| Development | |
|---|---|
| Designer | Charles Cunningham |
| Location | Australia |
| Year | 1960s |
| Name | Austral 20 |
| Hull | |
| Type | Catamaran |
| Construction | Fiberglass |
| LOA | 6 m (20 ft) |
| [edit on Wikidata] | |
Austral 20 was a 6 m (20 ft) catamaran produced by Charles Cunningham in Australia in the early 1960s period of experimentation.
It was apparently produced in reasonable numbers by Charles himself.
By now I was earning a proper wage and I wanted to build my own trimaran. For someone who had never made anything more difficult than a doorstop, this was a major decision. I reckoned that I could rely on Lockie and other yachtie friends to advise me on boatbuilding, and save a lot of time by purchasing a ready-made main hull. But who made stock trimaran hulls? No-one, of course; but Charles Cunningham was turning out fibreglass shells for his 6-metre Austral 20 catamaran. I bought one of these, decked it with plywood, built timber-and-ply crossbeams and floats to Lockie's design and fabricated much of the hardware from stainless-steel plate.
— Howard Stephenson
See also
References
- ^ Howard Stephenson. "Trimarans". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
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