The Holman GRP Twister is one of the early examples of a wooden yacht design being built in GRP, the Twister was an enormously successful boat, typical of Holman’s designs for wholesome and seaworthy yachts, that found a new audience when it was first launched in GRP.
The new material was an unknown quantity at this time, so to ensure the required strength was gained, the builders made the hulls of these early boats nearly as thick as their wooden predecessors, meaning they are enormously strong and robust yachts.
The Twisters have gathered accolade from all corners and well known as very seaworthy and relatively fast little cruisers. This particular example is no exception and has been well cared for in the present ownership.
Designer: Kim Holman
Builder: Uphams of Brixham
Heavy lay up glass reinforced plastic hull with bonded GRP decks.
Encapsulated lead keel which removes the issue of keel bolts.
Varnished mahogany coachroof coamings bonded to the GRP deck help give her the look of her wooden predecessors. Sheathed plywood coachroof deck.
Small toe rail all round with a heavy duty plastic capping rail.
3 aluminium framed windows in the coamings with a forehatch forward of the mast. Forehatch was newly built last year to improve access to the cabin.
Self draining cockpit with varnished mahogany coamings and thwarts.
Tiller steering on transom hung fibreglass rudder
Centreline sliding hatch with varnished mahogany washboards.
Rig
Bermudan masthead sloop rig on deck stepped alloy mast. New mast 2012.
Aluminium slab reefing boom.
Stainless steel standing rigging, replaced 2013.
Single spreader rig with a single cap shroud and twin lowers. Standing twin backstays.
Bronze and stainless rigging screws to internal stainless chainplates bolted through the hull.
Furlex roller reefing headsail. New 2012
Sails
Mainsail Sanders 1 yr old, as new condition.
Genoa Scanes 10yrs, good condition
Genoa Westaway 15 yrs, almost unused
Storm jib Approx 15yrs, as new
Trysail Approx 15yrs, as new
Mainsail Westaway Approx 20yrs, fair condition
Winches
Pair of bronze Gibb sheet winches on the cockpit coamings
Machinery
Beta Marine 2cyl 16hp diesel installed new in 2009. 300 hrs only. Beta gearbox with single lever controls.
Stainless steel shaft to 3 blade bronze propeller gives cruising speed of 5kts, max 6kts. Consumption 1/3 gph.
10 gallon Stainless steel fuel tank located under cockpit port side thwart.
Batteries
2 x 12volt batteries charged from the engine alternator, located in cockpit locker.
Accommodation 4 berths
Steps down over the engine box in to the main cabin with chart desk to port and galley to starboard
Good sized chart desk with white formica covering. Electronic navigation equipment mounted on the bulkhead. Drawer under for charts.
Galley to starboard with gimballed 2 burner spirit stove, new in 2012. Hand pumped fresh water from a 16 gallon tank under the cabin sole into a single stainless steel sink, drain pumps overboard.
Half height bulkheads to the saloon with port and starboard full length settee berths. Stowage behind the settee berths with a bookshelf and various cupboards.
Drop leaf table slightly offset to starboard. Taylors paraffin cabin heater mounted on the forward bulkhead.
Centreline passageway going forward with a heads compartment to port. Jabsco sea toilet, installed new in 2010 with a small sink. Hanging locker to starboard.
Forepeak with twin V-berths and a centre infill to create a double. Forehatch above.
Headroom: Main cabin 6’
Forepeak 5’8”.
Inventory
Navigation
Plastimo compass above hatch.
Sestrel compass on bridge deck
Echo sounder – 2 yrs old
Log.
Autohelm autopilot.
GPS.
Standard Horizon chart plotter.
New radio/AIS
Tack Tick wind indicator
Safety
4 man liferaft, DBS, Serviced 2012.
Horseshoe lifebuoy.
Danbuoy
2 Fire Extinguishers
Ground tackle
25lb Danforth anchor
120ft chain
Avon inflatable 2.4m (old)
Gear
2 x winter cradles
Cockpit cover new 2012
Mooring warps
6 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.
Built as a fishing boat in Denmark in 1958 by Raun Byberg and converted to a yacht in 1993.
Her deck profile was changed with new hatches and a staysail schooner rig was fitted. She has been in the present ownership for over 20 years now and after many adventures and some wonderful stories, a new owner is required to carry on the exploits.
Planked in the traditional Danish way with 2.5” oak planking fastened to 5” x 8” sawn oak frames with galvanised iron boat nails. Frames are fitted in pairs.
Grown oak floors with galvanised keel bolts.
The original laid deck was replaced in 2006 with 2” marine plywood screw fastened to the oak deck beams and then coated with a 3 component rubber.
Hatch coamings are solid oak, finished in white paint with three bronze portholes per side.
Coachroof decks of 2” Siberian larch aid on plywood.
Internal ballast consists of 28 tons of iron mixed with concrete in the bilges
Deck layout consists of two hatches, one aft of the main mast and one aft of the foremast.
Sliding hatch companionways in both hatches give access to the accommodation with a centreline companionway forward of the foremast giving access to the forward areas of the ship.
Hydraulic wheel steering at a helm position mounted on the aft hatch.
Rig
Two mast staysail schooner rig on solid wood keel stepped masts.
Bermudan mainsail with varnished wooden slab reefing boom.
Mainmast boomed staysail on a varnished wooden boom.
Wishbone foremain with a laminated Oregon pine wishbone.
Galvanised wire standing rigging parcelled and served in the traditional way with ratlines on the foremast shrouds and starboard side mainmast shrouds.
Galvanised turnbuckle rigging screws to external galvanised chainplates.
Running backstays on block and tackles.
Navigation light boxes mounted in the main shrouds.
Pole bowsprit with a single bobstay, whisker stays and a net. Inner forestay to the stemhead, outer forestay to the bowsprit end.
Sails
Mainsail DK Sails 65sqm 14years Good cond.
Main staysail Soren Jensen 26sqm 14yrs
Wishbone sail 38sqm 14yrs
Foresail 38sqm 14yrs
Inner jib 27sqm 14yrs
Outer jib 32sqm 14yrs
Machinery
Volvo Penta TAD120 280hp 6cyl turbo charged diesel installed new in 1978. Fresh water keel cooled
Rentjes reduction gearbox to 3 blade variable pitch propeller. Gives 6.5 knots cruising at 11lts/hour. 10 knots max at 40lts/hour.
Tanks
Polyethylene fuel tanks, one either side in the engine room with a total capacity of 1000lts.
2 water tanks, one in the engine room and one forward. 600lt stainless tank and a 700lt polyethylene tank.
Batteries
2 x 220ah 24volt batteries located in the engine room charged from a dedicated engine alternator.
24 volt systems with a 2.5kw inverter.
Accommodation 12 berths
Beneath the main cargo hatch is a large hold, 5m x 5m designed for a variety of cargoes.
