Wooden ships comments on this 65′ Baltic Trader Gaff Ketch.
Built in Sweden in 1914 as a commercial sailing cargo vessel, typical of many such working in Scandinavian waters.
The design follows the usual pattern with a long keel, bluff bows and transom stern with the rudder hung outboard on the transom.
The vessel was in Danish family ownership for many years having been first refitted by the family when she came out of commercial service in 1964.
In early 1984 the vessel was damaged by fire and subsequently rebuilt. The deck, deck structures and interior all date from this 1984 post-fire rebuild. She changed hands again in Denmark in 1992 before she was bought by the present English owner in 2004 and brought under UK MCA legislation for charter vessels.
In recent years she has had a replacement engine, new mizzen and new main mast plus associated rigging. A 2015 survey highlighted some areas of work which need to be done, and these can be detailed upon request. She has now been laid up afloat for several years with little maintenance and needs a new owner this season, hence the very low asking price.
Certified VAT exempt within the EC. Registered UK flag Part 1.
Length on deck 65′
Length waterline 59′
Beam 19’6″
Draft 7’6″
Construction
Planked in 2.25″ oak fastened with iron boat nails to 5″x 5″ oak frames at 14″ centres.
Hull refastened and copper sheathed below the waterline in 1984.
24 tons of internal steel ballast.
Straight laid solid Iroko deck laid in 1974. Seams re-payed in 2012.
High bulwarks all round on oak through deck stanchions.
Three deckhouses in massively built solid pine with sheathed plywood decks.
Rig
Gaff ketch rig on keel stepped solid pine masts.
Main mast and all standing rigging new in 2015
Mizzen mast was replaced in 2011.
Fidded topmast on both main and mizzen
Galvanise wire standing rigging with rigging screws to external chain plates.
Borg Warner Velvet Drive hydraulic gearbox to fixed 3 blade propeller.
6 knots cruising speed at 1800rpm
4 x 180ah domestic batteries with 24 domestic systems.
3 x 12v engine start batteries
3200 litres of fuel in 2 separate tanks.
Accommodation
14 berths in total.
Twin berth cabin either side of the main mast and twin berth cabin forward to port.
Centre-line door to the fore peak chain locker, paint store and work bench.
Saloon cabin, large table to starboard with L-shaped seating around. Water tank and freezer to port.
Port twin berth cabin.
Centre-line steps to the galley in the deck-house. The galley is under the midships house with the floor level at half-height below. Full size commercial stainless steel 4-burner and oven gas cooker. Twin stainless steel sinks. Ample locker space.
Stbd passageway aft.
Small single berth under the side deck to stbd of the passageway, curtain doorway.
Athwartships lobby with heads and shower compartments on the centre-line fwd, 2 single berth cabins in line under the port side deck. 12v toilet.
Stbd door in the lobby after bulkhead into the engine room.
Separate deck entrance to the Captain’s cabin aft with 3 berths and chart desk.
Full specification and details available upon request
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 South Coast One Design
The South Coast One Design originated from an idea by several members of the Island YC, Isle of Wight in 1954 to produce a One Design which was reasonably priced to buy, race and cruise.
Charles Nicholson was approached to design a yacht and the result was the SCOD. Over 100 have been built from the first yacht in 1956 up to the end of the wooden boat building period in the early 1970’s.
The yachts were built by several yards around the Solent but Burnes Shipyard at Bosham became the lead builders with more than half the SCODs built coming from their yard, 62 in total between 1956 and 1967.
Burnes were respected for the quality of the construction and attention to detail and their yachts are still considered amongst the best of the SCODs.
A nice example of the class, built by Burnes Shipyard, Bosham, Hants UK in 1963.
Planked in mahogany, all copper fastened to steam bent oak timbers on a mahogany back-bone
External iron ballast keel, iron keel bolts.
One bolt drawn recently and found in good order. Recheck advised in 12 years (2022)
Galvanised m/s strap floors.
In the last 5 years the floors have been removed, shot blasted and epoxy coated and replaced with new bolts.
Sheathed and painted ply deck.
Varnished mahogany toe rail
Toe rail replaced in 2010
New varnished mahogany rubbing strakes 2010
Twin galvanised stemhead chain rollers with fore stay fitting
Stemhead fitting regalvanised, new bolts.
Galvanised cruciform mooring post on the clear fore deck.
Twin horn chrome mooring cleats each side on the aft deck
Bronze fair leads on the rails forward and aft.
Stainless steel pull-pit at the stem and two stanchions each side with guard wires.
Varnished mahogany coach-roof coamings.
Stripped and revarnished 2009
Windows in chromed bezels removed and reset in sealant 2009
Varnished grab rails on the dog-house roof.
Varnished cabin entrance hatch with sliding top on rails and wash-boards.
Varnished mahogany fore hatch on the fwd end of the coach-roof.
Deep, self draining cock-pit with varnished mahogany coamings, varnished mahogany lockers below, laid teak coack-pit sole with removeable trap to access stern tube gland.
Cock-pit rebuilt in 2010 with original under-deck lockers reinstated, lift up, removeable seats each side stay ashore on race days, new drains etc
Box/seats in the forward corners each side of the cabin entrance.
Slatted, varnished mahogany, clip-on seats on the side decks in way of the cock-pit allow the helmsman to sit out in comfort.
Fractional Bermudian sloop rig on varnished mast stepped through the coach-roof onto the keel. Single spreaders. Galvanised steel mast fittings. 2008 mast split and reglued, tracks and fittings renovated and reattached and the mast revarnished.
Nick Gates Patent stainless steel Mast Step fitted in 2010 which removes the inevitable issues with all SCODs of leaking garboards in way of the mast.
Stainless steel standing rigging with single fore stay to the stemhead, split standing back-stay to stainless steel quarter plates, cap shrouds and twin lowers. Swaged terminals to stainless steel rigging screws and external chain plates.
Varnished rectangular section boom with slab reefing pennants taken forward.
Sails
Mainsail by Crusader Sails 2005, 2 reefs
Genoa by Crusader Sails 2005
Jib by Ratsey, old but serviceable
Spinnaker, new and unused
Spinnaker pole. Mast rigged for spinnaker
Mast coat with the yacht’s name clearly marked.
Winches.
Pair of original tufnol mast halyard winches with wooden cleats below
Pair of chromed top-action Lewmar 16 sheet winches on the cock-pit coamings.
Stainless steel tracks on the rails with headsail sheet lead blocks.
Engine
Yanmar 1GM10 single cylinder 9hp diesel engine, flexibly mounted on the centre-line to centre-line conventional shaft drive with 3-blade.
12v battery
Accommodation 4 berths.
V-berths in the fore cabin with insert to make a double berth.
Fore hatch over.
White painted ply bulkhead just forward of the mast, oval doorway to port of the mast to the saloon cabin.
Sea toilet partitioned off to stbd
New Jabsco sea toilet
Port and stbd settee berths with infill boards and cushions to make a large double berth athwartships.
Lockers with lids under the side decks, stowage under the settees.
Chart desk in the after stbd corner with all instrumentation.
Galley in the after port corner Restored to original design in 2010.
2-burner Origo gimballed spirit cooker on a shelf, locker under and work surface alongside with cutlery drawer and locker below. Plastic bowl for washing up.
Steps to the cock-pit between.
Vertical varnished mahogany grab posts either side.
6’2” headroom in the saloon, more under the dog-house.
New timber sole boards.
All white painted in the cabin. Cabin inside all through repainted
All new upholstery on thick, comfortable cushions in blue. (always covered with protective polythene protection so as new).
20 litre flexi water tank in the midships bilge in ply box with foot pump to the galley.
Bulkhead compass
Clipper sounder
Lowrance chart plotter
VHF DSC radio
Manual bilge pump.
12v bilge pump.
Plough anchor and chain – estimated 120’
Inflatable dinghy with oars
All-over tailored afloat cover protects the boat and the varnish on the mooring in the summer.
Heavy blue PVC winter cover with ridge pole.
