Built for 25 Years. Built Around You.
Voyager Catamarans designs and builds custom offshore power catamarans on the Gold Coast. Every vessel starts with a hull that has been refined over a quarter century of offshore use – and ends with a build shaped entirely around how you use the water.
The Hull Has a History
Voyager was founded in 2000 by Derek Appleton and naval architect Paul Stanyon of Stanyon Marine Design. From the beginning, the brief was straightforward: build a hull that could handle real offshore conditions – not the easy days, but the days that test everything. What came out of that collaboration was a catamaran platform that has been put to work in Australian waters for more than 25 years. Refined through every build. Proven in offshore fishing, extended coastal cruising, and commercial operations. The V625 and V930 hulls you can order today are the result of that ongoing refinement – not a new design, and not a production compromise.
The Builder: Darren Grono
Darren knows these hulls the way most people know their own handwriting. He was here before the current ownership. He will be here after this conversation. When a buyer asks why a particular lamination schedule was chosen, or what the tunnel clearance means in a following sea, Darren is the person with the answer – because he made those decisions, or worked alongside the people who did. Every Voyager build is hand laminated using high-strength multiaxial cloth and isophthalic resins. There is no production line. There is no shortcut in the layup. Darren sets the standard on every vessel that leaves this shed. When you buy a Voyager, you are buying 37+ years of knowledge in every joint, every laminate, every through-hull fitting.
New Ownership. Same Standard.
Voyager Catamarans is now owned by Frankie Bryant – someone who came to this industry not from a boatbuilding background, but from a career spent building operational capability in demanding environments. Frankie has spent 25 years working across aviation, cultural heritage management, and marine services – as a training developer, an operations manager, and more recently as co-owner of Northern Rivers Marine Services, delivering marine operations and commercial diving services to NSW government agencies including the EPA, Transport for NSW, and the Department of Primary Industries. She is also co-owner of Clear Sea Fisheries, a sustainable fishing operation based in Iluka NSW. She is a PADI Scuba Instructor, a Surf Life Saving radio operator and trainer, and holds a Master of Science and Technology in Aviation from UNSW. She is not a boatbuilder. She is clear about that. What she brings is the ability to ask the right questions, build the right systems, and make sure the business behind the build is as solid as the hull itself.
Darren builds the boats. Frankie makes sure everything around that process works the way it should – and that buyers get the attention and information they deserve.
What Doesn't Change
New ownership doesn’t mean a new product. The hull geometry, the lamination standard, the AMSA commercial survey baseline, the direct-from-builder model – none of that changes. What we are building on is the 26-year foundation that Derek and Paul established, and the craftsmanship that Darren has delivered across every hull since. What we are adding is clearer specification, more transparent pricing, and a build process designed to give buyers confidence at every stage.
Talk to Us About Your Build
If you know what you want on the water, we want to hear it. If you are still working it out, we can help with that too. Every conversation starts the same way — with what matters to you.
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Johnathan Lucas
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Christina Michael
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