Boat Sales Tasmania is ON THE MOVE!
After more than two decades at Murray St Pier, Boat Sales Tasmania is weighing anchor and sailing around the corner to the historic Muirs Boat Yard (44 Napoleon St) in Battery Point.
We look forward to seeing you in our brand new premises located on the shores of the Derwent River, below Doyle Sails Tasmania.
Muirs Boat Yard played a huge part in Tasmania’s maritime history. Shipwright and boat building legend, Jock Muir, established Muirs Boat Yard in 1948, after relocating his business from King Street in Sandy Bay.
Jock and his small band of shipwrights designed and built the famous cutter ‘Westward’ for well-known Hobart business man George Gibson. Westward took out handicap honours in both the 1947 and 1948 Sydney to Hobart yacht races with Jock as skipper.
At Muirs Boat Yard, Jock and his crew built more than 70 racing and cruising yachts, work boats, fishing vessels and sailing dinghies over a period of 40 years.
In addition to building boats, Jock ran Muir Boat Brokerage and sold vessels of all sizes, locally, interstate and several overseas.
Muir Boat Yard ceased building wooden boats in the late 1970s. However, the slip yard continued on and at its peak was slipping more than 200 boats a year. Shipwrights continued with repairs and fit outs on pleasure and commercial craft.
In the early 1980s Jock, with his sons, John and Ross, agreed to convert the large Muir boat shed into a two floor, versatile retail chandlery and marine service operation. In the same year they built a conjoined sail loft and rigging workshop, and put Muirs Boat Yard at the forefront as a ‘one-stop’ marine complex.
Jock continued on with his boat sales and kept an interested "weather eye" on the operations up until he retired in the mid-1970s
Muir Engineering was established by John Muir adjacent to the Boatyard in 1968. The expanding anchor winch operations of Muir Winches necessitated relocation to Kingston in 1977.
Muirs Boat Yard is conveniently positioned on Napoleon street, within a 5-minute drive from the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania, Derwent Sailing Squadron and Hobart docks area. John and Wendy Muir, as owners, are very involved with the yard.
In 2015 Doyle Sails Tasmania relocated their sail-making operations from the Hobart docks area to the Muirs site, and have since established a comprehensive Ship Chandlery for pleasure and commercial marine supplies. Doyle Tasmania joins well-known shipwright Justin Barr (JB Boat Building) at the yard.
Boat Sales Tasmania delighted to become a part of this historic precinct and we look forward contributing to Muirs Boat Yard as once again being the ‘one-stop’ marine complex.
The official moving day is 1st of August. We look forward to seeing you there!