The Rampart was designed as a slightly cheaper alternative to the Silvers motor yachts being built on the Clyde, more affordable yet with all the same benefits to be found in one of the Scottish boats.
Designed by John Desty of Ramparts and built by Rampart Marine, Southampton in 1966
Ramparts built a range of motor yachts from before the war and were one of the last production yards building wooden motor yachts right up to the 1980’s.
Constructed of mahogany on oak timbers all copper fastened.
Solid teak deck screw fastened, seams are caulked and payed with Sikaflex.
Varnished superstructure with an upright and purposeful wheelhouse forward leading to a low aft coachroof over the saloon. Glass windows set in rubber and aluminium frames.
Step in the deck behind the coachroof down to an aft deck. Locker lids on the aft deck into the large lazarette.
Sheathed plywood coachroof deck and wheel house roof finished in white deck paint.
Large fore deck with varnished teak toe rail and margin board all round and varnished king plank. Railings around the foredeck, galvanised stanchions capped with a varnished rail.
Small butterfly skylight on the centreline just forward of the wheelhouse.
Engines were completely rebuilt from the bottom up in 2002 by Perkins specialists.
Borg Warner Velvet drive gearboxes with stainless steel shafts to fixed 3 blade 24” bronze propellers gives 10-12 knots cruising speed.
Single lever electronic Morse controls with remote hand held control unit to use on deck when manoeuvering in harbour.
Tanks
Single 900l stainless steel diesel tank at the forward end of the engine compartment stretching the full breadth of the boat, installed new in 2003.
Fresh water from a 250 gallon galvanised steel tank in the lazarette.
Batteries
A bank of nine 12 volt batteries either side giving 24v for engine starting and domestic systems.
Mastervolt 240v charger for battery charging when connected to shore power.
Accommodation
Entrance in to the deck saloon on the port side with a sliding hatch and door.
Steps down in to the wheel house with the helm to port and a dinette table arrangement along the starboard side.
Centre line companionway into the main saloon at the aft end. Comfortable settee berths either side with L-shaped seating to starboard. Nice original mahogany panelled joinery with lockers either side at the aft end. Portholes in the low coamings and in the topsides allow plenty of light into the main saloon. Good sized dining table in the saloon.
Steps down from the wheel house going forward into the main sleeping cabin. Heads compartment at the aft end to starboard with electric sea toilet, shower to port.
Two large single berths either side in this full breadth cabin with lots of storage under. This cabin is finished in very nice panelled mahogany with a painted deck head.
Small separate cabin forward in the fore peak with a single berth and a wash basin and electric toilet.
Inventory
Chrome compass binnacle
Furuno GPS
Raytheon radar
Raytheon chart plotter
Windward Autohelm
Azimuth electronic compass
Furdell radar reflector
Eberspacher heating to all cabins
Fire extinguishers and fire blanket
2 auto electric bilge pumps
Beaufort liferaft
Flares
Loud hailer system
Search light
Danforth anchor and 100m of chain
24v Francis electric winch
Mooring lines
Fenders
Small mast and derrick, currently unstopped.
New inflatable dinghy with 2.2hp outboard
Disclaimer:
These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.
The theme of the runabout was popular, dictated by the many accessible inland and sheltered waters of the US east coast and Europe and many exquisite designs evolved in the US and in Europe. One thinks immediately of the Italian Riva and the American ChrisCraft.
Although not so well known in Europe, William Hand was a marine architect working in Bedford Mass.and designed many boats on the same theme. Of course price was always an issue so ease of construction was a consideration in the design which follows Hand’s established practice of a V-bottom and chine.
Great care was taken over the choice and weight of the power unit and the balance of the boat at speed. A contemporary article describes the construction and specification in great detail. This enabled young boat-builders Kyle Abingdon and Maris Skabardis to build her in 2012 as a demonstration of the skills and ability they bring to their new boat building and repair business established in Kent in 2011.
The boat was nominated for the Classic Boat Magazine 2013 New Build of the Year.
A short article and photos were published in the American Wooden Boat magazine in July 2013.
Recognising that a boat like this will inevitably spend a lot of time out of the water on a trailer and when launched from time to time must stay dry, they chose Robbins Timber Elite marine ply for the hull skin.
The keel, hog, apron and web frames are all in teak. The stem is laminated teak.
The deck is laid in African mahogany over an epoxy-sealed marine ply sub deck. The seams are payed with Sikaflex DC.
The cock-pit is lined in teak, the benches are all teak. All structural members are fastened with silicon bronze screws. Bright metal is polished stainless steel.
The rudder and shaft P-bracket were custom made in cast bronze.
Single center-line polished stainless steel mooring cleat on the fore deck with fair leads either side and a single mooring cleat on the aft deck. Ensign staff mount on the aft deck. The stem is faced with a stainless steel protection strip and carries the eye bolt to haul her back onto her trailer.
In view of the comments in the original article concerning hull balance and the difficulties which can be encountered by over-powering a boat it was decided to keep to the original specification and install a petrol engine which is lighter than an equivalent powered diesel engine.
The 4-cylinder fresh water cooled 1.6 litre Ford Watermota was chosen, an engine located and completely rebuilt. All invoices for this engine rebuild are included in the sale for future reference.
The boat cruises comfortably at 15knts with a maximum speed close to 18knts. On sea trials in a small chop off the Kent coast she proved to be dry and stable. Flexible mounts ensure vibration-free running.
The engine is fitted with a Hurth gear-box. Conventional shaft drive to 3-blade bronze prop. Vetus water-cooled exhaust keeps the noise level low. Single lever Morse controls.
Steering on Teleflex Bowden cable ensures smooth and precise control to the bronze spade rudder. 12v battery in a sealed battery box in the engine compartment.