Custom made winter cradle
Boat hook
Mooring lines
5 fenders
Extract from 2008 survey report.
Information supplied by the owner January 1997 – June 1998:-
Deck stripped and renewed with 12mm plywood and epoxy was covered with fine glass twill.
Transom sheer strake and these replaced or repaired
Apron replaced
Deck beams replaced
Laminated sisters fitted where required,
New toe rail and rubbing strake fitted,
Cutlass bearing (?)
A new propeller fitted,
New deck stanchions fitted,
Anchor winch fitted,
Hull & topsides stripped and re-painted.
October 1998 – March 1999:-
Iron keel floors removed treated and replaced
Keel bolt dropped and checked
Deadwood stripped checked and re-sheeted with copper
Shroud chainplates re-galvanised and one shroud chainplate replaced
New Danforth anchor 20m 12 x 16″ calibrated chain and 30m of anchor warp
New GPS
Rudder cheeks renewed
Radar reflector fitted
October 2001 – April 2002:-
New echo sounder fitted
New wind instrument fitted (no longer working)
Deck & mast winches stripped and serviced
New main sail purchased
Two new 100 amp hour batteries fitted
October 2002 – April 2003:-
New Genoa fitted
New Dodgers and main sail cover fitted
New washboards fitted
New cabin sole floors fitted
2004
New boom tent
New water tank of flexi bag type
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 40′ Robert Clark berumdan sloop,built by Crosshaven Boatyard, Eire in 1968. UK Regd.
In his letter to me in the autumn of 1991, David Macaulay wrote that he “commissioned Robert Clark to design a boat to compete at the lower end of the Admiral’s Cup Rating in RORC Class 2” and “my brief was for a boat that would race well for 2 years then cruise”.
Original Build Spec and copies of plans are available.
The yacht was campaigned in her first two seasons becoming RORC Class 2 Champion in 1968 and according to a newspaper cutting from Spring 1969 starting the ’68 season with 3 firsts and 2 seconds in 5 starts. At the time she was racing against such great yachts as Quiver V, Noryema V11, Phantom and Prospect of Whitby. A silver model of Longbow 11 is on display ain the Royal Thames Yacht Club, Knightsbridge.
Subsequently cruised by the Macaulay family visiting Istanbul, Malta, Greek Islands, Spain, Channel Islands, Brittany, Normandy, South Coast UK and the South West until sold by Wooden Ships for the family in 1993 after John Macaulay’s death, then lying in Brighton.
To convert her for cruising the pipe cots fwd were replaced with fixed berths, the pipe cot over the stbd settee berth was removed, a hydraulic drive was fitted to the engine to allow a 40 gall fuel tank to be carried, a 3-blade 16” prop replaced the 2-blade race prop, a fridge installed, extra stainless steel water tanks installed and roller furling fitted to the headsail.
She was refitted in 1993 and Coded for charter. Her last Code Certificate was current to Feb 2006. She sailed gently as a training yacht with husband and wife crew as a retirement hobby occupation from 1993 until sold by Wooden Ships to the present owner in December 04, then lying Dartmouth.
The hull is planked in 1 ½” teak all copper fastened to laminated oak frames with steamed oak intermediates.
4 ton lead ballast keel, keel bolts replaced in 1991. Ferrous strap floors, all regalvanised and rebolted in 1991.(Terry Pachol, Brighton Marina, original invoice on file). 4 cwt internal lead ballast.
The hull was recaulked in 1998.
The deck was replaced in 1993, yacht laid in teak over a ply sub deck with varnished teak king-plank and cover-boards. Varnished teak toe rail all round. Varnished mahogany coach-roof with 4 rectangular windows in chromed bronze frames each side. Fore hatch in front of the mast with dark Perspex lid. Grab rails each side. Sliding hatch and doors to the cabin. Chromed bronze deck fittings.
Self-draining cock-pit with Whitlock shaft and gear wheel steering, pedestal and gear-box replaced recently. Compass mounted on the pedestal.
Bridge deck with instrument displays each side. Teak gratings.
Masthead Bermudian sloop rig on a keel-stepped alloy mast, single spreaders sets 700sq’ working sail. Stainless steel standing rigging all replaced between 1998 -04.
Internal s/s chain plates. S/s and bronze rigging screws. Single standing back-stay.
Roller headsail gear on the outer fore stay + lazy inner forestay on quick-release Highfield lever, both to the stainless steel stemhead fitting with twin chain rollers.
Slab reef alloy boom, new in previous ownership, sheets to a track across a cock-pit bridge.
2 pairs of large primary winches on the cock-pit coamings. 5 other winches on the coach-roof each side of the entrance hatch with halyards etc along the coach-roof through turning blocks from the mast base including genoa roller furling line, spare halyard, topping lift, kicking strap and main sheet winches.
3 mast winches including captive wire main halyard winch, spinnaker halyard and reefing winch.
Alloy spinnaker pole on a track up the forward face of the mast will just dip-gybe.
Fully battened mainsail, 2003 by Doyle Sails in as new condition with 3-slab reefs cleaned and serviced by the makers in 2006
Genoa on roller furling gear, 2003 by Doyle Sails cleaned and serviced by the makers in 2006.
Cruising chute, cleaned and serviced by sail maker Oct 2006.
Asymetric spinnaker repaired (2 split panels) and serviced Oct 2006.
Slot foresail, a masthead-rigged foresail which does not require runners.
1994 mainsail, 1998 genoa and lots of older sails including little used storm sails.
Lister Alpha 40 4-cyl 40hp diesel engine installed new in 1995. The engine is placed midships almost under the cabin sole and disguised by the midships locker joinery just aft of the mast, all easily removeable for quick and good access.
Fresh water cooled with a calorifier tank for hot water.
Hydraulic motor drive with deep sea seal stern gland to centre-line 3-blade 16” prop gives max 6.5knts.
Manually operated shaft brake.
Salt water inlet sea-cock with strainer fitted with glass top for visual inspection, easily accessed under companionway steps.
Twin lever controls, start key, rpm meter and warning alarms all positioned at the helm.
New hydraulic motor fitted 2002 and new oil cooler fitted 2000. A secondary gear change facility at the hydraulic motor in case of cable failure.
Engine space fire extinguisher and independently switched extractor fan will clear the bilges prior to any other system being switched on.
1 x 12v heavy duty engine start battery.
1 x 108Amp/hr domestic services battery on 12v circuit. Adverk smart regulator with split diode charging circuits from engine alternator. 3-stage battery charger. Shore power connection with 6amp and 16amp circuits and breakers. Link battery monitor and galvanic isolator.
1.4Kva (suitcase type) petrol, air-cooled 2-stroke generator stored in a box in the cock-pit locker.
10amp 3-stage 240v switch mode battery charger linked to shore-power/generator charges both batteries together.
5w solar panel keeps the batteries charged while on the mooring.
Split charger allows both batteries to be charged simultaneously.
Electronic alternator control to optimise battery charging.
150w inverter provides 240v from the batteries for phone charging, electric drill etc.
Battery monitor at chart desk.
Circuit breaker panel on all systems
Shore power cables and 13 akp sockets with circuit breakers.
2 Kw mains fan heater for winter use on shore power.
35 gall stainless steel fuel tank in the midships bilge, like the engine, keeping the weight distribution correct.
Accommodation.
7 berths. Large fore peak cabin with 4 berths, 2 fixed lower berths with drawers and lockers under with an infill section to make a large double berth.
Two suspended berths over in varnished mahogany frames.
Passageway aft to starboard past the mast with large storage lockers to starboard, heads compartment to port with Blake sea toilet (overhauled in 2003) and hand basin (drains into the heads). Hot water supply, heated by the engine cooling system.
Large saloon cabin with drawer unit against the heads bulkhead over the engine.
Port and stbd settee berths with a pilot berth over the port settee
Large chart desk in the after port corner with drawers under and instruments over.
