Praga Marine Pvt. Ltd. is a fiberglass boat manufacturing company. It owns a boatyard, located in the backwaters of
Cochin
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at
Aroor
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Industrial Development Area,
Allappuzha District[Goa Boat Show]
/ref> It was incorporated in 1985 and commenced business from that boatyard in 1988. It is promoted by Joe Nejedly. His father Josef Nejedly, a Prague
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national was a pioneer of the fibre glass industry in India during the 1960s.
Products
Praga Marine manufactures various types of fibre-reinforced plastic
Fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP; also called fibre-reinforced polymer, or in American English ''fiber'') is a composite material made of a polymer matrix reinforced with fibres. The fibres are usually glass (in fibreglass), carbon (in carbon-fibre ...
boats such as rigid-hulled inflatable boat
A rigid inflatable boat (RIB), also rigid-hull inflatable boat or rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB), is a lightweight but high-performance and high-capacity boat constructed with a rigid hull (watercraft), hull bottom joined to side-forming a ...
s, catamaran
A catamaran () (informally, a "cat") is a watercraft with two parallel hull (watercraft), hulls of equal size. The wide distance between a catamaran's hulls imparts stability through resistance to rolling and overturning; no ballast is requi ...
s and sailboat
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Types
Although sailboat terminology ...
s. The company specializes in large catamarans. In 2003, it built a very large 32 meter catamaran, MV Vrinda for the Oberoi Hotels
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as a 5-Star cruise ship, which is one of the largest FRP vessel in India. Praga Marine also serially manufactures the ''Arrow'' and ''Lancer'' brand speedboats, of which over 250 have been sold as of 2011.
Ships constructed
* Praga class patrol boat for National Coast Guard (NSG) organisation, Mauritius
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Peers
* Anderson Marine
* Bristol Boats
* Navgathi Boatyards
* Vadyar Boats
References
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External links
Praga Marine at WikimakiaIRClass ship information
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Shipbuilding companies of India
Shipyards of India