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Wooden ships comments on this Sean MacMillan Gaff cutter

Now sailing south to Ipswich, ready for inspection. An interesting  and recent yacht in exceptional condition, huge cabin, very manageable. This is not expensive for the quality.

Designed by Sean McMillan.

Built by McMillan Yachts of Snape, Suffolk for the previous owner in 1992.

McMillan Yachts built a number of these yachts and now builds the Spirit range of yachts in Ipswich using the same proven construction techniques..

The yacht was in first ownership from build to 2007, lived on  the Clyde, sailed every season and was stored under cover every winter October to April. She cruised the West Coast of Scotland and the Hebrides and has inevitably experienced  her share of bad weather, never causing her pensioner owners any concern and giving better than expected windward performance for a gaff cutter.

Sold by Wooden Ships in July 2007 to the present owner and remained on the West Coast of Scotland, sailing every summer from her mooring on the Isle of Sky and wintering ashore under cover, mast out.

She is presented in very good condition, fully equipped and ready to sail.

The design is traditional on deck but with a modern yacht profile below the water and features a good beam, long keel with interesting cut-away fore foot, a knuckle at the water-line to a straight stem and a wide, slightly raked and radiussed transom stern.

Good freeboard, the topsides finished in immaculate varnish.

Low profile coach-roof with an interesting design showing a slight Dutch influence with an eye-catching upward sweep to the roof  incorporate the entrance hatch aft.

The generous beam allows a wide coach-roof while still leaving safe wide side decks.

Spacious, deep cock-pit with radiussed after end, tiller steering on transom-hung rudder.

Construction.

The hull is built with edge-glued strip plank 15mm x 44mm convex/concave edges glued with epoxy glue and edge fastened with bronze Gripfast nails, overlaid with 3 layers of mahogany veneer on the outside, 2 layers double diagonal 3mm mahogany epoxy bonded + one layer horizontal 5mm mahogany following the sheer line and finished with Epiphanes varnish.

Below the wl she has 3 layers of diagonal 3mm mahogany on the strip planking + a layer of epoxy and glass cloth and anti-fouled.

10mm and 12mm internal laminated ring frames.

The back-bone is built up in laminated iroko including deck shelf and floors.

External long iron ballast keel secured with stainless steel bolts through the floors.

Ash deck beams. Planked, varnished ash deckhead

Bulkheads in 12mm and 18mm marine ply epoxy bonded to the structure.

Carlins and coamings to the coach-roof and cock-pit are in solid mahogany and finished varnished.

The deck is in yacht laid scrubbed teak over a mahogany ply layer over10mm white ash to give a planked look from below.

Seams payed with polysulphide rubber.

Teak toe rails and rubbing strake finished scrubbed.

The coach-roof deck is built in the same way as the main weather deck and fitted with grab rails each side. 3 windows each side in the coach-roof coamings, traditional varnished mahogany sky-light with opening lights.

A low-profile, off-set fore hatch with bull’s eye light on the fore deck, also teak laid with varnished mahogany coaming.

Laminated iroko rudder epoxy glass sheathed, stainless steel pintles in bronze bushes. Laminated tiller. Self draining cock-pit.

Bronze and stainless steel deck fittings. Bronze stemhead fitting with single chain roller. Twin bitts on the fore deck take the heel of the stbd off-set bowsprit and serve as mooring bitts.

2008  New pulpit and raised stanchion posts and safety lines fitted.

2010 New fairleads fitted fore and aft.

Rig

Gaff cutter on varnished, round section hollow Sitka spruce mast stepped on the forward end of the coach-roof. Internal wiring for nav lights etc

Slab-reefing boom, gaff and bowsprit all in solid, varnished Sitka spruce and finished varnished.

The boom with jammer lower block sheets to a horse on the transom over the tiller and when the mainsail is not set rests in a fixed, 3-position timber gallows mounted on bronze posts.

Rigging

Stainless steel standing rigging with stainless steel rigging screws to external bronze chain plates.

Running back-stays on tackles.

Topsail set on a varnished yard, sheeted to the outer end of the gaff.

Stemhead staysail and jib to the outer end of the bowsprit both set on Wickham Martin roller gear.

Nov 2010  All sheets and halyards replaced

Winches

1 mast halyard winch.

4 self tailing cock-pit sheet winches.

Sails    

All sails by Gale Heard, 1991 in cream terylene. 

Mainsail                396.5 sq’ with 3 slab reefs with sail cover.

Staysail                  115 sq’ on roller gear.

Jib                           116 sq’ on roller gear.

Topsail                   81 sq’ on yard.

2009 All sails cleaned and repaired as required

Engine.

Perkins Perama 30hp 3-cyl diesel installed new in 1992 and now with approx 2200 hours.

Hurth single lever control gearbox.

Full instrumentation including hour and volt meter.

Centre-line shaft to 3-blade prop gives her 6knts max.

Consumption estimated at 3 hours per gallon and 2200rpm.

Fuel

10 gall plastic fuel tank port side in the stern locker.

Electrics

3 x 12v batteries located port side midships on 12v circuits. One battery is dedicated to engine start and 2 on domestic supply with split charge relay.

2010 two new domestic batteries.

Accommodation       3 single berths + one double.

The fore peak is given over to stowage and ablutions. Jabsco sea toilet on the centre-line, sail stowage to stbd, porcelain basin in a surface to port with mirror over on the hanging locker door and vanity drawer below. Storage lockers.

Bulkhead to saloon cabin, centre-line panelled door.

Stbd settee berth, shelf behind. Port U-shaped seating with shelf behind. Large double drop-leaf table with glass and bottle stowage in the middle.

Vertical compression post under the mast against the fwd bulkhead. Pascal Atkey charcoal cabin heater in a port recess in the fwd bulkhead lined with ceramic tiles.

Part bulkhead to port with vertical grab post, forward facing chart desk against the bulkhead, seat on the fwd end of the quarter berth which extends well out into the cabin allowing easy access.

Stbd U-shaped galley. Part bulkhead to stbd quarter berth. Vertical grab post.

New 2005 Italian gimballed 2-burner, grill and oven gas cooker with 12v isolator valve.

Double ceramic sinks drain overboard.  Work surface. Lockers under

Port and stbd quarter berths extend well out into the cabin allowing easy access.

Centre-line steps to the cock-pit, remove to access the engine.

Stunning interior in all varnished interior fitted out in ash and mahogany joinery. Varnished planked ash deckhead. Varnished hardwood sole boards.

2009 All new upholstery

6’ head-room all through.

Water

2 x Vetus flexible 100 litre water bags under the settees.  In-line water filters. Hand pumps at the galley sink and the forward sink.

Equipment.

Sestral binnacle compass.

Silva hand bearing compass.

Raymarine ST50 sounder

Raymarine ST50 log (thru hull)

Raymarine C70 chart plotter

Simrad RD68 DSC VHF radio, new 2007.

Vtronix Great Hawk windvane self steering +  spare

New 2009 Tacktick wind indicator.

2011 AIS transmit and receive.

15kg Bruce bower anchor + 70 meters 5/16”b chain.

16Kg fisherman anchor + 8 meters 5/16” chain.

2009 12v Lewmar Electric Windlass with remote

4 life jackets with 2 safety harneses

Horse-shoe life buoy

2 fire extinguishers

1 automatic fire extinguisher in the engine space

Off-shore flare pack.

2009 McMurdo EPIRB

2008 Zodiac life raft, rearmed 2011

Compass 3-man inflatable dinghy

Grasshopper 3-man collapsible dinghy

Mariner 2 ½ HP outboard engine

2 x 5 meter mooring warps.

15 meter spring

2 x 16 meter mooring warps.

7 fenders with socks

1 inflatable defender

Manual and electric bilge pumps

4 x 10L diesel cans

12v dinghy inflator

Handy Billy tackle

Collapsible outboard engine hoist

10’ boathook

2010 Aquasignal masthead tri-colour LED nav lights.

Numerous charts, W Coast Scotland, Hebrides etc.

Cock-pit cover.

A rare, recent yacht in immaculate condition, stored under cover every winter, annually varnished and well maintained.

The volume in the cabin of this yacht has to be seen to be believed, surprising every visitor given her length.

