Kraken Yachts 50 (Dibley)

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The Kraken Yachts 50 (Dibley), on the water

The fleet's own footage — the truest look at how she really moves.

Footage from Sailing Millennial Falcon

Is it for you?

Character

Where this design lands on the numbers a shopper trusts — read straight from her own ratios.

LivelySea-kindly

Her moderate displacement on a narrow beam gives 37 — a sea-kindly motion in a seaway.

Comfort ratio 37

CoastalBluewater

1.73 — just under the 2.0 offshore line; her beam is modest for her weight.

Capsize screening 1.73

LightHeavy

199 — moderately heavy for her waterline, a balanced cruising weight.

Displacement / length 199

EasygoingPowered-up

19.8 — plenty of sail for her weight; lively and quick to respond.

Sail area / displacement 19.8

TenderStiff

36% of her weight is ballast — moderately stiff, a middle-of-the-road stability.

Ballast 36%

A capable offshore cruiser with an easy motion when the sea gets up.

Heavier than ~91% of boats her size on file
Draws more than ~78% of boats her size on file
Beamier than ~83% of boats her size on file

Compared with 1709 boats of the same type within a quarter of her length.

What the fleet has seen

The Kraken Yachts 50 (Dibley), as the fleet has seen it

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The Kraken Yachts 50 (DIBLEY) is a 15.2-meter Solent-rigged cruiser designed by Kevin Dibley and built by Kraken Yachts since 2021. It has a fin keel with a rudder on a skeg, a 4.5-meter beam, a 2.3-meter draft, and displaces 18,249 kg. Kraken Yachts designs its blue-water cruisers with a Zero Keel, which is molded integrally with the hull to eliminate keel bolts, and an Alpha Rudder system, which uses a full-length skeg reinforced with an internal stainless steel beam.4:54 The Alpha Rudder's three bearings include a main Jepha needle roller bearing accessible from inside the vessel for maintenance without hauling.8:11 Aboard *Sailing Millennial Falcon*, Adam and Khiara toured a Kraken 50 in Turkey, noting an island berth with fold-down side supports, automatic interior cupboard lighting, and book-matched wood veneer panels.14:31 They prepared for a 500-mile test sail around the Sea of Marmara to evaluate its performance.15:40

The living fleet

Sailed by the fleet

Where the fleet has filmed this boat.

Seen once across one channel of the fleet.

Basemap © Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Who's been looking

Market signal

Crews the fleet has filmed weighing this model up — no sale seen, and no asking price.

1channel looked into buying

The creators travel to Turkey to test sail this boat, which is in its commissioning phase and about to be delivered to its new owner
from Sailing Millennial Falconseen September 20213:03

From the fleet's own footage — our observed signal, not broker listings.

The record

Full specifications

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Dimensions

Weights

Ballast / displacement

35.6%

Rig & sail area

Rig

Solent

Ratios

SA / displacement

19.8

Displacement / length

198.7

Comfort ratio

37.2

Capsize screening

1.73

Hull speed

9.0 kn

Pounds / inch immersion

2367

Hull

Hull type

Fin with rudder on skeg

Construction

Fiberglass

Ballast type

Lead

Production

Years built

First built 2021

Designer

Kevin Dibley, Dibley Marine Design

Builder

Kraken Yachts

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The family

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