The boat has an aft cock-pit fitted with a bench seat against the after bulkhead comfortable for 2 passengers. Forward of this is the helmsman’s bench seat, again comfortable for 2 The steering wheel is fitted to port, engine instruments on the dashboard and the throttle/gear control on the coaming to port. Battery and fuel shut-off valve immediately to hand on the dashboard. Stern gland greaser under the helmsman’s seat. Split windscreen is more or a wind deflector than a screen.
Like the E-Type Jaguar, this boat has a long flat fore deck stretching out in front of the driver. There are two hatches edged in polished stainless steel; the forward hatch is a stowage locker to take mooring warps and fenders, the after hatch immediately in front of the windscreen is the engine access.
New cushions for both bench seats. Whale 12v bilge pump on a float switch. 12v nav lights. Bow and stern mooring warps 3 fenders.
Heavy duty, braked galvanised road trailer included in the price.
This is a brand new boat, a fine job which the builder’s are justifiably proud of and which deserves to win the New Build of the Year Prize.
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These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.
Wooden ships comments on this Scottish fishing boat
Designer:
Traditional, possibly MacPherson Campbell.
Builder:
Weatherheads of Cockenzie near Edinburgh.
Year:
Launched 1949
Construction:
Conventional plank on frame construction typical of Scottish fishing boats.
Approx 2” larch planking.
6” x 4” sawn oak frames at approx 14” centres in single futtocks with oak cleats spiked on across the futtock butts.
All fastened with galvanised rose head boat nails. Partly refastened.
Oak back bone.
Approx 10 tons pig iron ballast with some concrete midships from new to flush through the fish hold.
Deck in straight-laid pine, approx 1.1/2” thick, caulked and payed with pitch. The fore deck is raised by about 10”.
Frames taken up through the coverboards to form the stanchion posts to carry the 14” bulwark and capping rail.
In a first stage of conversion by Weatherheads a steel casing has been built over the mid-ships area approx 2’6” high from the wheel-house forward to the step in the deck.
Wheel-house built in the first stage conversion in angle-iron steel frame clad with plywood.
Hydraulic steering to a steel plate rudder. Traditional spoked teak wheel.
Rig:
Former yacht mast, varnished stepped in a steel tabernacle on the fore deck.
Galvanised wire stays with stainless steel rigging screws and galvanised fore stay.
Additional varnished pole on deck ready to be made into a boom.
Original small mast in steel with steel supports mounted on the wheel-house roof takes signal flags and arials.
Machinery:
Kelvin T4 120hp 4-cylinder diesel.
Fresh water cooled with heat exchanger.
7knts @ 4000rpm cruising speed at approx 2 litres per hour.
9knts max.
Kelvin 3:1 hydraulic gear-box.
Hydraulic pump belt driven off the front end of the engine to power the windlass and the hydraulic auto-pilot.
2 x steel fuel tanks in the engine room.
4 x 12v batteries in 2 banks of 2 – domestic and engine start.
Battery charging from engine driven alternator and solar panel on deck.
12v and 24v circuits
Accommodation:
The vessel is largely unconverted. There are 4 berth forward in what was the original crew cabin.
The midships are, former fish hold, has a floor in loose boards and 6’6” head-room under the steel casing.
Access to the wheel-house by the aft door.
Access to the hold by a companionway in the fwd stbd corner of the wheel-house.
Access to the engine room by a steel hatch against the wheel-house aft or through the bulkhead door from the hold.
Sea toilet in the midships area.
Insulated hot water cylinder with calorifier coil heated from the engine cooling water, plumbing in place to the hand basin forward by the sea toilet. A new water circulating pump is required.
2 x 45 gall plastic water barrels, either side of the engine room.
Inventory:
Compass
Hummingbird digital sounder
GPS
Plotter with charts for the W Coast of Scotland
VHF radio
Life raft (Service date August 2012 expired)
2 x fire extinguishers, one in the wheel-house, one in the engine room
Hydraulic windlass on the fore deck
40kg Bruce anchor
5 mooring warps
8 fenders.
History.
Registered on the Historic Ships Register
Various papers held relating to her fishing days including a photo of the vessel with a torpedo on the deck.
Hauled out ashore and under cover between February and April 2012 when the hull was stripped to bare wood, all under water seams raked out and recaulked.
Hull repainted and anti-fouled.
Any loose butts refastened with 5” galvanised boat nails.
Sea-cocks professionally removed, stripped and repacked.
It is not often these days we see a largely unconverted Scottish fishing boat for sale – the decommissioning grants saw to that.
This boat needs a lot of work to get her back to sound and fully sea-worthy condition, the major and obvious job being the replacement of the deck and most of the deck beams and stanchion posts. Despite that, she is used regularly by the owner for short trips round the bay.
The old Kelvin engine is a beauty and will no doubt run for years with basic maintenance and the hull appears to be tight from below though there are holes in the deck with work in progress.
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These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.
This wonderful steam launch, built in Sweden between 2005 and 2010, has only had 2 seasons in the water, wintered under cover in a shed and can be considered as a new boat in new but in fully trialed and proven condition.
The story of this fine steam launch began about 2005 when the Swedish owners came across a few small steam boats on the Gota Canal.
In the autumn of 2005 Bernt Breding, maker of the B2 steam engines and boilers sent a drawing to the owners of an 1892 steam launch designed by Harald Olsson of Vanersborg.
A new hull to this design was commissioned from Lars Qvist from Kungslena Cabinet Makers, the first boat to be built to this vintage design.
This very sweet classic steam launch design has a straight full length keel, a straight stem and a short counter stern with good freeboard.