Galley in the aft starboard corner with Force 4 3-burner grill and oven gimballed, stainless steel gas cooker, all piping replaced recently. 12v fridge. Work surface and double stainless steel sinks. Salt and fresh water brass hand pumps. Manual pump-out. Hot water calorifier tank (currently only plumbed to the heads basin)
Approx 60 galls water in 20 gall stainless steel tanks under each settee berth _ a 20 gall tank under the cock-pit.
Good locker space above and below. Centre-line steps to the cock-pit.
6’+ head-room all through. Varnished mahogany joinery, all original and in excellent condition. Individual drawers and lockers for each crew member.
Varnished cabin sole boards and coamings, white painted deck-head. Equipment
Sestral Major steering compass on the Whitlock wheel pedestal
Stowe Simrad sounder and log visible from both helm and chart desk.
Stowe Simrad close-haul indicator.
Stowe Simrad wind vane linked instruments showing wind speed and direction, true and apparent linked to the auto-pilot to steer both by wind or compass, visible from helm or chart desk.
Furuno GP30 GPS at chart desk ariel on the ush-pit, linked to the DSC VHF and with RS232 connection for PC chart plotting software.
Emergency fore stay permanently rigged to the masthead and stowed at stbd shrouds. 45lb CQR anchor
45lb CQR anchor
55 meters approx 9/16” chain + 100meter warp, stowed in fore peak chain lockers, drains to bilge.
35lb Danforth kedge anchor with short chain and 50meter warp stowed in cock-pit locker.
Manual capstan type windlass
Electric dinghy pump with deck connection.
Manual dinghy pump with pressure meter.
Warps and fenders
Winter cover, bow to stern in 2 parts.
Boathook
Bosun’s chair
Heaving line
2 block and tackles for preventers and hoisting.
Bosun’s stores with spares, electrics, fuses, shackles, mainsail cars, etc.
Sea toilet refitting kit.
Engine spares, filters (nitrogen packed) impellers, belts, anodes etc.
Many winch handles
18v battery drill with mains charger
½” + ¼” socket set
Metric conbination spanner set
100 piece drill bit set
12v lamp on long lead
Sail repair bag with palm, needles, twine etc
Car type FM radio.
Box of misc tools.
A fine, powerful yacht with an excellent history. 4 owners only with documented history of use and maintenance. Built to a high spec in teak with a recent teak deck. Maintained in Code until 2006 which is a very good recommendation for any yacht, requiring stability survey, regular structural surveys and a high level of equipment.
Enthusiastic knowledgeable previous owners ran a successful sea school with her for 10 years doing some very gentle instruction for 2 or 3 at a time, up-grading her as required – new rigging, sails, engine and equipment – and keeping her in smart all round condition.
Present owner sails from Chichester on local sailing, cross-Channel and West Country cruises but is just not susing the yacht so sadly she has to go. Price reduced to sell this autumn. Someone is now going to get a really good buy!
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 60′ Mylne Ketch refit project
Designed by the great Alfred Mylne and built at his Bute Slip Dock Co on the Clyde in 1929 for the local Glasgow Mckean family to cruise Scottish waters. It was Mrs McKean who insisted on having the dog-house to shelter from the Scottish weather.
The hull is planked in teak.
Grown oak frames in pairs at approx 36’c with two steamed oak intermediate timbers.
Oak back-bone.
External lead keel with bronze keel bolts.
New cast bronze floors.
All copper and bronze fastened throughout.
Solid teak deck, yacht-laid between teak cover boards and king plank, caulked and payed.
All centre line hatches and sky-lights in varnished teak.
Varnished teak dog-house to the cabin entrance.
Unusually for a yacht of this size and date, she has a cock-pit with wheel steering which greatly adds to security and comfort on deck.
Original compass binnacle on a pedestal in the cock-pit.
A section of the deck has been cut out preparatory to replacement.
Bermudian ketch rig on varnished masts and spars setting 1300sq’ plain sail.
The vessel was originally designed and built with a gaff rigged main mast but this was changed to Bermudian after the war when crews became scarcer.
New masts and spars by Noble Masts of Bristol in 2002 with new stainless steel standing rigging.
Lewmar self tailing sheet winches either side of the cock-pit, all fitted 2002.
2 x Lewmar 48ST
2 x Lewmar 40ST
2 x Lewmar 30ST
2 x Lewmar 30 ST halyard winches on the main mast.
Lewmar 40ST reefing winch
Lewmar 30ST halyard winch on the mizzen mast.
Sails.
Mainsail and mizzen both by Ratsey 2004
Staysl and jib topsail by Ratsey 2003.
Jib on Reckman roller furling gear, 2004.
2 light reachers.
Trisail
Storm jib
Mizzen staysail.
Machinery.
Perkins diesel M90 82hp @ 280rpm, centre-line installation with conventional drive to a 3-blade fixed centre-line prop.
In UK ownership this ketch sailed to the West Indies in 1987 but in 1988 she sustained damage in a storm and was swamped in shallow water alongside the quay.
She was put ashore and repaired locally. In a 2004 survey, UK surveyor David Cox found that the repairs were to a high standard with replacement planking following the original butt spacing.
The owner then sailed her back to UK for a more thorough refit and in 1990 she sailed to the Med to be based in Palma and spent the next few seasons taking part in many classic regattas in France, Italy and Spain with silver to prove her qualities.
In the next ownership she cruised to the Baltic, returning to UK in present ownership in 2002.
Since that time she has had regular upgrading and improvement including new masts by Noble Masts of Bristol in 2002 with all new rigging, new sails by Ratseys over the next few years, new sea cocks all through and new electronics. She was extensively refastened after her damage in the West Indies when the keel bolts were also drawn.
A schedule of upgrades is attached.
In 2010 she was put ashore for a complete top to bottom restoration. The interior joinery was removed, the engine and all tanks removed and the full structure was exposed. A detailed schedule of the frames and floors was then drawn up.
The majority of the frame repairs or replacement has now been completed, mostly work to the intermediate steamed timbers in way of the original iron floors and some cracked at the turn of the bilge as well as several of the original grown frames which have been replaced in all or in part with laminated iroko.
New bronze floors have been cast and fitted to replace the original iron floors.
The work was stopped at this stage and the decision has now been made to sell the yacht with work in progress.
The whole rig including masts, spars, sails, standing and running rigging, blocks and winches and sails has been carefully stored and will be readily refitted to the yacht when the hull work is complete.
The engine and generator have been stored but we think that a new owner will almost certainly replace these with new units.
A new GA plan has been drawn up closely following the original and will give 8 berths in a 3 sleeping cabin lay-out + a pilot berth in the saloon, galley, 2 heads and showers.
It is not often that we find classic yachts of this size in this condition, enough work required to keep the price low but not so much that it becomes a total rebuild. This project is now on the way back up, the work has been clearly identified and it is ready to move forward at known cost.
One of the biggest attractions of this yacht is her size. She is small enough for an owner/skipper to sail her with a couple of friends without the necessity of professional crew yet big enough to play with the big boys in the classic yacht scene at a fraction of their cost.
She has very respectable performance under sail, she is a very stable platform to work on with a very gentle motion even in a chop and we have close tacked her up the River Dart to prove her handiness.
By any standards this is a true classic yacht.
Refitting history.
2004
Masts(1986 built by Noble Masts Bristol) out and completely over hauled by Fairlie Restorations, mast fittings refastened, stripped to bare wood and varnished.
New polished stainless steel chain plates installed for main and mizzen masts.
All standing and running rigging replaced by Spencers of Cowes. All running rigging in buff coloured braid.
Many new Fredrickson blocks fitted.
New bowsprit end fitting made.
New Schaffer roller furling system fitted to jib.
Harken furler fitted for jib topsail
Highfield levers removed and replaced with purchases to winches.
Lifelines replaced
New sails by Ratsey and Lapthorn including main, mizzen, staysail, jib and jib topsail.
