Our Boat

Juras Specs

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SFM 450

length overall .......... 13.72m
length wl ................. 12.41m
beam ....................... 3.52m
beam wl ................... 3.20m
draft ........................ 1.84m
displacement ........... 9.75t
ballast ..................... 4.75t
year launched ......... 2007
builders ................... peter and eugene vaiciurgis
designer .................. stuart freizer marine
sail area ..................
construction ............ aluminium

Building Jura Part 1

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Big Tinnie

Deck

Cockpit

Galley

Looking forward through main settee area up to door to front bedroom

Left door to bedroom, right door to head and storage room

Front Bedroom

Front Bedroom

Main Settee area

Looking forward to door to front bedroom

Building Jura Part 2

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Cockpit

Main Settee area

In front Bedroom looking at left door to head, right door to main cabin

Front Head

The little details

Cockpit

Painted

Building Jura Part 3

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Jura just prior to loading onto the truck

The Turtle Table - made by Peter

The Galley

Seat/bed opposite the galley

The Cockpit

Sea Dragon Signwriting

Cupboards in front bedroom

What does "Jura" mean?

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So what does "Jura" mean?
Jura is a latin based word meaning "sea"

It is pronounced "U-ra"

Launch Day

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Jura was launched on the 6th June 2007 at River Quays Marina.

She was craned onto the transport truck on the afternoon of the 5th June and spent one final night at the Cryeng Factory before we said goodbye to that putrid smell at 3.30am on the 6th of June. It was a very cold, early start with the oversize truck having to be off the road by 5am.

We left the factory, following the truck and two oversize vehicles out onto the M4.

Jura went the fast she will ever go....100km/h and overtook many vehicles. We didn't even slow down for the toll gates!

At 8am the truck reversed Jura into the marina and down to the crane.

As Juras keel touched the water she was christened by Eugene with a bottle of champagne. No we didn't smash it on the bow!!

After one little mishap (but we won't talk about that) Peter reversed Jura out of the pen and we got our first look at her on the water. May be we are a bit biased but we think Jura looks amazing, so sleek and modern.

And the mast goes up.....

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but not without dramas!!
Tuesday 12th June 2007

The mast was assembled in Queensland by All Yacht Spars and transported down by truck along with a man (Zam) to finish rigging it and stand it on the boat.
Unforunately when Zam unpacked the mast, spreaders and bits and pieces he realised half the wires were missing. No back stays, no D2s...No way the mast can go up without them!
After a phone call back to his boss it was decided that they would fly the missing pieces down to us on a Virgin Blue flight. The flight was due to arrive at 1.30pm but it was late of course. We picked the parcel up a bit after 2.30 and raced back to the marina. For a job that I was told the night before was going to take 'the best part of a day' we now only had 2 hours to do before the sun went down!!
Needless to say it wasn't finished and with Zam heading down to Melbourne that evening we had no choice but to have another company finish the rigging the following day (not at our expense luckily)

The sails go up

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The sails went up for the first time on Saturday 21st July 2007.

At Grays Point Mooring

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Sailing Tasmania

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Some pictures taken during our cruise of Flinders Island in company (Jan - Feb 08)

Jura Sailing

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A few pics of Jura sailing, Sunday 22nd July 2007.