The cock-pit is wonderfully shaped, safe, deep and sheltered so that a spray-hood is not required.

The rig is well proportioned and easily worked from the wide safe clear deck and her performance surprises many modern yacht owners.

First owners sold and retired after 16 years very happy, trouble-free years sailing.

She was a second boat for her current owners and  has been such a great success they are now selling to build a new larger version.

The yacht is offered for sale, fully equipped, fitted-out and ready to be launched for next season.

A 2009 Oceancover Titanium boat tent, 10m x 4m is available at additional cost by negotiation.

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 Alan Buchanan Bermudan sloop

built by Fox & Sons, Ipswich, launched November 1958.

The design is typical of Alan Buchanan’s work at the time and similar to the successful East Anglian design.

Sold to her by Wooden Ships, she has been in this lady’s ownership for 26 years. Until recently the lady lived on board and sailed the yacht in the Solent area. In the last few years circumstances have hindered the lady from doing her usual maintenance so externally the yacht looks rather sad while internally she is regularly cleaned and polished belying the exterior appearance.

The hull has a full keel with long external ballast keel, a slightly cut-away fore foot, good free-board with a very sweet sheer, an over-hanging bow and a raked transom stern with the rudder hung on the transom.

The construction is unusually robust for a yacht of this size.

Planked in larch below the wl, mahogany above, all caulked and payed in the traditional way.

The planking is fastened to the steam bent oak timbers with copper nails and roves. Plank butts to wooden butt straps.

A 5” beam shelf all round is strengthened by a 6” clamp over most of the length of the hull. (The clamp is an additional plank internally below the beam shelf and resists any tendency for the hull to pull up in way of over-tightened rigging and of course any size-ways pressure or impact.)

A 5” sided stringer runs the full length of the hull at the turn of the bilge.

Long external iron ballast keel.

Galvanised strap floors on every second timber.       Now showing significant corrosion

The deck is reinforced in way of the mast by a pair of massive oak knees under the side deck + a pair of knees each side on the coamings.

The mast is stepped on the coach-roof deck supported below by 3 very heavy deck beams with a fore and aft oak beam spanning them each side supported in turn on oak compression posts. This hull is not going to move!

The external hull surface is very fair, painted in white enamel but now looking tired and in need a repainting.

Timber rudder hung externally on the transom.Gudgeons and pintles rebuilt 1983

The deck is laid in T&G pine, originally canvas sheathed as was traditional.

1983. Deck canvas replaced by glass cloth and  resin, painted light blue, clear, clean, water-tight and easily maintained.

Mahogany toe rail all round the deck edge.

Oak Sampson post on the fore deck. Large oak mooring cleat on the aft deck

Bronze fair leads fore and aft.

Stainless steel pulpit, push-pit and stanchions with twin guard wires. New 1983

Galvanised stemhead fitting with single chain roller, now in need of regalvanising.

Long low coach-roof dropping nicely down to meet the sheer, raised to a dog-house aft with two windows each side. Mahogany coamings in need of varnishing.

Typical Buchanan roll-round deck edge to meet the well-cambered sheathed ply roof.

The varnished oak deck beams below are immensely robust for the size of the boat and support the mast step on the roof.

Twin mahogany grab rails.

Fore hatch on the front end of the coach-roof needs revarnishing.

Self-draining cock-pit with white painted ply sides to the well. Locker door in the well to the lazarette under the aft deck.

Scubbed mahogany seats and bridge deck.

Port seat opens to a deep locker.

Fixed stabd seat over the ¼ berth.

Sliding hatch and louvered wash-boards to the cabin entrance, all mahogany and in need of varnish.

Fractional bermudian sloop rig on varnished spruce mast stepped in a galvanised shoe on the coach-roof deck. This is a well-supported mast with single spreaders and jumper struts above.

Single lowers, cap shrouds to the jumper struts and diamonds round the jumpers to the cap.

Single stemhead fore stay to the jumpers.

Twin masthead standing back-stays to the quarters.

All stainless steel standing rigging with stainless steel rigging screws to internal galvanised steel chain plates.

Varnished spruce roller reefing boom sheets with modern blocks to a horse on the aft deck, jammer on the lower block.

Sails.

Mainsail by Lucas  1982

Genoa by Lucas 1981

No 1 jib by Ratsey 1967

Working jib by Ratsey 1967

Spinnaker by Ratsey 1982.

Winches.

Pair of original bottom action tufnol winches on galvanised pedestals on the cock-pit coamings take the headsail sheets. Associated cleats on the coamings.

Halyards on straight pull and a single whip.

Machinery.

2-cylinder Brit petrol engine installed on the centre-line with conventional shaft drive.

Standard Brit manual ahead and astern gear-box.

Wet exhaust. Magneto spark. Dynastart on twin belts.

7 gallon petrol tank.

This engine is currently not functioning. The head is off to reveal stuck pistons and valves.

These Brit engines are exceptionally good engineering, smooth, silent and reliable and this engine should not be thrown away without some thought. Rebore, new pistons and valves will be much cheaper than a diesel replacement.

Accommodation.                              3 berths.

Baby Blake sea toilet with chromed fittings and black plastic seat and lid in the fore peak.

Chain well forward, Sampson post through from the deck.

Varnished mahogany slatted sail bins either side. Exposed hull sides and deck head all painted in clean white enamel.

Part bulkhead with opening in way of the deck compression posts to the saloon cabin with port and stbd settee berths.

Half height bulkheads to galley in the after port corner, quarter berth in the after stbd corner.

Varnished engine box between with steps to cock-pit.
electrical switch board under the bridge deck over the engine box.

The galley is a simple flat white formica surface with a Taylors 2-burner paraffin cooker

Top loading locker lid in the back corner. Locker under the surface.

Exposed ship’s sides painted in clean white enamel.

Varnished coamings and deck beams. Hardwood cabin sole boards.

Red vinyl bunk cushions with white vinyl back rests.

6’ head-room at the galley under the entrance hatch.

Equipment

2 compasses

Hand bearing compass

Brookes and Gatehouse sounder.

Walker through hull log

CQR anchor

30 meters 5/16” chain

3 fire extinguishers. Manual bilge pump

3 mooring warps

5 fenders

Masthead tricolour nav lights, mast steaming light and low level nav lights on the pulpit.

Spreader lights.

All over boat cover over the boom.

This yacht looks a bit sad and is being offered for sale with great regret. However family circumstances have overtaken the owner, she can no longer use or properly maintain the yacht and wants an equally loving owner to take over.

In her 29 year ownership, the lady owner has cherished the yacht and has been rewarded by some great sailing. She has had good work done over the years, notably by The Elephant Boatyard in 1983 when she spent nearly £4000 on the deck, the rudder and other areas and again in 1990 when the coach-roof deck was replaced and other work.

The engine is a great pity because the Brit is a wonderful little engine and it can almost certainly be revitalised. Petrol is not all bad and with a first class installation, the correct ventilation and sensible use they will give first class service.

Despite her sad external appearance the boat does appear to be essentially sound and will be an opportunity for someone to get out on the water with some hard work but not a lot of cash.

We have valued the yacht taking into account the owner’s love of the boat, the condition and the opportunity.

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 Harrison Butler Bogle design

The Harrison Butler Bogle Design was first drawn by Dr. Harrison Butler in 1933 for the Little Ship Club designing competition and is named after THB’s daughter-in-law, actress Joan Bogle Hickson, who in later years achieved world wide acclaim playing Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.

6 yachts have been built to this design. The Bogle is designed on the Metacentric Principal of hull balance and has proved to be an almost perfectly balanced hull which in simple terms means that she will continue to sail in a straight line at any angle of heel. We all know yachts which will try to round up in every gust and become very heavy on the helm in stronger winds. HB’s Metacentric designs are not like this. They are a joy to sail, light on the helm, they stand up well to their canvas, they are dry and buoyant and their extensive voyaging has proved their capability.

In previous ownership, Caracole sailed to Turkey. Sold by Wooden Ships to the previous owner 15 years ago, she sailed out of the Somerset coast and from Plymouth. Bow based on the Tamar, she is presented in nice tidy condition and ready to be recommissioned for the coming season.

