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Wooden ships comments on this Historic French Sailing Fishing boat 

A historic french sailing gaff cutter, Angele Aline was built in Fecamp, France in 1921 at the yard of M. Argentin, the Societe de Construction Navale de Fecamp, foreman builder Leonce Bennay, as a sailing fishing boat, known locally as Dundee, a French distortion of English Dandy, the new gaff rig developed in the last years of the 19^th century to replace the ubiquitous lug rig.

She was built for the fishing family of Jules Talleux of Gravelines and launched 5^th November 1921 No 261 with the name Jules Talleaux.

She was launched fully rigged and with a 40hp Otto Deutz engine which  was more likely used to run the net capstan than drive the ship.

Like many of her sisters, she fished for herring off the Scottish coast in the summer months and round into the Atlantic to fish for cod  in the winter.

There are only a handful of these vessels left afloat, the best known being the Biche owned and restored by the Maritime Museum in Douarnenez, Britanny.

She was requisitioned by the French Navy  in WW2, took part in the evacuation of our troops from the beaches of Dunkirk and has the coveted badge of the Dunkirk Little Ships Club.

She was scuttled twice during the war and raised again to carry on fishing after the war with severaq documented owners until sale to Dutch private ownership in 1963.

The Dutch owner re-rigged her as a ketch and fitted out the interior for family sailing. After 20 years in Dutch ownership she came to UK and was sold by Wooden Ships to Gareth Wright from UK.

In Gareth’s ownership she took part in the 1982 Tall Ships Race to Lisbon, coming 1^st in Class.

In 1983 she took part in the Tall Ships Race, Cherbourg to the Orkneys and back to the Channel Islands.

In 1984 she took part in the Tall Ships Race, St Malo, Canaries, Bermuda, Halifax and back to Liverpool.

Sold by Wooden Ships in autumn 1984 to George and Meriel Thurstan who moved aboard and spent several seasons as a charter yacht in Turkey before Wooden Ships sold her in the autumn of 1991 to an English surgeon.

In the course of the next few years she had some extensive work culminating in a major job in 2005 including installation of a pair of wing engines replacing the single centre-line engine, all new domestic services and replacement of  most of the deck.

With the boat back in service she was sold to the present owner in 2007 for use in charity promotional work.

In his ownership she has had yet further major work to address the last of her age-related issues and bring her up to date for modern cruising and to comply with the MCA Code of Practice rules to carry 12 passengers and 2 crew for sail training work.

Now finally in commission and extensively rebuilt, the next lucky owner will profit from the hard work, heart-ache and investment of the past owners.

2005 and 2007 survey reports + several survey reports going back 20 years

The unique advantage of this vessel is her extensive accommodation and deck space within her length making her potentially a very viable sail training ship or charter yacht and capable of partaking in all the exciting traditional sailing events around Europe.

The hull design is very recognisably French with her straight stem, exaggerated beam, heavy drag on the keel, steeply raked stern post and wonderful elliptical counter stern.

High bulwarks all round the deck ensure safety on board.

Originally planked in oak, her extensive replacement planking above and below the water-line has been done in larch.

Oak frames in grown futtocks, 6” x 4” at 26” centres.

16” x 3” bilge stringer

9” x 3” beam shelf.

5” x 5” deck beams

Bulwarks carried on oak stanchions, all new in recent years.

The deck is laid in 2 thicknesses of 1” ply and epoxy glass sheathed to give a totally water-tight, hard-wearing deck which adds enormously to the strength of the vessel.

Over the past refits, she has had 80% new planking, 60% new deck beams, 100% new floors, 40% new frames, 100% new carlins

80% new stringers, new teak deck structures, new cabin sole all through and new accommodation

Ballast

The vessel was originally ballasted with concrete as was customary with fishing boats. In the 2005 refit this concrete was removed the structure checked and 6 tons of concrete replaced.

Lead trimming ballast.

Steering

In the 2005 refit the original oak rudder was replaced with a hollow, oil filled steel plate rudder carried in plastic bearings and operated by a traditional wheel with hydraulic drive. Seals and ram mounts replaced recently.

Deck structure.

Pilot house and cabin roof built in teak framing with teak panels and decked in teak, the whole finished bright in Coelan.

Traditional sky-light on the cabin trunking.

Drop-down laminated glass opening windows in the pilot house.

Sea cocks.

In the 2005 refit all skin fittings were replaced and fitted with modern lever ball and bronze cone valves.

Gaff cutter rig on solid, laminated spruce, keel stepped pole mast fitted with galvanised spreaders.

Solid spruce boom with heavy galvanised steel fittings.

Solid spruce gaff with leathered, galvanised steel jaws

Mast hoops to the mainsail.

Solid spruce running bowsprit set to stbd of the stem post.

Galvanised wire standing rigging set up to dead-eyes and lanyards on chains to external chain plates.

Cavel bars with belay pins each side in way of the rigging.

Wooden pole

Sails by J Lawrence, Brightlingsea.

Mailsail                                    2005

Working jib                            pre 2005

Staysail                                   2005

Topsail                                    2005

Storm jib                                2008

Machinery.

Twin Betamarine 75hp naturally aspirated 4-cylinder diesel engines in a dedicated engine room aft, installed new in 2004.

Original centre-line prop aperture blocked and new shafts and shaft loges established each side.

Conventional shaft drive to 20” x 10” bronze props, s/s shafts on s/s A-brackets. gives max speed 8knts.

Aquadrive anti-vibration units on the shafts

Water lubricated PSS shaft seals

Rope cutters on the shafts.

Tanks

 120 galls primary fuel tank under the saloon cabin sole in stainless steel.

80 gall day tank in stainless steel

250 galls water in single stainless steel tank

Pressurised H&C

Electrics.

2 x 24v engine start batteries

4 x 24v domestic supply batteries

Engine driven alternators

240v AC alternator on the stbd engine

24v and 240v distribution boards

12v/24v invertor

Accommodation.                  11 berths

7 single berths

2 double berths

2 heads, one with shower, one ensuite with the aft cabin.

Head-room. 5’11” to 7’ except in the engine room where there is close to 4’

Large saloon, 10’ x 10’6” with Morse solid fuel stove fitted with back boiler for HW.

Galley with Force 10 gas cooker, 170 litre cool box, incl small freezer compartment, stainless steel sink with H&C..

Hot water to galley and shower, calorifier heated by the Morse stove or engine cooling water or 240v immersion heater.

Hot water radiators throughout.

Nav station in the pilot house with full size chart desk.

Equipment.

Navigation

Heath grid compass.

Hand bearing compass.

Brookes and Gatehouse depth, log/speed and wind direction/speed + graphic function display at the helm, new 2011

Tictack wind speed and direction

Sperry radar

Racal Sperry GPS

Iom VHF DSC

Furuno 10” screen chart plotter

Furuno Navtex

Clock and barometer

Shapes

Deck equipment

Com Nav hydraulic auto-pilot

Avon W400 inflatable dinghy.

Warps and fenders.

Saftey equipment

Throwing line

3 x First Aid boxes

2 x Danbuoys

Off-shore flare pack.

2 x life buoys

1 x 8-man Viking Life raft – next5 service due July 2014

Emergency grab bag

Numerous fire extinguishers – next service due May 2013

6  auto life jackets and harnesses

Deck jack-stays

Whale Gusher 30 masnual pump.

