Lachlan (aka Lock) Crowther designed and built his first trimaran day sailor in 1959 -he was a teenager Some of his friends and family wanted to have similar boats and so his design career started. He studied electrical engineering while sailing, designing and building boats as a hobby. In 1962 his Kraken 25 was a very fast racer. His reputation was established internationally in 1966, when his first offshore racing trimaran BRANDERSNATCH won the Sydney to Hobart multihull race. This evolved into the 1968 Kraken 33 class. In 1969, a Kraken 40 won the New York to Bermuda race with him aboard. He quit his engineering career to design full time starting a design business which produced over 2500 boats.