Austral 20 (catamaran)

Austral 20 was a 6 m (20 ft) catamaran produced by Charles Cunningham in Australia in the early 1960s period of experimentation.[1]

Austral 20[1]
Development
DesignerCharles Cunningham[1]
LocationAustralia[1]
Year1960s[1]
NameAustral 20[1]
Hull
TypeCatamaran[1]
ConstructionFiberglass[1]
LOA6 m (20 ft)[1]

It was apparently produced in reasonable numbers by Charles himself.[1]

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[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Howard Stephenson. "Trimarans". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2015.