Emergency battery nav lights

Firetrace auto engine room fire extinguishers

Gas alarm

Fire alarms and CO alarms

LED emergency cabin lights.

LED engine room lights

Ground tackle

2cwt Admiralty pattern anchor

CQR 140lb anchor

FOB Hydraulic anchor windlass with manual emergency drive

11- meter galvanised chain – Lloyds tested 2008

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 Colin Archer Gaff ketch

Built in 1954 by Christiansen of Risor, the famous old Colin Archer Boatyard in Norway as a yacht on typical Colin Archer lines.
She has all the classic Colin Archer features – long keel, canoe stern with the rudder hung outboard on the stern post, powerful sheer and generous beam.

Owned previously for 10 years in Devon with 2 Atlantic circuits under her keel, husband and wife crew.

Sold by Wooden Ships to the previous owner in 2004 and moved to Suffolk until the present move to Cornwall in 2012.

It would be difficult to find a stronger or better sea-boat.  New MCA code of Practice ticket for commercial use.

Planked in 1 ¾” Norwegian pine, trennel fastened in the traditional method to 4 ½” x 4 ½” sawn pine frames in pairs (9” sided) at 18”centres to give a massively strong construction.

Recent work to replace the top part of the stem, replace plank ends and refasten.  Forward end of bulwarks moved aft and now slope gently to the deck as is typical of the Colin Archers.  Topsides repainted.

Hood ends fastened with galvanised boat nails.

Long external iron ballast keel secured with iron bolts through wooden floors.

She carries a small amount of lead trimming ballast in the bilge.

The deck is yacht-laid in hardwood, possibly purple heart, a timber similar tom iroko,  joggled into the cover-boards fore and aft, caulked and payed.

Bulwarks all round with heavy varnished capping rail on varnished stanchions with cavil bars forward and aft.

Coach-roof in varnished mahogany coamings, deck in pine overlaid with 2-layers of ply, epoxy-sheathed.

Very substantial grab rails and a traditional sky-light on the roof.

The coach-roof rises 10” to a dog-house aft, rebuilt in previous ownership prior to blue water voyaging, varnished mahogany coamings with bevelled glass windows gives good protection to the self-draining cock-pit.

The house coamings extend aft round the cock-pit in heavy coamings with a capping.

Iroko laid seat lockers each side open to cavernous lockers with lift-out bottoms to access the deeper recesses.

Bridge deck to the cabin entrance.

Aft deck locker aft of the cock-pit coaming under the tiller, varnished locker lid over the sealed, grp-lined gas bottle stowage containing 3 x 13kg gas bottles.

Gaff ketch rig on varnished, keel-stepped pine masts, varnished slab-reefing booms, all block and tackle rigging.
Galvanised wire standing rigging with spliced ends, stainless steel rigging screws to external chain plates, all rebolted prior to blue water sailing.

Stainless steel wire running back-stays on tackles.

Bowsprit replaced around 2000 passes through the substantial stemhead gammon iron, the bowsprit heeled into a huge Sampson post. The bowsprit can be retracted.

Sails.

Mainsail with 3-reefs

Mizzen with 2 reefs

Boomed staysail

Storm stays’l

Jib on Wickham Martin roller gear set on a traveller to the end of the bowsprit.

Machinery

Detroit Diesels 353 95hp diesel engine.

Centre-line installation with good all round access under the dog-house floor.

Conventional drive to 3-blade prop. gives 6knts cruising speed.

Shaft brake.

Tankage

100 gall diesel in 2 grp-lined copper tanks either side of the engine bay, the tanks fitted with inspection ports.

Electrics.

1 x 12v engine start battery

4 x 6v 400amp/hr domestic batteries on 12v circuits. All batteries inter-linked with change-over switch.

Engine alternator

All circuits rewired about 2000

Accommodation.      7 berths

Fore cabin, varnished hatch on the fore deck above, single berth to port, locker to stbd.

Chains and stowage forward.

Next aft, stbd double berth, lockers under. Curtains to close off the berth.

Heads Compartment to port with Blake Lavac sea toilet, door to the saloon cabin.

Large saloon cabin with port and stbd settee berths, pilot berths each side above behind.

Beautiful mahogany drop leaf table between.

Galley in the after port corner with gimballed s/s Plastimo gas cooker, all adjacent surfaces s/s lined, good work surfaces and stowage. Centreline unit fore and aft off the after bulkhead encloses the galley and carries the stainless steel sink, draining overboard, brass fresh water and salt water taps.

Deep freeze and fridge in polished mahogany unit to stbd.

Stbd off-centre steps up to the dog-house.

Table to port with seating forward and aft.

Stbd off-centre door to the cock-pit.

7’ head-room throughout most of the interior.

Polished cabin sole.

Varnished oak deck beams above.

Maintenance schedule in present ownership. 

February 2005      Engine Service Volspec

May 2005               Replaced Jabsco water pump impeller Eastern Hydraulic Systems.

July 2006               New engine battery Diesco

Volvo Penta Control replaced faulty Morse unit.

May 2007              Replaced top section of main mast scarfing in new, work by Tim Walker, Boat Builder.

August 2007         Replaced five plank ends starboard bow with Douglas fir and fixed with oak trenails,  work by Tim Walker Boat Builder.

June 2009.            Coelan coated teak decks.

September 2009   New Diesco battery.

April 2011             Gas tubing replaced, Propane bottle fitted and cooker serviced, work by Will Heywood

September 2011   Repairs to main boom, mail gaff, mizzen and gaff, bowsprit, work by Tim Walker

December 2011    Below water replaced anodes, softened timber beneath saloon & portside forward, work by Tim  Walker  Boat builder

December2011     Above water replaced timber port and starboard hood end planks, bulwarks and  exhaust skin, work by Tim Walker  Boat Builder.

December 2011.   Paint, anti-foul and varnish by Neptune Marina using Sikkens Cetol Marine Natural anti-fouling. Topsides in Permoglaze white

January 2012        Replaced battery master switch and domestic battery by Neptune Marina

Equipment.

Navigation gear.

Swiftech VHF/FM transceiver

Furuno GPS Navigator

Target wind speed and direction (Note sensor at mizzen mast head needs replacing)

Target echo sounder and compass

Radar

Navco Tillerpilot

Monitor wind vane

Ground tackle

Anchor, chain and windlass.

Deck gear

8 fenders

Boarding ladder

Deck plugs and cleats

Boxes of electrical, mechanical and sail spares

Bosun’s chair

Belaying pins

Electric bilge pump

Fuel filters

Manual bilge pump

Engine bilge pump

Boat hook

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 Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter           UK Flag                                   

Wooden Ships is proud to offer for sale the only unrebuilt original Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter, still in regular commission and sailing blue waters after an amazing 135 years.

Every port around the country had it’s pilots to bring the big ships safely into harbour, the pilots had their own cutters as indeed they do today but the Pilot Cutters of the Bristol Channel have earned a reputation close to mythology.

In most ports, the pilots used what was most convenient and cheap – a local fishing boat or even a rowing boat in many cases

Bristol was a major shipping port up to the middle of last century and after weeks at sea, shipping approaching up the tricky waters of Bristol Channel had need of skilled pilots with expert local knowledge.

The pilots were in competition with each other as they ranged far out to the Western Approaches in search of incoming ships. A successful pilot with a fast cutter or skiff as they called their boats could earn a lot of money and many became wealthy men.

