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STIR VEN 19: WEEKENDER

The Stir Ven 19 is a new design drawn for builder

Grand Largue. She’s a smaller sister to the popular,

22ft (6.7m) Stir Ven raid boat and her 240lt (52

gallons) of water ballast enables a light-ship

displacement of just 535kg (1,179lb), making

her “exceptionally easy to launch and

recover”. She’s available with or without

a cabin and built in clinker ply. She

looks like a very versatile dayboat/

weekender at the size.

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ONBOARD

New Classics

The designs of French small-boat

specialist François Vivier have slowly

been gaining currency in recent years.

This is partly through their virtue, and

partly because the market in France is

so flat that French boatbuilders are

looking to sell in Britain instead.

Go Marine, an established British

broker, has recently added Vivier boats

from the Breton yard of Grand Largue

to its offerings, as we saw at the

London Boat Show in January, when it

exhibited a Stir Ven 19. Go Marine is

offering the Minahouët, Laïta, Béniguet

open, Béniguet cabin, Stir Ven, Stir

Ven 19 (open), Stir Ven 19 (cabin) and

the Méaban. It is concentrating, at

least initially, on the Minahouët, Stir

Ven 19 (open and cabin) and Béniguet.

See gomarine.co.uk or speak to John

Butcher on +44 (0)1730 828286. All

prices on this page are VAT inclusive.

FRANCOIS VIVIER

From Brittany

to Britain

ALL PHOTOS C/O GO MARINE

More at classicboat.co.uk/new-classics

LOA 19 ft 4in (5.9m) BEAM 6 ft 11in (1.6m) DISPLACEMENT 700kg

(1,540lb) SAIL AREA 219sqft (20.3m²) RCD Cat C

PRICE £36,000. Extras: £2,452 (trailer); £1,030 (Suzuki 4hp outboard)

LOA 15ft 5in (4.7m) BEAM 5ft 2in (1.6m)

DISPLACEMENT 250kg (550lb) SAIL AREA 135sqft (12.5m²) RCD Cat C

PRICE £15,840. Extras: £1,052 (trailer); £620 (Suzuki 2hp outboard)

LOA 18ft 8in (5.7m) BEAM 6 ft 11in (2.1m) DISPLACEMENT 535kg (1,179lb)

SAIL AREA 230sqft (21.3m²) RCD Cat C PRICE £24,840 (open);

PRICE £28,840 (cabin). Extras: £1,924 (trailer); £1,030 (Suzuki 4hp outboard)

MINAHOUET: RAIDER

The clinker-ply Minahouët is a distillation of two of Vivier’s most

popular dinghy designs: the Aber and Ilur. The idea is that she’s light

enough and narrow enough in beam to be good to row, but big enough

for family outings. She is lug-rigged, with the mast able to be stepped

far forward, giving a simple cat rig for singlehanders, or further back to

give a sloop rig, flying a jib from the short bowsprit. Inside, she benefits

from a nice fit-out that includes enclosed lockers.

BENIGUET: CRUISER

The Béniguet is Vivier’s answer to the popular 19ft gaff

trailer-sailer formula. She sleeps two with room for a

chemical heads and galley, and Vivier’s claim she’ll sail

rings around most other trailer-sailers looks well-founded.

These things are subjective, but doesn’t she look pretty

in her broad, clinker-ply clothes and proper laid deck?

Finally at 700kg (1,540lb) she’s towable with a 1.4lt car.

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