Designed by Dr Thomas Harrison Butler.

Built by Harry Feltham of Portsmouth in 1934.

Construction

Long keel, classic Harrison Butler wine glass transom stern with transom hung rudder, round bilge, spoon bow and sweet HB sheer.

Extended longer coach roof forward of the mast, giving good headroom below following the Harrison Butler design Peradventure.

Carvel planked pitch-pine hull caulked and payed, copper fastened to steam bent oak timbers at 6 inch centres on an oak back-bone.

Long external 1.8 ton lead ballast keel,       new bronze keel bolts in 1989, last drawn in April 2005.

Ferrous strap floors re-galvanised May 2009.

New bronze skin fittings May 2009.

Yacht laid teak deck and coach roof deck, varnished teak cabin coamings with bronze port-lights. Teak rubbing strakes and toe-rails.

Self-draining varnished teak cock-pit with bridge deck, double doors and sliding hatch to the cabin entrance, scrubbed teak laid side locker/seats. Lifting teak laid panel in the cock-pit well gives access to the back end of the engine and the stern gland.

Stainless steel pulpit, push-pit and stanchions with twin guard wires.

Rig

Bermudian Cutter rig on keel stepped, varnished, solid pine mast setting 355sq’ sail.

Single spreaders.

Twin standing back-stays to the quarters.

Stainless-steel rigging replaced in Nov 2005 by Allspars of Plymouth.

External galvanised steel chain plates.  regalvanised 2011

Varnished boom sheets with modern blocks, single tail,  jammer on the lower block to a stainless steel horse across the aft deck.

Winches.

Two cockpit sheet winches.

Mast halyard winch.

Sails.

Sails by Chris Scanes of Topsham in 2003.

Jib on Wykeham-Martin No 3 furling gear.

Engine

Volvo MD7B 17hp 2-cylinder diesel engine fitted about 1982. Raw water cooled.

Rigid mounted to substantial engine beds.

Professionally re-built in February 2010.

New three-blade centre-line propeller in June 2012.  

New shaft and coupling 2010.

New 33 litre fuel tank in 2003.

Audible alarms.

Electrics.

Delphi 105a/h domestic battery.

Red Flash 700 -12 volt 17a/h engine start battery.

3 gang 701 switch square including 50 A VSR cluster.

240 volt shore-power.

Accommodation    4 berths in two cabins.

Forward cabin with two single berths with infill to make a double. Half athwartships bulkhead with starboard locker and Baby Blake heads to port, overhauled in 2004.

Saloon cabin with settee/berths to port and starboard, drop-leaf table, lockers and shelves, Taylors stove.

Polish teak joinery, white enamel bulkheads and deckhead, blue upholstery, new in 2005.

Cane locker lids above the settees.

Galley to starboard with stainless steel sink unit with hand pump from flexible fresh water tank fitted in 2010.  Pantry and crockery lockers.

Chart table and navigation area to port with Cobra DSC VHF radio with external water-proof speakers and emergency antenna. Garmin 128 GPS, Raymarine ST60 Tridata Log, Compass.

INVENTORY:

Whale Gusher Titan bilge pump.

Rule 1100 bilge pump with float switch.

Traditional life buoy.

Lofran Royal windlass.

35lb Plough Anchor with 50 m chain.

35lb Fisherman’s Anchor and warp.

Fenders and mooring warps

In recent years the yacht has been the subject of much expenditure in knowledgeable and dedicated ownership. Full hull paint and re-varnish June 2012.   Certainly one of the best HB yachts available on the market today. A comfortable, attractive and weatherly cruising yacht with proven capabilities.

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 Vertue v35

In 1936,  a 25’ yacht called Andrillot was launched from Moody’s at the top of the Hamble River. Designed by Jack Laurent Giles’ office in Lymington, she was to prove the first of many of these little yachts which came to be recognised as the best small yacht ever sailed and later adopted the class name Vertue.

Another 9 boats followed. Andrillot was gaff rigged, the other 9 were Bermudian rigged with what became known by the awkward name of a slutter rig, that is a masthead sloop rig but with a lazy inner forestay from stemhead to the upper spreaders allowing a staysail to be set inside the jib thus making her a cutter.

3 of these early boats have gone, 7 well identified remain alive and well.

In 1946 the design was altered with an extra strake to give more freeboard and cabin volume, the coach-roof extended forward of the mast with a dog-house and the mast mounted on the coach-roof to allow free passage forward below deck.

Several more Vertues were built after the war and the class became popular, most boats being built by Elkins in Christchurch.

Since those early days, several hundred Vertues have been built, several have made extraordinary passages and all have given their owners that rare pleasure of being one of a select band of sailors, a Vertue Owner.

In an effort to break into the American market with this now popular little yacht, Humphrey Barton from the Laurent Giles office sailed Vertue XXXV across the Atlantic with an old Army chum in 1950, a feat reckoned to be suicidal at the time. A water tank took the place usually occupied by the engine and an effective spray-hood/cock-pit cover was rigged but otherwise Vertue XXXV was a standard Elkins Vertue. The voyage took 47 days.

V35 remained in the US until in 1997 she was found by the present Italian owner at Martha’s Vineyard, purchased and shipped back to Venice for a major refit.

Since those days she has sailed from Venice and adjacent ports and only advancing years now oblige the owner to think of looking for a new owner for his boat, perhaps the best known of all the these great little yachts.

Builder:                      Elkins of Christchurch, UK

Build date:                1950

Lod                            25’3”

Lwl                             21’6”

Beam                          7’2”

Draft                          4’6”

Construction.

The hull was reported at the time to be built of Krabak, probably described by a casual observer as mahogany but in fact a tougher, closer-grained hardwood from Thailand and Malaysia.

The back-bone, stem and stern post, shelf, stringers and deck beams are all English oak.

The frames are sawn English oak approx 2” x 2 ½” at 2’ centres with two steam bent oak timbers between all fastened with copper nails and roves. Hood ends and garboards fastened with bronze screws.

1997. All paint and varnish coatings removed, hull  found to be sound with only a few small repairs required. Repainted and re varnished.

           All new Blake sea-cocks.

Long external lead ballast keel, 4500lbs.

In 2003 the keel was dropped and rebedded with new bronze bolts

Vertues are built with a number of heavy oak floors and some galvanised steel straps – 4 under the mast step and several in the ends.

2008 strap floors treated and repainted.

New bronze Blake sea-cocks

Original deck laid in T&G Baltic pine and covered in canvas as was traditional for small yachts at the time.

 In 2010 the canvas was removed, the pine deck overlaid with 2 layers of thin marin ply, epoxy/glass sheathed and painted with varnished mahogany king plank.

Varnished mahogany capping to the toe rail.

All steel deck fittings regalvanised including the stemhead fitting incorporating twin                                                                                                                                    chain rollers, outer fore stay anchor point and inner fore-stay anchor point with an                                                                                                                                     over-centre release lever.

Oak Sampson post on the fore deck.                                                          

2004 stainless steel push-pit to the original design incorporating the main sheet anchor point.

Vertues are identified by “short dog-house models” and “long dog-house models”.

This is the short dog-house model with a single large window in each side. The dog-house roof on the long dog-house model is 4” longer with twin windows each side.

Coach-roof and cock-pit coamings in varnished mahogany with bronze port holes.

In 2010 the cabin roof treated in the same way as the deck with new mouldings.

Cock-pit with bridge deck, seat/lockers each side and seat across the back opening to access the lazarette. All seats lids in scrubbed teak. Self-draining well.

Original vertical action bronze bilge pump and original compass, both recessed in the bridge deck.

Two wash-boards and sliding hatch to the cabin entrance, all in varnished mahogany.

Rig.

Bermudian cutter rig on varnished hollow spruce mast stepped in a galvanised shoe on the cabin roof.

 2004 New mast by Cantieri Alto Adriatico

 2010 new stainless steel mast step

 Roller reefing varnished spruce boom sheets to the new Elkins stainless steel push-pit.

All stainless steel rigging.

1997. All new rigging.

Internal galvanised chain plates.  Removed and regalvanised

Twin spreaders

Twin lowers, intermediates and cap shrouds.