Speed was of the essence as they raced for a prize, the pilot was rowed over in a small boat and climbed the Jacob’s Ladder while his skiff stood off either to follow him home or to put another pilot on another incoming ship.

There are now only 10 of the original skiffs left sailing, all beautifully restored, some totally rebuilt with only a vestigial part left for authenticity.

In the last few years with the growing interest in these boats, several more have been built on the lines of the originals.

In addition, there are many more pilot cutter-inspired boats built in the last few years.

However this one is the only remaining example of the breed which has not had a serious rebuild and remains in excellent condition with no loss of shape or distortion, still sailing regularly with recent blue water voyages under her keel to prove her quality.

Built by Davies and Plain, Cardiff in 1875 as a working pilot cutter and remained in service until sold and converted for leisure sailing shortly before the War in the late 1930’s.

Now 20 years in only her 8^th ownership with 40 years in the previous same ownership.

The little cutter has survived in amazing condition, a tribute to her builders and all her 8 owners.

To prove her viability and disprove any age discrimination, her cruising in present ownership is:

1993/4                     Refit on purchase (see below for more details) Voyage round Ireland

1995                           N Spain, Galicia, Brittany.

1996                           Brest Douarnenez and the Scillies

1997                           Channel Islands, Brittany, Scillies

1998                           West Coast of Greenland, via Iceland

1999                           Cornwall and Brittany

2000 – 2005          Mediterreran. Almerimar, Morocco, Palma, Alicante

2006 – 2007            Azores Lorient

2008 – 2010            West Coast Scotland

2011                            Brittany

2012                            N Spain

Construction.

Classic pilot cutter lines with a straight stem, long keel with slight drag and elliptical counter stern.

Planked in pitch pine and fastened with galvanised boat nails to relatively light oak frames, approx 3” x 4” at 14” centres in pairs of sawn and grown futtocks.

Long oak keel.

All internal ballast. In present ownership the original iron pig ballast was removed and replaced in the same weight in lead making for a cleaner bilge.

In  the winter of 1996/97 the stem was replaced, forward dead-woods replaced, knightsheads replaced, the hull extensively refastened and recaulked.

The deck is straight laid in quarter-sawn pine, caulked and payed. This deck was laid in Portsmouth for the previous ownership by Michael Parvin around 1980.

Varnished mahogany coverboards. Wide mahogany king plank.

The seams were all repayed in butyl rubber compound in 2009.

The strength of this hull comes from a 4” thick coverboard rebated into the ends of the deck beams and through fastened down through the beam and the beam shelf which probably explains why the hull has kept it’s shape and sheer.

On the inside, most of the deck beams have been reinforced at some time in the past, probably in the previous 40 year ownership, by steel angle on the after faces of the full width beams and carried round the beamshelf with steel hanging knees and approx 2’ down the ship’s sides, all in excellent condition.

Bulwarks all round on oak stanchion posts, separate from the frame heads.

Varnished laminated mahogany capping rail.

Shallow coach-roof standing some 9” off the deck from cock-pit to the mast with painted teak coamings set with oval bronze port holes.

The coach-roof deck recovered in canvas in 1993.

Traditional varnished sky-light.

Typical small, deep pilot cutter cock-pit with varnished teak coamings standing 12” off the deck, rounded aft with low seat lockers each side. Ply sole panels all lift to give full access to the bilge and shaft gland below.

Stbd off-set entrance hatch on the coach-roof gives access to the cabin. All varnished teak hatch with sliding top and twin full length doors down to a 4” step.

Varnished timber pillar in the middle of the cock-pit carries a traditional polished copper life-boat type compass binnacle.

The Pilot Cutter was originally steered with a tiller sweeping between the traditional Sampson posts in the after corners of the cock-pit.

Steering now by wheel on a double screw thread to the rudder head with varnished box over.  New rudder 2013.

Fuel tank filler and vent under the box.

Narrow, varnished teak fore hatch on the fore deck, off-set to port.

Stbd off-set bitts carry the heel of the bowsprit running out alongside the stbd side of the stem post.

A modern Lofrans 12v windlass on the port side of the deck forward fitted with chain gipsy and warping drum.

A traditional goose-neck vent forward against the stem ventilates the fore peak below and conveniently takes the anchor warp to the locker below.

Plough and Fisherman anchors stowed on the fore deck.

The vessel has excellent clear deck space, plenty of room to move around and work the rig, useful fair weather seating on the coach-roof and the small deep cock-pit is very secure in heavy weather.

Rig

Gaff cutter rig on an oiled spruce mast stepped through the deck onto the keel with a fidded topmast. The mast has a square section where it penetrates the deck.  Spars all newly varnished 2013

The vessel was re-rigged prior to the Greenland voyage in 1998 with new galvanised rigging wire, new boom, gaff, topmast and bowsprit.

Twin galvanised wire lower shrouds each side set up with dead-eyes and lanyards to external iron chain plates. The after shroud is set well aft to act as a standing back-stay typical of the pilot cutter rig thus avoiding the necessity of running backstays.

Stainless steel cap shrouds each side set up with lanyards to a middle chain plate, one to the lower mast cap and one to the topmast cap.

Running back-stays on tackles to the topmast cap set up with light-weight cord “fuses” and tackles reached from the helm..

Galvanised wire stemhead forestay to above the hounds, set up to a rigging screw on the stemhead.

This fore stay takes the hanked and boomed staysail.

Varnished staysail boom on a pivot just aft of the stem and sheeted to a galvanised horse on the deck in front of the mast.

Outer fore stay from the end of the bowsprit to the topmast truck.

Jib on a Wickham Martin roller furling gear to the top of the lower mast, set on a traveller hauled out to the end of the bowsprit.

Varnished pine main boom with original Appledore roller furling mechanism mounted on double mast bands, fool-proof, reliable and easily used. The boom was replaced recently.

The boom sheets to a traditional shock absorbing horse on the aft deck.

Varnished pine gaff with original leathered saddle. Mainsail lacing.

Belay pins on the lower mast band and cavil bars on the bulwarks take all the falls.

Sails.    New sails in 1993

Mainsail in red terylene, new in 2006

Staysail, overhauled 2006

Large Jib, overhauled 2006

Small jib

Topsail

Winches.

Pair of bronze, bottom action sheet winches with self tailing “horns” mounted on the cock-pit coamings take the jib sheets.

Halyards on block and tackle

Machinery.

Perkins M90 80hp 4-cylinder naturally aspirated, fresh water cooled diesel engine on the centre-line below the cabin entrance step, fitted new in 1999

2006 single lever controls PRM gearbox with conventional centre-line shaft drive to 3-blade prop.

New shaft, cutlass bearing and stern gland in 2013.  Engine and gearbox removed, painted and refitted.  The bilge below has been cleaned and painted.

Fuel

44 gall steel tank aft replaced in present ownership.

33 gall tank under the stbd fwd berth.

Water

90 gall s/s tank under the forward double berth

Electrics.

1 x 12v engine start battery

2 x 12v 150 amp/hr domestic batteries on 12v circuits.

12v engine driven alternator.

Intelligent battery management system.