New electronics installed by Diverse Yacht Services including Furuno chart plotter/radar, interfaced to Furuno GPS, Furuno Navetex, B&G Hydra wind instruments, speed , log and depth system installed and interfaced to the Furuno systems. Icom DSC radio installed with new aerials and cabling in masts and second emergency/back up aerial. Roberson auto pilot overhauled.
All seacocks replaced and any unused were removed and blocked off with doublers.
Hull stripped and repainted.
Covers for all hatches, deck house and cockpit made.
Some pumps replaced.
New Mastervolt inverter/charger fitted
New berth cushions for forepeak
Cushions for deckhouse
All Lewmar winches overhauled (6 in cockpit, 4 on main mast, 3 on mizzen)
Current re-fit
New 316 stainless fuel and water tanks made
Stainless steel battery carrier made to house Mastervolt dry cell batteries beneath cabin sole (to create more stowage space and put weight as low as possible).
New Muir windlass bought with chain and rope gypsy
Mastervolt control panel bought with breakers etc
Cable trunking and cable stock to hand
Perkins M90 removed and partially stripped for rebuild as an alternative to replacement.
Northern Lights gen set removed for rebuild/overhaul
Force Ten cooker was returned to the factory and has been re-manufactured and in now like new
Webasto Thermo Top 50 diesel fired central heating boiler (3 years old but virtually unused)
2 CQR Anchors re galvanised, chain will need to be replace to match the new windlass
When laid up at the start of the refit, the yacht was Coded and was fully equipped to Code requirements. Flares etc now out of date but there is a considerable amount of equipment in addition to that listed.
Keen seller, daughter requires new pony.
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 Type Venus Cutter
Designed by Paul Johnson who was influenced in his designs by his childhood on board his parent’s Colin Archer yacht Escape. He is best known for this design, originally known as the Venus Ketch.
Built by Terry Heard at his Tregatreath Boatyard in Cornwall in 1971.
Strip plank, edge-glued 1 1/8” iroko hull skin epoxy/glass coated on the outside and screwed and glued to massive 3” x 3” grown oak varnished frames at 24”c with 2 steamed oak timbers between. This type of construction and finish, although not entirely traditional, gives a very low maintenance hull.
4 ton iron ballast keel. This is a new keel fitted in 1991. Galvanised mild steel keel bolts last drawn in 2008. Heavy oak floors with a few additional ferrous straps.
Very clear, clean plywood deck sheathed with West System epoxy with marked camber. Good hull free-board. 4” bulwark all round with varnished capping rail, varnished rubbing strake. Small dog-house with varnished edge trim, 2 bronze ports each side, varnished sliding hatch and 2 wash-boards to the cabin. Fore hatch up forward. Varnished teak coachroof coamings.
Galvanised steel push-pit with boom-crutch over. Stanchion posts each side from the rigging aft to the push-pit and led down to the fwd toe rail. All stanchion bases replaced in 2006.
Self draining cockpit well with bridge deck to companionway. Tiller steering to rudder hung on the stern post.
Rudder removed and gudgeon pins and pintles replaced in 2011.
Gaff cutter rig on keel-stepped varnished pine pole mast. Varnished pine boom with slab reefing, sheets to the push pit. Varnished gaff with traditional leather saddle.
Galvanised wire rigging Replaced 2005 by Spencers of Cowes set up to external galvanised chain plates. Galvanised mast fittings. Combination of Tuffnell and varnished blocks with s/s pins and roller bearings. Runners on tackles. Fife rail at mast foot.
Bowsprit heel into twin varnished oak Sampson posts, chain bobstay with tackle. Boomed staysail, sheets led aft, halyards to the fife rail. Heavy tan terylene slab-reef mainsail, genoa on Wickham martin roller gear to the end of the bowsprit, working jib, staysail, light weather genoa, storm jib and main topsail on a wind-surfer mast yard.
Yanmar YSB12 12hp 1-cyl reconditioned 1997. Salt water cooled. Twin lever controls to centre line 3-blade prop gives 5 knots at 0.25 gallons per hour. Electric and hand start. The engine is installed under the double berth aft with excellent access.
2 x 12v batteries.
14 gallons of diesel in galvanised tank aft with sight gauge. Tank removed, cleaned and seals replaced in 2008. The engine is installed under the double berth aft with excellent access.
4 berths. A large double, 1 passage berth and 1 shorter berth.
Fore cabin is arranged as a workshop but could easily be converted back into twin V-berths. Full headroom. Bulkhead to saloon cabin with semi-circular settees each side with varnished T&G pine backs, lockers behind. The stbd berth is full length passage berth, shorter port berth with. Lots of storage space in this open feeling saloon.
Staggered key-hole white painted ply bulkheads. To stbd a 2-burner grill and oven gimballed gas cooker and chart desk; port side sink and work surface with hand pump from 40 galls water in 3 galvanised tanks in the bilge, sink drains over-board.
6’+ head-room under the doghouse, 5’10 in saloon. Larger double berth aft under the cock-pit well, open to the cabin.
Sestral bulkhead compass
NASA Stingray sounder
Nasa log
Garmin 126 GPS
Cobra DSC VHF (2011)
Clock and barometer
Aries wind vane auto-pilot with extensive spares
4 x lifejackets
Life buoy
Fire extinguisher
35lb CQR
40lb Fishermans
22lb Danforth
3 anchors, windlass,
250 feet of calibrated chain
200fett of warp
The yacht has cruised extensively around the south coast and English Channel in present ownership and only the pressures of a young family force the sale. In her relatively short lifetime, she has clocked up several blue water passages with a voyage to West Africa, the Caribbean and home in the 90’s. She proved to be fast and seaworthy averaging 135 miles/day on a trade wind crossing to the Caribbean, very respectable indeed for a yacht with a waterline length of 24’. Easily handled by one or two people, this is a very capable boat and a fantastic value cruising yacht.
No 16 of 18 of these distinctive yachts designed by R.N. Slater and built by the Bangor Shipyard, N Ireland, 1962.
See the Class web site on http://shipyardboats.co.uk
Long keel, fine canoe stern. 7/8” mahogany planking all copper fastened to heavy oak frames at 24”c with 3 steamed intermediate oak timbers between on an oak back-bone with external iron ballast keel.
Several cracked steamed timbers strapped and hanging knees refastened on survey recommendation April 09.Regalvanised ferrous strap floors, keel bolts drawn 2001.
Iron keel bolt drawn July 07, found excellent and replaced.
Spring 2012, undergoing a complete and very thorough paint and varnish job, under cover, ready for inspection at any time.
A remarkably solid construction for her size.
Sheathed t&g pine deck, painted, between varnished mahogany cover-boards, king plank and toe rails with inscribed cove line in the sheer strake. Galvanised steel pull-pit, stainless steel stanchions with twin guard wires.
Galvanised twin chain roller stemhead fitting takes the fore stay. CQR anchor in varnished chocks.
Varnished mahogany coach-roofcoamings with 4 oval portlights in bronze frames each side.
Quadrants rebedded 07. Fore hatch on the fwd end.
T&G pine deck, GRP sheathed and painted. Copper vent on Dorade box to port of the mast and another to stbd of the entrance hatch. Grab rails each side.
Sliding hatch and double doors to the cabin.
Nice clear side decks and fore deck with Sampson post, bronze fairleads, bronze mooring cleat on aft deck. S/s pull-pit, 3 pairs of s/s stanchions with guard wires, rebedded 2007.
Deep,safe cock-pit, bench seats each side, locker under stbd seat. Locker under the aft deck. Varnished mahogany sole boards.
Masthead Bermudian sloop rig on keel-stepped varnished mast, single spreaders. All over-size s/s rigging to bronze internal; chain plates.. Single standing back-stay (1999) twin lowers and cap shrouds ( 1985).
Sailspar roller furling gear.
1999 mainsail 178sq’ + 2 older mainsails.
New 2007 genoa on Sailspar roller gear 228sq’
Working jib 121sq’ 1988
Storm jib 50sq’ 1988
Spinnaker with squeezer 1988
Spinnaker pole and whisker pole.
