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McConaghy Boats & Composite Solutions
Australian, founded 1967
Built on a Tradition of Innovation McConaghy boats was founded by John McConaghy in 1967, building 12, 16, and 18 foot skiffs, Tornado and A - class catamarans, Moths and other high performance dinghies. Early boats were built of plywood, but shortly after McConaghy began engineering and perfecting the vacuum formed foam sandwich, fibreglass/ Kevlar construction method, which proved an immediate success. As the company's reputation grew, so did McConaghy's research and development into pre-preg composite construction techniques earning them a reputation as best in the business making the McConaghy name synonymous with light, strong and stiff laminated structures.
McConaghy's inevitable expansion led the move to its current site in Mona Vale in Sydney in 1989, enabling the production of very competitive large yachts, masts, steering systems and foils for yachts in the very competitive America's Cup, Kenwood Cup, Maxi Worlds, Admirals cup, Whitbread /Volvo and around the world record breaking Multihull races. In the year 2000, Jon Morris and Mark Evans embraced the opportunity to take over the company from founder John McConaghy and long time business partner Steve (Moxy) Moxham. Since that time the company has continued to pursue a very conservative financial strategy while also diversifying to extend its revenue base, a strategy that has seen it triple in size in the past decade.
Armed with a detailed understanding of composite construction, McConaghy now develop and supply light weight composite solutions to not only the Marine Industry but to the Architectural, Medical and Automotive industries as well.
In 2006 the company expanded yet again and opened a 2,500 square meter facility in China which has since quadrupled in size and produces yachts ranging from Mach 2 foiling moths and the Olympic Class Elliott 6m to Volvo 70 and America's Cup racers, luxury custom motor yachts such as the 142 foot power Trimaran and a whole range of industrial solutions and products including complete hovercrafts and their technically challenging carbon fibre propellers
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