Rigid or semi-rigid shell, everything is possible
In 2009, Patrick Bardon launched the Sealver brand with the Waveboat 525, a 5.25 m rigid hull capable of carrying 6 people whose particularity is to be powered by a jet ski. A concept that combines water sports and pleasure, all in a single boat.
Sealver is therefore developing a range of 3 rigid hulls from 4.44 m to 6.56 m and 2 semi-rigid hulls from 5.75 m and 6.26 m. For each of its boats, the yard is developing an accounting kit for the three major jet-ski brands, namely Yamaha, Seadoo and Kawasaki, with a propulsion capacity of 90 to 300 HP.
The brand has always adapted to the jet trends of the moment, allowing drivers to change at any time to the latest jet innovation, while maintaining compatibility with their Wave Boat.
Thus the brand now offers a kit adapted for each hull: 3 kits for Yamaha, 2 for Kawasaki and 3 for Seadoo, includes the kit for the brand new ST3 hull.
Combine water sports and pleasure boating
The Sealver range adapts to a varied sailing programme: family or friends, speed (50 knots for the WB 575), fishing or even towed sliding sports. The yard is offering a Wake version of these models with a roll-bar.
But the big advantage of the Wave Boats is their jet-ski propulsion. Once you get to the anchorage, you can leave part of the family on board and continue to sail and have fun on your jet.
A range that is constantly adapting to the market
Seadoo has just launched the new ST3 hull - more design, wider for better stability with a lower centre of gravity and improved design, this hull fits perfectly into the open sea.
Always in the idea of following this regularly evolving jet trend, Sealver now offers a compatibility kit for this hull. And with a view to innovation, the Landes shipyard, which produces its boats in-house in its Sanguinet shipyard, uses virtual reality.
A digitisation process
To develop this kit, the Landes shipyard lent itself a machine from Seadoo to start a process of digitizing the hull and produce a compatibility kit for this jet. This means that a digital print of the jet is made (by the company CETIM sud-ouest) and the data sent to the Italian company XM TECH which produces the boats' moulds. The parts are then manufactured on site by rotomoulding (shaping by moulding the plastic materials).
Thanks to virtual reality - which the site has been using since 2016 - the site is optimizing its design and production. Unlike 3D, virtual reality makes it possible to immediately realize volumes and avoids the use of models at scale 1. Thus, the shipyard can produce these compatibility kits for the jet ski is perfectly embedded in the boat.
Digital overview of the front interface part for ST3 kit created by XM tech on the basis of the scanning done by CETIM Sud-ouest.
