Kraken Sails — Geelong, Australia
Your Boat. Your Waters.
Your Sails.
Custom performance sails designed from first principles and built by hand. From one-design racing and offshore campaign wardrobes to singlehanded ocean crossings, every sail starts with your boat, your crew, and where you’re actually going.
Why Kraken
Every Sail Designed
from First Principles.
We don’t start with a catalogue. We start with your boat, actual measurements taken from your rig, your hull shape, and your deck hardware. Then we design for the way you actually sail: the waters you race in, the conditions you face, and whether you’re sailing with a full crew or singlehanded with a cat.
We source cloth from mills with decades of performance sailcloth engineering Dimension-Polyant, Contender, and we build every sail by hand. Glued seams, hand stitched hardware, precision-cut panels. No shortcuts, no compromises, no hidden extras.
The result is a sail that’s designed specifically for your boat and built to last. Whether that’s a one-design racing main, an offshore campaign wardrobe, or a set of cruising sails for a live-aboard heading to the Mediterranean, every sail gets the same process and the same attention.
Our Mission
We Exist to Put
Better Sails on
More Boats.
We believe every sailor deserves sails that are designed for their boat, built with integrity, and honest about what they will and won’t do. That’s true whether you’re campaigning a Sydney Hobart wardrobe or crossing an ocean singlehanded on a budget.
Not every sail needs to be the most expensive option on the table. Sometimes the right sail is a bomb-proof Dacron cross-cut that gets you to Hawaii safely. Sometimes it’s a DCX laminate that solves an in-mast furling problem. Sometimes it’s a full campaign wardrobe mapped to five weather systems. The material and the construction change, the process doesn’t. We start with your boat, your conditions, and your crew, and we design from there.
We also believe that if you’re going offshore, you should go properly equipped. There’s no race committee and no rulebook for adventure sailing, nobody checks whether you’re carrying the right sails before you cast off. So we take that responsibility seriously. If we think you need a storm jib, we’ll tell you. If we think your existing sails are a risk, we’ll tell you that too. An honest conversation now is worth more than a crisis at sea later.
We build every sail by from first principals. We source cloth from the mills that have been engineering performance sailcloth for decades. We glue our seams, we hand-stitch our hardware, and we make the bag half a metre oversized because the details matter. Then we ship anywhere in the world, including, on one occasion, to a marina in Tahiti to meet a sailor whose sails were falling apart mid-Pacific.
That’s the job. Better sails on more boats.
Racing
Handicap Racing
Wardrobe planning for ORC, IRC, and PHRF campaigns. We design for your boat, your conditions, and the sails you already have.
Cruising & Offshore
Adventure Sailing
Ocean crossings, liveaboard cruising, and everything in between. Sails built to get you there safely and keep you sailing.
How We Work
From Conversation to Completion.
01
Consultation
We talk about your boat, your sailing, and what you need. No pressure, no upselling, just an honest conversation about the right sails for you.
02
Measure
We work from your actual rig dimensions, not a spec sheet. Our measurement portal guides you through the process so we design to your boat, not a generic model.
03
Design & Build
Your sail is designed from scratch in our design software, then hand-built in performance cloth from Dimension-Polyant, Contender, or custom printed with our membrane machines..
04
Delivery
Your sail ships complete and ready to use, bag, battens, hardware, everything. We deliver worldwide. We’ve shipped sails to Tahiti to meet a boat mid-Pacific.
The Kraken Portal
Your Project.
One Place.
From first conversation to delivery, the Kraken Portal keeps your entire project in one place. Submit your rig measurements with our guided measurement forms, review your custom quote, approve your design, and track the build, all online, whether you’re at home or on a satellite connection mid-ocean.
The portal is how we we make sure that little detail is never missed. It’s how we work with boat owners around the world without needing to be on the dock. Your measurements, your design files, your communication history, it’s all there, and it’s all yours.
Guided measurement forms step-by-step, with diagrams
Custom quoting transparent pricing, no hidden extras
Design review approve your sail design before we build
Build tracking follow your sail from loft to delivery
Works anywhere tested on satellite internet
Let's Talk About
Your Sails.
Every project starts with a conversation. Tell us about your boat, where you sail, and what you’re planning, we’ll tell you what we’d recommend and why. No obligation, no upselling. Just an honest conversation about sails.