Welcome to Performance Sailcraft

Performance Sailcraft

The roots of Performance Sailcraft go back to 1955, when the business was founded near Sydney. Today, our company still manufactures Olympic-class Laser/ILCA dinghies and other boats, including the Rascal in Australia and our Ocean Play range is manufactured in Europe. In Australia, our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility near Morisset manages all our GRP and Carbon fibre research and development.

PSA Laser/ILCA moulds and tooling were approved and licensed by the Laser designer Bruce Kirby and recognised as a definitive mould in the 2005 Construction manual. In 2009, the ILCA trademark dispute and Frand agreement changed the Laser's name to ILCA, but no other material or dimensional changes to the dinghy were allowed. The PSA moulds and tooling were intended to be supplied to the new ILCA builders; however, a new mould was discovered and used by ILCA, which has material dimensional differences from the original Bruce Kirby one-design class. Every dinghy produced by PSA proudly displays a tag confirming that it was designed by Bruce Kirby.

Now part of the Performance Marine Group, Performance Sailcraft continues to build from our rich heritage of quality and consistency. Distribution of our range of dinghies and spares is managed regionally, with innovation and manufacturing based between Australia and Jersey, the Channel Islands, where the Performance Marine Group is headquartered.