Sienna Ex – for Expedition

Scruffie Marine has just launched their new 19-foot dayboat, bristling with innovative solutions to perennial problems. Rig and launch single- handed in 15 minutes? Yes! Dining for 6 people? Yes! Hire her for a weekend? Soon. OK then – safe, stable, nimble, quick, versatile, shallow draught? Tick. Alright – cadet training, disabled friendly, family dayboat? Certainly. How about self-righting, a self-draining cockpit, offshore capable with a squaresail? Yes! Really?

Check this little lugger out – we believe she’s something rather special – a very nice looking little yawl with a boomless brailing mainsail and a semi-displacement hull. A planing lugger? Oh, come on. Unlikely but possible, although not with her electric outboard auxiliary.

The new EX stands for expedition or exploration – she is just under container size, weighs around 600kg and number 1 is already in service taking Duke of Edinburgh Award students on 5-day voyages of discovery in Moreton Bay, Queensland.

Sick of the 35-footer eating up the capital in a marina? Try this for a refreshing take on the day sail experience.

Queensland yacht builders Scruffie Marine announce a new trailerable yacht that is set to rewrite the sailing rule book – the Sienna 19.

Combining an evolution of their racing gaff cutter hull (Secret 20) with a variation of their well proven lugsail yawl rig (Stornaway 18) the new boat points to a very different future.

• Built to survey standards
• Offshore capable
• Self-righting, self-draining
• Crew of 7 with 10 seating positions
• Cockpit awning
• Cockpit dining for 6
• Generous grab-rails for boarding
• Disabled friendly
• Canvas cuddy
• Sink in a drawer, slide-out port-a-potti
• GRP semi displacement hull
• Exotic timber trim
• Three quarter length fixed ballasted keel
• Draught 500mm
• Freshwater ballast (optional)
• Can be rowed
• Electric outboard or inboard auxiliary
• Retractable electric sail drive
• Developed for sail training or family expeditions
• Hired and delivered to your nearest boat ramp
• Rig and launch in 15 minutes
• Furling jib
• Brailing mainsail
• Storm jib (optional)
• Squaresail (optional)
• Starting in January 2013 in Australia new buyers can put the boat in the proposed hire fleet for a projected annual gross return of at least 50% of the purchase price.

We are seeking manufacturing partners in North and South America, the EU and Asia.