Pair of Lewmar 16 self tail cock-pit sheet winches.
Pair of Lewmar 6 mast winches.
Headsail sheets through track cars on s/s toe- rail track, main sheets to aft deck.
1998 Nannidiesel 14.5hp 2-cyl diesel engine with single lever controls to centre-line 3-blade prop gives 6.5knts. 1998 shaft and prop. 10 gall s/s tank in the stern locker.
2 x 105amp/hr 12v batteries.
3 berths + pipe cot.
Fore cabin, fore hatch over with port side Jabsco sea toilet and stbd cot berth. Sea water at the hand basin on the bulkhead. Heads partition bulkhead removed to open this compartment.
Stbd mahogany bulkhead door to saloon cabin with port and stbd 6’ settee berths.
Table cleverly folds up to stow vertically midships against the fwd bulkhead.
Bulkhead locker port side contains a remarkably complete set of original glassware inscribed with the Bangor Shipyard crest.
Hanging locker and chart table aft to port over the head of the quarter berth.
Galley aft to stbd with gimballed Taylors 028 paraffin 2-burner cooker (pressure tank in fore cabin locker) and sink with hand pump from 70 litre flexi water tank, manual overboard waste pump.
New Taylors paraffin cabin heater with stainless steel flue to deck.
5’8” head-room in the saloon cabin
Compass,
B&G sounder
Sumlog,
Icom VHF,
Garmin GPS
Autohelm 1000 auto-pilot.
CQR anchor
Fisherman anchor
35 meters 3/8” chain
Galvanised chain gipsey on the mast band.
Life buoy with light
Flares
12v auto bilge pump 2008
Whale Titan manual pump
2 fire extngs.
Inflatable dinghy
Little used Honda 2.3hp outboard engine.
Warps,fenders and cock-pit cover.
Clock and barometer
1st aid box.
Fire blanket
Oil lamp
Sold by Wooden Ships in 1991 for excellent long term owner with all survey recs carried out at that time. Regular yard maintenance. 1998 new engine installed with new stern gear. Hull wooded in 2001, repainted and revarnished.
Sold again by Wooden Ships in 2004 but change of domestic plans dictated an early sale to the present owner.
Very attractive and eye catching yacht. Enthusiastically and methodically up-dated in line with 2006 survey, revarnished using Tonkinoise and very much enjoyed in East Coast waters.
A very sweet and eye catching hull, very typical design of the period with fine counter stern and positive sheer.
Planked in pitch-pine, all copper fastened to substantial sawn oak frames – an exceptionally robust construction.
The hull is splined above the water line, caulked and payed below wl.
In present ownership 60% of the yacht has been refastened with new copper nails and roves.
Long external iron ballast keel.
Several keel bolts renewed in present ownership
Oak floors with a few galvanised steel strap floors.
Sheathed deck with varnished mahogany toe rail and rubbing strake. Varnished teak coach-roof coamings with 3 bronze port holes each side.
New varnished teak self draining cock-pit. The cock-pit was rebuilt in present ownershipwith beautifully formed coamings meeting the coach-roof. Varnished teak fore hatch. Small varnished teak hatch on the aft deck to the lazarette.
Bronze deck fittings.
New twin galvanised steel deck beams with hanging knees in way of the deck-stepped mast.
New oak hanging knees forward.
Fractional Bermudian sloop rig on new varnished mast. New mast in September 2011
The mast is stepped in a galvanised shoe on the coach-roof deck.
Varnished slab reefing boom with original bronze fittings.
Varnished bowsprit with bronze fittings.
Stainless steel rigging.
Headsail sheet tracks on the side decks.
Sails
Mainsail
Genoa staysail
High aspect staysail.
Geneker
Winches
Pair of polished bronze mast halyard winches.
Pair of top action 2-speed sheet winches on the cock-pit coamings
Yanmar 2GM 18hp 2-cylider diesel installed new in 1990.
The engine was overhauled in 2000
New stainless steel engine beds 2011
New shaft with water lubricated bearings all new 2011
2 x 12v batteries
70 amp/hr engine start
105 amp/hr dometic services.
Marine battery charger
All wiring circuits replaced to modern standards in present ownership
Fuel.
45 litres diesel in rigid plastic tank below the cock-pit with batteries in sealed boxes either side of the tank.
Accommodation. 4 berths.
V-berths in the fore cabin, nice quality thick 6’6” cushions, exposed hull sides, fore hatch over.
Chain locker forward.
Stbd off-set passageway aft, galvanised steel compression post under the mast.
Locker to stbd.
Heads compartment to port, door closes off the fwd cabin. Blake sea toilet and porcelain hand basin.
Bulkhead doorway to the saloon cabin.
Port and stbd settees with Pullman berths behind – the upholstered settee berths fold down with mattresses attached in the traditional way. Book shelves and lockers above.
Galley in the after stbd corner with Taylor 29 paraffin cooker with oven.
Stainless steel galley sink with bronze hand pump.
Chart desk to port with drawer and locker under. Nav instruments above.
Engine box step between with ladder to cabin entrance.
All original varnished mahogany joinery, white painted deckhead, varnished coamings and cabin sole boards. Full head-room all through.
Plastimo bulkhead compass
Sestral hand bearing compass
Sailor RT144 VHF radio with ATIS
Standard Horizon chart plotter, new 2010 with recent chart updates.
Raytheon Bi-Data depth and speed.
Autohelm 2000 auto-pilot
35lb CQR anchor
Warps and fenders
Kedge anchor
Chain
Manual windlass
Life buoy
Radar reflector
Binoculars
Large Maglite torch
Portable low energy cool box.
A very fine example of a 1930’s classic yacht in very original condition but with sensible modern upgrades making her a joy to sail, easily handled and remarkably fast.
Sold by Wooden Ships to the present Dutch owner, very nicely maintained, a family yacht in regular use.
designed by Alan Buchanan, built by Shuttlewoods of Paglesham, Essex in 1965 to Lloyds 100A1.
This is a particularly good quality original construction as demonstrated by the materials, the yard chosen to build and the Lloyds supervision. She was maintained in class until 1978.
Planked in 1” mahogany above the water-line, iroko below water-line, all copper fastened to rock elm steamed timbers, approx 1 ½” x 1 ¼” @ 9”c. on an iroko back-bone
Approx 2.5 ton external lead ballast keel, secured with bronze keel bolts, several removed for checking in 2003. Ferrous strap floors.
Scrubbed teak, yacht-laid deck over a ply sub deck with varnished teak king plank and cover-boards. Deep teak toe rails, varnished on the inside faces.
Oak Sampson post and pair of substantial mooring cleats on the fore deck. stainless steel stemhead fitting.
Self-draining cock-pit with deep varnished teak coamings, scrubbed teak-laid seat lockers each side and bridge deck and teak-laid well. Transom-hung rudder with tiller.
Coach-roof with varnished teak coamings slightly stepped up to a dog-house aft, fitted with windows each side, hatch on the fore end of the coach-roof, grab rails each side.
Masthead Bermudian sloop rig on Sparlight alloy mast, stepped on the coach-roof deck with single spreaders, twin standing back-stays to the quarters.
Slab reef alloy boom with rigid telescopic kicker sheeted to a s/s horse on the transom.
Stainless steel standing rigging approx 12 years old with bronze rigging screws to internal stainless steel chain plates.
Winches
Bronze captive wire main halyard winch on the mast.
Pair of Lewmar 40 self tail genoa sheet winches on the coamings
Pair of Gibb 16RA secondary winches.
Sails
Mainsail 240sq’ by Penrose of Falmouth 2004
Light genoa
Medium genoa approx 360sq’ on roller gear.
Small genoa
Blaster on hanks.
Storm jib on hanks.
2 older mainsails
Volvo 2020 20hp 3-cylinder diesel installed approx 2000. Single lever controls
Centre-line installation under the bridge deck with stainless steel shaft to centre-line 3-blade prop. gives 5knts cruising.