Standing back-stay to a V ash bumpkin over the transom

Outer fore stay, stemhead to masthead.

Inner lazy fore stay, stemhead to upper spreaders on quick release over-centre lever.

Running back-stays on Highfield levers to the upper spreaders.

Sails.     New 2000 sails by Hood

Mainsail

Genoa

Staysail.

Jib         New 2010 by Hood

Original cotton storm jib

Original cotton mainsail with V35 logo.

Running rigging by Marlowe Ropes

Halyards in white Dyneema

Winches.

Pair of original bronze bottom action sheet winches on the cock-pit coamings

Pair of original bronze mast halyard winches.

Spinnaker pole   New 2004 to original design

Machinery.

Yanmar 1GM10 10hp fresh water cooled diesel engine, flexibly mounted on the centre-line with conventional shaft drive to centre-line 3-blade Radice prop. Single lever controls.

6 knts in calm water.

Tanks                        Fuel                                         10 galls steel tank to port of the engine

                                    Water                                      10 galls steel tank to stbd of the engine.

Electrics.

2 x 12v batteries. Engine belt driven alternator charging. Change over switch.

Shore power connection

12v circuits to lights and navigation instruments.

Accommodation                                           2 berths

The cabin space below deck is divided into two parts – a saloon cabin with 2 settees, galley ad chart desk and a fore peak area with stowage and heads.

Fore peak with chain locker right forward.

Baby Blake sea toilet on the centre-line under mahogany joinery, the fore hatch above.

1997 sea toilet rebuilt by Chillington Marine UK

Full set of spares.

Seat lockers each side in varnished mahogany.

The original design showed a pipe-cot to port. The frame supports are still in place.

Bulkhead under the mast step with double doors to the saloon cabin.

Port and stbd settee berths, the forward ends in trotter boxes under cupboards.         Ship’s sides with varnished mahogany slats, new 2008

Part bulkhead each side with Elkins chromed hand rails.

Galley in after port corner rebuilt 1997 with stainless steel basin, pumped overboard, brass water pump. Recess with single burner Origo spirit stove. Slotted plate stowage above under the side deck.

Chart desk to stbd rebuilt 1997 to original plans, cupboard under.

New bunk cushions in red vinyl       New 2009

Varnished teak sole boards.

Varnished mahogany coamings

6’3” head-room in the dog-house in way of the galley and the chart desk.

Equipment.

Navigation

Compass recessed into the bridge deck with original polished copper hood.

Clock and barometer

Icom VHF radio

Garmin GPS

Walker log

Masthead tri-colour nav lights.

Safety gear

Solimar 4-man life raft

4 life jackets

Flares

Medical box
Life buoy horse-shoe
Stainless steel stanchions with twin guard wires.

Ground tackle

Original 30lb Duck anchor

Chain

Deck gear

Mooring warps

Fenders

Full boat cover

12v bilge pump

New manual pump 2000

If you want to own yachting history then you need look no further. If you want a good Vertue then they don’t get much better than this.

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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 5 Ton Hillyard

Designed and built by Hillyards of Littlehampton in 1939, the yacht has all the typical well-known Hillyard features of a long keel, good sheer to a dry, buoyant bow and a transom stern with transom-hung rudder and bumpkin to take the backstay..

David Hillyard was the most productive yacht builder in UK boating history. His success was based on providing the market what it wanted – not a sleek, wet racing yacht however beautiful but a solid family yacht capable of steady, safe cruising – don’t scare the wife, don’t wake the children and don’t spill the gin.

He built in various sizes, his boats were not the last word in the finer art of the boat builder but they were production yachts of the time, strongly built to a price and have passed the test of time.

Post war, he adopted the characteristic centre-cock-pit but this is one of the more basic, pre-war yachts with an aft cock-pit and a comfortable spacious cabin for a 24’ yacht.

She was commissioned for a Major James Murray in 1939 and was immediately laid up for the duration of the war.

In 1948 she was recomissioned and sailed by him largely solo around UK via the Caledonian Canal.

The following year he sailed to the Baltic before returning home to sell her to a lady owner.

In present ownership she has sailed around Anglesey, the Isle of Man and one solo passage to Ireland.

She has had some good attention with new keel bolts, some work on the stem and on the cabi9n roof and a new rig.

Pitch-pine planking on an oak back-bone.

All steamed oak timbers, fastened to the planking with copper nails and roves.

Long external iron ballast keel.                      Ballast keel sand blasted and treated with red lead paint.

Galvanised mild steel keel bolts –                  All 8 keel bolts replaced in 7/8” galvanised mild steel in March 2003 by the Douglas boatyard.

Oak floors.                                                     Additional galvanised bolts added to the floors.

New deadwoods in greenheart fitted.

4 new galvanised stem bolts fitted.

                                                                       The fore face of the stem built up with 5 laminations

                                                                       New galvanised steel rudder hangings.

                                                                       New galvanised steel rudder heel fitting

                                                                       Garboards and stem seams recaulked

Original pine deck, sheathed and painted. Varnished toe rail and rubbing strake.

Varnished mahogany coach-roof coamings with bronze port holes.

Dog-house raised on the after end to give a more comfortable cabin entrance.

New coach-roof deck with original pine T&G boards overlaid with ¼” ply and sheathed. Varnished grab rails each side.

Deep, safe cock-pit, not self-draining with varnished mahogany coamings, sdeat lockers each side, low-level doors to the lazarette locker aft.

Bridge deck step, twin doors and sliding hatch to the cabin entrance.

Accommodation.                  2 berths.

Saloon cabin with port and stbd settee berths. Stowage under the berths.

Exposed ship’s sides with mahogany slats.

Fold-up table off the fwd bulkhead.

White painted deck-head and coamings. Mahogany joinery.

Stbd side bulkhead doorway to thew focsle with low head-room under the fore deck.

Sea toilet forward on the centreline, lockers in the stbd corner, mast in the middle against the bulkhead, chain locker forward.

Galley shelf in the after port corner with Origo single burner meths cooker.

Solid fuel cabin stove under the cooker with a water jacket on the flue over the cooker to give hot water on tap! The whole area lined in stainless steel.

Hanging locker in the corner aft of the galley shelf.

Chart desk in the after stbd corner with good stowage locker under. Nav instruments over.

Good sitting head-room in the cabin. Good standing head-room in the dog-house area.

Rig.

Fractional Bermudian sloop on varnished mast stepped through the deck onto the keel in front of the fwd bulkhead below.

Slab reefing boom with original roller reefing goose neck fitting.

Stainless steel 6mm standing rigging with swaged terminals                        Renewed in 2006

Stainless steel rigging screws                                                                         Renewed in 2006

Internal galvanised steel chain plates                                                             Renewed in 2006

Single spreaders. Inner and outer fore-stays, both to stemhead.

Single standing back-stay to the bumpkin with twin chain bob-stays.

Sails

Tan mainsail, slab reefing

White terylene mainsail.

Tan jib

Tan mainsail cover.

Yanmar 1GM10 single cylinder 9hp diesel engine. Top end rebuild within the last 5 years

Centre-line installation with conventional shaft drive to 3-blade prop gives 5knts

New 15 x 14 prop

Very economical consumption.

7 gall copper fuel tank under the after deck

Pressure and temperature alarms.

2 x 12v batteries on 12v circuits. Engine driven alternator.

Equipment

Sowester grid compass on the bulkhead

Nasa sounder

Walker log

VHF DSC radio

Garmin GPS

2 old life jackets

Several old flares

Ground tackle

1 x 25lb CQR anchor

1 x 10lb Danforth kedge anchor

30fthms 3/16” chain               New 2006

2-man Bombard inflatable dinghy

Seagull outboard engine

Beaching legs

Winter cradle

Mooring warps

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 Vertue

designed by Jack Laurent Giles before the war and has become probably the most celebrated small cruiser ever, largely due to the amazing voyages made in these tough little ships.

It was Humphrey Barton who made the design’s reputation in his blue water voyages in Vertue XXXV and Hiscock spoke highly of the design. He engaged Laurent Giles to design his Wanderer 2 and 3, both designs owing much to the Vertue.