The Hull
The construction uses the epoxy resin saturation method with Oregon pine strip planking, edge glued and coated inside and out with resin and glass cloth.
Steam bent oak timbers added after the hull skin construction with close-spaced transverse oak floors in the bottom which also form the supports for the cabin sole.
The sheer is emphasised by a deep bulwark plank painted red cut with waterways to drain the narrow side decks, varnished capping above with bronze capped rubbing strake below with gilded carving at the bow.
After very careful filling and fairing, the hull was painted externally with a linseed oil based paint and varnished on the inside.
The superstructure is built to an equally traditional design to give shelter over most of the length of the boat and standing head-room all through. Built in African and S American mahogany with large opening windows down each side to give plenty of light to the interior and excellent all round visibility, one doorway each side for side entry and all finished in 12 coats of Tonkinoise varnish.
The cabin roof is built of Siberian larch on oak beams, covered with canvas in the old way with varnished moulded mahogany margin boards round the edges, again soaked in Tonkinoise varnished oil. A sliding hatch at the after end allows ease of access through the after doors.
Twin, gull-wing lifting hatches at the forward end allow ease of access through the forward doors.
A traditional opening sky-light over the after end of the cabin roof with a pair of opening hatches midships.
Large classic spot-light on the roof forward end.
Nav lights in light boxes on the forward corners.
Bow mooring lines pass either over the stemhead fitted with magnificent polished bronze chain rollers or through bronze fairleads in the gunnel to heavy duty bronze bollards each side of the fore deck.
Spurling pipe on deck for the chain rising from the chain locker below.
All windows are in bevel-edged toughened glass.
All fittings are in bronze supplied by Davey & Co of London or Toplicht of Hamburg. Other unobtainable fittings were custom made in Sweden.
Blakes bronze sea-cocks.
Steering
Hydraulic wheel mechanism to a ram on the rudder stock under the aft deck.
Stainless steel rudder mounted vertically in a stainless steel shoe extension to the keel.
The wheel has two positions in the cabin, either on the starboard side forward or against the forward bulkhead to starboard.
The Cabin
Steps up aft to twin glazed double doors open to the Oregon pine laid deck over the counter. Sampson post takes the lines. Spurling pipe to take aft anchoring chain.
Below the counter the space is open to the cabin behind the steps and contains the hydraulic steering ram on the rudder stock.
At the forward end, steps up to deck with two glazed doors open to fore deck laid in Oregon pine on oak deck beams and finished in Tonkinoise varnish.
Seating in the after compartment of the cabin down both sides built as removable benches on mahogany spindle legs with loose, buttoned cushions.
The seat backs are formed in varnished mahogany slats with roll-round top edges.
At the forward end of the starboard seating is the panelled mahogany heads compartment with a new Porta Potti portable chemical toilet and polished stainless steel bowl hand basin set in a mahogany corner unit.
2-door locker below.
Shelf above.
Brass pillar and rail guards.
Sea water from a hand pump, waste drains overboard.
Opposite the heads compartment to port is a varnished mahogany panelled part bulkhead, sideboard in the cupboard, corner cupboard above.
A double folding panelled mahogany door closes off the compartment.
Forward cabin compartment with 2 fold-down button seats each side.
Steps up forward with twin glazed doors to the fore deck.
Engine and boiler in the midde of the forward compartment, all visible from the after cabin with the door open.
Head-room in forward part of the cabin 1900mm (6’3”)
Head-room in after part of the cabin 1860 (6’1”)
Electrolux spirit stove.
The top surface of the boiler is also good for boiling a kettle or frying the bacon and eggs.
12v refridgerator
Machinery.
B2 Anga 10hp 2-cyl high pressure steam engine driving a centre-line 50cm x 1m bronze prop.
The engine is mounted above the prop shaft which is carried in plummer blocks and belt driven from the engine.
B2 Anga wood fired 35kw 90 litre boiler.
The boiler holds 90 litres fresh water and is topped up from the outside by a mechanical piston pump driven off the shaft. A vertical handle operates this water flow when required.
A manual stand-by pump is fitted in case of pump failure or if the boiler has to be topped up when the engine is not running.
Birch is used as fuel and is stowed under the fore deck.
70kg birch (or 3 Ikea blue bags) gives 8 nautical miles steaming.
The stowage spaces can accommodate some 35 Ikea blue bags full of logs cut to the size of the bag which is also the size of the fire box, perfect for the job!
Coal can be used as well. A combination of some coal and some wood has been found to be efficient.
3 x 12v 96 amp/hr batteries secured below the cabin sole.
Shore power charging with a battery charger.
All switch gear on a switch board by the helm.
Nav lights each have a dedicated motor-cycle type battery.
The engine installation is in perfect, almost new condition, always visible by the helmsman, all controls easily reached. A wire mesh security cover protects the belt drive mechanism.
Typically, the engine cylinders and the boiler are clad in varnished hardwood.
All copper and bronze pipes and parts are polished.
The boiler is fuelled from the forward face.
The boiler flue runs vertically through the cabin roof.
Extensive range tools, oils, greases etc.
An exceptionally fine example of a classic steam boat but a new construction built to a very high standard with wonderful attanetion to detail and beautifully presented in as new condition, ready to steam away.
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These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.
A fascinating and most unusual boat built to a very high standard, all varnished teak with a cabin, a separate heads compartment, a galley and a large cock-pit aft.
The general configuration is of a long keeled boat, slightly raked stem, beautifully flared bow sections, transom stern, single engine with a centre-line prop. Originally fitted with an auxiliary wing engine as well, now removed.
Helm position well forward with a 3-pane windscreen, the small middle section opens with chromed stays.
