Dimensions
LOA 20.12m/66ft 0in
LWL 17.29/56ft 9in
Beam 5.50m/18ft 0in
Draught 2.01m/6ft 7in
Disp 37,750kg/83,224lb
Sail area 177m2/1,910ft2
Kraken Yachts
Kraken is a new brand designed in New Zealand and built in China, founded by two experienced British businessmen and sailors in Hong Kong. They are marketing a particularly competitively priced range of bluewater cruisers.
The first three models, drawn by Dibley Marine, are a 50, 58 and 66, which will be built at Hansheng in Xiamen, a yard that builds for many other brands, including Passport Yachts.
The first Kraken is the flagship, a 66 called White Dragon for chairman Dick Beaumont, and is nearing completion.
Beaumont decided to concentrate his 100,000 sea miles of experience, earned cruising the world aboard his previous 58-footer, Moonshadow, over eight years, into…