Pat Patterson - UK catamaran designer 

Pat Patterson was also a successful UK catamaran designer who created one of the most popular UK cruising catamarans, the Heavenly Twins series. He had an early interest in multihulls starting with sailing a Piver. He designed Iconoclast a 42 foot cruising cat with Derek Kelsall using the hull moulds from Toria. With a circumnavigation and several Atlantic crossings to his credit he designed seaworthy boats that sold well as comfortable seaworthy cruisers and achieved many ocean crossings. The Heavenly Twins was produced from 1970 through until the 1990's. His other Twins designs were built in those year too; there were many versions of the original HT 26 that became the HT 27; then he designed a Twins 31 that became the Star Twins 34; Ocean Twins 38; Summer Twins 26 and 28 and a big Star Twins 43 that was his own ship. He founded the Multihull Centre Boat Yard in Cornwall in 1968. His last years were spent on a second circumnavigation that only came to an end when he became ill in New Zealand and returned home to the UK where he passed away in 2004.