The main accommodation is forward with a galley right at the for’ard end with the anchor locker in front of this against the stem.
The galley has 3 Neptunus gas rings on solid oak surfaces with double stainless steel sinks that gravity drain overboard. Pumped fresh water and salt water to the sinks.
Saloon area aft of this with a wood burning stove and a large table offset to port and ample seating around.
Two single berths either side under the deckhead.
Cargo area aft of this in the centre of the ship with access from the centre hatch.
Bunk to starboard under the deckhead.
Heads compartment to port with a Jotun sea toilet with direct discharge. Shower with pumped hot water, pumped overboard by an electric waste pump.
Access to accommodation in the aft of the ship through the aft hatch. Double cabin in the far stern of the boat with a Reflex diesel cabin heater. Aft heads compartment.
Twin cabin between this and the engine space.
Access through the whole ship below decks.
Inventory
Plath compass
Furuno VHF
Furuno radar
Garmin GPS
Anchor with 100m 13mm chain
Cold moulded 7’ dinghy
Heavy duty winter cover
Fenders
Warps
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Bermudan cutter designed by A. N. Prickett and built by Keith Nelson at his yard in Bembridge, IOW in 1952. Nelson later went on to produce the famous Nelson motor yachts which were very successful and are still very popular. Prickett was Chief Structures Engineer at Saunders Rowe, Cowes, and frequently had entries in Yachting World design competitions along with Dr Harrison Butler.
Prickett designed the forerunner of Selina in the 1930s and she was launched as “Solondrina” in 1936. This yacht was laid up in Portsmouth during the war but was destroyed by a bomb, the spars survived, being in a different shed and these spars are those of “Selina” (with the exception of the bowsprit, made longer than the original by the current owners to improve helm balance).
After the war, the Commodore of the Bembridge Redwing fleet, Lawry Corry, who had an injured back which restricted his racing activities, wanted a boat from which he could follow the Redwing racing. He had admired “Solondrina” before the war and therefore commissioned a sister ship to Prickett’s pre-war design using the spars from the original boat, this was “Selina”, launched in 1952.
Planked in 1” mahogany all copper fastened to closely spaced CRE frames. Bronze screws in garboards and hood ends.
Grown oak floors with external cast iron ballast keel. Iron keel bolts last drawn 2009, found to be good.
The majority of the interior was removed to gain access to the centreline. All the frame ends were professionally replaced in laminated oak, all copper fastened
Deck of T&G Columbian pine, overlaid with marine plywood and sheathed in epoxy cloth. Finished in cream deck paint.
Sheathing is rolled over the deck edge and finished under a half round varnished teak rubbing strake. Varnished teak toe rail set slightly inboard of the deck edge around the fore deck and the quarters.
Bronze stem head fitting with twin chain rollers and gammon iron. Centreline Sampson post, bronze fairleads and teak and bronze mooring cleats. All bronze deck fittings including highfield levers.
Varnished teak coachroof coamings with two fixed bronze portholes each side.
Cambered coachroof deck increases height in the cabin without looking boxy and ugly. Sheathed plywood over laid T&G pine, centreline teak sliding hatch.
Large cockpit with teak coamings and port and starboard thwarts. Front access lockers under the thwarts with large lockers under the side decks.
Laid teak over ply cockpit sole with access hatch to aft bilge and stern gear.
Transom hung rudder with tiller steering.
Rig
The original standing rigging plan was said to be based on aviation principles and the metal fittings are to aviation standards of the 1930s with rivets and stitch welds.
Bermudan cutter rig on keel stepped solid varnished spruce mast. Varnished spruce roller reefing boom with varnished staysail boom.
Stainless steel wire rigging and rigging screws, all new in the last 2 years, to external bronze chainplates.
Single lower shroud, single intermediate and single cap shroud with one pair of spreaders.
Twin running backstays to bronze Highfield levers on the side decks.
Staysail hanked to inner forestay with staysail boom on a bronze fitting to the stemhead. Sheeted to a galvanised horse on the foredeck.
Outer and intermediate forestay fixed to the stemhead, outer leads to the masthead, intermediate leads to the head of the jib 2/3 up the mast.
Jib works on a traveller with a Wickham Martin Furling system
Sails
Main Ratsey 12 years Ok condition
Jib Arun 7 years Good condition
Staysail Arun 7 years Ok condition
Jib topsail Arun 7 years Ok condition
Baloon jib Ratsey 12 years Good condition
Machinery
Beta Marine 10hp 2cyl diesel installed new in 2003. Beta gearbox with single lever controls.
Centreline stainless steel shaft to 3 blade bronze propeller gives 5 knots. Shaft, prop and all stern gear new in 2003.
40lt plastic Tek Tank for fuel under starboard cockpit thwart. Water separator fuel filter
Batteries
2 x 12volt batteries for domestics and engine starting, charged from engine alternator.
Accommodation
Simple accommodation below decks that was fitted after the refit of the bottom end. Effective use of space but joinery and systems need to be finished
Sliding hatch with louvered varnished teak doors into the cabin.
Galley to port aft of a full height T&G bulkhead. Taylors dual burner paraffin cooker with warming oven and 1.5 gallon tank.
No water system. Washing up bowl used with a jerry can for fresh water.
Full length port and starboard settee berths with cushions.
T&G bulkhead just forward of the mast splits the main cabin from the forecabin with offset starboard door.
Jabsco sea toilet installed on the centreline facing aft at the forrard end. Pipecot on the port side folds up against the hull when not in use. Forehatch above. Ample space for stowage of warps, fenders and sails.
The interior of this little gem is very simple and needs attention, however it does function as simple shelter for the weekend sailing that she is currently used for. The ratio of cockpit size to interior space is more akin to a Folkboat than a Vertue, with a large cockpit very suitable for comfortable day sailing. A boat such as the Vertue offers more interior volume but has a very cramped cockpit, fine for one person on watch while on passage but not comfortable for a trip down the coast on a sunny summers day. This boat seems to offer a perfect balance of interior and exterior space for the long weekend sailor, plenty of space in the deep cockpit for safe sheltered sailing and enough space in the cabin when the weather turns foul and you wish to hide away with a good book.
Inventory
Sestrel steering compass
Echopilot combined sounder and log
Simrad RT63 DSC VHF
Garmin GPSMAP 400 plotter/GPS
Navigation lights
2 x fire extinguishers
Horse shoe buoy
CQR anchor
Danforth anchor
Ample chain
New all ver cover
8 fenders
Various mooring warps of different sizes
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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.
The result of a Yachting World design competition, this American inspired yawl was built at the Craglietto yard in Trieste, Italy in 1967.
