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The Caper Cat (or Caper Cat 14) is a 14 ft sailing catamaran manufactured by Calypso Sailcraft in Brisbane, Australia. [1] While in many ways similar to other catamarans of its size (notably the Hobie Cat), a unique feature of the catamaran is its large storage capacity. [2]
Incat's Hobart shipyard (to the right) The 99m wave piercing catamaran HSC Francisco, delivered by Incat in 2013: the world's fastest ship in commercial service. The company began in 1972 as the Sullivans Cove Ferry Company in suburban Hobart and built four small ferries before International Catamarans was formed in 1977 by a partnership between founder Bob Clifford and marine architect Philip ...
Private owner, in Cartagena Spain NZL–57 Team New Zealand: Training boat for 2000 challenge Owner Areva Challenge by way of K-Challenge in Valencia. USA–58 Young America: Young America: Replaced USA–53 in 2000 LVC R-R 2 & R-R 3. Luna Rossa Challenge, location unknown SUI–59 Be Happy: FAST 2000 Test yacht Owner +39 challenge competed in ...
Hobie Alter sold the Hobie Cat Company to the Coleman Company in 1975. In 1982, Coast Catamaran (The official name of the Hobie Cat Company at that time) bought dinghy company Vagabond and its line of dinghy designs from Ron Holder and produced a series of dinghies (Hobie Hawk, Hobie Holder 12, Hobie Holder 14, Hobie Holder 17 & Hobie Holder 20) and monohulls in the 1980s and 1990s, including ...
HMAS Jervis Bay (AKR 45) was a wave piercing catamaran that operated in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).. Built by Incat in Tasmania and launched in 1997 as Incat 045, the ship was chartered to TT-Line as Tascat to supplement cross-Bass Strait services until the company acquired new ships.
The story of Miss Nylex began in 1971 when a syndicate was established to build a yacht to defend the ICCT, which Australia had won from Denmark in 1970. [2] The 1970 win had brought the trophy ‘down under’ for the first time and the Sorrento Sailing Club [5] was tasked with defending the trophy and hosting the event on Port Phillip Bay near Melbourne. [1]
Crowther Design founder Lock Crowther had a history in catamaran, trimaran and commercial vessel design. Incat Designs (Sydney, formed 1988) founder Philip Hercus [2] had a history in passenger vessel catamaran design. In 1977, [3] he formed a partnership, namely International Catamaran Pty Ltd designing and building catamarans in Tasmania.
In October 1995, a seventh vessel built by Wavemaster International in Henderson, Western Australia was delivered, named Nicole Livingstone. [7] In 2000, Marlene Matthews participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics torch relay. [8] Although primarily operating Parramatta River services, they also operate other Transdev Sydney Ferries services.