Ray has been designing multihull yachts for over 20 years and there are many beautiful boats made by satisfied customers all over the world.
Ray's philosophy is to design trailer-able boats that can be built by the home builder. He provides all the necessary drawings and is readily available for help or encouragement. He realises that building a boat can be a life changing experience and wants to encourage other people to find this happiness.

Ray built his first boat when he was 14 years old, saving up money from a paper run and making his sails on his mother's sewing machine. He has always been obsessed with designing and sailing boats since he was in high school. When he could spare time from boat designing he worked as a structural draftsman so his plans are detailed and professional.
He has been an avid dinghy sailer in Sydney most of his life, sailing on the Parramatta River.

He met Fran Sneesby while they were in Kindergarten and they became fierce rivals sailing against each other soon after. They lived on the same street and were inspired by their fathers who were both mad boat builders.
Ray continued to race dinghies while Fran wandered over the waves and sailed with the big boys in Texas. When they came back together Ray was frantically designing one boat after another and Fran was a not so successful mango farmer in SE Queensland.

They combined their talents and built a couple of boats together and decided to form Team Scarab. (Originally Ray sold his plans through Kendrick Design). Now they build boats for the love of building and to test prototypes of new designs.
Plans for all the designs are available through Team Scarab Pty Ltd in PDF format with DXF cutting files so the panels and bulkheads can be CNC routed or laser cut.

Team Scarab offers professionally drawn plans for home builders to build a boat at home. Most of the plans are $150 AUD delivered by email, smaller boats $100 AUD. All the information and dimensions required are on the plans. You can print them out on A4 paper on your home printer, and then if required, have them enlarged in a photocopier machine to A3 size. Use a scale factor of 1.414. Some of the designs have an option to purchase full size PDF drawings that can be printed using a continuous roll A0 plotter. These files are offered for $60 AUD extra. The newer designs are drawn to be built in foam sandwich. If the design is detailed for plywood a reinforcement schedule is available if the customer wants to build in foam sandwich.

Some people want to know if catamaran floats and rig can be used on these trimarans. The answer is no for the floats. Most cat hulls don't have sufficient buoyancy or volume to be used as trimaran floats. Some are not strong enough when loaded sideways, e.g. when a trimaran is sailing to windward in choppy water the force on the float forward of the forward beam is considerable. If there are no stringers or sub-deck shelf the float can snap at the forward beam. The design of every part of a folding trimaran has to be integrated into the total package so that it folds on the water and will be within legal trailering width. Mounting the beams in the cat hulls is generally not possible. The beams need to connect to bulkheads and unless the deck is removed and new bulkheads built in this is not possible. Most other stuff off the cat can be used including the trailer if properly modified. All the running rigging, some of the standing rigging and most of the fittings can be used. One of the rudders may also be adapted if of suitable size.

We grade our designs according to the expertise of the builder.

Beginner

Intermediate

Experienced

Cheers
Ray and Fran