Yachting World was well known at this time for holding design competitions for amateur naval architects, and many well known yachts of today were first drawn for one of these competitions. The designer was very much inspired by the popular and successful American designers John Alden and Olin Stephens, looking very closely at the lines of the Finisterre yawl from Stephens and the Challenger yawl from Alden. The Americans were far advanced in yacht design at this time, and had realised that long thin yachts were not the most efficient design. Instead they kept the boats shorter and increased the beam, resulting in a longer waterline length and thus a faster boat for her size. This made their boats very successful on the race circuit and many people started to adopt these principles in later years.
This boat clearly takes the inspiration from the American yawls with a relatively wide beam and short counter, however instead of a shallow draft with a centreplate, she carries a slightly deeper draft in the traditional manner.
Bought by the present boat builder owners in 2007 in the Mediterranean, they undertook a large refit before shipping her home by road. The interior was then removed and has been totally renewed.
Planked in mahogany all copper fastened to steam bent timbers at 8” centres.
Galvanised steel strap floors on every frame.
Double stringer full length of the hull at the turn of the bilge with heavy beam shelf. Extra clamp around the main chainplate area.
External lead ballast with stainless steel bolts, all new in 2007.
Yacht laid silod teack deck caulked and payed with butyl rubber, joggled to a varnished teak king plank with varnished teak coverboards and toe rail.
Varnished teak coachroof coamings with aluminium framed portholes. Epoxy sheathed marine plywood coachroof deck. Forehatch in the coachroof.
Stainless stem head fitting with integrated bow roller and fairleads. Electric windlass on the centreline with strong stainless cleats bolted through the foredeck.
Stainless stanchions with guardwires to stainless pushpit and pulpit.
Stainless band around the deck level of the counter with integrated fairleads.
Centreline cleat with small hatch in the aft deck to the lazarette. Gas bottle holders at the base of the mizzen mast.
Self draining cockpit with port and starboard thwarts at the forward end. Wheel steering mounted on a central stainless steel pedestal. Aft thwart for the helmsman hinges up for access to steering gear and prop shaft. Stainless hatch in the cockpit sole for access to engine with dog catches to secure it.
Traditional sliding hatch with wash boards into the main cabin.
Rig
Bermudan yawl rig on keel stepped square section varnished wooden masts. Varnished wooden booms. Masts split and re-glued 2007.
Twin spreader main mast with twin lower shrouds, single intermediate and single cap shroud. Twin standing backstays.
Mizzen has single spreaders with twin lower stays and single cap shroud.
Stainless rigging to stainless bottle screws all new in 2007. Stainless chainplates also new 2007.
Roller furling forestay with standing inner forestay.
Sails
Complete new sail wardrobe, unused. Main, mizzen, staysail and jib in cream.
Winches
2 primary and two secondary winches on the cockpit coamings, all by Goiot.
2 winches on the mainmast for halyards and reefing pennants.
Machinery
Perkins 4108 4cyl diesel, fresh water cooled.
Single lever controls. Hydraulic gearbox with stainless steel shaft to 3 blade bronze propeller with water lubricated stern gland.
Tanks
All new stainless fuel and water tanks installed under the cabin sole.
Accommodation
The accommodation was removed entirely by the present owners with the view to reinstate a better designed and more practical layout. The majority of the joinery is in place but requires finishing touches.
Large quarter berth to port.
Galley to starboard with gimballed 2 burner gas oven and grill. Single stainless sink gravity drains overboard.
Chart desk to starboard forward of the galley.
Half height bulkheads into the saloon with large port and starboard settee berths. Bunk frame work and joinery is complete but new upholstery is required. Material for completing the upholstery comes with the boat.
Drop down backs to settee berths with large storage behind. Varnished cabin sole boards.
Passageway forward offset to starboard. Storage and hanging locker under the deckhead to starboard.
Heads compartment to port. New sea toilet with new stainless black water holding tank. Single stainless sink.
Forward cabin with twin V-berths. Storage bin and chain locker forward.
This is a pretty yacht and reportedly very fast. The owners sailed her for a short time in the Mediteranean before starting the refit and were amazed at her speed, not surprising looking at the height of her rig. The major structural items have been attended to already, with large investments including all new sails. The interior has been an ongoing project that has been halted due to ill health. The majority of the work has been done, requiring finishing touches and second fix of plumbing and electrics.
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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 Ocean 30 Bermudan cutter
Ocean 30 bermudan cutter, designed by A. A Truman and built by the Wallasea Bay Yacht Station, Rochford, Essex in 1947.
This small yard was very busy during the war building Fairmiles and MFVs. After the war they became known for a series of yachts designed by A.A. Truman called the Ocean Class, starting with the popular 23’ Ocean Baby, a 26’ sloop, several 30’ sloops and the Ocean 35.
The significant feature of these yachts is the rather pointed canoe stern and generous freeboard.
They have a long keel, good beam for the period and a wide coach-roof gives a very spacious cabin.
The aft cock-pit is deep and very safe.
These Ocean Class boats became quite popular. They were built to a solid and robust standard, simple but strong with no frills to keep the price down, roomy, safe cruising boats and came at just the right time to take advantage of the blossoming post war yachting market.
This yacht had a big refit in 1997 when amongst other things the deadwoods replaced and the rigging renewed.
Bought by the present owners in 2005,
Major refit in 2008 when the whole deck and deck structures were replaced – deck, coach-roof coamings and roof, carlins and beam shelf, the cock-pit rebuilt.
Continual maintenance and refit work has been carried out in the present ownership, including a new engine, some replacement planking in pitch pine, new rigging and new keel bolts. 2013 survey available.
She has only had 3 owners from new. Even if she is not a yacht to sail round the world she has a delightful charm and warmth and will give years of pleasure to the lucky new owner.
Spring refit 2015, work done: Rig fully inspected, hull repainted, antifouled and boot top renewed. Toe rail re-varnished, some interior re-varnishing. 2 new spare batteries. Topping lift and mainsail halyards replaced.
Engine oil change, alternator belt renewed, new oil and diesel filters. New bowsprit bobstay.
Part 1 registered. Mooring in St Mawes available for 2016 season/all year.
Planked in pitch-pine, all copper nails and rove fastened to steam bent oak timbers on an oak back-bone.
Long external iron ballast keel.
All keel bolts replaced in 2007.
Straight-cut, flat topped oak floors on every third timber with a pair of throat bolts through each.
Considerable quantity of internal ballast, some clean iron pigs and some lead submarine ballast blocks.
New deck in 2008 in marine ply, sheathed with epoxy/glass and painted.
Varnished mahogany toe rail all round.
Varnished king plank forward.
Varnished hatch on the after deck over the lazarette.
New stainless steel pulpit and push-pit, removable guard wires stretched between.
