Kraken 25 was a day racing
trimaran sailboat
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Types
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designed by
Lock Crowther
Lock Crowther (9 September 1940–1993; first name by birth Lachlan) was an Australian multihull sailboat designer. He grew up in Bairnsdale in the East Gippsland region of Victoria. Though his first name was Lachlan by birth, he insisted o ...
in the wake of his successful
Bunyip 20 design.
[''Scanned specification brochure for Kraken 18 / Kraken 25 / Bunyip 20.'']
Advertised as "Virtually a C Class trimaran of unbelievable light weather performance and good heavy weather performance
..the trimaran for racing enthusiasts who want to show up the local catamarans".
See also
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List of multihulls Types
* catamaran = two symmetric hulls
* proa = two asymmetric hulls, reverse-shunting (interchangeable bow/ stern)
* trimaran = three hulls
* quadrimaran = four hulls
* pentamaran = five hulls
Pre-modern Austronesian
* ʻalia
* Amatasi
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Lock Crowther
Lock Crowther (9 September 1940–1993; first name by birth Lachlan) was an Australian multihull sailboat designer. He grew up in Bairnsdale in the East Gippsland region of Victoria. Though his first name was Lachlan by birth, he insisted o ...
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Kraken 18
Kraken 18 was a day racing trimaran sailboat designed by Lock Crowther in the wake of his successful Bunyip 20 design,''Scanned specification brochure for Kraken 18 / Kraken 25 / Bunyip 20.'' as a scaled-down version of the earlier Kraken 25 w ...
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Kraken 33
Kraken 33 Mk IV was a 4-5 berthBrochure of the Trimaran Yacht Club of Victoria. 1977 (or earlier). Accessed State Library of New South Wales, inside second volume of Trimaran Yacht Club of Victoria newsletters, 7 February 2015. ocean racing trim ...
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Kraken 40
References
External links
1962 Kraken 25 restoration/rebuild project(updated 25 Jan 2015)
Kraken
Trimarans
Boats designed by Lock Crowther
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