US Watercraft LLC to team up with yacht designer Mark Mills

by Sarah Angell on 13 Sep 2013 US Watercraft LLC is joining up with award winning yacht designer Mark Mills to create its new C&C Yachts models. Building on the current world wide success of the Mills Design Ltd in designing IRC racing boats, USWatercraft plans to begin production of two new C&C Yachts racer / cruiser models this fall. First off the board will be the C&C Redline 41.

'This boat will combine our experience building One - Design and one off race boats and the quality craftsmanship and finish we put into our Alerion line of sailboats,' said Randy Borges, President of USWatercraft. The new C&C Yachts line is being designed to be performance oriented but still family friendly for cruising and daysailing; this model will be fit for serious racing, both in and off shore under various handicap rules. One design racing will hopefully develop for these dual purpose C&C Yachts. 'I'm excited to be involved with the new C&C line at USWatercraft with the great team they have assembled. It's a challenge to help take such a prominent brand forward with a new generation of boats, one we are looking forward to,' said Mark Mills.

USWatercraft is also pleased to announce that Barry Carroll will lead the C&C Yachts division of USWatercraft. Previously, Carroll founded and operated Carroll Marine, a performance specialized boat building company with great success into the early 2000s. At Carroll Marine, he was involved in developing and building over 800 high performance sailboats and powerboats for worldwide sale, including such high performance sailboats as the Mumm30 and Farr40, which continue as successful One-Design classes today. 'Barry has an incredible amount of experience and success building high performance sailboats. He also has his roots in C&C Yachts having come to the Newport area with the C&C manufacturing facility in the '80s. We are thankful to have his help in developing our new C&C Yachts product line, building them and bringing them to market. We intend C&C Yachts to be a highly design-driven division and no one has more experience in translating the work of the world's top yacht designers into incredibly successful production yachts than Barry' - Randy Borges.

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