The wide coach-roof gives volume in the cabin below and tapers sweetly in height to forward. New coamings in the 2008 refit in iroko, painted white externally, varnished internally and fitted with 5 rectangular windows in reducing size aft to forward. The windows are nicely set with varnished beading round the outside face.
New coach-roof deck in sheathed ply painted dark blue with 4 bronze mushroom vents, grab rails each side and a modern hatch just in front of the mast.
Self-draining cock-pit well with lift-up panel to access the machinery below.
The coach-roof coamings extend aft to form the cock-pit coamings, varnished inside and out.
New seat lockers each side with varnished lids.
Full height doors to the cabin entrance with a new, well-cambered sliding hatch in varnished iroko.
Large diameter wheel on a varnished pedestal in the middle of the cock-pit makes a significant feature. Compass on the pedestal.
Varnished T&G hardwood bulkhead to the cabin with engine instrument display and nav instrument display to port of the doorway.
Gas bottle lockers each side in the forward corners provide a useful step down from the deck.
Bermudian cutter rig on a 38’ Sitka spruce mast stepped in a stainless steel tabernacle on a hardwood pad on the coach-roof deck with a bulkhead and compression posts below to take the thrust.
Stainless steel mast fittings.
Boom sheets to a new stainless steel horse across the after end of the cock-pit.
Both mast and boom are finished in linseed oil.
Varnished fixed bowsprit over the stemhead. Stainless steel end fitting.
Stainless steel wire bob-stay.
New stainless steel gammon iron with twin chain rollers.
Stainless steel standing rigging replaced 2010.
Double spreaders.
Single lowers, intermediates and diamonds above.
Single standing back-stay.
Sails.
Mainsail. Slab reefing.
New staysail to the stemhead on continuous line roller furling gear
New jib to the end of the bowsprit on continuous line roller furling gear.
Roller furling lines led back to jammers at the cock-pit.
1 halyard winch mounted on the fwd face of the tabernacle.
Headsail sheets through lead blocks on the rails with a straight pull to cleats on the coamings.
Machinery.
Yanmar 4HJE 40hp 4-cylinder diesel engine fitted new in 2006 with less than 100hrs running (autumn 2013.) Fresh water cooled.
Centre-line installation with conventional centre-line shaft drive and stuffing box gland with remote greaser.
Water-cooled exhaust with Vetus water trap box.
Single lever controls in the cock-pit by the helm.
Tanks
Stainless steel diesel tank under the port cockpit locker, 85 litre capacity.
85 litre flexible water tank under the cabin sole. 12 volt pressure pump with calorifier off the engine to provide hot water.
Batteries
2 x 85ah batteries with brand new spare batteries
Accommodation 4 berths
Step down into the cabin from the cock-pit.
Galley to stbd with wide varnished work surface, round stainless steel sink, smart Optimus 2-burner, grill and oven gas cooker in a lined recess.
Cupboard space below.
Chart desk in the after port corner with batteries under.
Dinette to port with athwartships seating and table. The table drops to make a double berth
Forward, heads compartment to port with Blake sea toilet.
Storage recess to stbd with fridge
Bulkhead doorway to the fore cabin with V berths.
Brackets to take root berths over if needed.
6’ head-room midships.
Inventory
Sunto compass on the wheel pedestal
Silva Nexus wind, speed, log, and depth all routed through the Nexus computer.
Garmin GPS
VHF radio
Navtex
EPIRB (registered to the yacht). Battery expired but may be renewed by owner.
Original Capt Watts clock and barometer.
18w solar panel
2 fire extinguishers
Horse shoe lifebuoy
Fog horn
2 electric bilge pumps
1 hand bilge pump
Echomax radar reflector
Bruce anchor with 150’ 8mm chain
Fishermans kedge anchor with warp and chain
Gemmel and Prout windlass
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 Laurent Giles Bermudan Yawl
Lutine is one of the most famous of English yachts, now offered for sale after a total rebuild followed by several seasons extensive cruising and racing. Recent complete professional cosmetic refit, she is now looking absolutely stunning.
Designed by J Laurent Giles for Lloyds Yacht Cluband built by Camper andNicholson in 1952.
At a time when racing in America was very competitive, Lloyds Yacht Club wanted a yacht to compete with the Americans on their terms so she was designed to the Cruising Club of America rules rather than the Royal Ocean Racing Club rules. She was rebuilt for the 2001 America’s Cup Jubilee Regatta and came 3rd in Class One
Lutine has exceptionally sweet, very traditional lines with a relatively short bow over-hang and a well-balanced counter stern.
She has ample freeboard and a typical Giles sheer to make her a dry boat capable of putting in fast times even in a sea.
She has also proved to be very easily handled after the refit and the owner regularly sailed the yacht with himself and his wife though he raced with a full crew.
Teak planking fastened with galvanised bolts through the steel frames, copper rivets through the steam bent timbers.
All new steel angle frames at approx 3’ centres with new 2 steamed oak timbers between.
Lead ballast keel.
All new silicon bronze keel bolts.
Regalvanised strap floors on each of the steam bent timbers with new galvanised bolts.
Steel plate gusset floors bolted to the steel angle frames.
In a recent improvement, an original constructional fault which has been made good by adding steel brackets to the steel plate floors to pick up the keel bolts thus now effectively tying the hull structure to the back-bone and the ballast keel and removing the leak which the yacht has had since new when pressed hard.
Teak deck and deck structures, all replaced new in the 2008 refit.
The Restoration.
The yacht was found by the present owner in a derelict condition in 1999 and underwent a major rebuild before being relaunched again in 2001.
In the rebuild, the hull was stripped completely and the deck removed. Only the planking and the back-bone were left of the original structure.
All the steel frames were replaced.
New galvanised bolts in the steel frames.
All steamed timbers replaced, copper and bronze fastened.
New stem.
The beam shelf was doubled up from the mast forward.
All new silicon bronze keel bolts.
The deck was rebuilt to the original plan with all new deck beams and a new teak deck laid on a marine ply sub-deck.
The teak is yacht laid and joggled to a centre king plank and bonded to the ply sub-deck with no visible fastenings.
Seams payed in butyl rubber compound.
The side decks and fore deck are totally clear and uncluttered with nothing to trip over.
Bulwark all round with capping in varnished teak, very nicely shaped round the fine counter stern and incorporating bronze panamas forward and aft to take mooring lines through the rail rather than over the top where they will damage the varnish.
Large chrome and teak cleat on the aft deck to take stern mooring lines.
Massive oak Sampson post just aft of the stem with cast bronze capping takes the forward mooring lines.
The deck structures comprising a dog-house and coach-roof, a small sky-light either side of the mast, a large sky-light forward of the mast over the owner’s cabin with chromed vents on Dorade boxes each side and a fore hatch were all rebuilt to precisely the original designs working from the original plans, all in varnished teak with lights in chromed bezels. Lazarette hatch.
