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BOAT TOUR VIDEO: A Custom Junk Rigged Sailboat & Saying Goodbye to Gari The Orange Dinghy
13 February 2026 · 10 min · 13K views · Malaysia
Mulan the junk-rigged sailboat rests on dry dock
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A hand-built, one-of-a-kind junk-rigged sailboat named Mulan gets a full tour at a boatyard in Langkawi, Malaysia.▶ 1:25 The owner built Mulan on an L. Francis Herreshoff 1963 hull design, launching her in 2000, then storing her in a shed for 15 years before completing the fit-out during COVID.▶ 4:50 The hull is strip-planked western red cedar, epoxy-coated and heavily fibreglassed to exceed South Australian marine survey standards.▶ 6:03 From the deck up — cabin, poop deck, cockpit, and wind vane — is entirely the owner's custom design.▶ 5:38 The junk rig uses unstayed masts; the owner chose it for ease of handling and simplicity on passage.▶ 5:05 Interior features include a quarter berth, saloon berths, a sculling oar repurposed as a continuous handrail, and a slide-down paddle concealing Morse code throttle controls.▶ 3:45 The boat is for sale, with the owner citing split time between Australia, Thailand, and Malaysia.▶ 7:00 Separately, James sells the inflatable dinghy Gary — a small orange tender named after the California Garibaldi fish — to a new owner in Langkawi for less than half its original purchase price, roughly equal to the cost of a new outboard.▶ 9:29
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