I am one of 9 owners of a boat design by World Cat, the 27' HTS with twin diesels, 2004-2005.

The hatch design over the engines allows water entry directly into the air cleaner elements, turbos, and engines while cruising. I have had several volvo mechanics, a boat engineer, and 2 surveyors look at it and they all are of one consensus...the hatches are a safety issue and the boat cannot be trusted to be taken offshore, which is what WC marketed it for. I owned mine a year and the coast guard had to rescue me, fortunately the ocean wasn't rough because it broke down 42 miles offshore.

Several people have said it is the worst hatch design they have seen in the marine industry, and Andrew Brown of World Cat knew there was a problem but instead of recalling them he had his brokers pawn them off on unsuspecting buyers. Checkout my thread on sportfishermen.com under Scandal by World Cat and Town Creek Marina.

The design is so bad, the damage caused by the leaking hatches is so extensive, it resulted in my insurance totalling this LEMON instead of trying to fix it.

I hope anyone who owns one of these diesel models has the hatches fixed before someone dies on the ocean. Do not believe a manufacturers hype about how they stand behind their products because most of them only care about you until they have your money.