Since these first extended voyages in the 1960’s proving that a well-designed and built small yacht could sail safely off-shore, many Vertues have made similar and longer voyages and a Trans-Atlantic voyage in a Vertue is nowadays regarded as totally normal though still just as challenging.

The early boats had very short coach-roofs with only sitting head-room below. After the war, the topsides were raised by a plank and a much bigger coach-roof added extending forward of the mast and raised to a dog-house aft so that Vertues are often identified as “long” or “short” dog-house models, there being a few inches difference but seen as a one window or two dog-house. In a little boat, a few inches can make a significant difference.

This one is the long dog-house model with twin windows. The extra few inches length in the dog-house make a noticeable difference to the space below.

This very tidy example was built by Kimber and Blake of Bridgwater in 1962 to Lloyds 100A1and kept in class for over 30 years.  Although not on the same scale as big yards such as Prior’s or Camper and Nicholsons, they were very well known in their day and built many fine boats over the years.

Planked in teak, fastened with copper nails and roves to steam bent Canadian Rock Elm timbers.

Bronze strap floors fastened through to a Wych Elm keel.  Pitch pine bilge stringers.

Lead ballast keel with bronze keel bolts.  Several drawn in 2012 and found to be sound.

Deck in marine plywood, and finished in grey deck paint on Pitch pine deck beams and beam shelf.  4” toe rail all round with varnished capping rail.

Solid varnished teak coachroof and dog house coamings with laminated spruce coachroof deck beams.  Marine plywood coachroof with an attractive rolled over edge, finished in cream deck paint.  Varnished teak handrails fore and aft, varnished forehatch and dorade vents.

One bronze framed window in the coachroof coamings and the traditional 2 windows in the dog house each side.

Galvanised steel stem head fitting with twin anchor chain rollers, forestay and inner forestay fixings.  Bronze fairleads on the toe rail with centre line oak sampson post for mooring lines.  Bronze hawse pipe.  Varnished teak dorade boxes with stainless steel dorade vents to the original Vertue design, new in 2004.

Stainless steel pulpit fixed to the deck with stainless steel guard wires and stanchions to a substantial stainless push pit on the aft.

Bronze highfield levers on the side decks for the running backstays.

Small aft deck with a pair of wooden mooring cleats and a bronze deck vent to the lazarette.

Rutland 913 wind generator fixed to the push pit.

Rig

Bermudan ‘slutter’ rig on deck stepped varnished spruce mast.

This standard Vertue rig allows the option for the boat to be sailed as a sloop with the conventional genoa, or by rigging the removable inner forestay, she can be rigged as a cutter.  The inner forestay gives the option of having a staysail or storm head sail to lower the centre of effort of the rig in heavy weather, making these very versatile little boats.

Original mast with roller reefing varnished wooden boom.  With the addition of lazy jacks for convenience, the mainsail and boom have been altered to slab reefing.  Strengthened mast step over the coachroof with an oversize Iroko pad on the deck and stainless steel knees internally to support the original oak knees.

Mast stripped and re-varnished 2008.

Stainless steel 2 spreader standing rigging with twin lowers, single cap shroud, single intermediate and twin standing back stays.

Rigging renewed 2004. Surveyed and checked 2008 and 2011.

Satinless steel rigging screws to strengthened steel chain plates.

Chainplates cleaned, checked and painted 2012.

Standing backstays fixed to substantial push pit frame rather than  the deck to allow clearance for the boom.

Running backstays for when inner forestay is in use on Highfield levers.

Inner forestay on a highfield lever.

Furlex headsail roller reefing new in 2004.  Serviced 2012.

Comprehensive wardrobe of sails.

Mainsail, very good condition

Genoa, new 2005, very good condition

Spare genoa, staysail and storm sails

Machinery

Volvo Penta DV8ME 18hp 3cyl diesel.  Installed new in 2002.  Recent service.

Fresh water cooled modern diesel with Volvo gearbox to bronze shaft and  3 blade bronze propeller giving 5 knots cruising.  Conventional bronze packing gland with greaser.

9 gallon stainless steel diesel tank under saloon berth.  25lt plastic tank in the aft for daily use.

25L plastic diesel tank in the aft.  Gauge on the distribution board.

18l calorifier tank run off the engine to heat domestic

Seperate domestic and engine start batteries.

Large domestic battery bank

Stirling Combi inverter/charger

Shore power connection

Accomodation.                    3 berths.

Varnished teak sliding hatch with 2 washboards in the entrance hatch.

Steps down over the engine box into the cabin.  Engine box rebuilt with new insulation in 2004.

Quarter berth to starboard  with DC switchboard above.  Fold down varnished chart desk over the berth.

Galley to port with 2 burner Taylors paraffin stove and grill.  Refurbished 2011.  Storage lockers behind and below the stove.

Single stainless steel sink with hot and cold running water, waste pumped overboard.  Hot water from 18L engine heated calorifier.  9 gallon stainless steel water tank under saloon berth.

Main saloon finished in gloss white surfaces with varnished trim to create a light and airy cabin.  Port and starboard setee berths with blue upholstery.  New in 2004.

Trotter box at forrad end of both sette’s to give full length

Centre line varnished teak saloon table with fold out leaves.  Removable to give more space while

Hinged varnished door to the forepeak with storage cupboards to starboard and a Taylors paraffin cabin heater to port.

Typical Vertue forepeak with Blakes sea toilet and ample storage for sails, fenders etc.  Drop down pipe cot berth on the starboard side.  Anchor locker under at the forward end.

The cabin of this particular Vertue is a very warm and comfortable space, helped by the smart upholstery and very tidy cosmetics.  The addition of the quarter berth makes the best use of space for a corner that can often be forgotten.

Inventory

Raymarine ST60 Tri data instruments with compass, wind and sounder/log, including repeaters

Raymarine RL70RC plotter/radar.  18” radome.

Autohelm 4000

Garmin GPS

VHF

NASA Navtex

Original wind vane steering (not attached)

Rutland 913 wind generator with charge regulator

EPIRB

4 man liferaft, serviced 2011

Flares

Fire Extingushers

First aid kit

25lb CQR

50m Chain

Spare anchor

Fenders and warps

Sail cover and dodgers

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 Westcountry Fishing Lugger

New build Westcountry fishing lugger, built in 2004 to the lines of a well known  in Edgar March’s ‘Sailing Drifters’ that fished out of Moushole, Cornwall, as a Mounts Bay pilchard driver.  These traditional fishing luggers were fast and seaworthy, having to work in the unpredictable waters of the English Channel all year round.  Traditional design with a straight stem, long keel, slightly raked transom and a transom hung rudder.  These boats were typically very full in the bilge to provide inherent stability and good internal volume for carrying large quantities of fish.

This boat was originally launched without an engine and completed an engineless trans-Atlantic circuit in 2009/2010.  Although she is a very traditional design, the owner and builder was not afraid to venture into modern materials where it could make a difference, most notably with the lug yards which are made of carbon fibre, making them extremely strong and most importantly lightweight.  This makes handling her while shorthanded much easier and increases the efficiency of the rig by reducing the weight aloft.  She has since been fitted with a very reliable diesel electric propulsion system that can provide silent running for up to 4 hours.

Planked in 1 ½” larch, fastened with copper nails and roves to 3” x 2” steam bent laminated oak timbers at 11” centres.

Straight laid deck in scrubbed Iroko, caulked and payed with oakum and pitch.  Fastened to laminated Iroko deck beams on a solid larch beam shelf.  Galvanised steel breast hook.

Iroko clamp in way of each mast to the add rigidity and strength required for the lug rig.

Oak backbone with a mix of massive wooden floors and galvanise strap floors.  3.5 tonnes of internal lead ballast with 1.9 tonnes of external lead ballast keel fastened with bronze keel bolts.

Coachroof and pilot house of marine plywood, epoxy sheathed and finished in cream paint.  2 large bronze portholes each side in the pilot house, 2 smaller bronze portholes each side in the coachroof coamings.  Long opening skylight in the coachroof deck providing light and ventilation.

Ample deck space due to the generous beam with a nice 8” bulwark all round.  Galvanised deck fittings stem head fitting incorporating the chain roller on the starboard side and the gammon iron on the port.  Simpson Lawrence manual windlass on the centreline of the foredeck just aft of the foremast.