The dog-house and coach-roof are decked in scrubbed teak with varnished teak margin boards.
A minor change was made to the dog-house where the original 2 large windows were changed to 3 smaller windows for greater security. Safety glass used throughout.
The cock-pit was rebuilt to the original plans with a forward well for the crew and a deep helmsman’s well aft.
The forward well is self draining with a bridge deck to the cabin entrance and scrubbed teak seats each side.
The coach-roof and dog-house coamings are extended aft with 10” deep coamings round the cock-pit with nicely radiussed after corners.
The forward well is divided from the helm well by a seat level beam which carries the main sheet block on a centre eye bolt.
An enclosed box either side of the wheel contains engine controls, VHF and sounder to stbd and a chart plotter screen to port.
Wheel steering with the original bronze wheel driving sprocket and chain to stainless steel cables to a stainless steel quadrant on the bronze rudder stock.
All pulleys, turning blocks and cables have been replaced.
Arm on the rudder stock takes the con rods for the Simrad twin hydraulic ram auto-pilot.
The top of the stock is squared to take an emergency tiller.
Stainless steel push-pit at the stem, stainless steel stanchions with twin guard wires, gates each side.
Bermudian yawl rig on varnished masts.
The main mast, mizzen mast and both booms were built by Collars in 2008 with all new stainless steel mast fittings.
Both masts are stepped through the deck onto the back-bone.
Twin spreaders to the main mast, single spreaders to the mizzen mast.
All new stainless steel rigging in 2008 with Stalock terminals and rigging screws to internal stainless steel chain plates.
Twin lowers, single intermediates and cap shrouds to the main.
Single standing back-stay passing to stbd of the mizzen mast to a deck fitting on the aft deck, braced through to the counter below..
Outer masthead fore stay to the stemhead fitting. Inner fore stay from upper spreaders to a substantial stainless steel fitting on the fore deck, tied through with rod and rigging-screw below the deck to the stem.
Fredrickson roller cars on the main and mizzen mast sail tracks
New polished stainless steel mast fittings all designed for the yacht by Ed Burnett.
Rectangular section, slab reefing main boom with stainless steel end fittings.
X-section aluminium sail track.
Sails
Mainsail SKB Sails 2003
Mizzen SKB Sails 2003
Mizzen staysail SKB Sails 2009
Staysail SKB Sails 2003
Yankee on roller, SKB Sails 2003
Big Assymetric spinnaker Doyle Sails 2006
Storm jib Doyle Sails 2009 (unused)
New headsail sheets 2010
Bamar MEJ Italian 12v roller furling gear on the outer stay for regular use, new 2006.
Harken roller ball blocks and fair leads
Harken main sheet blocks
Inner and outer sheet tracks on the side decks. Twin cars on the outer tracks.
Winches.
Cock-pit.
2 x Lewmar 68ST bronze self-tailing sheet winches, new 2008
2 x Lewmar 40ST bronze self tailing sheet winches, new 2008
2 x Meissner 32ST bronze self tailing sheet winches
Pair of 12v warping winches on the aft deck.
Masts. All mast winches new in 2008
4 x Autal 2-speed top-action bronze winches on the mizzen mast.
2 x Lewmar 40ST bronze, self-tail halyard winches on the main mast.
1 x Lewmar 40ST bronze self tailing winch on the deck by the main mast.
1 x Autal W8 boom-mounted reefing winch.
Yanmar 6-cylinder 100hp naturally aspirated diesel engine, flexibly mounted on the centre-line to conventional centre-line shaft with deep sea seal and 3-blade bronze prop.
Single lever controls.
Electrics 12v circuits.
1 x 12v battery on engine start
2 x 12v batteries on domestic supply.
12v- 85amp belt driven engine alternator.
Steca PR1010 solar panel with control unit at the chart desk.
Main on/off switch under the chart desk.
Battery state indicator
Electrical distribution board at the chart desk.
Victron battery charger and shore power connection
Search light.
Fuel
3 x stainless steel fuel tanks. 1 x 45 gall + 1 x 15 gall reserve tanks aft of the engine, gravity drain to a 45gall feed tank under the midships cabin sole.
Twin SU 12v pumps feed fuel up to the engine
US Versitronics fuel guage.
Water
120 gallons fresh water in 2 x stainless steel sinks under the saloon cabin seats.
Pressurised water supply. With FW pump under the galley sinks
Hot water frm large volume calorifier tank behind the galley, heated by the engine cooling water.
Accommodation 8 berths + 2 saloon settee berths.
The interior has been redesigned and rebuilt for modern cruiser/racer requirements while maintaining the atmosphere and character of the times.
Fore peak stowage, fore hatch over. Sea toilet in the after port corner of the fore peak.
Centre bulkhead door to owner’s cabin. Double berth to port, single berth to stbd.
Stowage under the berths
Varnished mahogany bulkheads.
Large sky-light above, 6’6” head-room
Stbd off-set bulkhead door to passage. Twin hanging lockers to stbd with the saloon pilot berth behind.
Heads compartment to port with sea toilet, porcelain hand-basin and shower.
6’1” head-room.
Shower and hand basin drain to a collecting tank with 12v auto pump-out.
Sea toilet pumps over-board. New black water tank in the midshipos bilge, not yet connected.
Stbd off-set bulkhead door to the saloon cabin. Port and stbd seating.
Shelf and lockers up behind the port seating.
2 pilot berths up behind the stbd seating, one running forward behind the hanging lockers, one running aft behind the galley lockers.
Varnished mahogany bulkheads and joinery with raised and fielded panels, varnished deck beams against a white deckhead, inlaid teak cabin sole with centre-line lifting panels
6’9” head-room under the coach-roof + sky-light.
Dickinson diesel cabin heater against the bulkhead with flue to deck, new 2010. Dedicated stainless steel fuel tank on the bulkhead by the mast.
New double drop-leaf saloon table.
Step up aft end of the saloon cabin, engine under with lifting panel for good access.
Port chart desk against the half bulkhead with forward facing seat.
Chart stowage in the deck.
Electrical distribution board above.
Stowage under the seat.
Galley to stbd with new 2009 Wallas diesel cooker, glass surface hob, new 2008.
Separate, gimballed diesel-fired oven below.
Ample drawers and cupboards below the work surface and above under the side deck.
Twin stainless steel sinks drain over-board.
12v fridge under the sinks.
6’8” (203mm) head-room under the dog-house.
6’10” (208mm) in the saloon
6’2” (187mm) in the heads passage
6’6” (198mm) in owner’s cabin
Stbd quarter berth 7’6”. Ahead of the quarter berth and outboard of the galley is a very large, deep locker access by a cupbpoard door at the head of the berth.
