Brady catamarans

A Brady 45 sailing catamaran

Founded| 1976
Founder| Peter Brady
Headquarters|

Brisbane

Australia

Products| Catamarans

Brady catamarans are twin-hulled boats that are designed by Peter Brady a well respected New Zealand designer. Brady originally designed sailing cats, motorsailers and power cats, but for the last 20 years the firm (now called Pathfinder Powercats)[1] has specialised in powered catamarans exclusively.[2]

Brady catamarans are either constructed at Brady's Brisbane boatyard, or plans-built by third-party constructors for private owners. Brady catamarans tend to be built in small numbers or even as one-offs, so the firm has adopted "strip-plank" as the optimum construction method. Strip-build involves attaching strips of cedar onto formers, the strips themselves being glued edge-on with epoxy. The completed wooden monococque is then covered with fiberglass matting and epoxy resin. This method is very suitable for low-volume construction, avoiding the need to build a female mould; it is simpler and cheaper to manufacture a plywood jig that may be discarded afterwards.

## Contents

* 1 Brady catamaran models
* 2 See also
* 3 External links
* 4 References

## Brady catamaran models

Brady catamaran models include:

* Brady 45 - sailing yacht with twin 40hp Yanmar auxiliary engines.
* Brady 52 "Passagemaker" - a motorsailer with a modest-area staysail schooner rig and twin Perkins 95hp main engines.[3][4]
* Brady 57 "Pathfinder pilothouse 17.4" - a luxury 57' cruising motoryacht. [5] [6]
* Brady Pathfinder M Series - a range of displaning[7] power catamarans between 41 and 49ft.[8]
* Brady Powercats - various models for leisure, fishing, and business use.[9]

## See also

* List of multihulls
* Boat building

## External links

* Pathfinder Powercats [9]
* Magazine articles [10]

## References

1. ↑ Pathfinder Powercats [1]
2. ↑ Article on Powercats [2]
3. ↑ Brady 52 [3][yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
4. ↑ The Brady 52 has no trampoline at the bows, instead having a solid foredeck (not unlike a Catalac)
5. ↑ Brady 57 [4]
6. ↑ Brady 57 - magazine cover [5]
7. ↑ "Displaning": a portmanteau word meaning a displacement hull that may also plane.
8. ↑ The Pathfinder M Series range [6]
9. ↑ Brady Powercats [7]
10. ↑ Magazine articles [8]

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