series as well as becoming a highly popular leisure craft. The versatility of these feisty little powerboats is one of the many reasons for their success within the UK and European watersports scene. Not only does one design Zapcat Racing offer close, affordable and fair competition but also, Zapcats are suitable as cruising vessels, for skiing, paragliding and fishing. Accessible to a very large number of individuals due to the boats’ affordability, simplicity to maintain and transport, the captivating sport of Zapcat racing attracts many sportsmen and women from the arenas of RIB racing, motorcycling, mountain biking, jet-skiing and even go-karting.

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Watergate Bay June 2008
Bournemouth June 2008
Cromer July 2008
Bournemouth August 2008
Watergate Bay September 2008
The Best Of 2007

Watergate Bay youtube compilation


Pricing
We have now changed the pricing system for 2008, individual photos can be purchased via the buy button under the image.

If you require all the images of your craft taken at a single event the files* can be purchased for £50.00, please contact us and we can advise you how many images this will actually amount to. (Please note that images bought this way will be completely unedited and may include a large number of sequence shots)

End of season special offer
All the JPEGs of your boat taken at the 5 listed rounds of the 2008 season supplied on disc for £200.00
Contact me for further details.

* All image files will be provided in JPEG format and sent electronically, back up discs are also available for an additional £5.00. Images remain the property of Auto-Sport-Images and supplied for use by competitors, there teams, families and sponsors, they cannot be sold on for gain.