Port side access to a large double berth in an L-shape running aft as a quarter berth and then athwartships under the cock-pit well to give an almost private cabin. 7’6” x 4’ berth
Centre-line steps up to the cock-pit with sliding hatch and twin washboards.
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.
Arguably the most exquisite Fife of all and certainly the most accessible. This wonderful little yacht has all the attributes of the classic Fife design, the lift to the counter, the long fine bow and a perfect, sweet sheer line. And after 80 years she looks as good and sails as well as she did the first day she was launched from the Fairlie yard in 1934.
The Fife One Design was commissioned by the Royal Anglesey Yacht Club from Wm Fife 111 in 1926 and this yacht is the only one built by W. & R.B. Fife at Fairlie in Scotland. The class is unique to the RAYC and races in the Menai Straights and Conway. These boats are sometimes known as the Conway Fife One design.
15 boats of the class were built by A.M. Dickie & Sons at their Bangor yard, North Wales and there is still a very active racing fleet. In recent years 22 boats were built in grp and the race fleet now numbers 33 boats.
It should be borne in mind that Peter Dickie whose family yard was based at Tarbert a little further down the coast from the Fife yard served his time as a marine architect in the Fife drawing office and there was close cooperation between the yards. Another brother then branched out and open the yard not so far away by sea in Bangor N Wales.
This very special yacht has come into the market for the first time in over 50 years of present ownership. She had previously sailed in Gibraltar and returned to Plymouth by her then Naval Captain owner. A life buoy with the letters RGYC is still on board. At that time she was copper sheathed.
Planked in 5/8” mahogany fastened with copper nails and roves to steam bent Canadian rock elm timbers on an oak back-bone.
Approx 2000lb of external lead ballast keel secured with bronze bolts.
Oak floors.
The original planked and canvas sheathed pine deck was replaced around 1990 with the present marine ply deck, painted with a 2-pot polyurethane deck paint. Varnished mahogany cover-boards and king plank. Shallow mahogany toe rail all round inboard
Bronze deck fittings and stemhead fitting.
Cock-pit coamings in varnished mahogany. Loose helmsman’s seat across the back of the cock-pit with solid mahogany fixed bench seats each side further forward can accommodate 4 crew.
A loose varnished mahogany shelter with sliding hatch in the well-cambered roof fits over the coamings giving more protection to the cock-pit in open waters but is seldom carried.
Rig.
The original rig was a fractional bermudian sloop on a keel-stepped varnished spruce mast with single spreaders and jumpers above and running back-stays, typical of the period.
In 1960, early in his ownership the present custodian built a new mast and rigged her with twin spreaders and a standing back-stay with the headsail set to the stemhead from the upper spreaders and she has sailed with this rig for over 50 years.
Stainless steel standing rigging A bronze angle bar on each side deck, bolted through the beam shelf below takes the shrouds. Bronze mast fittings.
The working rig sets some 250 sq’ of sail.
Sails:
Mainsail by McKillop Sails, Kingsbridge approx 10 years old. The main is slab reefed to a rectangular section varnished spruce boom
Working jib.
Large jib.
Spinnaker. (ex Dragon and seldom used)
Equipment.
A solar panel is rigged to charge a 12v battery which feeds a 12v bilge pump.
Collapsible grapnel-type anchor with short length of chain and plaited nylon warp.
Heavy fisherman anchor.
Steel winter cradle on castors.
Old life buoy.
A number of old style life jackets
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 Percy See Bermudan cutter
Designer: Percy See, Fareham, Hampshire.
Builder: Percy See
Year: 1956
Construction: Carvel mahogany planking all copper fastened to steam bent oak frames. Elm stem, stern post and backbone.
Iron ballast keel with iron keel bolts, galvanised strap floors, removed, regalvanised and replaced with new bronze bolts.
Tiller steering to heavy elm rudder on stainless steel rudder hangings.
Yacht laid teak deck over a ply subdeck, new in 2012. Varnished teak king plank, coverboards and margin board.
Varnished mahogany coachroof and cockpit coamings with teak toe rails and hatches and bronze portholes.
Rig:
Masthead Bermudan sloop rig on a Sparlight alloy mast with twin spreaders, standing backstay and Furlex roller furling forestay
Standing rigging all new 2007/2009. New synthetic running rigging.
Machinery:
30hp 3cyl Volvo Penta fitted new in 2011. Conventional gearbox with single lever control and stainless steel shaft to 3 blade bronze folding propeller.
Stainless tank with filter and water separator
Accommodation:
Steps down over the engine box with large quarter berth to starboard. Galley to port with 2 burner gas oven an grill an single stainless steel sink.
Chart desk to starboard forward of the quarter berth with electronic navigation equipment and storage.
Keyhole bulkhead with port and starboard settee berths. Ample storage above and below.
Heads compartment on starboard side with Jabsco sea toilet. Hanging locker to port.
Large double berth in the forepeak.
Inventory
Foruno GP31 GPS
ICOM VHF DSC
Clipper AIS receiver
PC Navtex receiver
Raymarine X5 tiller pilot
4 solar panels
15kg Bruce anchor with 10mm chain
Additional 15mm warp
Manual bilge pump
12v electric bilge pump
Fire extinguisher
Fire blanket
Carbon monoxide alarm
4 man liferaft
Tender with Honda outboard 2012
This yacht had a major refit finishing in 2012 when she was sold to the present owners. They have since cruised extensively, ending up in Greece where the boat is now lying.
She is an exceptionally smart boat and has been well cared for, benefitting from two extensive periods of refit in the last 20 years.
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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 Scarborough One Design Bermudan cutter
Length on deck 29’
Beam 8’
Draft 4’9”
Tonnage 7TM
Built 1953.
In the post-war revival, John Ley, boat-builder from Scarborough produced a number of 5 ½ ton 26’ sloops which were very well received at the time.
In 1950 he followed this success with the slightly larger 29 foot Scarborough One Design, with an acknowledgement to the great Albert Strange, another Scarborough man.
He adopted Albert Strange’s canoe stern to replace the raked transom of the 26 footer asserting it is the only logical way to finish the back of a boat.
The Scarborough 29 gains space in the cabin by extending the coach-roof out to the deck edge, the additional freeboard forward helping to make her a very dry boat in a chop and a dog-house is stepped into the raised deck giving shelter to the aft cock-pit.
The result is a yacht which was as well received as her smaller sister and John Ley went on to built some 20 yachts to this design.
This yacht has been in the same family ownership for many years. She has given them many years of fun but is not being used enough now and the time has come for the energy and enthusiasm of a new owner.
Construction
Planked in larch all copper fastened to steam bent timbers on an oak back-bone.
1.5 ton iron keel + some iron pigs in the bilge.
Heavy iron strap floors at approx 3’ centers mounted on wooden blocks on the planking adjacent to a steam bent timber.