Shore power connection

Battery charger

12v/240v inverter

Accommodation.       9 berths

On purchase in 1993, the interior joinery was all removed to gain access to the hull to check and clean. The interior was then rebuilt with the present very practical lay-out – a forward sleeping cabin and a large saloon cabin with pilot berths behind the settees and a quarter berth.

The joinery is constructed in varnished T&G pine bulkheads trimmed with mahogany, mahogany bunk boards, grab rails and posts, saloon table and cabin sole boards.

The hull interior behind the berths is lined with light T&G pine boarding

From forward, fore peak with the bitts, chain locker. Plenty of space here for coils of cordage hung each side, the outboard engine secured to the bitts etc.

Bulkhead opening to the forward sleeping cabin. Double berth to port, single berth to stbd.

Wide shelf over the double berth was a further single berth but found to be more useful when raised to form a storage shelf.

Quaint bedside table alongside the double berth for the skipper’s slippers and morning tea.

Single berth to stbd with a stowage recess against the ship’s side. 33 gall diesel tank under the berth.

Pipe cot suspended above, folds up against the deckhead.

Water tank under the double berth.

Narrow open tread ladder to the teak fore hatch above.

Exposed under deck and deck beams.

Stbd side bulkhead opening with vertical grab posts each side to stbd work-bench and port heads compartment.

The work bench is exceptionally useful, very heavy timber surface with a vice, shelves above, locker and 3 drawers below keeps all the tools together in the right place.

Opposite to port is a large heads compartment with the door on the angle. Jabsco sea toilet with a removeable varnished mahogany seat and lockers under the side deck up behind, porcelain hand basin against the fwd bulkhead, teak gratings over a s/s shower tray.

12v pump to evacuate the waste water.

H&C at the hand basin.

Black water holding tank in the cupboard above the heads has never been used. Readily accessed change-over valves behind the Jabsco.

Saloon cabin with port and stbd settee berths and pilot berths up behind each side.

The after ends of both pilot berths extend behind the chart desk to port and the galley to stbd to give a useful stowage corner for bedding etc.

Reflex diesel fired cabin heater in a recess forward to port of the mast.
Fine varnished double drop leaf table with stowage recess

Chart desk aft to port, galley aft opposite to stbd

High level chart desk used standing facing outboard takes a half size Admiralty chart.

Bookself above for pilot books etc.

Electrical switch panel on the after bulkhead.

Intelligent fridge under the chart desk.

Galley down the stbd side with smart Plastimo Neptune 3000 s/s gimballed 3-burner, grill and oven gas cooker in a stainless steel lined recess, vertical grab rails either side.

Gas bottles stowed on deck by the mast.

Pilot gas sensor solenoid safety control

Next aft is the stainless steel sink in a work surface, cupboards and drawers under, shelves up behind under the side deck.

Mixer tap with pressurised H&C.

Foot pump cold water tap

Bronze salt water tap, currently disconnected.

The sink waste is pumped overboard by a 12v pump with change-over valves under the sink to pump the shower waste.

Wet locker in the after stbd corner with hanging rail and recess for gumboats, conveniently right alongside the cabin entrance so no excuse for wet clothing in the cabin.

Engine under a centre-line box with steps down the stbd side against the wet locker.

Quarter berth to port, aft of the chart desk. Shelf above, batteries and tool stowage under.

Lid over the recess between the quarter berth and the engine box covers the readily accessed fuel filters.

Wide, varnished engine box lid with non-slip foot prints.

Head-room

Saloon cabin               6’4” under beams

Forward cabin            5’4” under beams

Bunk lengths               6’6”

Equipment.

Navigaton

Binnacle compass

Chartplotter

Cobras VHF DSC

Garmin 550 Map

2013 log and sounder

Furuno weather fax

Lead line

Deck

2 manual bilge pumps

Engine driven Jabsco bilge/deck wash

Inflatable dinghy with inflatable floor, pump and oars.

Suzuki outboard engine.
Warps and fenders

Domestic

12v Isotherm intelligent fridge

Fusion radio received takes Ipod 2 speakers in the cabin, 2 speakers in the cock-pit.

Crockery, cutlery etc

Ground tackle

35lb CQR anchor

Very long multiplat warp

55lb Fisherman anchor

180’ chain

Lofrans 12v windlass

Safety

Firdell radar reflector

Weatherfax

8-man RFD life-raft, newly serviced 2012

Flares

Other

Engine spares

Rig spares

Specific exclusions

Life jackets and harnesses.

Tools

Charts and pilot books.

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 Loch Fyne skiff type gaff cutter

G.L. Watson design, built by Alan Edmunds on the Isle of Skye, Scotland in 1984.

A Scottish boat builder had 2 sets of frames sawn to build two fishing boats. He built one and sold the other frame set to Skye boat builder Alan Edmunds who completed the build in 1984.

The plan was to finish her as a yacht and sell her prior to completion so that the fit-out could be done to the new owner’s requirements.

In the event, Alan completed her as a fishing boat and went fishing for two seasons.

The vessel was then sold by Wooden Ships to the present owner in 1989. He based himself on Skye for a couple of seasons and worked with Alan to fit the vessel out as a gaff cutter.

Since leaving Skye, the yacht has sailed in present ownership to Norway in the north and all round the Med to the south on an extended 20 year, live-aboard voyage and finally returned to Dartmouth in 2011.

A massively robust vessel, much bigger than her dimensions indicate, she is perhaps not a show piece but she will take her crew anywhere in the world where there is enough water to float her.

Construction

The hull design is inspired by the early Loch Fyne Skiff sailing fishing boats traditional to the West Coast of Scotland a century ago with their generous beam, exaggerated drag to the keel, straight stem, distinctive pointed stern and steeply raked stern post with the rudder hung on the back.

Planked in 1 ¼” larch, all fastened with galvanised boat nails to 5” x 2” sawn oak frames at 14” centres.

Oak back-bone. External iron ballast.

Shallow bilge keels under the bilge spread the loads if allowed to dry out on her side on a beach.

Two port holes in the hull port side, one to stbd in way of the galley.

In the fitting out the topsides were raised by a plank to the level of the original bulwark rail.

The deck was laid in a straight-laid iroko, caulked and payed with white putty.

All deck fittings are massively heavy and strong.

A small coach-roof was built aft leaving plenty wide clear deck space.

Two opening bronze port holes in the coach-roof coamings each side.

Traditional sky-light on the coach-roof with hand rails each side.

Oiled Iroko fore hatch on the fore deck.

Nicely formed galvanised steel guard rails all round the deck edge.

Nicely radiussed cock-pit coamings with seat lockers each side deep in the self-draining cock-pit giving shelter and a great sense of security.

Voluminous lockers each side under the seats.

Step to the cabin entrance with sliding hatch and twin glazed doors.

A curious spray-hood built more recently in wood and Perspex looks odd but gives total shelter to the cock-pit and can be easily and quickly removed if unwanted.

Rig

Gaff cutter rig on solid pine, keel-stepped pole mast finished with linseed oil.

Heavy oak pin rail round the mast takes the throat and peak falls and topsail rigging.

Solid pine slab-reefing boom with massive jaws.

Painted galvanised steel push-pit incorporating a sheet horse over the rudder-head takes the main sheet.

Solid pine gaff with leathered galvanised steel gaff saddle.

Running bowsprit set through a leathered gammon iron to stbd of the stem post and heeled between twin Sampson post blocks incorporating the chain windlass.

Bob-stay on tackle, twin guys and a net under the bowsprit.