The midships cabin area is covered with a fixed roof with nicely radiuused corners.
A unique sliding roof section covers the forward area over the helm, closing up to the windscreen forward and sliding aft on bronze runners outside the fixed section.
Cabin top sheathed and painted, varnished teak cabin sides fitted with attractive oval windows. Varnished steam bent deck beams in the sliding section, heavier varnished beams in the fixed section.
The fore deck is laid in teak.
The side decks are formed by wide varnished teak cover-boards to create a substantial gunnel.
Large cock-pit aft. The fixed cabin top coamings sweep exquisitely down aft to form the cock-pit comaings, edged in bronze D-section. Varnished teak aft deck.
Seat boxes either side with a loose thwart across the stern and access to a stern locker. Small box lockers in each forward corner.
Varnished T&G boards form the bulkhead to the cabin with the fixed roof overhanging the cock-pit to give some shelter. Full height double doors to the cabin.
The engine is sensibly placed aft under a varnished box in the middle of the cock-pit thus reducing engine noise etc in the cabin and affording total all round access.
The boat had a major refit in 2008 after sale to the present owner by Wooden Ships.
Construction
Carvel planked in ¾” teak all copper fastened to steam bent Canadian rock elm timbers on an oak back-bone.
The planking is tight-seamed with no caulking, a construction method requiring the highest skills.
Examination on purchased revealed that water penetration under the canvas sheathing had rotted part of the yellow pine roof structure, the cock-pit sole bearers were soft and there was some deterioration of some of the rock elm steam bent timbers wqhere the sole boards were in contact.
2008 refit; 12 steam bent oak timbers replaced
New cock-pit sole bearers
New galvanised keel band.
Aft deck lifted, one deck beam replaced and the deck relaid.
Bilges scraped and repainted.
Complete rewire, new batteries and switchgear
Cabin tops rebuilt in T&G southern yellow pine, epoxy glass sheathed externally to replace the original canvas, painted inside.
New laminated glass in the windows.
New polished stainless steel window frames
All seacocks replaced with new skin fittings and Hattersley bronze valves.
The hull is finished varnished inside and out.
Substantial bronze rudder hangings on the transom, the rudder heel sitting in a bronze skeg fitting.
Short bronze tiller with cables to a traditional spoked teak wheel.
Double chain roller bronze stemhead fitting.
Bronze cleats and fairleads
Hatch on the fore deck with heavy bronze hinges and bronze-framed light.
The centre part of the triple windscreen opens.
Teak grab rails on the cabin top.
Large 10’ long aft cock-pit with seat lockers each side, deep coamings above, scrubbed teak gratings.
Bronze deck fittings.
Machinery.
Volvo 3000 MD11D 25hp 2-cylinder raw water cooled diesel with less than 50 hours running from new. Installed in the 2008 refit on rubber mounts on substantial oak engine beds.
Ideal for a launch like this, this slow revving engine has decompressors and a hand start facility in case of electrical failure. Originally bought 20 years ago for another boat and never used this engine is as new.
Machinery refit in 2008 refit.
All new fuel lines and filters
New fuel tank
New prop shaft
New engine controls
Totally rewired with new batteries and switchgear
Approx 15gall new cylindrical polyprop fuel tank under aft deck.
12v engine start battery, new 2007
12v domestic services battery new 2011
Belt driven alternator above the flywheel
Accommodation
Fore peak stowage, steps inside to deck hatch over.
Forward bulkhead below the windscreen formed by vertical T&G varnished teak boards with twin central doors
Helm position with traditional teak spoked wheel to port, cables to the tiller arm on the rudder head over the aft deck.
Athwartship bench seat with removeable middle section to allow through passage. Raised, flat foot rest surface each side.
The roof above is a sliding section which can be easily opened in fine weather.
Seating down the port side with a double drop-lead table.
New upholstery by Jeckells in 2008
Galley down the stbd side with rectangular stainless steel sink, bronze Patay hand pump for fresh water supply, sink drains overboard.
Plastimo 2-burner gas cooker, new 2007.
New work-surface 2007
Heads compartment in the after stbd corner with full height panelled door.
Blake Victory sea toilet, chromed and looks like new!
Double doors in the bulkhead to the aft cock-pit.
6’ head-room in the cabin.
Scrubbed teak sole boards
Water 40 litre black polyprop water tank under the port settee berth in the cabin with a filler on the side deck midships.
Gas Gas bottle in a sealed plastic container in the stbd forward corner cock-pit box, drains overboard.
Inventory
Navigation Steering compass
Garmin GPS
Silva sounder, new 2006
Nav lights. New bronze bi-colour over the windscreen. All round white on a 2’ mast on the cabin top.
Ground tackle. SL Delta anchor and warp, new 2007
Safety gear 2 x fire extinguishers
Fire blanket
Henderson Mk6 manual bilge pump – new 2007
Whale 2v bilge pump on float switch – new 2011
Life buoy
Deck gear All-over fitted cock-pit cover by Jeckells
Warps and fenders.
Stainless steel stern boarding ladder
History.
Hurricane Wake first appears in the April 1939 edition of Yachting Monthly where it is noted “Lukes of Hamble are building to a Fred Shepherd design a 26’ day cruiser, now partly planked”.
Shepherd was one of the best known and respected marine architects in his day with many notable sailing and motor yachts from his board. He had a long career working in his London Piccadilly offices from the early 1900’s to his retirement in 1939 and living to the grand old age of 104. Hurricane Wake was one of his last designs and he seems to have had fun with this one.
Lloyds Register notes her in 1939 as Hurricane.
She appears on the British Shipping Register July 1946 renamed Hurricane Wake. There is no evidence of war service.