Varnished mahogany toe rail, blue painted rubbing strake at deck level. Lower level rubbing strake following the after lower deck line.
3 fixed oval lights in the topsides each side.
The dog-house coamings are in varnished mahogany and extend aft to form the cock-pit comaings.
Deep, sheltered cock-pit with very deep coamings to give excellent support and protection in the cock-pit.
Full length louvered doors and sliding hatch to the cabin entrance.
Spray-hood over the hatch.
Varnished ash tiller on pivoted bronze mount.
Varnished mahogany fore hatch and oak Sampson post on the fore deck.
Nice recessed bronze fair leads forward.
Twin stemhead chain rollers
Stainless steel pulpit and stanchions with twin guard wires. Painted steel push-pit.
The deck is laid in pine boards sheathed in canvas, probably original, and painted.
The dog-house roof also canvas sheathed and painted as the main deck and fitted with varnished grab rails.
Fractional bermudian cutter rig on varnished spruce mast stepped in a galvanised steel tabernacle on the fore deck.
The mast was split and rebuilt professionally in the winter of 2011/12
The mast compression is taken by a pair of galvanised steel vertical girders encased in mahogany forming the doorway in the forward bulkhead, they in turn mounted on massive oak athwartship floor member.
All stainless steel standing rigging fitted new in 1999 with stainless steel rigging screws
Cap shrouds, intermediates and single lowers.
Single spreaders.
Single standing back-stay.
Runners on levers from a mid-point between spreaders and mast-cap taking the strain from the lazy innder fore stay.
Single stemhead/masthead fore stay.
Lazy inner forestay ste up to a Highfield lever, stemhead to a midpoint between spreaders and mast cap.
External bronze chain plates.
Varnished boom with original bronze roller furling gear
Double-tailed main sheet through turning blocks each side.
Sails
Mainsail
No 1 jib
Genoa
Storm jib
Cruising chute
Winches.
Pair of top action Lewmar 8 sheet winches on the cock-pit coamings.
Pair of top action Lewmar 8 mast halyard winches.
Engine.
Yanmar 3YGM20 20hp @ 3400rpm 3-cylinder, fresh water cooled flexibly mounted diesel engine. Fitted new in 2006, now with only some 60 hours running (August 2013).
Conventional shaft drive to centre-line 3-blade prop.
Good access to the engine through a removeable hatch in the cock-pit sole.
Mild steel diesel fuel tank under stbd cock-pit seat.
New prop 2005
2 x 12v 80 amp/hr batteries on 12v circuits. Easily accessible under the quarter berth.
Accommodation. 3 berths
The fore peak is given over to stowage and ablutions with sail bin to starboard and shelves forward.
A Jabsco sea toilet is sited to port adjacent to the bulkhead with a plastic bowl in a fold down bracket above for washing. The bowl is simply emptied into the sea toilet.
Bulkhead in way of the mast compression posts to the saloon cabin.
Port and stbd settee berths in the saloon cabin, shelves and lockers behind all in nice varnished mahogany joinery
Shelves with drawers under against the forward bulkhead forming a recess below to stow rolled up bedding.
Little mahogany corners cupboards in the forward corners are a nice feature.
Galley in the after port corner with a plastic bowl in the surface against the after bulkhead and adjacent to it a stainless steel gimballed Plastimo 2-burner grill and oven gas cooker.
Quarter berth in the after port corner running aft under the cock-pit seat.
An ingenious mahogany “chart table box” with lifting lid incorporating chart stowage sits in the open end of the quarter berth.
Part bulkhead with chromed grab rail separate the quarter berth from the cabin.
Steps to the cock-pit between remove to expose the front of the engine.
Gas bottle in the after cock-pit locker.
25 litres water in new rigid plastic tank under the stbd settee berth. Hand pump to the galley sink, gravity drain o/b.
Batteries under the chart desk seat.
6’ head-room in way of the galley and chart desk.
New saloon cabin sole boards with lift-up traps to access the bilge.
Equipment.
2 x CQR anchors
8mm chain
Manual anchor windlass on the fore deck.
2 x manual bilge pumps.
1 x 12v electric bilge pump.
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 International One Design (IOD)
Designed and built by Bjarne Aas in Norway, 1958. Hull No. 440
The International One-Design Class was conceived to build, maintain and race a fleet of “One-Design yachts, distinctive in appearance and performance, using one-design racing in order to develop the competitive capacities of both helmsmen and crews under the fairest and most equal conditions.”
The design of the International One-Design was inspired by a Six Metre created by the famous Norwegian architect and builder Bjarne Aas, in 1935. Cornelius Shields, Sr., impressed by her beauty and handling qualities when he saw one sailing in Bermuda, initiated action for an entire Class similar in design and appearance to the 6m but with a loftier rig, a short shelter and a storage cabin. Aas submitted plans and specifications in 1936 and a syndicate was formed. In late 1936, twenty-five International One-Design yachts were delivered from Norway and commenced racing on Long Island Sound. Since that time, other fleets have formed in Norway, the UK, Bermuda, Canada and the United States.
With 12 fleets in 5 countries and over 150 yachts actively racing, the International One Design was the first class to be recognized by ISAF as a “Classic” One Design Class.
Prior to the Second World War The Royal Corinthian Yacht Club in Burnham on Crouch was the premier location for one design racing in England. In particular during the thirties it was the centre of 6 metre racing, attracting helmsmen from all parts of the world. As 6 metre racing became more intense at national and international level, so the costs escalated.
‘Tiny Mitchell’, then Commodore of the Corinthian, a post he held with distinction from 1931 to 1952, was well aware of the limitations that participating imposed and he did much to encourage the less costly racing classes such as the Dragon. Through his close association with the 6 metre class he was well informed on the origins of the IOD and recognised its undoubted potential. In 1938 he purchased Bombero and this was sailed by his son E.B.N. (Budd) Mitchell, later to own Tadpole. In order to encourage the class Bombero was sold to John Mould in 1939 and the Mitchell family took delivery of Nauta. Margaret, built in 1938, was brought to Burnham in 1939 and joined the fourth member of the class Flirt, owned by C Peto Bennet. These four boats formed the nucleus of the Burnham fleet and raced regularly as a class in 1939.
The Second World War and its aftermath were nearly fatal for the IOD class. During the war, legend says that Aas buried the construction jigs to protect them during the Nazi occupation. Everywhere the yachts were laid up and the materials used in the ‘golden era’ of wood, iron and mild steel were savaged by neglect.
Post War, the ‘Yachting Monthly’ (March 1949) carried an article on the International One Design and suggested that C Peto Bennet was planning to build IODS in the UK, by arrangement with Bjarne Aas. In fact this did not happen. The article goes on to praise the sea worthiness of the boat in the hardest of weathers as proved at the Hanko Regatta of 1947.