2 x 6 gall stainless steel fuel tanks, one under the cabin sole with auto-pump to the higher tank under cock-pit sole.
2 x 12v batteries under the chart desk with Adverc battery management system. 12v circuits with modern switch-board behind the cabin steps.
2 solar panels on the coach-roof.
4 berths with the possibility to extend a saloon berth to a double to make 5 berths.
V-berths in the fore cabin. Varnished mahogany joinery, lockers under the berths. Standing space between the berths with head-room under the fore hatch on the front end of the coach-roof.
Oval bulkhead door to stbd sea toilet. A hand basin on a shelf slides away under the side deck, drains overboard
Port locker space.
Oval bulkhead door to saloon cabin. The 2 doors close off this athartships ablutions compartment under the mast.
Very attractive saloon cabin with wide port and stbd settee berths, slightly staggered, the port settee into a trotter box at the fore end to leave more space for the galley at the after end. The stbd settee extends to make a double berth with the table removed. Stowage lockers behind, below and above the settees. Varnished mahogany drop leaf table between. Teak cabin sole boards.
Chart desk in the after stbd corner against the rear bulkhead with aft facing seat. Instruments on the bulkhead above. Small fridge and cool box under the chart desk.
Galley in the after port corner with Plastimo stainless steel, gimballed gas cooker with crash bar. Gas detector fitted.
2 deep rectangular stainless steel sinks and work surface back under the bridge deck. Manual fresh and salt water pumps. Sink drains overboard.
Open steps between to the cock-pit, switch board behind under the bridge deck over the engine box which removes to give excellent access to the engine.
The galley area and engine box were rebuilt in 2004.
5’6” head-room in the fore cabin. 6’ head-room in the saloon cabin and 6’4” head-room aft.
Eberspacher diesel fired hot air cabin heating.
Whitlock steering compass in a binnacle on the bridge deck.
Sestral steering compass on the cabin top.
Brookes and Gatehouse Hecta sounder + Dataline sounder.
Nasa DSC VHF radio
Autohelm ST4000 auto-pilot.
Windex wind vane self steering
Philips Navigator Mk8 GPS
Garmin 126/128 GPS
Brookes and Gatehouse Hengist/Horsa wind speed and direction indicators.
Many charts, Solent to Land’s End.
Seago 4-man life raft
4 life jackets.
2 horse-shoe life buoys.
Danbuoy.
4 fire extinguishers
Flares (out of date)
2 manual bilge pumps.
CQR and Danforth anchors
68 meters 5/8” chain
Manual windlass
Warps and 6 fenders
8’ Zodiac inflatable dinghy
Honda 2.3 outboard engine (3 seasons old)
Sprayhood on stainless steel frame.
2-part all-over winter cover.
Present ownership since 2003, live aboard in the summer months with extended retirement cruising around the Western Approaches.
In the previous ownership she had a refit not long before the present owner bought her and was raced from the Hamble.
A nice clean boat with good space below due to her slightly greater beam than was common for a boat of this size at that time. Nice quality construction and regular maintenance have ensured that she remains to this day a very fine yacht to own and sail.
The JOG (Junior Offshore Group) was founded in 1950 to encourage off-shore racing in affordable small yachts in the hard post war days. Many famous names were involved including Capt John Illingworth and some interesting design evolved.
This was cutting edge stuff at a time when sailing a 21’wl yacht across the Channel was a major exploit for most people.
The Top Hat was designed by John Illingworth and his business partner Angus Primrose as a development of the JOG rules but retained the 21’wl.
She was regarded as a cruiser racer with surprising accommodation for her size and built to the latest high tech standards by Souters of Cowes, incorporating maximum strength without unnecessary weight.
The versatility and amazing performance rapidly made the design very popular.
It is difficult to describe this particular yacht without constant exaggeration. Very simply, the yacht is immaculate, the construction features are an education and the details of the finish have to be seen in situ to be appreciated.
While she was built by Souters in 1965, the owner took 10 years to fit out the internal joinery and subsequently kept the yacht ashore, only using her for a few weeks each year and she was laid up in 2003 until purchase by the present owner in 2008.
A detailed 2008 survey report is available.
The yacht was refitted for the present owner by Tim Gilmore at Dolphin Yard, Emsworth.
A large file detailing all work done from build to present time and many detailed drawings comes with the yacht.
Souters made a particular study of monocoque wooden hull construction and perfected the technique which gives max strength for minimum weight.
The construction uses a hull skin built of 4 laminations of 3mm mahogany laid up in crossing diagonals with resorcinol glue.
The hull was repainted by Dolphin Yard, Emnsworth and is perfect.
Steam bent Canadian Rock Elm timbers ¾” x 5/8” at approx 10” c are secured with conventional copper rivets and roves
The back-bone is built in laminated mahogany.
The floors are laminated mahogany tapered like leaf springs to release the loads gradually as they rise well up the sides of the hull.
The 1 ¼ ton lead keel is secured with bronze bolts through the floors. Bolts drawn in 2008, found sound and replaced.
Spruce is used for the longditudinals, a timber with excellent strength for weight.
The deck is 3/8” marine ply, painted.
Excellent deck fittings exactly where you want them with a mushroom vent on the small aft deck to ventilate the aft locker, a pair of mooring line cleats on the aft deck with associated bronze fairleads over the deck edge, stbd midships cleat to take springs and breast lines, a proper varnished oak Sampson post on the fore deck to take forward lines and anchor chain which comes up frm below through a chromed bronze nacelle.
Tufnol cleats either side on the fore deck and a single stainless steel chain roller over the stem.
Deck beams are laminated mahogany again giving strength for min weight and an attractive appearance.
Varnished mahogany toe rail carries headsail sheet track.
Stainless steel pulpit, push-pit and stanchions with twin guard wires on quick release McNaughton clips.
The mahogany coach-roof coamings and cock-pit coamings are also laminated in several layers and finished with a constant colour and perfect varnish.
The sheet winches are mounted on swelling formed in the outer face of the coamings allowing a small pocket under accessed from the inside face of the coaming – a typical example of clever design and even more clever building.
New Perspex windows in the coach-roof make the cabin very light and spacious.
Grab rails on the coach-roof.
Forward hinging, opening entrance hatch with hinged perspex side flaps which support the lid in half-open position. Three washboards to the entrance.
The cock-pit coamings rise to the same level as the coach-roof deck giving wonderful protection in the cock-pit and back support.
The seats are built over the long quarter berths back as far as the main sheet track with a small, top-opening locker each side in the aft corner. The seats have scrubbed teak slats to take wear and provide grip.
Similar teak slats in the self draining cock-pit well sole, draining through the transom.
Mahogany rudder on bronze rudder stock which emerges through the cock-pit sole with a fine laminated tiller and Simpson Lawrence chromed bronze hinged tiller-head.
Varnished mahogany fore hatch with thick Perspex light between grab handles.
Bermudian sloop rig on Proctor aluminium mast stepped in a transverse stainless steel shoe on the deck in front of the coach-roof.
Double spreaders.
Stainless steel rigging reported in the 2008 survey to be well within it’s serviceable life.
Norseman terminals to stainless steel rigging screws on stainless steel in board chain plates.
Single fore stay to a deck fitting just aft of the stemhead.
Inner fore stay from just forward of the fore hatch to the spreaders gives the lower mast extra support.
Twin standing back-stays to internal s/s chain plates at the quarters.
Cap shrouds to internal deck-edge chain plates.
Hangers from upper spreader roots to lower spreaders.
The lower shroud has been cleverly moved from it’s original place at the deck edge chain plate to a new position eye through the deck by the fwd corners of the coach-roof which allows easier passage along the deck past the shrouds. Simples.
New 2008 rope halyards.
New 2008 alloy boom with in-boom reefing pennants on clutches, sheeted to a curved main sheet track across the after end of the cock-pit over the rudder stock where it does not impeded the helmsman.
Main sheet with tunol blocks and jammer on the lower block. Moveable cars limit the travel of the main sheet on the track.