Her Certificate of Registry shows various owners on the South coast over the next 30 years.
Her original Gray petrol engines, 40hp main engine and 16hp wing engine, were replaced with a diesel engine in 1965.
A change of ownership in 1974 brought her to Porthleven in Cornwall where she was berthed in the drying harbour for many years.
Apart from the change in engine, Hurricane Wake remained virtually original but by 2007 when she was bought by the present owner she was in need of a face lift.
The present owner carried out significant work as detailed above and she is once again and exceptionally attractive, unusual and very interesting boat. Surveyed prior to relaunch in June 2008, copy available.
The surveyor comments:
“Well built to a very high standard originally and she has had a considerable amount of time and money spent on her since to bring her up to as new condition.
Thanks to the considerable amount of work done there are virtually no defects.”
Disclaimer:
These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.
1 9/16” Burma teak planking on close spaced galvanised steel frames. Solid yacht laid teak deck. Aluminium wheelhouse
Machinery:
Twin 5LW 78hp Gardner marine diesels installed from new. Very economical engines give 7 knots cruising,9 knots max. 2200Nm range
Beta Marine 34Kva diesel generator
Hydraulic bow and stern thrusters
Accommodation:
7 berths in 4 cabins below decks.
Spacious owners cabin, 2 guest cabins and crew quarters forward.
Deck saloon and galley in the superstructure.
An incredible motor yacht with few comparable vessels afloat, she will take her crew anywhere the wish to voyage in comfort and style. The original twin Gardners are very economical, reliable and quiet, while modern updates to the engineering and electrical systems mean the boat has all the mod cons you could wish for. She was built no expense spared to Lloyds100A1, and this tells, now 50 years after her launch, she is still in great condition and ready to go voyaging.
Full specification and more photos coming soon.
Disclaimer:
These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.
Wooden ships comments on this Admiralty Fast Seagoing Motorboat
designed as a development of the Admiralty pinnace with some 350 vessels built in total. The order for her build was placed by the Admiralty with Watercraft Ltd, Surrey, in March 1941 along with two other identical boats, her official number being 4195. She left the yard in September 1942 under the command of Fleet Air Arm personnel and was subsequently allocated to RNAS Condor, Arbroath as a North Sea transfer vessel.
She was eventually sold out of service in 1948 to the Scottish Institute of Seaweed Research who renamed her ‘Asco’ and used the boat until 1956. After this she had a series of private owners, the first of whom was Richard Wilkins who took her to Falmouth and had her converted into a smart motor yacht and used her to entertain wealthy guests from the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club. In 1972 she was bought by a local fisherman who used her for charter trips to go Shark fishing out of Falmouth. Latterly she was laid up in the Gloucester & Sharpness canal, where she was bought by the current owners in 1999 and restored to be the fantastic vessel she now is.
Hard chine planing hull with a straight stem, flared bow and a wide low transom.
Conventional construction with double diagonal mahogany through fastened with copper rivets.
Lightweight sawn mahogany framing and stringers, screw fastened to the hull.
Sawn wooden frames and full length wooden keel with bronze keel bolts, last drawn 2005.
Double diagonal planked deck, through fastened with copper rivets. Covered in marine plywood and epoxy sheathed. Finished in grey non-slip deck paint.
Solid wood coachroof coaming with plywood coachroof deck. Bronze oval port holes in the coamings.
The whole superstructure is sheathed in epoxy glass cloth and finished in grey paint.
Spacious deck with minimal deck fittings. Galvanised fairleads and galvanised admiralty style clest on the fore deck. Tork Master hydraulic windlass on the centre line.
Wide side decks with small scrubbed teak toe rail set just in from the deck edge.
Midships wheelhouse with port and starboard side entrance doors and hatches. Low coachroof extending forrard of this. Step in the deck aft of the wheelhouse with large aft coachroof extending nearly to the transom.
Radar and search light on the wheelhouse roof.
High galvanised stanchions around the aft deck with rope guard wires. Galvanised cleats and fairleads on the aft deck with hatch into rudder flat and storage area. Access to steering gear through lazarette.
Dinghy chocks on aft coachroof with contemporary admiralty 10’ clinker dinghy, complete with cover.
Small varnished mast, keel stepped, on the aft coachroof to carry small derrick crane for lifting the dinghy.
Mast stripped and re varnished 2011.
Galvanised wire standing rigging, new 2005, to external galvanised chainplates on the coachroof coamings.
Small encapsulated wire winch fixed to the mast to lift the boom crane.
Accommodation 6 berths
Steps down from port and starboard side entrances into wheelhouse.
Centre line spoked wooden wheel with large varnished panelled dash containing engine instruments and controls. The whole wheel house interior has been rebuilt in the last 10 years and finished in varnished marine plywood with iroko and cedar trim.
Hatch offset to port at forrard end of wheel house with access to main accommodation. Steps down into saloon with port and starboard settee berths, full standing headroom. Centre line saloon table and large panelled cupboard on aft bulkhead containing electric panels.
Aft port corner of saloon has built in wet room/heads with Blakes sea toilet.
Aft starboard corner contains ‘switchboard’ room with majority of the electric systems.
Forward bulkhead of saloon has a hatch at waist level with steps up giving access to forrard areas. Through the hatch and steps down into the galley, set to port.
Single stainless steel galley sink with overboard gravity drain set in a scrubbed teak work surface.
Gimballed 2 burner Origo spirit stove with oven and grill. Ample storage cupboards.
Hot and cold pumped water to galley sink from 500L tank below the cabin sole.
Heads to starboard opposite galley with Blakes Lavac sea toilet. Shower and basin in heads with pumped hot and cold water.