Galvanised fairleads on quarter with cleats across the stanchion posts.  Galvanised tiller to the transom hung timber rudder.

Rig                 

2 masted dipping lugger with standing lug mizzen.  Keel stepped, oiled solid pine masts, bowsprit and bumpkin.

Notable are the painted carbon fibre yards which make handling the rig a joy.

Standing rigging is galvanised steel wire.  Replaced 2012.

The standing rigging on a lug rig is very simple and minimal, fixed with detachable block and tackles to galvanised eye bolts.

Main No.1                   Jeckells             780sqft                        2004                Servicable

Main No.2                   Dart Sails        780sqft                        2005                Good  (battened)

Mizzen                         Jeckells             470sqft                        2004                Servicable

No.1 Jib                                                                                           2004                Good

No.2 Jib                                                                                          2004                Good

Mizzen Staysail                                                                            2005                Good

Accommodation        5 berths

If ever there was a boating Tardis then this is it.  Her hull shape gives an enormous internal volume that is hard to believe when looking at her from the outside.

There is an open plan layout to the interior of this boat which was designed and built with the needs of the current owner in mind.  It provides very comfortable and spacious seating and berths, with full standing headroom throughout the saloon and galley.  There is plenty of scope for modification if required, but the current layout does work extremely well indeed.

Traditional sliding hatch into the pilot house, with a comfortable sea berth to the starboard at deck level.  Navigation instruments at the forward end where they can easily be seen from the deck.  Companion ladder down to the main saloon.

Coachroof with long skylight provides full standing headroom and plenty of light into the main cabin.

Galley along the port side with 2 burner Smev gas hob and oven below, new in 2010.  Porcelain Belfast sink with running water pumped from a foot pump, all set in a varnished oak work top.  Ample deep storage lockers behind against the topsides.  Galley sink pumped overboard.  100L plastic water tank under the aft bunk.

Full length settee along the starboard side which provides 2 berths with more than enough sitting headroom under the deckhead.  Spacious lined lockers under these berths provide dry storage space.

Enormous berth under the aft deck that splits into 3 good sized single berths with lee cloths, divided by the mizzen mast which is stepped through the deck at this point.  Pair of bronze port holes in the transom.

Antique French solid fuel stove on the forward bulkhead of the saloon.

Passageway offset to starboard gives access to the forepeak.  This area currently has a small single berth, but this could easily be converted to make use of the space in a different way if required by a new owner.  There is an obvious space to the port side of the mainmast that would be very well suited to a heads compartment.

The internal space of this boat is simply stunning and has real feeling of being a proper traditional boat that is sturdy, dry and comfortable.

Machinery

LMC 30hp Electric motor, installed 2008.

Bronze shaft offset to port to a 3 blade folding bronze propeller.

The electric engine was originally installed with the theory that as the boat moved under sail, the prop turning in the water would create enough power through the motor to recharge the batteries.  In reality this didn’t work so a generator was installed to create an efficient diesel/electric propulsion system.

Peguro 10kva diesel generator fresh water cooled.  Located in a wooden box in the saloon, doubling as a saloon table.  50L plastic diesel tank in the starboard saloon setee locker.

6 x 12v gel batteries connected in series to provide 72v for the motor.  Located under the aft bunk.

With the generator in use it will provide charge for continuous running of the electric motor.  When relying on the batteries there is approximately 4 hours of running time, depending on the speed.

Plastimo compass

Log

DSC VHF

AIS receiver

Garmin GPS

Large Fishermans anchor

25kg CQR

Danforth kedge

100m 10mm chain

70m 14mm warp

7’ GRP dinghy

Beaching legs

Sail covers

Mooring warps

Fenders

It is difficult to portray the feeling of space, structural integrity and quality of this classic yachts for sale in photographs and words.  There is no doubt about the quality of materials and craftsmanship that went into her original build, and the design has been proven by years of fishing in the harsh conditions of the English Channel.  As a traditional Westcountry working boat, she is second to none.

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 9 Ton Hillyard cutter

David Hillyard was the most productive small yacht builder in UK until the advent of plastic, his success built on a simple design with some very specific features which proved to have huge market appeal – the big, deep centre cock-pit which permitted a cabin at either end of the boat as well as a midships saloon cabin.

2-sleeping cabins in addition to the saloon cabin was a feature not available in almost any other yacht of the size and exactly what many families wanted to sail in comfort.

The Hillyard is so often recognisable for the canoe stern reminiscent of the famously sea-worthy Colin Archer yachts from Norway or the Scottish fishing boats which worked the wild waters of the north.

Hillyard never pretended to build yachts to the expensive standards of man builders. This was an Everyman yacht, built to a price for a market which he understood. Yet despite some construction features which many sophisticated yards regarded as rather primitive, the yachts have stood the test of time, they have been sailed all round the world and the majority of yachts built in the yard are still afloat and sailing.

David Hillyard started with the little 18’ 2 ½ tonner – that’s Thames Tonnage so a volumetric measurement not a weight measurement and a very useful yard-stick by which to judge the size of a yacht.

After the Great War, in the 1920’s, you had your semi in suburbia, your Austin 7 and a 2 ½ ton Hillyard and you knew you had arrived!

The size of the boats increased and new design features were introduced. There were 24’ 6 tonners and 28’ 8 tonners and the 32’ 9 tonners which was the most popular size. The next size up was the 36’ 12 tonner and above that size fewer boats and various sizes up to the biggest boats of close to 40’.

A customer could specify personal requirements but only within certain limits. The odd aft cock-pit 8 and 9 tonner exists and there were a few variations on the theme in the cabin lay-out. Masts were usually stepped on deck to allow clear walk-through below deck to the forward cabin. The rig was a very simple masthead Bermudian sloop or ketch in the bigger boats and they invariably had powerful engines to get the family back home on time.

A major change came with the introduction of the hard chine design which gave a stiffer boat and a wider cabin sole, immediately increasing the volume in the cabin. Replace the canoe stern with a transom and you have a boat which has more volume for a given length and therefore more economical to run.

The full midships sections allowed steel plate bilge keels to be fitted, suitable for these relatively shoal draft yachts but none of this did much for the yacht’s performance under sail.

You will never win races round the cans in a Hillyard but you will cross the Channel in comfort when your neighbours are hanging on by their finger nails dressed in full oilies.

The Hillyard is a design aimed at a very specific market, totally successful in that target market in their day and just as successful now.

This yacht is one of the popular 9 tonners, designed and built by David Hillyard in his Littlehampton yard in 1962.

She has had 7 owners and is in present ownership since 2008.

At some time in the recent past she has had some major work done as seen in her deck and her all round excellent condition. A new mast and rig and other work in present ownership have assured her continuing good health.

Classic Hillyard design with a straight long keel, canoe stern, full spoon bow, centre-cock-pit with forward and after coach-roofs.

The rig has been slightly modified by the addition of a short bowsprit allowing a cutter headed Bermudian rig.

Planked in mahogany between ¾” to 1” thick, carvel laid giving a fair smooth surface and fastened with copper nails and roves to steam bent oak timbers of approx 2” x 1” at 9” centres.

A few of these timbers are laid up with two timbers, one of top of the other making 2” x 2” to give extra strength in way of the mast, a typically Hillyard simple and cost effective way of adding strength.

The back bone is oak with oak stem and stern post and the canoe stern horn timber cut in one sweep.

The floors are massive cross-cut oak and a few of the doubled steam bent timbers also span across the centre-line.

The greater part of the wood keel is supported on the long cast iron ballast keel, bolted through the heavy floors with galvanised steel keel bolts.

5 keel bolts replaced in 2003

All Hillyards carry a fair weight of internal ballast usually in the form of cast iron pigs often filling the whole bilge.                                                                     In this yacht the iron ballast in the bilge has been replaced by custom-made lead pigs carefully close  set and well secured in the midships bilge.

The bilge was seen nicely painted out, clean and dry.

Steering by traditional spoked teak wheel on the after cock-pit bulkhead with chain and wire cables down the port side of the aft cabin to a massive galvanised steel quadrant on the vertical rudder stock.

