Industry Shipbuilding Headquarters Sydney | Website www.incatcrowther.com Founded 2003 | |
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Products Ship Design - monohull, catamaran and trimaran Type of business Proprietary limited company | ||
24m catamaran ferry fantasea sunrise designed by incat crowther
Incat Crowther is an Australian Company, headquartered in Belrose, a suburb of Sydney specializing in Marine engineering design. Incat Crowther has offices in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States and Southampton, UK.
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- 24m catamaran ferry fantasea sunrise designed by incat crowther
- 24m catamaran ferry freedom sovereign designed by incat crowther
- History
- Countries
- Records
- References
The company has a diverse product portfolio of designs for monohull, catamaran and trimaran vessels with a composite, aluminium and steel construction for a range of sectors, including commercial, recreational, military and passenger.
24m catamaran ferry freedom sovereign designed by incat crowther
History
The company was created from a merger of Incat Designs - Sydney and Crowther Designs in 2005.
Crowther Design founder Lock Crowther had a history in catamaran, trimaran and commercial vessel design.
Incat Designs (Sydney)(formed 1988) founder Philip Hercus(1992 AGM Michell medal recipient from the Institution of Engineers, Australia) had a history in passenger vessel catamaran design.
In 1977), he formed a partnership, namely International Catamaran Pty Ltd designing and building catamarans in Tasmania. This combination made significant advances in fast powered catamaran technology culminating in the Wave Piercing catamarans.
Early in 1988, the shipyard partnership was mutually terminated and a design-only company, International Catamaran Designs Pty Ltd (Incat Designs - Sydney) was formed as part of the Hercus Marine Group. The other partner Robert Clifford then commenced designing and building under a new company, Incat Tasmania Pty Ltd,
Philip Hercus and Robert Clifford received the Order of Australia (AO) in 1995 for service to the shipbuilding industry.
Both merging companies have had long partnerships with the following shipyards: Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Richardson Devine Marine, Nichols Bros, Gulfcraft, Cheoy Lee Shipyards, Aluminium Marine, Kvichak Marine and NQEA Australia
Later partnerships have emerged with: Arpoador Engenharia, Astilleros Armon, ETP Engenharia Ltda., Incat, PT Caputra Mitra Sejati Shipyard, Veecraft Marine
Worldwide, over 450 vessels built to Incat Crowther designs are in operation.
Countries
Incat Crowther designed vessels operate in the following countries:
Australia Azerbaijan Angola Brazil Brunei Cocos Islands China Honduras Indonesia Japan Mexico New Zealand Nigeria Russia Seychelles Singapore Tanzania Thailand United Kingdom USA
Records
A world waterskiing record of 114 Skiers by the Horsehead Water Ski Club on 28 March 2010 was set utilizing the vessel Eagle.
This record was again broken utilizing the Eagle on 27 January 2012 with 145 skiers making the nautical mile journey.