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For sale: MULAN ketch 13.3m (Malaysia)

  • 14 Jan 2025 05:13
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    Message # 13449909
    Anonymous member

    Mulan for sale.

    Mulan, presently in Rebak marina, north Malaysia. please see attached information and links below. Contact owner Steve Lyons via email steveonmulan@gmail.com

    Asking Price $USD 87,000.

    Australian registered, this vessel built to voyage the world.

    Hereschoff Ketch launched January 2022

    LOA: 13.3m

    LOD: 12.6m

    Beam: 2.90m

    Draft: 1.8m

    Displacement: 10.4 Ton

    Engine & Drive train: 37 HP Volkswagen marine diesel, water cooled through heat exchanger. Gear box: Hurth HBW 150. 2.6R. Aquadrive, scatra coupling to 1-1/2 shaft, sealed, oil filled stern tube through stern post

    Muir Electric windlass on the bow.

    380 watts of solar pannels mounted, controled by Victron BMS

    Course master auto pilot installed

    Isotherm electric refrigeration installed.

    B&G VHF radio with intergrated AIS 

    Apart from Navionics on a Tablet. Mulan does not have any other fancy electronics aboard.

    The voyage from Australia was made the good old fashioned way. A keen eye and the application of old school seamanship. 

    Quote from 2022 insurance survey (see attachment):

    "A new vessel built to a very high standard in terms of strength and finish, in excess of marine industry requirements and specifications for a vessel of this type . Strip planked cedar construction epoxy glassed and sealed, completed with epoxy /polyurethane finished painted surfaces."

    Please use this link to view All details and information I have posted about SV MULAN Please use this link to view more photos of Mulan.

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  • 25 Apr 2025 04:20
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    Reply # 13491606 on 13449909
    Anonymous member (Administrator)

    This month (April) Mulan is featured as "Boat of the Month".

    In case some people did not notice, Graham C responded with the following feedback (on the JRA Mag and Website Forum) as follows:

    "Mulan looks like a beautiful and fascinating boat. I would love her skipper to write an article about building and sailing her. Apart from the battens sticking out of the leach (potentially causing tangles with the sheets), rather than the luffs, where they should be, I find his method of using individual panels attached to the battens with boltropes running in sailtracks most interesting, and might adopt such a process myself if I have to build my next sail (I am stony broke - I'd prefer one of Paul Thomson's superb sails). Mulan's sails look terrific. I want to see the interior of Mulan, and more detail pics in general. All in all, a spectacular boat and a credit to her skipper."

    Thanks Graham, for the feedback. Yes, a beautiful and fascinating boat indeed. I, too, would love her skipper to write an article [for the magazine] about building and sailing her.

    Graham, if you look at the first post on this thread you will see links to photographs of her building.

    My apologies, I had omitted to mention in BOTM that Mulan is still for sale. I will remedy that now. Perhaps it would help if Steve were to now add some further details to this thread, such as asking price.



    Last modified: 25 Apr 2025 04:44 | Anonymous member (Administrator)
  • 26 Apr 2025 03:56
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    Reply # 13491979 on 13449909
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    Thanks for your comments Graeme, Yes the protruding leach battens did tangle a few times on my voyage from Australia through SE Asisa. I will be trimming those off. and making some other fine tunnings on the rig itself. 

    I have been pre occupied with many things, since arriving in Langkowi and unfortunatly not had much time for Mulan.

    I will be asking and sourcing hints and advice from JRA members with more rig experience than I. When I get back to her. 

    Last modified: 26 Apr 2025 04:00 | Anonymous member
  • 26 Apr 2025 15:13
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    Reply # 13492031 on 13449909
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    I just looked at the extra photos via the link in the advert (thanks for the tip-off Graeme Kenyon), and they confirm for me that this is one very special boat, and very good value, too.  I hope MULAN finds a worthy new custodian soon.