What this is about

We live by the D'Entrecasteaux Channel in Southern Tasmania. It, and much of the Tasmanian coast, offer amazing cruising possibilities. Previously, we owned an old, sturdy and fast 33 ft Huon pine sloop that we loved. The things it didn't offer - easy portability to other waters, shoal draft, beachability and the simplicity of dinghy-like sailing - are the things we gradually craved more and more.
For at least a few years I have thought that I should build an open, or mostly open, 20-something footer that would satisfy these urges. After much looking around at designs, we finally settled on the Stir Ven.
She is beautiful, fast, seaworthy, floats in 25cm of water and is designed as an adventure boat on which one can spend a few nights.
We hope she will be ready for use by the summer of 2012/13!

Monday, July 11, 2011

an almost finished Stir Ven

No, sadly, it's not mine! I visited Mike Randall on Saturday in Melbourne. He has been building his Stir Ven for the last 2-3 years and is almost (days away) ready to launch. He has maintained an excellent blog on the construction that is really very useful for anyone building a Stir Ven. Ours will be the second one in Australia (unless there's someone else building one now that I don't know about).





I spent several hours chatting to Mike asking him lots of questions and taking lots of photos of details that will be very useful when I come around to building them.

Thanks Mike and good luck with your launch
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