Setting Sail to Success: Kraken Yachts' Expansion Journey Explained!
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Kraken Expansion Plans
You may have seen on our website about Kraken’s exciting expansion plans. Dick B recently got in front of the camera to talk in-depth about the exciting news! Watch the full video here…
I was in the market to purchase a Kraken… This Video has changed my mind…!😢
Spreading wide and thin with production and support at far places. Sounds like a recipee for issues...
Kraken moves to Vikoland. Sad.
Been a fan of Kraken since I first discovered this boat on youtube a few years ago. Maybe one day I will get to sail one of these. Enjoying your technical videos on this channel as well. Please keep them coming. Cheerio
Sorry to hear that...Poland is known for their low quality boats.
Thanks for answering my question. I've never of the Polish making high-quality, robust, hold-their-value yachts.
I am sorry to hear that Kraken is leaving Turkey.
I don't think they do honestly. They have two production lines: Gdansk and Bodrum - and one aftersales hub in Gibraltar.
They aren't leaving Turkey.
Great news Dick, we all wish you and your team all the best.
Would love to see the interior layout of the 44. Not sure if that is done yet. Thank you for the update. Good luck up the expansion. Fair winds
Congratulations! Wishing you all the best!
Bad news.
New Journey! Smart & Safe design. Wishing the best for Kraken Yachts.
Great news!!!
Let's get some nice video of that ongoing 58 build!!!
Well Done.
BZ Dick! I wish you every success mate! Fair winds.
I've mentioned it on another channel. You guys should take over the old Tayana shipyard.
Taiwan needs to be a great ship builder again. I've been here over 20 years and they still amaze me. Think about it! :)
What a mistake setting up in Poland or anywhere in the EU.
Will the different models be built in different factories? Ex. 50 foot in Turkey and 44 in Poland?
Epic news - I got hints of this on a certain sailing channel - but had no idea it had come to fruition already. I am so into the 44, but I honestly will need some time to make that happen. Maybe when Adam and Khiara get one, I can buy Millenial Falcon and later ascend to a Kraken ;)
Didn't know that there even was a 44 option. That's more like it! I really like the 50, but it's just too big for me. I feel like I would never make it out of the marina with a fifty.
Congratulations on your enormous success offering something old school, yet cutting edge that everyone else in yacht building missed. Can we have a Polish build, insulated 35 footer for Gdansk delivery? When Peter Ibold designed the Endurance, a 35 footer was not a trifle...
Will Kraken Yachts going to produce swing keels/lifting centerboards?
Danzig (Gdansk) hat a well known boat building tradition, even before it became polish and was German. I think it is a very reasonable decision and makes sense to me. I've visited the sunreef production, way way better quality then french production sites, for e.g.
can't go wrong imho !
I see some sad comments about the Poles and generally this move...What I've learned working with Poles over many years is that they work harder than anyone and learn well. They just need good management to maintain standards. I bet you Dick will bring this to the team there and I have no concerns that Kraken will go from strength to strength. He isn't the type of guy to compromise on quality.
I’m one that like your ethos but unfortunately you build in plastic.
No matter how much it’s dressed up it’s still plastic.
GRP
FRP
CRP
BRP
HRP
It’s all about the P
Be mote sustainable and then I’d consider it.
Unfortunately the straws I gave up were for nothing
For me even the 44 is too much boat. I long for some manufacture to go back to the late 1970s early 80s era of “go small go now “ mantra and build NEW under 30 ft. Cruising boats capable of sailing the world’s oceans. For those of us not blessed with a trust fund the only route is buy a 30 year old boat and refit as no one is building small boats anymore. The philosophy at kraken is great but obviously the target buyer is still the wealthy looking to sail the world not the average guy looking yo go on a reasonable budget. And even a boat designed for solo sailing when you get too big can one person actually handle a boat that big when things go wrong?? Sure roller reefing and electric winches make handling the large loads of those big sails easy but what happens if you have an electrical failure can one person handle that sail what isn’t the roller jam. You talk a lot about issues of keels and spade rudders but ignore so many other issues like broken furler lines or jammed in boom or in mast furling. I long for a small simple boat that isn’t 30 or more years old. Or a customer build I have to buold myself.
So you want a brand new top quality 30 foot boat from a small boutique manufacturer, along with specific design parameters incorporated and all for a rock bottom price in order to accommodate your personal financial situation. Okay...
Also, there are plenty of people who can afford a million dollar boat that were not born with trust funds.
@@overbuiltlimited what I would like is a manufacturer that still builds 27-32 ft boats built like the alberg design (or similar)or the many of thepocket cruisers that people have actually sailed around the world from the 1970s and 1980s. My 1984 Bayfield 29 base price was 57,000 Canadian when new. (Plus extras of course). So NO I’m not expecting a new 30 footer built for cruising to be 57k today but that is around $171,346.72 in today’s money. So 200K should be doable. BUT…. No one is building a 30ft cruising boat capable of ocean sailing. Small 30ft modern boats are coastal day sailors today. No one is building long keel, keel hung rudder or modified encapsulated keel with a skag hung rudder, like a contessa 30. Yes sure there are a lot of older boats that after an extensive refit fit that bill but no one is building new boats like that today.
Kraken has (or "had', until this unfortunate move to Vikoland) good boats but they are on the higher segment of the price scale. This is where they are and I do not think they will make any changes in thir positioning as long as they can sell at that price. I heard somewhere (anybody can correct me) that 44 would cost over 750 thousand euros, which is too much for me....
@@mfournier12An interesting comment, and frankly, either very naive or foolish or both- I am not sure which: FYI - an ounce of gold twenty years ago was US $550 and is now about $2520 which is five times more. But the secret here is of course that gold price is fairly stable and stays consistent at about the same "purchasing power" level, which means that one US dollar from twenty years ago is now worth equal (can buy equal) to the five current dollars (this is called "real" inflation...)
So your Canadian $57k is NOT equal to $171k as you seem to imply but in purchasing terms is more akin to the current $285k! And, yes, you salary increases do not rise as fast as this "real" inflation (which is not the same as hypotethical 'target' inflations that are shown in estimates by central banks which for the most part remain mere targets...) Then this is the price for the "naked" boat, without all the newer technologies in it, like GPS, Starlink, subscriptions to weather apps & GIS data-enriched maps that did not exist twenty-plus years ago. Which explains the price of basic Beneteaus and alike now being about $300k.
Bear in mind that people working smelly and cancerogenic plastics also want to get paid more than workers the 1970's sweatshop - yes, the labor even in Turkey and in Poland now costs more than ever before, and frankly, rightly so!!
As I was told once by a salesperson matron at Tiffany's NY twenty years ago when I was young and getting married and was shopping for a jewelry piece for my fiance - there are no "expensive things" in this world! If something seems expensive to you, it merely means that you do not have enough money to afford it because you are not earning enough. So that's what you need to address, and then things will become affordable! I accepted the advice and it worked!- what did seem very expensive to me at that time twenty years ago does not seem so expensive anymore, despite all the appreciation, inflation, etc.
Also for a perspective - currently any typical regular two-story house in a major metro area in the US costs upwards of a million dollars, but many cost much more. And yet people keep buying houses because they remain within 10-15 years reach for anyone being emplyed at a relatively decent job... Knowing this, a million and a half dollar yacht no longer seems as outlandish as it at first sounded... Cheers!