Forward into main cabin which retains main period features, including a pair of ‘new’ original pipe cot berths.
4 berths in the cabin including the 2 drop down pipe cots. Full standing headroom and plenty of light. Galvanised ladder to the forehatch on the centre line.
Small opening hatch with hinged doors in the forrard bulkhead of the cabin gives access to anchor locker.
The main accommodation areas of the boat are light and spacious with plenty of headroom.
Webasto heating system connected to radiators throughout the boat.
Aft of the wheelhouse is a large unconverted space, currently containing a makeshift cabin. This is accessed via a hatch on the port side aft of the wheel house. This a large space, compromised only by the lack of headroom. This could be overcome by increasing the size of the hatch that the dinghy currently sits on and making it into a skylight. There is potential for a large owners cabin with a separate heads in this aft space.
Machinery
3 Perkins 6354 6cyl diesel engines.
Port and starboard engines: turbo charged perkins 6354 with borg warner hydraulic gearboxes. Single lever controls
Centre line engine: normally aspirated Perkins 6354 with 500D PRM gearbox. Single lever controls.
Long steel shafts to 3 blade bronze propellers gives 10 knots cruising, 14 knots max speed.
2 x 500L steel diesel tanks port and starboard in the engine room. Easily accessible primary fuel filters with water separators for each engine.
24volt electrics with dedicated engine starting and separate domestic battery banks.
Very smart engine room with all cabling contained in ducting, all fuel lines securely held and flame resistant insulation all round.
Inventory
Silva compass
Raymarine A65 plotter/log/sounder
Furuno Radar
9 assorted fire extinguishers
35kg CQR anchor
25kg CQR anchor
Bruce kedge anchor
70m 3/8” chain
70m 10mm warp
10’ clinker dinghy
5hp Mariner outboard
Warps and fenders
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These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.
Traditional Scottish design with canoe stern. She has a very marked sheer forward giving a high, dry bow for steep northern seas.
Planked in larch fastened with galvanised iron boat nails to heavy sawn oak frames.
Sheer strake and 2 planks below + bilge strake are in iroko.
Spacious, clear, columbian pine laid deck, caulked and payed with pitch. High bulwarks all round on close spaced oak stanchions, heavy capping rail and cavil bar, all painted with painted cover boards.
Midships hatch to the hold approx 6’ x 4’ with heavy timber coamings and steel checker plate lift-off lid fitted with an opening hatchway.
New Lewmar, flush-deck hatch on the port side deck in way of the wheel-house over the heads below.
Fore hatch currently removed from rebuild leaving a 2’6” square aperture port side forward.
Steel wheel-house with mess cabin behind. Stern access door.
Hydraulic steering to steel plate rudder.
Kelvin TS8 8-cylinder turbo charged diesel produces 320hp at 1000rpm.
8knts at 800rpm.
1800 galls fuel in 2 steel tanks in the engine room.
240v diesel generator.
New engine start batteries on 24v circuits.
200 galls water tank forward.
The net and trawl handling gear have been removed from the deck leaving the fish hold and the wheel-house. The aft cabin has been very nicely fitted out with a double berth, heads and shower and a wood burning stove.
Fitting out of the hold is nearing completion with 3 sleeping cabins, bathroom with a full sized bath, comfortable seating area, galley with Belfast sink, slate work surfaces, Raeburn and gas cooker.
Compass
radar
sounder
GPS plotter
2 x VHF radios
life raft
EPIRB
Danbuoy
CQR and 2 fisherman anchors
80 meters ¾” chain
Hydraulic trawl winch on fore deck
Mooring warps.
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These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.
Wooden ships comments on this 43′ Fred Parker twin screw motor yacht
Length on deck 43’6”
Lwl 42’8”
Beam 12’
Draft 4’9”
Tonnage: 23TM
Designed by Fred Parker, built by Moodys in 1963/4
A most attractive motor yacht with transom stern and wonderfully flared bow sections with a break in the deck midships and a most useful big deep cock-pit aft.
Planked in teak on close spaced laminated oak timbers in continuous lengths right round the hull, all copper fastened. Two pairs of engine beds, 5 meters long contribute to the strength of the centre-line hull structure.
Lead ballast keel. Heavy oak floors.
Solid scrubbed teak deck, yacht laid to a king plank. Very spacious fore deck with fore hatch in the middle, step down each side in way of the front of the superstructure with easily negotiated side decks back to a deep varnished teak cock-pit against the transom. Guard railings all round with part capping rails in varnished teak.
Varnished teak superstructure incorporating the wheel-house set in the raised fore deck with a coach-roof aft recently laid in scrubbed teak with grab rails each side and sliding hatch aft from the cock-pit to the aft cabin., the wheel-house sides extending aft to form “wings” each side giving a sheltered area behind the wheel-house for sun-bathing, fold-down flap seat inside the wings each side.
Sliding door each side of the wheel-house/deck saloon, opening windows aft, 3 part windscreen forward each with a wiper.
Wheel steering on Mathway rod and gear system to twin bronze spade rudders.
Pair of chromed vents and chromed search-light on the roof together with a raked varnished mast carrying the lights and the radar dome on a pole.
The cock-pit aft is very deep, all varnished teak with teak gratings and seat/lockers each side, fitted cover. Inflatable dinghy carried on the after coach-roof deck. Seat lockers each side, gas bottle in the stbd locker, heating unit in the port locker, hot water calorifier under the cock-pit sole.
New engines were fitted in 2000 giving her 8knots cruising at 1800rpm and easily handled.
2 x Cummins 4b 72hp 4-cyl diesels with Twin Disc hydraulic boxes, Kobelt single lever controls.
New heavy stainless steel shafts, stern tubes on bronze A-brackets.