The galvanised steel stock is carried in a galvanised steel tube through the horn timber, all very accessible under the aft deck behind the aft cabin bunk. Emergency tiller facility. Timber rudder stepped in the keel skeg.

The deck is laid in T&G pine boards which originally would have been simply canvass covered and painted.  This deck has been upgraded by removing the canvas,  laying  ¼” marine ply over the pine boards and sheathed this in a glass cloth and resin then painting to give a strong, clean, low maintenance and water-tight deck.

Clear, uncluttered  side decks and fore deck

Varnished mahogany toe rail all round with a varnished mahogany rubbing strake round the external deck edge.

Galvanised fairleads forward and aft.

Galvanised bollard on the aft deck with a pair of big varnished cleats.

New polished stainless steel stemhead fitting round the bowsprit with twin chain rollers and fore stay anchor point.

The bowsprit heel is lodged in a freshly galvanised steel heel shoe.

Recent stainless steel pulpit, push-pit and stanchions, twin safety wires with gate each side.

Forward and after coach-roofs over the saloon cabin and the aft cabin, varnished mahogany coamings with the usual Hillyard oval Perspex windows in the sides and bronze ports forward. Roof in original T&G pine boards with the same overlay as the main deck.

Deep center cock-pit with spray-hood over on stainless steel frame, forward window.

Varnished mahogany fore hatch on the fore deck, canvas cover.

Bermudian cutter rig on varnished, rectangular section glued spruce mast stepped in a varnished tabernacle against the fwd face of the coach-roof coamings. Single spreaders.

New mast and rigging in 2008

Stainless steel rigging. Twin lowers and cap shrouds.

Masthead forestay to the outer end of the bowsprit.

Inner fore stay from stemhead to above the spreaders.

Additional shrouds from the inner fore stay above the spreaders to the after chain plate provides back-staying for the inner fore stay.

Single standing back-stay to the stern.

External galvanised chain plates, 3 per side.

New fore stay in 2009

New bowsprit shrouds in 2012.

Varnished bowsprit.

Fixed bob-stay on a rigging screw.

Slab reef varnished boom sheets to the after end of the coach-roof, the tail led in to the cock-pit.

Winches.

3 Blake winches on the cock-pit coamings.

I x tufnol winch halyard on the mast

Sails.      All by Arun Sails in red terylene.

Mainsail, slab reefing.

Staysail

Jib on roller furling gear set to the outer end of the bowsprit.

Light genoa.

New bolt ropes on the jib and genoa, 2010.

Mercedes OM 636 30hp 4-cyl naturally aspirated diesel engine fitted in 1972, mounted on heavy engine beds under the centre cock-pit with  conventional centreline shaft drive to a 3-blade bronze prop.

HBW gearbox with single lever controls.

New control cables in 2009

The cock-pit sole panels lift to give full all round access to the engine.

Max 7knts. 1.9 litres per hour at cruising revs/6knts.

Full engine instrumentation including voltmeter, ammeter, rev counter and exhaust temp guage and audible alarms.

3 x 12v 110 amp/hr batteries, 2 in the engine bay, one under the saloon cabin seat.

New batteries in 2012.

New starter motor in 2002

New solenoid in 2011

30 amp Sterling battery charger

30 amp alternator booster.

Solar panel keeps the batteries topped up on the mooring.

Tanks.

27 gallon steel fuel tank in the stbd cock-pit locker.

27 gall galvanised steel water tank in the port cock-pit locker.

Accommodation                                                 6 berths

Fwd cabin with port and stbd berths with lee cloths, stowage bays under.

Chain locker forward.

Fore hatch above.

4’9” head-room under the fore deck with more under the fore hatch.

Bulkhead with centre doorway to the saloon cabin.

Saloon cabin with port and stbd settee berths with locker/shelves over the fwd ends.

Lockers behind and below the settees provide the usual plentiful Hillyard stowage.

White painted deckhead and ship’s sides, varnished mahogany and mahogany ply joinery, varnished hardwood sole boards, curtains at the windows and original Hillyard lighting fittings.

Varnished mahogany double drop leaf table.

Galley in the after port corner with deep stainless steel sink, fresh water from a faucet with foot pump. Sink gravity drains overboard. Fold-up extension to the galley work surface over the settee berth.

Single burner gas cooker with it’s own gas cartridge set in an ingenious fire proof mount.

12v fridge in the space below the cooker surface.

Chart desk and lockers to stbd with switch board and nav instruments above.

Fold-up extension to the chart table over the settee berth to take an Admiralty chart

Stbd off-set doorway and step up to the cock-pit with the usual Hillyard sliding door. 3 shelves and a mirror mounted on the door make clever best use of space.

The Hillyard cock-pit is always very comfortable, set in the middle of the yacht to minimise motion and with large seat lockers each side, tanks under. A useful higher level seat in the after port corner has a locker incorporated under it and provides a seat by the wheel.

Removeable cock-pit table.

Stbd off-set step down and sliding door to the aft cabin.

Heads compartment to port with Jabsco sea toilet.

Large hanging locker to stbd of the entrance steps.

Original port and stbd berths now rigged as a large athwartships double berth.

5’10” head-room aft.

Inventory.

Navigation

Compass mounted on the coach-roof.

Sounder

Thru’ hull impellor log

VHF DSC radio, new 2008

Radar

Raymarine ST3000 auto-pilot.

Garmin GPS

Nav lights incl. Masthead tri-colour, low level port and stbd on the shrouds, dck floods and cock-pit lighting.

Safety gear

2 x horse-shoe life buoys.

Danbuoy

3 fire extinguishers.

Various flares

12v fog horn

Radar reflector.

12v bilge pump on a float switch

2 x manual pumps.

Ground tackle.

35lb CQR anchor

Heavy duty fisherman anchor

12v windlass

50 meters chain for the bower anchor

33meters chain to the fisherman anchor

38 meter and 37 meter warps.

Deck gear.

Beaching legs

Cock-pit cover, new 2009

Fore hatch cover, new 2009

Mooring warps

Varnished mahogany boarding ladder

Boat hook

Fenders.

Heavy canvas winter cover.

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 Rossiter Heron design was conceived by Hugh Rossiter and Charles Purbrook at their yard in Christchurch.  Having previously only built smaller open boats and dinghies, the Heron was big step forward.

Canoe stern version with a nice spoon bow and full length keel.  Centreplate operated on a block and tackle helps improve sailing performance and reduces draft for sailing up inland waterways and rivers.  Full width coachroof creating raised topsides, much like the well known Harrison Butler designs, gives plenty of internal volume and lots of deck space, with a small dog house incorporating the entrance hatch for extra headroom.

Designed and built by the Rossiter yard in 1958 this is a particularly nice example.

Planked in 5/8” mahogany fastened with copper rivets to steam bent oak timbers and solid oak floors.

External iron ballast keel with iron keel bolts, last drawn 1985.  Some internal iron trimming ballast, coated and fastened securely. Galvanised steel centreplate.

Marine plywood deck finished with non-slip Trakmark and painted.  Aft Deck in painted marine plywood.  Step in the deck at forward end of bulkhead to the raised topsides.

Varnished mahogany coachroof coamings with small varnished rubbing strake top and bottom.  2 oval bronze port holes each side.

Varnished mahoganydog house type hatch on the raised coachroof with sliding hatch and handrails.  Rectangular bronze portholes in the sides.

Deep varnished cockpit with tiller steering.  Bridge deck at forward end.  Hinged doors with a single washboard above in the entrance hatch.

Galvanised stem head fitting which carries the forestay with bow roller on the starboard side.

Galvanised fairleads.  Manual windlass on the foredeck offset to starboard with an oak Sampson post on the centre line.

Varnished mahogany forehatch with bronze rimmed glass porthole.

Stainless steel pulpit with stainless steel stanchions and guard wires going aft as far as the step in the deck.  Varnished toe rail all round the foredeck.

Large bronze cleat on the aft deck with galvanised cleats on the quarters.

Ingenious galvanised mainsheet hawse fixed securely through the stern post to allow free movement of the tiller.

Rig

Fractional Bermudan sloop with roller furling headsail on a keel stepped solid varnished spruce mast.

