3/16" sheet plywood on wooden frames and stringers, wooden mast[1][3]
LOA
20 ft (6.1 m)[1]
Beam
11 ft (3.4 m)[1]
Hull appendages
Keel/board type
centreboard[1]
Rig
Rig type
Fractional Bermuda or Marconi sloop rig[1][3]
Sails
Upwind sail area
227 sq ft (21.1 m2) (sloop rig - racing)[1]
167 sq ft (15.5 m2) (small headsail)[1]
Total sail area
227 sq ft (21.1 m2)[1]
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Bunyip 20 was a day racing trimaran sailboat designed and built by Lock Crowther and his family in 1959, while he was still a teenager.[1][2] It was named after the Bunyip, an Australian mythical creature.[3]
In 1960 Crowther raced the first boat at the Easter regatta at Paynesville, Victoria, Australia, and won against a field of 300 boats. This initial success inspired others to build similar boats, and began his career.[2]
I knew that Lockie and his family were keen on sailing and that they had built a trimaran. As the sailing speedboat I saw that afternoon was a trimaran, I guessed, correctly, that it belonged to Lockie's family. It was not long before I'd wangled an invitation to go sailing. Their trimaran, 6 metres long, had been designed by Lockie and built out of plywood on wooden frames and stringers by him, his two brothers and their father. Maybe his sister and mother had a hand in it too; they were a close family. The tri was sloop-rigged with a wooden mast. The balanced jib was attached to a boom. The decks between the main hull and the floats were plywood. In an effort to provide lift, the floats were flat-bottomed. Although this feature was not an absolute failure, more often than not it just created extra drag. The trimaran was named Bunyip, after an Australian mythical creature. Another feature, intended to prevent broaching, was the very full bow on the main hull. This was the reason for the twin jets of water that came off the forefoot, ensuring that at any speed at all the crew became absolutely saturated. On my first outing, we were three-up; I was just a passsenger [sic]. As the wind was fairly light, the Crowthers had rigged a single-luffed spinnaker as a genoa. One of the brothers was out on a trapeze and Lockie was steering. I just sat there, thrilled by the water hosing off the bow into my face, by the rush of wind and by the streaming wake. I was hooked, but I was still a student, with no spare money at all. Building a trimaran myself was out of the question, at least for the time being.
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The bunyip is a creature from the aboriginal mythology of southeastern Australia, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes...
trimaran sailboat designed by Lock Crowther in the wake of his successful Bunyip20 design, as a scaled-down version of the earlier Kraken 25 with similar...
Bunyip railway station is located on the Gippsland line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Bunyip, and opened on 8 October 1877. The remains...
The Bunyip is a weekly newspaper, first printed on 5 September 1863, and originally published and printed in Gawler, South Australia. Its distribution...
Bunyip aristocracy is an Australian term satirising attempts by William Wentworth to establish a system of titles in the colony of New South Wales. It...
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Bunyip. 20 September 1946. ""B" Grade Football Finals". Bunyip. 2 August 1946. "Three Football Teams from Gawler". Bunyip. 21 March 1947. "Bunyip (Gawler...
The Naked Bunyip is a 1970 Australian documentary film directed by John B. Murray. The film explores sex in Australia using a fictional framework. The...
songwriter and performer. She co-wrote the successful Australian musical, The Bunyip. Ella Airlie was born at Ballarat in 1882 as Ella Palzer Ogilvey to Frances...
or Lockie. Lock and his family built his first boat, a trimaran called Bunyip, in 1959 while he was still a teenager. In 1960 he raced in the Easter regatta...
Eucalyptus bunyip is a rare, slender tree that is endemic to a small area near Tonimbuk in Victoria. It has smooth, light coloured bark, glossy green egg-shaped...
H. Faulding Ltd., in 1962. The name Bunyip Soap Company was registered in 1898 and from c. 1955 as Crompton Bunyip Soaps Ltd until c. 1991 when the firm...
in all of South Australia. The Bunyip Newspaper (The oldest regional newspaper in South Australia), awards the Bunyip Medal to the player in the game...
duplicated in 1952, but the section between Bunyip and Longwarry remains single track, because the bridge over the Bunyip River has not been duplicated. The line...
Retrieved 21 April 2024. Thou, Sharlotte (20 April 2024). "For the first time in decades, the elusive call of the 'bunyip bird' returns to Tasmania's Lagoon...
Walter Moers, depicted as an anthropomorphic dog with horns. Al-mi'raj Bunyip Elwetritsch Jackalope Lepus cornutus Rasselbock Skvader Shope papilloma...
as the Germanic nixie, the wihwin of Central America and the Australian bunyip. The origins of narratives about the creature are unclear, but the practical...
forests where Alvarez is killed by the Bunyip. Demoralised, Shankar tries to return to civilization. He finds the Bunyip's cave and the diamond mines by accident...
Baphomet, Typhon, Mokele-Mbembe, Sargon, Tiamat, Abaddon, Leviathan, and Bunyip to the Monsterverse. Prior to announcing a shared cinematic universe between...
suspected. Wednesday, 4 February Bunyip State Park blaze commenced. Saturday, 7 February (Black Saturday) 05:00 am – Bunyip State Park fire jumped containment...
encounters with the southern cassowary may have inspired the myth of the bunyip. Although subject to ongoing habitat loss (some due to logging), limited...
Gentle Bunyip: The Athol Gill Story. West Lakes: Seaview Press; Page, J.S. 2008. Review of A Gentle Bunyip: The Athol Gill Story. Journey. 20 April 2008...
been the origin of some aboriginal mythological figures—most notably the bunyip—and aboriginal rock artworks but these ideas are unconfirmable. In 1830...
Hill End in New South Wales. Friend refers to the yowie as a species of bunyip. Holden also cites the appearance of the yowie in a number of Australian...
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