Company Profile

SEA SPEED PTY trading as Commercial Marine Consulting Services (CMCS) was formed in July 1989 by founder and director Paul Birgan to market and facilitate his desire to produce new age designs for commercial and pleasure vessels.

Paul's family has a strong marine background and Paul started designing small monohull vessels in late 1990. His designs together with his extensive knowledge in marine survey requirements gained from 7 years working with the local marine department soon attracted clients. He gained contracts to design small aluminium work boats to be built locally and worked with builders on modification and survey works.

Paul and Vicki Birgan (Directors) hard at work during a recent sea trial day.

 

 

 

International marketing saw larger projects emanating from shipyards in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Italy. CMCS designed a range of steel landing barges and work boats for construction in Port Moresby (PNG) by Hornibrook NGI Marine. They built three of the CMCS "Seatruck" range 12, 15, and 32 Metre Landing barges as well as a floating wharf and a cross river cable ferry and undertook some extensive vessel modification work.

The first Aluminium Catamaran design was produced in 1992 for a client in Italy. This was the 12 Metre Dive catamaran for Studio Carena. The performance was outstanding with speeds far in excess of the contract speed. The boatyards in Italy continued to build Paul's Catamaran designs with the latest hull being a 30 metre ocean going research vessel.

Paul is now director and principal designer of the Sea Speed design team comprised of other talented contract designers and naval architects each a specialist in their field. "Sea Speed Design" utilizes the latest in computer design software to produce state of the art vessels based on the range of proven hulls. Research continues to be undertaken into new approaches to design and construction.

CMCS under the direction of Paul Birgan has now designed for clients over 100 different vessels and now due to market demand is specializing in the designs of high performance Aluminium Catamarans for construction by "New Wave Catamarans" in Australia for local and international clients and for construction by shipyards throughout the world such as "Wang Tak Shipyard and Engineering" in Hong Kong /China.