Our Racing Heritage

Our commitment to racing dates back to 1986 with a series of high performance trimarans that employed high buoyancy floats, wide overall beam and good beam clearance, a combination of design elements that established a new performance benchmark on the racing circuit and helped to establish Grainger Designs at the forefront of multihull yacht racing in Australia.

Our commitment to racing continues and our designs are consistently at the front of the fleet on the Australian racing circuit. The 2010, 2011 racing season was no exception with our designs taking line honours victories at the Wangi Regatta, the Marlay Point Race, The Bay to Bay Race, the Surf to City race and the Gladstone Race, a complete list of the important races on the Australian calendar. To crown the list Grainger Designs took first, second and third places in the Queensland Multihull Championships. For more about our racing heritage visit the news pages and racing results.

Concept and Innovation

As with all forms of design, the design of multihull yachts is progressed through experimentation, research and a creative and innovative approach to the design process.

Our design work has progressed as a result of our commitment to racing and ongoing research and development in all aspects of multihull design including hull design, foils, rig design, materials and construction methods.

The advantages of this research and development is evident in overall performance sea keeping qualities, stiffness, strength, light weight and structural integrity of our boats.

Stepping into the future

Since 1986 the work of Grainger Designs has encompassed a wide range of multithull yachts including racing boats, production sailing catamarans, and custom designs. In 2011 we reviewed our extensive portfolio and set about producing a new range of designs to present our yachts in a cohesive range of styles and sizes.

We took the best features from our existing designs, created some fresh styling, incorporated some new design features we’d been thinking about for some time, and produced twelve new designs under four design concepts ranging from uncompromising performance to luxury cruising. Our new fleet is made up of Barefoot, Raku, Surin and TwinBlade, and you can find out more about them on the yachts pages. Click here to see some of our classic designs.