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money. Butt has had to make numerous experiments and to
draw heavily on his experience as a seaman.
He
has built up an extensive business in the
manufacture and sale of Butt-Cat hulls, selling them to
customers in many parts of the Republic and South-West
Africa and as far afield as the Comoro Islands in the
Indian Ocean.
In the years 1981, 1982 and 1983 respec¬
tively, he sold 25, 15 and 16 Butt-Cat hulls, making an
average profit of about Rl 500,00 on each one.
During 1983 Schultz and his father approached
Butt with a request that he sell them a mould which he
was not using, in order (so they said) to build themselves
one boat for their private use.
Butt had doubts about
this.......