{"id":61191,"date":"2025-09-24T10:39:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/?p=61191"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:39:33","slug":"cure-marine-mcconaghy-yachts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/people\/cure-marine-mcconaghy-yachts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cure Marine Joins McConaghy to Build Performance Catamarans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CureMarine-50-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image disable-lazyload\" alt=\"Cure 55 on the water\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CureMarine-50-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CureMarine-50-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CureMarine-50-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CureMarine-50-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CureMarine-50.jpg 2000w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">The Cure 55, a performance cruising catamaran, exemplifies Cure Marine\u2019s blend of speed, comfort, and advanced composite construction.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Courtesy Cure Marine<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>Cure Marine and McConaghy Yachts have announced a strategic joint venture aimed at advancing the performance cruising multihull market. The partnership will see all Cure Marine catamarans produced at a dedicated facility within McConaghy Yachts\u2019 factory in Zhuhai, China, leveraging McConaghy\u2019s experience in high-performance composite yacht construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe id=\"gkstfcayky\" src=\"https:\/\/cruisingworld.dragonforms.com\/gkstfcayky\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:165px;border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Carl Bird, CEO of Cure Marine, said, \u201cMcConaghy Yachts&#8217; unparalleled reputation for innovation and precision in composite construction is the perfect complement to our brand. This joint venture will allow us to push the boundaries of performance and design, delivering the next generation of multihulls where you can go further, faster, and stay longer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collaboration also introduces two new models, the Cure 48 and Cure 68, joining the existing Cure 55. These multihulls aim to blend performance and comfort for modern cruising sailors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCure Marine has established a reputation for building exceptional performance catamarans, and we are proud to combine our strengths,\u201d said Mark Evans, Managing Director of McConaghy. \u201cOur teams share a passion for innovation and excellence. By working together, we are confident that we can set a new global standard for performance cruising multihulls and deliver extraordinary value to clients worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The joint venture brings together Cure Marine\u2019s design philosophy and focus on lightweight carbon-fiber construction with McConaghy\u2019s history of building some of the world\u2019s most notable racing and cruising yachts, including America\u2019s Cup AC40s and ocean racers like Wild Oats XI and Alfa Romeo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cure Marine will showcase the new models and reveal additional details at the 2025 Annapolis Boat Show in early October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/curemarine.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cure Marine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mcconaghyboats.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">McConaghy Yachts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New partnership combines Cure Marine design with McConaghy composite expertise to create next-gen cruising multihulls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":61193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Cruising World News Desk","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"","hydra_display_updated":false,"arc_story_id":"","arc_website_url":"","arc_subtype":"","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":true,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","ad_settings_ads_on_this_page":true,"ad_settings_automatic_ad_injection_into_the_content":true,"ad_targeting":"","alternate_title_newsletter":"","alternate_content_newsletter":"","sponsored_image":false,"sponsored_url":"","social_share":true},"categories":[165],"tags":[211,480,197,2122,195],"class_list":["post-61191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-catamaran","tag-industry-news","tag-people","tag-performance-sailing","tag-sailboats"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}