New Designs in the Pipeline
A Range of elegant Power Cats with options of Diesel, Electric and Hybrid Drive Systems
Details coming to the web site soon
A PRELIMINARY STUDY FOR A 42' SINGLE HANDED DAY SAILING TRIMARAN
Details coming to the news page soon.
Design Technology
No one thought of putting wheels under travel luggage………until someone did!
No one thought of putting a canoe body under what would otherwise be a narrow planing hull until in the 1980's Malcolm Tennant did. Look for an article on how this has transformed the design of hulls for displacement power cats. Coming to the LAB soon.
Warmer Waters and a fresh Chain of Command for Australia's top Racing Boat
Above; Ullman Sails on her way to winning Airlie Beach Race Week 2019.
She's was christened Carbon Copy, later to be known as Mad Max and then Ullman Sails. She has dominated the Australian inshore racing scene for several years and still holds the title of the Australian Multihull Championships.
Having won just about every race that can be sailed in Australia in daylight hours, she's heading for new waters, a new owner, and a new crew. A more detailed report coming soon.
WHO WE ARE
Self educated in the art of creating water borne projectiles with quite a bit of credit due to C A Marchaj and Douglas Phillips-Birt.
What we do would not be possible without the masters we work with in boat building, sailmaking, rigging, engineering, and all the other skills that help to bring our designs to life.
And many thanks to the sailors who take out boats to some of the exotic locations on the planet, and to the racing skipper and crews who sometimes drive the boats to levels of performance I never imagined was possible.
TONY GRAINGER
DAN BRADFORD
Dan has a history in boats that includes spending a year with his family living aboard a cruising cat to racing in skiffs and dinghies and cruising the Whitsunday Islands in his 16' Calyspo cat. He has recently been working hands on with Jamie Morris on the Construction of the R42 trimaran on the Australian Gold Coast.
Dan has a degree in Engineering at the Australian Maritime College in Tasmania specialising in Naval Architecture. His expertise encompases modeling, draughting, engineering and pretty much all aspects of the design process.
Contact
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International Phone: ++ 66 8 6275 2480
Mobile in Thailand : 08 6275 2480
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