New 3-blade bronze props fitted at the same time as the new engines.
Amazingly, the engine beds appear to extend more than 5 meters inside below the sole boards effectively spreading the loads and adding strength to the hull, the engines rubber mounted with flexible couplings.
Drip trays fitted under the engines.
Auto engine-room fire extinguishers.
Both engines fitted with new Separ Duplex fuel filters in pairs with quick-swop valve and glass bowls.
All new fuel lines.
Engine alternators rebuilt 2014.
The engines are painted white in an immaculate, white, clean engine room, effectively sound-proofed.
120 gall steel fuel tanks fitted each side of the engine room.
4 x 12v batteries in two banks in a beautifully made wooden box with stainless steel clips and hinges at the aft end of the engine room.
2 x 12v batteries forward for the QL 12v bow-thruster under the fore cabin sole.
Alternators on each engine through Mastervolt charger and shore power connection.
The port engine also charges the bow thrusters batteries.
Accommodation: 5 berths in 3 cabins.
V-berths in fore cabin, drawers under and small drawer unit between. Chains through a galvanised hawse pipe to stowage under forward.
Centre passageway, heads compartment to port with Blake sea toilet and hand basin, all fitted out in white formica with mahogany trim. Both sea toilets have been rebuilt and rechromed 2008.
Galley opposite to stbd with single rectangular s/s sink, drains over board, pressurised water.
Fridge under wide work surface.
2-burner gas cooker/oven.
New Microwave oven recessed into bulkhead above work surface.
All fitted out in original speckled formica and immaculately clean and crisp.
Centre-line steps up to the deck saloon/wheel-house.
Seating in the after corners each side of the aft cabin entrance, upholstered in blue vinyl. Varnished teak drop leaf table with fiddles off-set to stbd.
Roof section opens as a “sun-roof” – wonderful in warm weather! Also allows removal of engines.
Helm position to port with traditional wheel fitted with chromed rim on Mathway rod and link steering with helm indicator, instrument console in front, comfortable, padded helmsman’s chair. Drawers and cupboards with drinks cabinet to stbd.
All varnished teak interior, varnished spruce deck beams, overhead chart stowage between the beams and search-light control handle.
Centre-line steps down aft to passageway through to the aft cabin.
Single berth cabin to stbd with sliding door.
Heads compartment to port with Blake sea toilet and basin in a unit, (drains overboard).
Shower in a separate compartment alongside. The heads and shower compartments are fitted out in the original floral formica – a nice period touch, no doubt the choice of the original owner’s wife! All shower plumbing replaced 2014.
Aft cabin with generous stbd double berth, dressing table, cupboards and drawers to port. This compartment is fitted out in oak joinery with oak bulkheads, all expertly re-veneered recently to as new condition. Full length mirror on the bulkhead.
Steps up to a door and sliding hatch to the aft cock-pit.
6’ head-room all through the yacht. Varnished teak sole boards.
Eberspacher diesel-fired hot air cabin heating and water heater installed in the port cock-pit locker. Serviced 2014
Calorifier tank under the cock-pit sole connected to Eberspacher heater and 240v shore power. Larger capacity calorifier fitted new in 2014.
140 gall fresh water tank in the engine room with pressurised water supply to sinks and shower.
Sestral Major steering compass
Simrad echo sounder.
Simrad log.
ICM311 Icom DSC AIS VHF
Garmin MAP450
Simrad AP26 auto-pilot.
Koden radar.
HH Radio
HH GPS
CQR anchor on stemhead roller,
CQR kedge anchor.
New 2009 SL electric windlass, 60m chain.
Life raft, serviced to 2014
2 named life-buoys.
Fire extinguishers.
Search-light on wheel-house roof.
8’ Zodiac inflatable dinghy with Yamaha 5hp outboard engine with internal and external tank.
New blue fabric cock-pit and fore hatch covers 2009.
New manual bilge pump.
New Gulper shower pump.
Eberspacher Hot water and hot air cabin heating
Volvo bow thrusters with dedicated battery forward.
Mobitronics Controller battery management system.
1.5Kw inverter with 13 amp plugs through the boat
Mastervolt battery charger.
Honda EU20i suitcase petrol portable 240v generator 2009.
New coated guard wires fitted 2009
Anti-theft device fitted to both deck fuel fillers 2009
New carpets and curtains 2010
Topsides repainted 2010
This is a top quality yacht from one of England’s best known designers of the period and built by one of our most famous yards to the highest standards.
She has had new engines fitted, a very professional job in an immaculately clean engine room.
Her accommodation is almost totally original and in excellent condition making her a very comfortable boat for a couple with occasional guests in the separate forward cabin with it’s own heads and the single berth guest cabin.,
In 2007 she was been burnt off to bare wood and repainted above and below water-line.
All teak bright work stripped and revarnished.
Regular, careful maintenance has guaranteed her continued excellent condition.
Inspected and found in really first class condition, very clean, no clutter and ready to sail.
2013 survey available.
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These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.
Built by James Miller & Sons, St Monance, Scotland, 1952.
The vessel was built for a Mr Gunter of Torridon, Scotland and she was built to fit into his boathouse. He sold her in 1960 to Dr Cowan from Renfrewshire who kept her at Dumbarton on the Clyde. She remained with him for nearly 50 years until sold on his death in 2009.
The next owner gave her a thorough refit and kept her on the Clyde for 2 years when she was sold to the present owner and came south to Devon.
The design shows a long straight keel with long external iron ballast keel allowing her to take the ground without damage, a beautifully flared bow and a transom stern.
She has a midships wheel-house with shallow coach-roof forward over the forward cabin and a coach-roof aft over the saloon cabin with a step in the deck each side.