Served galvanised rigging wire set up with dead-eyes and lanyards to external galvanised chain plates.

Stemhead fore stay set up with dead-eyes and lanyards.

Jib on roller furling gear set up  to the end of the 10′ running  bowsprit

Traveller on the bowsprit.

Running back-stays on Davey’s bronze levers.

Pair of large bronze LJ self tailing sheet winches at the cock-pit coamings.

Pair of small bronze LJ self tailing sheet winches at the cock-pit coamings.

Deck derrick set up on a mast band round the base of the mast, stows vertically up the face of the mast.

All sails in red terylene by William Leitch of Tarbert, Loch Fyne.

Mainsail     1996 .

Staysail     1996

Jib on roller furling gear

Perkins 4236 75hp 4-cylinder fresh water cooled diesel on the centre-line to conventional centre-line shaft drive with 4-blade prop.

Single lever controls

Twin alternators with Adverc smart charge regulator

3 x 12v batteries.

Fuel Tanks

1 x 15 gallon stainless steel fuel tank in starboard cockpit locker

2 x 22 gallon flexi fuel tanks under saloon settees

Water Tanks

2 x 18 gallon water tank under saloon settees

1 x 25 gallon rigid plastic water tank forward

Accommodation.      4 berths (optional 5th on the work bench)

Saloon cabin with port and stbd settee berths.

Port saloon berth extends out to make a double berth

Water tanks under the settees.

Good locker space both sides under the side decks behind the settees.

Galley in the after stbd corner with smart stainless steel, 2-burner grill and oven gimballed gas cooker, bottles on deck with hi/low pressure regulator.

Stainless steel sink/drainer with drop-in hardwood chopping board lid.

Foot pump cold water supply, hand pump overboard discharge doubles as bilge pump.

Chart desk in the after port corner

Wide step surface over the engine between chart desk and galley provides excellent work surface, fiddle rail all round.

The coach-roof covers the whole of the saloon cabin area to give over 6’ head-room.

Oiled hardwood panelled faces to the lockers, white painted deckhead.

Diesel fired Reflex cabin heater against the fwd bulkhead behind the mast with hot water coil.

Passageway forward up the stbd side.

Passageway fold-up pipe cot hinges off the hull side with rigid water tank under.

Heads compartment opposite to port with Blakes Victory sea toilet, porcelain hand basin and tiled bulkheads.

Insulated HW calorifier tank in the fwd corner heated from diesel Reflex cabin heater.

Shower off the basin mixer taps. Waste drains to the bilge.

Pressurised H&C water supply with accumulator tank.

Approx 50 galls fresh water in flexi tanks under the saloon settees.

Fore peak with work bench to port, doubles as an extra berth.

Head-room at the bench under the fore hatch.

Bitts and chains forward.

All exposed hull sides show her very strong construction.

Equipment

Sestrel Major compass

Icom VHF DSC

Nasa sounder

100m 3/8th galvanised chain

35lb CQR anchor

Danforth anchor

30m 5/8th chain carried in the bilge for emergency

Warps and fenders

Inflatable dinghy with oars

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 27′ Bermudan sloop,

designed by Ralph E. Winslow and built by A King of Hong Kong in 1939.

The designer, Winslow, was prominent in the yachting scene on the East coast of America, having worked at the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company for several years prior to 1920.  The design shows typical elements of the east coast yachts, with an exaggerated tumblehome on the counter, large spacious cockpit and swept cockpit coamings.

This is one of two identical yachts that were built in 1939, but with the outbreak of WWII they were laid up and not finished until after the war.  Once fitted out, she was sold to the first owner in 1946 and raced successfully in various regattas in Hong Kong harbour and became a well known boat on the water.

An extensive professional refit was carried out in 2003.

Planked in Burma teak, copper rivet fastened to steam bent oak timbers.

Many oak frames replaced in 2003 with all new fastenings

All seams routed out and new splines epoxied in to give tight and fair topsides.

Oak backbone and deadwoods.  Large section grown oak floors fastened with ?? removes the problem of electrolysis or corrosion suffered by many boats with strap floors.

Yacht laid teak deck joggled into a scrubbed teak king plank.

Long spacious cockpit with seats at deck height and varnished teak cockpit coamings mounted on the deck in the typical American way.  Varnished teak tiller to transom hung rudder.  Compass set into forward port side bulkhead.

Varnished solid teak coachroof comings with three rectangular bronze opening portholes each side.  Coachroff deck finished in cream non-slip deck paint.  Varnished teak hand rails.  High teak toe rail all round with s/s guard wires and stanchions.  Nice s/s pulpit in two halves to give easy access to the bowsprit and bronze fairleads.  Anchor fixed to teak pads on the foredeck.

Fractional Bermudan sloop rig with jumper struts on spruce keel stepped mast.  Varnished spruce slab reefing boom with bronze goose neck fitting.  Varnished wood bumpkin to take standing backstay with bronze end cap and galvanised chain supports, varnished bowsprit with s/s rod bobstay and s/s wire whisker stays to bronze fittings on the hull.

Running backstays on Highfield levers to bronze external chainplates.

Stainless steel standing rigging (year?) with swaged terminals to stainless steel rigging screws.

Aft lower and cap shroud to internally mounted stainless steel chainplates through the margin board.  Forward lower to externally mounted bronze chainplate.

Roller furling on outer forestay for Genoa.

Winches

2 pairs of original bronze top action sheet winches on cockpit coamings, one pair forward and one pair aft.  Convenient bronze clips to hold winch handles on the inside of the coamings.

One top action winch on aft starboard side coachroof for mainsail halyard.

3 top action bronze winches on the mast.

Yanmar 3GM 30hp diesel engine to stainless steel shaft and 3 blade bronze propeller gives 5 knots cruising.  Engine control panel at forward end of cockpit.

Accommodation

Sliding hatch with teak washboards to very open plan saloon with rounded over half bulkheads to break up the different areas of the boat.  Companion steps over varnished plywood engine box.  Galley to port with s/s gravity draining sink and single burner camping stove.  Plenty of space to install a small gas meths stove.  Louvre doors to storage cupboards under the galley.

Long starboard bunk combining the quarter berth and settee into one long bunk.  Port side has 6’ settee bunk with pull out base to create a double berth.  Laarge stirage locker behind with sliding door fronts.  Open fronted locker storage under berths.  Varnished plywood sole boards with light coloured timber inlay strips.  Full standing headroom under coachroof.  Cleverly located hand grips in various places around the cabin.

White painted  half bulkheads with varnished teak capping make a light airy cabin.  Forward of the bulkhead is the focsle with a pipecot berth to port and plenty of storage space.  Fore hatch above to have access to sails, fender, warps etc so they don’t have to be taken through the cabin.  Anchor locker in forepeak.

Garmin GPS Map 550 plotter

Swiftech VHF radio

Raymarine depth and log

Brass steering compass

Stowe trailing log

35lbs CQR anchor

20lbs CQR anchor

Plenty of chain

Long length octoplait warp

2 horse shoe lifebuoys with lights and floating lines

2 gas fog horns

1 strobe light

6 assorted flares

Throwing line

Aluminium radar reflector

Jackstays

Drogue

Fire extinguisher

Fenders and warps

Clock

Barometer

Canvas dodgers

Ensign

This is a fine little cruising yacht that has had a lot of good work done.  She has been modernised in a simple way, enough to make her easy to sail and live with but not too much so as to over-complicate a little boat.  A good turn of speed from the decent size rig will help cover the miles on a passage, and plenty of power from the modern Yanmar makes her very manouverable.

