- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- Bodrum, Türkiye
- Shipyard location
- Bodrum, Türkiye; Gdynia, Augustów and Gdańsk, Poland
- Official website
- https://krakenyachts.com/
Brand Overview
Builder of heavy-displacement bluewater cruising yachts — the Kraken 44, 50 and 58 — designed around an integral 'Zero Keel' and a skeg-hung 'Alpha Rudder' for ocean passages.
YachtCodex Analysis
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What this builder is
Kraken Yachts builds nothing but bluewater cruising yachts and says so: the company was founded in 2015 by Dick Beaumont, in its own words 'with one objective, to build the best blue water yachts ever launched', after his own Kevin Dibley-designed 66-footer White Dragon (built in Taiwan, launched 2016) drew requests for smaller sisters. Its head office moved from Hong Kong to Turkey in 2019 for a joint venture with SU Marine near Istanbul, the 58 is now built at Bodrum, and from 2024 production has grown into Poland (Augustów, Gdańsk) with the yard's own facility at Gdynia building the 44; a UK sales company sits in Chelmsford and a service centre in Gibraltar. The three current models — Kraken 44, 50 and 58 — share the Zero Keel, a keel moulded as part of the hull with no bolts, the fully protected skeg-hung Alpha Rudder with three serviceable bearings, hulls of 17 to 22 layers of engineered fabric including aramids at collision points, and a substantial interior structure; the 44 was drawn by naval architect Kevin Dibley, who also designed the 50-plus fleet, and its build slots opened for 2025–26. Each model page publishes a full imperial and metric specification down to tank materials, ballast ratio and RCD Category A, and the site's press section follows the 66-footer White Dragon.
Who sails them
Kraken owners are couples and families planning long ocean passages and circumnavigations who put structural safety, sea-kindly motion and steering redundancy ahead of light-air speed or marina styling, and who expect a heavily built, fully equipped yacht — the standard inventory runs to triple fuel polishing and 22-metre mooring lines.
Signature models
The Kraken 50 is the mid-range model with four-, five- and six-berth layouts; the Kraken 58 is the flagship with light-ship and full-load figures, three GA options and a published STIX value; the Kraken 44 brings the same DNA under 50 feet.
Strengths
Kraken is known for the bolt-free integral Zero Keel, the protected Alpha Rudder, very heavy laminate schedules with aramid collision zones, fine-entry V-forefoot hulls that eliminate slamming, and an unusually complete standard equipment list.
Considerations
The site itself publishes no founding date, yard location or company address (those come from the trade press), production has moved from Taiwan to Turkey to Poland within a decade, the 44 and 50 give only one displacement figure (full load and unstated respectively), the older *-specification pages and the Kraken 66 page are stale copies of other models, and heavy displacement means these are passage-makers rather than performance cruisers.
Analysis generated 9/13/2026
Part of
Kraken Yachts Ltd · since 2015
Where they build
The building sites this yard publishes, in its own order.
Bodrum
Bodrum, Türkiye
Gdynia
Gdynia, Poland
Augustów
Augustów, Poland
Gdańsk
Gdańsk, Poland
Fleet at a Glance
Calculated from the models in the YachtCodex catalog, not from the builder's claims.
- Models in catalog
- 3
- Length range
- 13.52–17.67 m
- Hull forms
- Sailing Monohull 3
- Cabins
- 2–4
Models by this brand
3 models