Planked in 1” mahogany all copper and bronze fastened to 3” x 2” sawn oak frames at 12” centres on an oak back-bone. This is a very heavy construction for the size of the vessel making her a robust sea-boat designed and built for the seas round the north of Scotland.
Much of the internal face of the hull is varnished behind the joinery.
The topsides are exceptionally fair and painted in an off-white enamel with a gold cove line round the gunnel and a blue boot top.
Long external iron ballast keel, galvanised keel bolts. Oak floors doubled to the frames across the back-bone give a very strong construction. Several lead trimming ballast pigs in the bilge.
The deck is straight laid in teak, caulked and payed and now painted between varnished teak coverboards and deep toe rails on heavy section oak deck beams with steel toe rods to inhibit the common problems of over-caulking a laid deck.
Twin chain roller galvanised steel stemhead fitting. The stbd roller has been extended to carry the anchor and chain away from the hull to avoid damage.
Forward mooring lines made off to the manual windlass.
After mooring lines to teak bar and bronze cleats each side on the aft deck.
Chromed bronze fairleads forward and aft.
Midships bollard to take springs etc.
Otherwise, exceptionally clear and uncluttered decks.
Galvanised steel pulpit and nicely designed cast steel stanchions with twin guard wires.
Varnished teak wheel-house midships with three window windscreen, a sliding door each side, a shallow coach-roof forward over the fore cabin and a coach-roof aft over the after cabin.
The wheel-house was originally built with a windscreen and a hard roof over the helm position leaving open back and sides which have since been filled in to make a totally enclosed wheel-house, warmed by the engines with a slightly athletic entrance each side.
The coamings are varnished teak with small oval windows in the forward coach-roof and a modern sky-light on the deck above and teak grab rails in chromed mounts; oval chromed bronze framed fixed windows in the after coach-roof coamings.
The decks on both coach-roofs are laid in 1” T&G pine boards as was usual, sheathed in either canvas as was traditional or, at this date, possibly glass and resin.
New stainless steel mast tabernacle on the after coach-roof against the wheel-house aft window with a traditional copper vent each side. Varnished teak sliding hatch to the after cabin/cock-pit entrance. Rectangular windows in chromed bronze frames.
Lovely deep cock-pit aft with varnished teak coamings, teak gratings in a lead-lined draining well. Locker lids to stowage under the side decks and under the scrubbed teak locker seats.
T&G varnished teak bulkhead to the cabin with double doors and sliding hatch over.
Machinery.
Twin Perkins P3 31.5hp 3-cylinder diesel engines installed new in 2006 with new shafts and bearings. Fresh water cooled with heat exchanger exhaust manifolds. Oil coolers. Filters on the sea water intakes. Sound deadening around the engines.
Single lever controls to conventional stern gear drive and 3-blade bronze props on bronze brackets.
New stainless steel fuel tanks fitted in 2006.
Accommodation. 4 berths.
The accommodation is divided into 3 parts – the two berth fore cabin and galley forward, the midships helm position with the engines and the aft cabin/saloon.
V-berths in the fore cabin, coach-roof over. Lockers and drawers under the berths.
Full height lockers each side aft with varnished mahogany panelled doors against the after T&G bulkhead.
White painted T&G fwd bulkhead to chain locker in the bows. Varnished mahogany slatts to the ship’s sides, white painted deck-head, original dark varnished mahogany joinery and teak sole boards. Modern ventilation hatch above.
Passage aft past the varnished locker doors each side to twin varnished mahogany doors and 2 steps up to the wheel-house.
A bench each side over the engines forms full length seating with full access under to the engines. Helm forward to port with teak spoked wheel, chains and cables to a single rudder.
Modern engine and electrical panels.
Sliding door each side to deck.
Midships steps down aft.
Port galley with modern stainless steel sink/drainer, mixer tap, original manual fresh water tap and mahogany joinery.
Heads compartment opposite with modern Jabsco sea toilet and porcelain hand basin.
Aft through to the after cabin with port and stbd settee berths, lockers behind and under all in original mahogany joinery. Original double drop-leaf table.
Double doors aft and step up to the cock-pit.
Equipment.
Navigational Aids
Cobra marine DSC VHF radio
NASAC Target Depth sounder
NASDA Target Speed / Log
Clock & Barometer
Ground Tackle.
Simpson Lawrence manual windlass.
35lb CQR anchor
100ft of chain.
General Equipment.
Warps Fenders & boat hook
Cockpit cover (2005)
Stainless steel side boarding steps (refurbished 2010)
Navigation lights
Galvanised steel pushpit /gaurdrail.
Wooden mast in tabernacle & varnished boom
Eberspacher hot air heating.
Safety tackle
2 x electric bilge pumps with float switches.
1 x electric bilge pump with dedicated battery( charged by solar panel)
3 x fire extinguishers
Fire blanket
Horseshoe Lifebuoy
Galley
Plastimo 2 burner gas cooker & grill
Stainless steel sink /draining board
Gas bottle
Jabsco marine sea toilet.
Porcelain hand basin.
A nice quality motor yacht, good pedigree, very convenient size with almost new engines, presented in nice clean condition, good paint finish, reasonable condition varnish, a boat of great character with a marvellous feel to her, lying S Wales.
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These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.
45’ Laurent Giles cutter built in India in 1949. Double diagonal teak planking. Unmistakably Laurent Giles, she is just a big Channel Class. Proven ocean cruising boat, fast and capable. Offered for sale at only £24,000 due to the owners personal circumstances. woodenships.co.uk/sailing-yacht/45-laurent-giles-bermudan-cutter/... See MoreSee Less