Kicker on tackle
Pair of bottom action Lewmar sheet winches on the cock-pit coamings with associated tufnol cleats.
Pair of top action mast halyard winches. Pair of winch handles clip securely into the mast step, instantly accessible.
New 2009 Rotostay stainless steel headsail reefing gear.
Sails.
New 2009 mainsail, genoa on furling gear, working jib.
Older storm jib and Spinnaker, bother very serviceable.
Mainsail cover.
Petter single cylinder 3.5hp air-cooled diesel engine, centre-line installation to centre-line 3-blade prop.
The engine is mounted under the forward end of the cock-pit well and covered in the cabin by the vertical steps to the entrance.
Access is by removal of the steps or by an opening either side in the quarter berth tunnels.
Electric start.
1 x 12v battery charged by 12v dynamo belt driven off the engine
Stainless steel fuel tank above the engine under the cock-pit sole.
Twin engine controls in the cock-pit well. The gear engage lever is recessed into the side of the well.
Unique helicopter fitting serves as a throttle control, also in a recess in the well side.
This is a very simple little engine which started easily and ran smoothly, surprisingly quiet and gives about 4knts, just enough to get you out into the channel and away because she sails like a dinghy in a breath of wind.
Electrical switch-board on the bulkhead inside the cabin with perfectly aligned cables feeding into it.
4 berths.
Port and stbd quarter berths run under the cock-pit seats and well out into the cabin to form the saloon cabin settees.
3-step removeable vertical mahogany ladder to the cabin entrance.
The galley and chart desk are set midships, galley to stbd, chart desk to port. The chart desk will take a folded Admiralty chart.
A shooting stick will be found clipped under the chart desk which locates in a socket in the sole either side to provide a perch for either galley or chart desk use.
The galley as a 2-burner gimballed suspended gas cooker and alongside it a sink with inset lid with vertical action hand-pump water in and waste out.
Shelf above under the deck takes galley stuff.
Water is carried in 3 stainless steel tanks in the bilge, shaped to the bilge V with interfeed pipes and bronze manifold allowing selection of each tank individually.
The chart desk to port will take a full size Admiralty chart. Nav instruments above. The chart work instruments lie in blue felt lined hollows shaped to the instruments.
A knee-rest bar below the desk and the galley gives extra stability.
The cabin sole boards are exquisitely made in lifting slatted sections.
The cabin steps are studded with wooden non-slip studs. Also stud patches below galley and chart desk.
Oval aperture in the forward bulkhead provides hull stiffness in way of the mast and takes the mast compression loads.
V-berths with the under berth panels sloped away frm the centre-line to make more floor space when the yacht is heeled.
Sea toilet between the berths with a varnished mahogany lid which also acts as a step up to exit the fore hatch above.
Perfectly varnished exposed ship’s side and laminated deck beams.
12v electric lights all round. Even the original chrome swivelling over-bunk lights have been modified to take the modern low current consumption LED bulbs.
Twin Danforth Corsair compasses, one either side of the entrance hatch.
Brookes and Gatehouse Hengist, Horsa, Homer, Harrier and Hector all in working order.
Garmin 152 GPS
Battery monitor
25lb CQR anchor with length of chain and warp.
Summer cover over cock-pit and coach-roof.
Avon Redstart dinghy with pump and oars.
It is rare to find such an exquisitely presented yacht of this age and whatever one pays for it will never be enough.
This Top Hat is an absolute pleasure to own and to sail.
The cabin gives very adequate comfort for two for an extended period of cruising, the cock-pit is very safe even in a sea and the construction will ensure she will take far more than her crew ever will.
This is fun on the water, as good as it gets.
Navigation gear.
Steering compass each side of the entrance hatch.
B&G Hengist, Horsa, Homer and Harrier
2009 Garmin GPS 152
LED nav lights and steaming light.
Hand bearing compass
2010 auto-pilot
Clock and barometer
Safety gear.
Folding radar reflector
First Aid kit
Fire blanket
2 torches in holders.
Flares
2 fire extinguishers
2 manual bilge pumps.
2 jack-stays
Deck gear.
8 fenders
4 warps
Ensign, staff and burgee
Boathook and deck brush
Avon Redstart dinghy with pump, oars and o/b bracket
Ground tackle
25lb CQR anchor
15lb CQR anchor
Warp and chain
Sundries.
12v hoover. Portable table. Cutlery and crockery. Galley bum straps.8 interior LED cabin lights. Engine spares.
Wooden ships comments on this Luke Powell Isles Of Scilly Pilot cutter
A virtually new Luke Powell Luke Powell Isles of Scilly Pilot Cutter.
Boat builder Luke Powell of Working Sail, Cornwall has become a personal phenomenon. In the past few years he has almost single-handed created the reincarnation of the traditional pilot cutter type.
Starting earlier than the more famous Bristol Channel Pilot cutters, the Scilly Islands pilots were already building boats for the job in the mid 19th century, fine sea-worthy cutters with a distinctive counter, square fore foot and bow sections sharp enough to fillet a mackerel.
Luke used these early cutters as his inspiration and to date has built 8 boats varying in size from 38’ to 45’.
He builds in the totally traditional fashion, plank on heavy sawn frames all held together with gurt big nails, caulked and payed and finished to a high class working boat standard. His are boats to be sailed as well as admired. They are remarkably fast, their owners are full of enthusiasm for the way they sail and handle and they just look so good.
Every boat is different. He drew the lines for this one, built a half model to take off the moulds in the old way and started the build in the Spring of 2004. She was launched at Gweek Quay in March 2006 (see Classic Boat article). After a week of commissioning, she sailed north to start her life as a skippered charter vessel on the West Coast of Scotland.
In 6 years of the present first ownership, she has proved to be an exceptionally seaworthy, safe and a successful charter boat operating in the harsh conditions of the NW Coast of Scotland, the Northern Isles, Norway and the Atlantic coast of Ireland.
Construction
HullFull displacement hull shape with good hull form stability, a long straight keel with good rise of floors to give a fine long runs aft. Such refined traditional lines give an extremely seaworthy vessel, fast in light airs, stiff in a breeze and powerful to windward. Traditionally built in conventional plank on heavy sawn oak frames, all caulked and payed.(See lines drawings and build pictures)
Back-boneThe keel, stem and stem post are in Opepe, a sustainable West African hardwood, 7 ½” wide x 14” deep giving enormous strength to the vessel’s backbone. The deadwood assembly in the bow and stern built up in great lumps of timber is all through fastened with 7/8” diameter copper bar and riveted.
Frames English Oak sawn frames cut from from grown oak limbs chosen for their shape so that the grain runs true round the curve. The frames are assembled in pairs of futtocks 3” x 5” pinned together with ½” copper dumps giving a frame section of 6” x 5” at 18” centres to form a very robust hull.
Floors Massive oak floors across the centre-line bolted to the moulded faces of every frame.
PlankingThe garboard, second and third strakes are full length Scottish larch, 1 ¾” thick. Above, the planking is 1 5/8” with the top three strakes in oak and thicker at 2” to give the vessel extra longitudinal strength and durability.
Plank fastenings are all bronze screws, three per frame and wooden plugged.
BallastFull length external lead ballast keel comprises 60% of the vessel’s ballast with a 7/8” bronze keel bolt every 18” through the oak floors and the back-bone. The remaining 40% of weight is trimming ballast in the form of lead ingots fastened in the bilges across the keel. The ballast ratio is 45% of the vessel’s displacement.
Topsides. Good freeboard with high bulwarks on oak stanchions gives a great sense of security on deck and the feel of a real little ship. The oak cavil rails across the stanchions with belaying pins give ample space to make fast halyards and mooring ropes. Additional belaying pins on a three-sided fife rail around the mast. The vessel’s name and port of registry are carved in the transom.
Deck. The deck is 1 ½” x 3 ¾” hardwood, straight laid to a wide cover-board around the deck edge, the seams caulked and payed with Sikaflex and left scrubbed. All fastenings are plugged.