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 75sq meter project

A major restoration project of a classic Scandinavian yacht.

Research indicates that this yacht is probably Yard No 175,  designed and built by Anker and Jensen, Oslo in 1916 to the 75sq’ Rule for a Johannes Lindvig of Krager.

She was removed from the Norwegian Register in 1938.

She appeared on the UK register in 1947.

The hull form is typical of her period and the rule which produced a very elegant shape with long overhangs.

The 75sqm yachts were very manageable being under  40’ on deck with the most elegant lines.

The Meter Rule introduced in 1908 by the Swedish Cruising Association and modified in 1925 required the yachts to be built to open sea specifications and to have accommodation for longer passage racing. The result was a strong and practical yacht by the standards of the period.

There is a considerable following in the classic yacht world for Meter Rule yachts and many have been rebuilt to the highest standards.

Planked in mahogany all copper fastened to grown oak frames with two steamed oak intermediates.

Oak back-bone.

Fabricated steel angle floors on the grown oak frames.

External iron ballast keel.

Some original deck beams still in place, a forward beam carrying her UK Official Number.

Original deck was probably T&G pine, canvas covered and has been removed.

Old photos show that she had a coach-roof from aft of the mast back to the cock-pit with a sky-light midships and a hatch on the fore deck indicating that she was built with some accommodation. These yachts were genuine Cruiser/Racers.

Old drawings show that the early 75sqm yachts carried a very high peaked gaff, almost a gunter rig.

This yacht was almost certainly built with a fractional Bermudian rig.

At some stage in her life an engine has been installed, the stern tube cut through the stern post and significantly prejudicing it’s strength.

The ownership of the yacht has been traced and is available. She spent some time in Glasson Dock, Lancashire where apparently her then owners live aboard.

She later came into the ownership of a Cheshire man who approached Wooden Ships to dispose of her as he was no longer capable of continuing with a restoration which had only just begun.

Sold by Wooden Ships in 2009 to the present owners and transported to Cornwall.

The hull was set up in a covered shed, cleaned out and made ready for restoration.

The recent trajic death of the owner now means the yacht must be sold as is.

Preliminary inspection indicates that much of the structure will have to be replaced.

Original photos and some drawings are available showing the deck lay-out, rig and interior.

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 Normandy sloop

Designed by Jack Laurent Giles as a development of the Vertue Class which he had designed 20 years previously. He saw a demand for a slightly larger yacht but with many of the same characteristics and this little yacht has all the signature features of a Laurent Giles design.

The yacht was built by Coombes of Bembridge on the Isle of Wight in 1957, reputedly for Lord Brabazon.

Planked in teak, all copper fastened to steam bent timbers.

Signature Laurent Giles extra thick sheer strake with badges either end and an engraved gold cove line to emphasise the delicate sheer.

Deep toe rail all round with varnished mahogany capping.

Long external iron ballast keel.

4 heavy oak floors in way of the mast, galvanised strap floors through the rest of the bilge.

Sheathed ply deck on conventional deck beams and beam shelf.

Heavy oak Sampson post on the fore deck takes fwd mooring lines.

Pair of wooden cleats on the aft deck take aft mooring lines.

CQR anchor in chocks on the fore deck.

Chocks on the port side deck for a pole.

Bronze fairleads on the rail. Twin chain roller galvanised steel stemhead fitting.

Clear, uncluttered side and fore decks.

Toe rail and capping renewed 2006

Varnished mahogany coach-roof coamings, raised to a dog-house aft with two small oval windows in the coach-roof and two larger windows in the dog-house, all fixed in chromed frames.

Sheathed ply deck to the coach-roof with beading around the edge.

Varnished mahogany fore hatch on the fwd end with double well coaming for extra seal.

Varnished mahogany grab rails on the dog-house.

Dorade vents on the coach-roof deck either side of the mast.

Comfortable cock-pit with deep, gently outward sloping varnished mahogany coamings.

Seat lockers either side with trakmark to make them non-slip and varnished seat across the back.

Bridge deck across the cabin entrance, raised higher than the seats.

Plywood sides to the well with teak gratings.

Tiller on rudder stock which emerges through the aft deck.

Self-draining well with new teak gratings.

Fractional Bermudian sloop rig on varnished spruce mast stepped on the coach-roof deck.

Single spreaders with jumpers above.

Slab reefing varnished boom sheets to a horse over the tiller with modern tufnol blocks and jammer on the lower block

Pair of original top-action mast halyard winches.

Stainless steel rigging with swaged terminals, stainless steel rigging screws to recent internal stainless steel chain plates. Stainless steel caps around the deck penetration.

Twin lowers and cap shrouds.

Inner and outer forestays, both the the stemhead fitting, inner to the jumper struts, outer to mast cap.

Twin standing back-stays to the quarters.

343sq’ plain sail. 

Mainsail

Genoa

Working jib

Storm jib

Spinnaker

Old mainsail

Spinnaker pole

Pair of cock-pit sheet winches mounted on stainless steel pedestals on the cock-pit coamings with rubber caps to transform them into self-tailers.

Yanmar 1GM10  9hp centre mounted to centre-line 2-blade prop.

Salt water cooled with sea-water glass filter.

12 litre fuel tank

2 x 12v batteries, new 2011

Accommodation.   4 berths

Fwd cabin with V-berths. Sampson post and chain chute forward to chain locker below the V.

Varnished coamings above and fore hatch over.

Twin bulkheads under the mast provide the compression structural members with stbd heads compartment and port lockers between.

Oval top and bottom doorways in the bulkheads.

Saloon cabin with port and stbd settee berths.  Port settee runs into a trotter box forward.

Stbd settee runs into a trotter box aft under the cooker shelf.

Lockers and shelves behind the settee berths.

Shelf either side of the cabin entrance steps. Origo 3000 gimballed 2-burner meths cooker on the stbd surface with cutlery drawer below.

Stainless steel sink and drainer in the port surface. Hand pump from the flexible water tank under the settee berth. Sink drains overboard, outlet combined with bilge pump outlet.

50 litre water tank

All sea cocks serviced winter 2010/2011

Saloon table hinged and stowed on the heads compartment door.

Equipment

Bulkhead compass stbd side of the cabin entrance.

Stingray 12001 VHF radio with masthead ariel

Hand held GPS

Fog horn

Fire blanket

Fire extinguisher

Barometer

Oil lamps in the cabin

All-over made-to-measure coach-roof cover

Tools and some spares.

Mahogany boarding ladder

2 bronze manual bilge pumps

Rule 25S 500gph 12v bilge pump

Seago 200 inflatable dinghy with oars

25lb CQR anchor

18lb Danforth anchor

2 x 20fthm chain

Simrad Tillerpilot

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 Colin Archer Gaff Ketch

Length on deck                                   36’7” + 10’ bowsprit    11.5m + 3.5m bowsprit

Beam                                                     12’6”                             3.4m

Draft                                                     6’7”                               2m

Displacement                                     17 tons

Keel laid                                              1966

Completed and commissioned      1988

This extraordinary Colin Archer type yacht was commissioned by Devon owner Victor Pinkney from Moens, Risor, Norway in the late 1960’s.  Victor Pinkney was a marine engineer and yacht surveyor and brother to the owner of the great Laurent Giles yacht Dyarchy.