Roller furling varnished wooden boom.

Stainless steel standing rigging renewed in 2011, to external galvanised chainplates.

Single lowers to the first spreaders.

Single uppers to the second spreaders.

Standing backstays to the second spreaders.

Cap shrouds taken out around the second spreaders and fastened to the mast at the level of the first spreaders.

Running backstays on tackles

Roller furling genoa with new forestay on stainless steel rigging screw.

Sails

Battened mainsail                   Hood                           2011                            Excellent

Genoa                                      Hood                           2011                            Excellent

Machinery

Yanmar 1GM10 9hp single cylinder diesel engine, installed 1997.  Full service July 2011.

Raw water cooled.

Yanmar gearbox with twin lever controls to stainless steel shaft and 3 blade centre line bronze propeller.  Max speed 5 knots.

3 gallon plastic fuel tank in stern cockpit locker.

2 x 12volt batteries in bridge deck locker with charging from engine alternator.

Accommodation                    2 berths

Well organised and light interior with lots of space for a small boat.

Steps down from the bridge deck into the saloon.  Galley to port with 2 burner Plastimo gas stove with a drop down galley work surface and lockers under.

Hanging locker to the starboard with VHF above.

Port and starboard full length saloon settee berths, storage lockers under.  Saloon table with drop down leafs.

Cabin sole boards finished in grey paint.

Deck head and hull sides finished in white gloss.

Jabsco sea toilet in a varnished locker on the centreline in the forepeak.  Lots of stowage space in the forepeak for sails, fenders etc.

Inventory

Silva 70 compass in cockpit bulkhead

NASA sounder

NASA log

VHF

Autopilot

Garmin chartplotter

Wind direction indicator

Horse shoe lifebuoy

3 fire extinguishers

Assorted flares

25lb CQR anchor

15m anchor chain plus warp

Covers for dog house, cockpit and forehatch

Fenders and warps

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 14 Ton Gauntlet

Designed by the Berthon Boat Co, Lymington, 1938. The Gauntlet range was the great early success story in the Berthon history starting with the first 12 tonner in 1934, aptly named Gauntlet, the yacht being built as a challenge in a race which of course she won.

16 12 tonners were built,  5 of the smaller 8 tonners, 10 of the 14 tonners and another 5 or so up to the largest at 26 TM before building ceased with the last 8 tonner Bardu in 1951.

The design was conceived as a cruiser racer and several of these yachts have shown remarkable performances over the years.

The plans for this 14 ton Gauntlet were purchased from Berthons and she was built by Brown Brothers of Picton, New Zealand, in 1947.  She was built as a racing yacht and some success in her early career, the most notable of which was a 1^st place in the Sydney Hobart race of 1953, being the only boat to survive the horrendous weather and cross the finish line.  During the race she took a large wave broadside on which stove in her port coachroof coaming.  The long scarph joint where this was repaired is visible today.

Her underwater shape makes the design a stiff hull and very sea kindly, the current owner has sailed her many miles and through some very rough weather with never a moments worry.  This boat has been in present ownership for 14 years, 10 of which were spent cruising the Mediterranean.
Constructed in 3 layers of  7/8” Kauri pine, with diagonal layers overlaid with a single layer of conventional planking, through fastened with nails and roves.  Longitudinal stringers for strength.

Hardwood floors with bronze floor bolts.  Hardwood keel.

5.25 ton lead external ballast keel with bronze keel bolts.

This type of construction makes for an incredibly strong hull.

Solid hardwood deck, screw fastened to Kauri pine deck beams.  Deck is planked in solid hardwood, tapered at the forward end rather than joggled to king plank.  Finished in cream non-slip deck paint.

Solid hardwood coachroof coamings, finished in cream paint, with 4 bronze portholes.  Slightly raised dog house giving good shelter to the cockpit and plenty of space around the galley area.

Coachroof in sheathed marine plywood, finished in cream deck paint. New in 2007.

Deep self draining cockpit with full length thwarts.  Varnished hardwood capping rail.  Tiller steering with bronze fittings.  Long varnished doors and sliding hatch into the cabin.

Spacious foredeck with stainless steel stem head fitting incorporating bow roller offset to starboard and the forestay mount.  Hardwood sampson post and vertical axis electric windlass.  Bronze rubbing strips over the capping rail .  Galvanised and painted pulpit substantially mounted through the toe rail.

Inner forestay on a stainless steel plate mounted on the deck aft of the Sampson post.

Varnished forehatch with clear Perspex centre

Wide side clear decks giving easy movement around the boat.  Coachroof with varnished hardwood handrails and plenty of space to storing the tender.  Deep toe rail from stem to stern.

Small aft deck sweeping into the pronounced canoe stern.  Varnished hatch immediately aft of the cockpit giving access to the lazarette, large locker for storing ropes and fenders.  Painted galvanised pushpit rail securely fastened.  Bronze fairleads.

Bermudan cutter rig on keel stepped solid wood mast.  Wooden slab reefing boom with stainless steel gooseneck fitting.

Stainless steel standing rigging, replaced 14 years ago and surveyed in 2012.  Stainless steel external chainplates, new in 2010 with new bolts.

Roller furling forestay on new stainless steel rigging screw.

Twin lowers and single cap shroud to galvanised rigging screws.

Single standing backstay to galvanised rigging screw.  Running backstays on tackles.

Pin rail board on the shrouds above the rigging screws.

Full wardrobe of sails in good used condition.  Fully battened mainsail with roller furling genoa.

Main                                        14 years old                 Average

Yankee                                    6 years old                   Good

Genoa                                      14 years old                 Average

No.1                                        Unknown                    Poor

Spinnaker                                Unknown                    Average

Staysail                                    6 years old                   Good

Winches

Pair of bronze Henderson winches on the mast with integrated winch handles.  1 Henderson reefing winch on the boom.

Pair of stainless steel self tailing Anderson sheet winches on the cockpit coamings.  Smaller pair of stainless steel non ST Anderson staysail sheet winches.

Machinery

Volvo 50Hp 4cyl diesel, installed new in 1997.  Volvo gearbox with single lever controls.  Offset stainless steel shaft to 3 blade bonze propeller on the port side, gives 5 knots at 2 L/hr.  Max 7.5 knots.

300L stainless steel diesel tank under the cockpit sole

Dedicated 12 volt engine start battery.  2 x 12 volt domestic batteries, all charged from the engine alternator.  Shore power connection with charger.

Accomodation 5 berths

Galley to port with single stainless steel sink with piped hot and cold water.  Hot water supplied from calorifier.  3 burner ‘Force 10’ gas cooker with gas bottles on deck.  Deep stainless steel chest freezer fwd of the galley, currently not operable.

Forward facing chart desk on starboard side with shelving, switchboard and navigation instruments.

Saloon table on the centre line.  Full length setee to starboard with pilot berth behind.  Large port side setee berth.  Plenty of storage lockers under the berths.  Full headroom throughout the saloon.

Door to port side of the mast going forward. Heads compartment to starboard with Lavac sea toilet.  Full height shower, draining into a sump and pumped out by a 12volt electric bilge pump.  Basin to port under the deck head.

Second varnished hard wood door going through to the fore cabin with a large double berth and deep storage locker.  Lots of stowage space for sails under the berth.

Chain locker forward of the berth.

Equipment

Plastimo cockpit compass

NASA sounder

ICOM DSC VHF

Simrad autopilot

Garmin GPS

4 person liferaft.  In date

3 fire extinguishers

35lb CQR anchor

Danforth kedge anchor

50m chain

50m warp

8’ inflatable dinghy

2hp Tohatsu outboard

Numerous mooring warps

Numerous fenders

This is a big powerful boat constructed in a fashion not common to UK boat building, but a very successful method that was widely used in the southern hemisphere at this time.  The triple skin makes her hull thickness an incredible 2 ½” which means she will stand up to any weather thrown at her.  Her design has been proven again and again over the years by the countless Gauntlets that have been built, and there is no doubt they are fast seaworthy blue water cruising yachts.  She does not have acres of shiny varnish and does not have a solid teak deck, but she is finished in such a way that requires minimal maintenance and is durable for long distance blue water sailing.

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.