This and the opening of The Royal Corinthian Yacht Club at Cowes encouraged the Burnham boats to move south leading to a full IOD class racing on the Solent. The class now started to generate more interest and throughout the ‘50’s new boats were added to the fleet on a regular basis.
By 1973 most of the fleet had moved to the Royal Forth Yacht Club (RFYC) totalling 13 boats, 11 purchased from the Solent and 2, Arrow and Wahoo, from the Channel Islands. There followed a period of active and very competitive racing, with the fleet taking part in the IOD Worlds for the first time in 1974 at Larchmont, USA and hosting the Worlds on the Forth in 1975, 1979, 1984, 1990 and 1998.
From 1984, boats started to move west to the Clyde where there was a nucleus of three boats, Mirenda, Wildgoose and Starlight. The Worlds were held for the first time at the Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club in 1990 with the reduced Forth fleet transported to the Clyde and 1995 saw the complete transition of the IOD fleet to the Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club (RNCYC) at Rhu.
International One Designs have added colour and competitiveness to yacht racing wherever they have been based in the UK. In recent years the Clyde fleet dispersed and a small fleet collected in St Mawes, Cornwall though now also slowly dispersing.
While these boats have been raced competitively for many years, they are also wonderful day sailers even in unsheltered waters and it is this feature of the design which makes them nowadays so attractive to many owners who prefer exciting pottering to competitive hard racing.
Planked in mahogany on laminated mahogany frames at approx 3’ centres with 2 x steamed oak intermediates. The planking is laid tight-seamed and screw fastened to both the heavier laminated frames and the steam bent timbers.
The planking is varnished on the inside and painted externally.
Straight-cut mahogany web floors on every second frame running forward of the mast up the stem ensure the strength of the long overhang in pounding conditions. Several similar floors up into the counter secure that area. Midships, several heavy section cross cut oak floors also carry the ballast keel bolts and give huge strength to the tight deep bilge and support to the ballast keel.
Most boats still have a pair of eye bolts in the midships bilge to take lifting straps which allowed them to be craned.
K18 was recently fitted with a new teak deck on a marine ply sub deck, beautifully laid to the varnished mahogany cover-boards in narrow and tapering scrubbed teak planks joggled in to a varnished mahogany cover-board.
In proper IOD design she has a teak grab rail either side of the fore deck almost back as far as the mast providing a toe-hold for the fore deck crew.
A very attractive feature of the IOD is the small cabinroof built with varnished mahogany coamings and a scrubbed teak deck also joggled to a varnished mahogany cover-board.
Two fixed lights each side in chromed bezels and one recessed fixed light in the fwd face of the coaming.
The cock-pit is deep with adequate space for the full race crew of 4. The fifth member is usually allocated his seat at the foot of the mast, port or stbd depending on which tack was being sailed.
Because K18 has been fitted with an engine she now has a full width bridge deck with a centre opening flap to sight the engine.
A sliding hatch and wash-boards close the cabin entrance.
Slatted side seats run aft from the bridge deck leaving the under side deck space open each side.
Slatted scrubbed hardwood cock-pit sole in sections which can be lifted to access the deep bilge well below allowing constant sight of any water in the bilge when racing.
Deep varnished mahogany coamings round the cock-pit give excellent protection and the crew sit in this boat, not on it and even in a strong breeze hiking out is generally not required or desireable.
The cock-pit is open right up into the counter giving total ventilation to this potentially vulnerable area.
The raked rudder stock emerges from it’s stock-tube part way up the counter below deck with a varnished ash tiller which can sweep the cock-pit side to side out under the side decks.
The fore deck carries a single centre-line chromed cleat to take the forward mooring line running over a single stemhead chromed roller fitting. A single chromed cleat on the aft deck takes the after line with a single chromed fairlead alongside the chromed ensign staff socket.
This is an exquisite and totally uncluttered, clear deck emphasising this yacht’s perfect clean lines.
Rig.
Fractional bermudian sloop rig on a 2002 aluminium mast stepped through the main deck forward of the coach-roof onto the keel.
Pair of stainless steel tie rods each side from mast step to chain plates at the beam-shelf.
Single spreaders with jumpers above.
2002 stainless steel rigging with single lowers and cap shrouds each side to a stainless steel bar carried on a pair of stainless steel chain plates reaching internally down the topsides thus very adequately spreading the rig loads.
Single back-stay to the aft deck through to a turning pulley and set up to a 4-part tackle under the aft deck.
Fore stay incorporated into the head-sail roller reefing gear set back from the stemhead with under-deck roller drum. Rolling lanyard taken aft through the cabin bulkhead to the cock-pit so the headsail can be reefed or furled from the cock-pit.
Halyards, spinnaker lifts etc in mast with a winch at the foot of the mast in the cabin and a pair of jamming cleats.
Alloy boom sheeted to the aft deck on tufnol blocks with single tail lead into the cock-pit through the after coaming, stbd corner to a cleat on the inside of the stbd coaming.
Alloy slab reef boom with two internal reef pennants. Ram’s horns at the goose neck.
Headsail sheets through short athwartships tracks carrying lead blocks allows the clew to be moved in and out.
Boom topping lift.
Kicking strap on tackle.
A versatile rig which can be totally controlled and tuned from the cock-pit.
Winches.
Pair of Anderson self tailing sheet winches on the cock-pit coamings
Lewmar 8 top action winch at the mast step.
Sails.
2 x mainsails
Jib on under-deck roller furling gear.
Spinnaker.
Alloy spinnaker pole.
Mainsail cover
Machinery
Yanmar 10hp single cylinder diesel engine on the centre-line with centre-line shaft to off-set folding prop.
Single lever engine controls stnd side of the cock-pit.
12v battery in the bridge deck locker to port of the engine.
Equipment
Anchor
40’ chain
Life buoy
Fenders
Mooring warps
Cock-pit cover.
Depth/speed indicator
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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.
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After posting some teaser photos of Nell a little while ago, we have now formally put this fine yacht on the market. Nell is a G.L. Watson gaff cutter built on the Clyde in 1887 and completely rebuilt in Normandy, France between 2009 and 2017. This yacht is a totally unique piece of maritime history and is presented in superb condition. Her interior is her most remarkable feature and was designed by her first owner Robert Cowan Robertson. He was an artist based in Glasgow and his interior design was influenced by the fashions of the time with raised and fielded oak panelling, ionic pillasters and most notably stained glass sliding windows covering the portholes. The interior has been restored sympathetically and is largely original apart from some very small areas where damaged joinery needed replacing. The result is magnificent and sets this yacht apart as a unique piece of history. Full details and many photos available on our web site with the following link:woodenships.co.uk/sailing-yacht/g-l-watson-gaff-cutter/#classicboat #classicboatforsale #yachtforsale ... See MoreSee Less