The hull was built with deck beams and coach-roof when apparently the owner had a disagreement with the yard and shipped the unfinished boat home to Exeter where he set her up in his workshop to complete her.

All fittings, timber, machinery and equipment including an engine and down to boxes of screws and fenders had been bought to complete the yacht.

He spent the next 20 years playing with her but died before the job was finished.

Wooden Ships sold the yacht as an unfinished hull in 1987 and the yacht was completed by the Elephant Boatyard on the Hamble.

Construction.Carvel planked iroko hull all copper and bronze fastened to massive sawn oak frames in pairs. Hull sttripped to bare wood and repainted spring 2012

Long external lead ballast keel. Bronze bolts through massive oak floors. The bilge is still varnished from new.

Solid laid 1.25” teak deck, caulked and payed over oak deck beams.  Deck recaulked 2012

Varnished iroko coach-roof coamings with bronze port holes, decked in teak over ply. Fore hatch on the coach-roof, sliding hatch and wash-boards to the cabin entrance.

Tiller steering in self draining cock-pit. Port and stbd cock-pit lockers.

12” bulwark all round carried on varnished through deck oak stanchions with heavy varnished iroko capping rail, substantial stanchions and guard wires over.

Massive quarter bitts.

Fine laminated hanging knees in the cabin which is built in all varnished hardwoods.

Gaff ketch rig on solid pine varnished keel-stepped pole masts. The yacht was first rigged as a cutter and changed in 2000 to a ketch for a blue water voyage, re-rigged with s/s rigging to s/s chain plates.

Heavy galvanised steel mast fittings.

Leathered gaff buckets.

Lower shrouds well swept back rendering runner unnecessary, pilot cutter fashion.

New sails in 2002 by Richardson Sails, Elephant Boatyard

Staysail 1  reefing 14sqm

Staysail 2 reefing 11.2sqm.

Staysail 3

Jib

Mainsail

Mizzen

Mizzen staysail

Main topsail 8.75sqm.

New sail covers and dodgers in present ownership

Beta Marine 50 hp diesel engine currently with around 750 hrs.

Fresh water cooled with heat exchanger.

Twin cross-over fuel filters

Annually serviced.

Cruising speed 5knts

Conventional shaft drive to centre-line 3-blade prop.

Single lever controls to ZF gear-box

Stainless steel 40gall fuel tank to port of cock-pit.

2 x 12v 90 amp/hr  batteries on 24v domestic circuits.

2 x 12v engine start batteries New 2014

40 gall stainless steel fuel tank

Accommodation                    6 berths.

Fore cabin, full head-room under coach-roof, port berth, stbd sail bin. The berth surface continues around the bow to form a surface as work-bench storage, chains under.

Stbd side bulkhead door aft to owner’s cabin with large double berth to port and single berth /settee to stbd. Mast in way.

Bulkhead door to saloon cabin with port and stbd settee berths, lockers and shelves behind, stowage under. Drop leaf table between.

Aft to port galley with Eno stainless steel gas 2-burner and grill gimballed cooker, new 2008.

Stainless steel sink with foot pump from 2 x 44gall s/s water tanks under saloon cabins settees.

Aft to stbd heads compartment with recent Jabsco

sea toilet and hand basin.

Door through into the engine space under the cock-pit.

The bulkheads are white painted t&g pine all other joinery in varnished iroko with blue fabric, clean upholstery.

2 bottle  gas storage on deck

6’6” head-room., polished cabin sole.

Inventory

Navigation

Plastimo steering compass

Nasa log/sounder

Tack Tick Windspeed,

VHF Radio,

Windvane at masthead,

Navtex
Furuno Radar,

Clock and barometer,

Nav lights.

Tri-coloured masthead light.

Ground tackle

75lb CQR anchor with 40 meters chain (+ another 80m stored ashore)

15kg kedge anchor with chain and warp.

12v Muir capstan type electric anchor windlass new motor 2007

Safety equipment

MOB rescue sling

Danbuoy

2 x life-buoys

Off-shore flare pack

Engine belt driven Jabsco bilge pump on a manual clutch

2 x manual bilge pumps

2 x fire extinguishers

Engine room fire extinguisher

Fire blanket

6 x life jackets

Rope ladder

Radar reflector

It would be difficult to build a stronger cruising yacht. She has cost in the order of £1/4 million and sailed 4500 miles before sale to the present  French resident UK owner in 2005 since when she has become a well-known sight on the French Brittany coasts and regattas. Berthed in Brittany.

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 Bermudan centre-cockpit Yawl

One of 4 the same, designed and built by Cardnell Bros of Maylandsea, Essex. 1932.

The design features a long keel, a rather pointed canoe stern and a centre cock-pit with aft cabin.

The forward and after coach-roofs have marked camber on the roofs. The forward coach-roof carries forward into a raised fore deck with a step in the side decks to give a very interesting deck lay-out.

The varnished mahogany coamings with bronze port holes give her a very attractive line.

The construction is unusual and interesting for a small yacht like this, 3/4″ mahogany planking in 2 laminations laid longditudinally, tight seamed with no caulking and customarily built with white lead between.

This method of construction ensures a very tight, strong and water tight hull and would have been more expensive to build than a conventionally planked hull.  Full thickness sheer strake.

All copper fastened to steam bent oak timbers ¾ ” x 1 ½” at 8” centres.

Oak floors, 3” sided at 12” centres.

Original cast iron keel and internal iron ballast were replaced in 2006 by an external 2 ¼” ton lead ballast keel, secured with 1” dim aluminium bronze bolts, all to Lloyds spec.

The deck is laid in the original pitch-pine, epoxy glass sheathed shortly after purchase by the present owner 20 years ago.

The sheer strake forward in way of the raised fore deck is finished varnished, scrubbed teak rubbing strake around midships sections, scrubbed teak toe rail, neatly cut-away in way of the stanchion posts.teak gGrab rails on the forward coach-roof.

New scrubbedteak fore hatch just forward of the main mast.

New scrubbed teak sky-light on the after coach-roof.

The underwater hull has been refastened.

The cock-pit sole and saloon cabin sole are laid in teak

New teak cock-pit seats.

Bronze mooring cleats forward and aft and bronze stemhead fitting. Cross sampson post on the fore deck aft of the windlass, both mounted on scrubbed teak plinth.

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

Wheel steering on cables. Varnished wheel on the port side after cock-pit bulkhead.

Masthead cutter-headed Bermudian yawl rig on varnished masts, stepped on deck. The main mast was new in 2008.

Slab-reefing varnished booms. 2-point main sheet on the after coach-roof, made off to a varnished cleat.

Tufnel blocks to tackle kicker on the main boom.

Staysl sheets through lead blocks on the coach-roof.

Jib sheets through lead blocks on the toe rail.

Pair of Lewmar self-tail sheet winches on the cock-pit coamings.

Pair on tufnol sheet winches.

Pair of tufnol halyard winches on the main mast.

Stainless steel standing rigging, replaced in 2006 to external bronze chain plates.

Split standing back-stays to the quarters.

Single lowers and cap shrouds on both main and mizzen

Bob-stay on tackle.