Windlass & anchor. The antique design, hand spike barrel windlass is a major feature on the foredeck. This consists of an oak barrel thwart-ships with a double pawl on the central bowsprit bitt operated by oak bars placed in the slots on the port side, pulling in the chain to starboard. This is easily operated by one or two people. The windlass can also be used for raising the topmast, shipping and setting the bowsprit and tensioning the bobstay. 75lb CQR anchor with 110 metres of 5/8” chain.
Coach roof and hatches. Small midships coach-roof built to a very traditional design with opepe coamings and deck and finished in white paint. Two bronze opening port holes each side. The varnished cabin hatch on the coach-roof is built with fielded panelled sides, twin doors and a sliding top. Forward of the coach-roof between it and the mast is a traditional skylight with two opening fitted with 8mm laminated glass and brass protective bars. On the fore deck, the fore hatch opens forward giving easy access to the sail locker and fore cabin.
Steering. Oak tiller with the vessel’s name carved each side. Oak steering thwart extends the full beam of the vessel giving the helmsman a seated position on a flush deck. A compass binnacle is mounted on deck on a wooden plinth forward of the tiller. The engine controls are mounted beneath the thwart.
Rig Gaff cutter rig which over the centuries has proven to be the most powerful and efficient rig for fast, heavy displacement vessels. The thrill of sailing these vessels is that they handle like a dinghy spinning around the one mast when tacking but have the immense sense of power when driving forward under a press of canvas.
Spars Solid Douglas Fir mast, a tree grown north of Ashburton, Devon. The bowsprit is also solid Douglas Fir. The boom, gaff and topmast are laminated from 3” thick Canadian Fir to give them more rigidity and strength in their smaller sections. The mast bands and iron work for the rig are galvanised.
Rigging The wire standing rigging is 16mm galvanised for the lowers and 10mm for the uppers. All traditionally spliced and served in the time honoured way finished with wooden deadeyes and lanyards. The running rigging is of three strand hemp style polyester rove through ash pulley blocks ranging between 5” and 7”, some fifty in all.
Sails The suit of sails are in cream clipper canvas (a synthetic flax) traditionally made by Patrick Selman of Falmouth and beautifully finished with hand sewn bolt rope and reefing points. Mainsail, Topsail, staysail and jib. Additionally for lighter wind sailing there is a large jib and jib topsail. Boat cover A full boat cover also made by Patrick Selman protects the boat from the worst of the winter weather.
Interior The interior is fitted out to a high standard with varnished oak structure and painted pine panelling. The doors are fielded panels and the general air is spacious and light with ample headroom. At the bottom of the companionway a barometer and clock from William Forbes, Liverpool are mounted on the deck beam. (See Interior pictures).
Aft Aft of the companionway there are two double quarter berths, one each side.
Galley The galley is to port at the foot of the companionway. Large oak work surface with stainless double sink and mixer tap. A range of deep panelled cupboards behind for food storage and cupboards underneath for pots and pans. Force 10 large gas cooker on gimbals. Top loading refrigerator. Gas is stowed on deck in two 3.9kg or 6kg propane bottles.
Chart table The oak chart table is to starboard, facing forward, and is large enough for an admiralty chart. There is ample shelving for pilot books, wall space for electronics and drawers beneath.
Saloon The saloon is spacious with plenty of headroom and well lit from a large skylight. There is seating on both sides around a solid oak table with folding leaves and drinks locker within. Seating to starboard is deep and forms a snug by the wood burning stove also to starboard. To port there is an enclosed pilot berth and a floor standing Little Cod cast iron solid fuel stove by Navigator Works to starboard. To starboard also a full length oak bookshelf and plenty of stowage behind and beneath the seating. The general feel of the saloon is open plan with substantial oak posts dividing it from the galley/chart table area and oak trim around cream panelling.
Fore Cabin Passing forward of the mast on the starboard side a small corridor leads into the fore cabin. There are two berths on each side sleeping up to four people and including plenty of stowage and wet locker space. Bronze prism deck lights to port and starboard illuminating this area. A fore hatch gives easy access and provides extra light through a bronze deadlight.
Heads Enclosed shower/toilet to port with draining shower tray and grating, hand basin with mirror, cupboard and Jabsco regular sea toilet. This area is also illuminated with a deck prism.
Plumbing A pressurised hot and cold water system, heated by the engine, gives ample hot water to the shower and galley. 600 litres of drinking water is held in stainless steel tanks abreast of the engine. Bronze sea-cocks are used for all the hull fittings and are easily accessible internally. Bronze fillers are fitted for the diesel and water on deck.
BilgeRobust hand bilge pump located by the helm. Automatic electric bilge pump with float switch. Grey water from the sinks and shower is contained in a holding tank below the saloon floor and pumped out using a Jabsco whale pump located under the aft seat on the port side in the saloon.
Electrical System Electrical system includes brass cabin lights, chart light, brass bunk reading lights, comprehensive fuse panel and navigation lights. 2 x 12v heavy duty deep cycle batteries – one for services and one for engine start.
On deckRaymarine ST50 Repeater (with wooden cover) shore power socket x2 12v. sockets – one at mast & one at thwart
Below deck Sterling Inverter shore power immersion heater 240 v. outlets at chart table and in engine bay x2 12v. cigar lighter sockets at chart table
Engine A Beta 62.5hp 5 cylinder marine diesel engine is fitted with bronze stern tube and bronze three bladed fixed propeller. PRM260 hydraulic gearbox is installed. Engine hours 2080 at September 2011.
Fuel. Two x 175litre stainless steel tanks situated either side of the engine and fitted with dipsticks. Insulated engine compartment with removable panels for easy access to engine. Engine control panel by chart table with key start, oil pressure warning and rpm counter. Three sacrificial anodes are fitted for the engine, stern tube and rudder pintles. The engine has been maintained since new with the BETA service schedule strictly adhered to.
Maintenance. Maintained good working order throughout the season and under cover in the winter. Halyards and sheets have been replaced as required, ash blocks maintained, and all paintwork kept up. Above deck there is no varnish and all the bright work is treated with Danish oil mixed with Stockholm tar.
MCA Code Certified for the MCA SCV Code 2 (60 nm from a safe haven) since build and was supervised through the build by surveyor Tony Head, Surveyor of Plymouth. She is coded for 8 passengers (including crew) for overnight voyages and 10 passengers for day voyages. 5 year survey in March 2011. Full safety equipment compliant with or exceeding the requirements of the Code. This includes: SOLAS ‘B’ 10 man liferaft 2 x lifebouoys – both with lights and one with throw rope and one with inflatable danbuoy full length jackstays x12 lifejackets EPIRB fire extinguishers x4 dry powder smoke alarms; gas alarm; bilge alarm flares
45’ Laurent Giles cutter built in India in 1949. Double diagonal teak planking. Unmistakably Laurent Giles, she is just a big Channel Class. Proven ocean cruising boat, fast and capable. Offered for sale at only £24,000 due to the owners personal circumstances. woodenships.co.uk/sailing-yacht/45-laurent-giles-bermudan-cutter/... See MoreSee Less
After posting some teaser photos of Nell a little while ago, we have now formally put this fine yacht on the market. Nell is a G.L. Watson gaff cutter built on the Clyde in 1887 and completely rebuilt in Normandy, France between 2009 and 2017. This yacht is a totally unique piece of maritime history and is presented in superb condition. Her interior is her most remarkable feature and was designed by her first owner Robert Cowan Robertson. He was an artist based in Glasgow and his interior design was influenced by the fashions of the time with raised and fielded oak panelling, ionic pillasters and most notably stained glass sliding windows covering the portholes. The interior has been restored sympathetically and is largely original apart from some very small areas where damaged joinery needed replacing. The result is magnificent and sets this yacht apart as a unique piece of history. Full details and many photos available on our web site with the following link:woodenships.co.uk/sailing-yacht/g-l-watson-gaff-cutter/#classicboat #classicboatforsale #yachtforsale ... See MoreSee Less
