Sea Venture

Sea Venture was designed and built by Bjarne Aas in 1930. She was acquired by Richard Stackpole and his father J. Lewis Stackpole in 1939. She was destroyed in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts in the hurricane of September 1944.

Dimensions: 36’8″ LOA; 23’2″ LWL; Beam 6’2″ Draft 5’3″

J. Lewis Stackpole was life long friends with Clinton H. Crane.

Information kindly supplied by Neilson Abeel, grandson of J. Lewis Stackpole. Mr Abeel notes “Her dimensions are inches away from Aas’s 1935 SAGA, restored by Kimo Mackay.”
“I was taken, as a toddler, for sails in Mattapoisett Harbor and remember that her tiller was below deck in the cockpit.”

Boat ID

1930NO08

Boat Names

Original name: Sea Venture Last name recorded: Dovekie

Build Year

1930

Build Country

Norway

Sail Numbers

First number recorded: K2 (1932) Other numbers: KB2 US70 (used from 1939) Last number reported: K2

Designers

Bjarne Aas

Builders

Bjarne Aas

Restored or rebuilt

Significant Dates

Destroyed (1944)

Boat Measurements

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