Sails

Mainsail

Mizzen

Yankee on roller reefing gear

Staysail on roller reefing gear.

All by Wilkinson Sails, 1999.

Mizzen staysail 2003

Cruising chute 2001

Main boom awning cover. 2003

Vetus Mitsubishi M3.10 22hp 3-cyl diesel installed in 1990.

Single lever control Hurth gear-box to centre-line 3-blade prop gives 7knts.

20 gall plastic fuel tank

Full engine instrument instrumentation including audible alarms.

2 x 12v batteries on 12v circuits.

240v shore power

6 berths.

Baby Blake sea toilet in the fore peak. Sail stowage locker to stbd. Bulkhead door to stbd galley, port locker.

Nelson gimballed gas cooker. Stainless steel sink drains overboard.

Bulkhead door to the saloon cabin. Port and stbd settee berths with swinging drop leaf table between.

Pipe cots can be rigged over the settees each side.

Centre door and step-up to the cock-pit. New teak seat lockers each side.

Stbd entrance to the aft cabin with sliding hatch.

Aft cabin with port berth, extends to a double berth. Seat across the stern, rounded in to the after stbd corner, locker behind.

Surface to stbd with hand basin.

Lazarette stowaged accessed from the aft cabin through a bulkhead opening.

All varnished joinery with varnished bulkheads and deck beams. Oil lamps and period 12v bulkhead lamps.

30 gall galvanised water tank under the cock-pit.

5’6” head-room forward; 5’10” head-room in the saloon cabin; 5’4” head-room in the aft cabin.

Plastimo compass                                                                               Echo sounder

Smiths log                                                                                              VHF radio

Auto-pilot                                                                                              Garmin GPS

4 life jackets                                                                                           Horse-shoe life buoy with light.

Inflatable Danbuoy                                                                            3 fire extinguishers.

Off-shore flare pack

35lb CQR anchor                                                                                80 m approx 3/8” chain.

Various warps

8’6” inflatable dinghy                                                        2hp outboard engine

Warps, fenders, winter cover, cock-pit cover.

During a 20 year ownership this fascinating yacht has been significantly up-graded and improved to her present very attractive condition. She is a safe, comfortable cruising yacht with the advantage of a separate aft cabin, a very manageable split rig and a modern engine.

 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 Sovereign ketch.                                                                                                                                                                                      UK Regd.

Designed by Kim Holman, built by his brother Jack at his Uphams Yard, Brixham in 1971, believed to be the last of the Sovereign ketches.

A very well built boat, good quality detail, excellent materials and very nicely presented.

Long keel, over-hanging transom stern. Good freeboard with avery sweet sheer.

Planked in iroko all copper fastened to steam bent rock elm timbers.

Long external iron keel, galv mild steel keel bolts checked in the last 5 years through heavy oak floors, no iron in the bilge.

Ply deck, sheathed and painted between deep, varnished teak toe rails all exceptionally clear and clutter-free allowing easy movement around the deck.

Varnished teak coach-roof coamings, raised to a dog-house aft, 2 fixed windows each side and 2 windows each side in the dog-house, al in chromed bezels.

Modern fore hatch on a varnished teak coaming on the fwd end of the coach-roof, varnished teak grab rails each side. Cover protects varnish.

Sliding hatch in a garage and twin doors to the cabin entrance all in varnished teak.

Chromed deck cleats and fair leads fore and aft. Smart s/s pull-pit, push-pit and stanchions with twin guard rails.

Nav lights on the pull-pit and mast head. S/s stemhead fitting with single chain roller and fore stay attachment.

Very comfortable, self draining cock-pit with deep varnished teak coamings giving excellent back support, and security.

Good, wrap-around spray-hood on s/s hoops adds to the comfort of this excellent cock-pit. Scrubbed teak seat lockers and bridge deck, slatted teak sole boards.

Steel fuel tank each side in the lockers, sealed gas bottle compartment in the fwd end of the port locker with a manual bilge pump, the handle access from the cock-pit well.

Drains in the corners of the seats, deep drains around the locker lids and reinforcing under the lids all indicate good quality workmanship.

Bermudian ketch rig on gold anodised aluminium masts, the main stepped in a galv steel tabernacle on the coach-roof, the mizzen stepped on the cock-pit sole.

Stainless steel rigging, all replaced in 2004 with Norseman terminals to internal s/s chain plates.

Single spreaders, twin lowers and cap shrouds to the main with twin standing back-stays.

Twin lowers and cap shrouds to the mizzen with running back-stays on Highfield levers to take the strains of a mizzen staysail.

Pole track on the front of the mast.

Rotostay roller headsail, captive line roller winch on the aft deck.

Slab reef main boom with kicker on tackle sheeted to a s/s horse over the coach-roof.

Alloy mizzen boom sheeted to the push-pit with jamming cleat on the lower block.

Winches.

Pair of Lewmar bottom action sheet winches on the cock-pit coamings.

Pair of tufnol winches on the main mast.

Single Lewmar on the mizzen. Recent sheets and halyards.

Sails

Mainsail, mizzen and genoa all by McKillop Sails, Kingsbridge in 2004 in Stack-Pack system sails covers, both slab reefed.

Older cruising chute and mizzen staysail.

Nice canvas work including spray-hood and cock-pit cover, sail and hatch covers all in dark blue canvas

Perkins 4107 4-cyl 35hp 1971 diesel. TMP single lever controlled gear-box to centre line 2-blade prop gives 6 knts.

20 gall steel fuel tanks, one in each cock-pit locker

12v battery under stbd settee berth on 12v circuits.

4 berths.

V-berths in fore cabin with infill to make a good double berth.

Very attractive, exposed and varnished ship’s sides and teak coamings above.

Chain locker right fwd.

Grab rails on the coamings. Lockers and drawers under the berths. Blind across the overhead fore hatch.

White painted ply bulkhead with teak trim, door to stbd heads compartment, port lockers. The fore cabin door opens to close off the lockers, the heads compartment door open to close off the saloon cabin bulkhead thus creating an athwartships ablutions compartment.

The stbd heads compartment has a Blake seat toilet and fold-up plastic basin which tips and drains into the heads. Hand pump on a shelf under the outboard lockers.

Deep hanging locker to port.

Saloon cabin with port and stbd settee berths, port settee with trotter box fwd through the bulkhead. Lockers and shelves behind the settees, stowage under, lee cloths and smart upholstery.

Unique, Holman fold-away varnished teak table against the fwd bulkhead.

Part bulkheads to large stbd chart desk, chart stowage and drawers under.

Port galley with smart new, gimballed, 2-burner, grill and oven gas cooker, s/s sink with hand tap,(drains overboard) and insulated deep cool-box under work surface in the back corner.

Stowage for plates and food lockers.

Steps between galley and chart desk over the engine box to the cock-pit.

6’2” head-room under the beams in the saloon.

40 gall s/s fresh water tank under the teak cabin sole.

Removeable cock-pit table.

Compass,                                                                                              Sounder

Log.                                                                                                        Raymarine tiller auto-pilot.

Horse-shoe life buoy                                                                           2  fire extinguishers.

35lb CQR and kedge anchors                                                           Lots of good chain.

Warps and fenders                                                                              Cock-pit and fore hatch covers.

Clock and barometer.

A very smart little ship, a comfortable and easily managed family cruiser with a big sociable cock-pit and a warm cabin.

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.