Sailing yachts
Westmacott Gaff Cutter
(REF: 32851)£17500
Full specification
Wooden Ships Comments on this Westmacott Gaff Cutter
Designed by Alfred Westmacott and built by Woodnutts of Bembridge in 1932.
Westmacott is perhaps one of the lesser known UK yacht designers but no less successful, producing among other boats the X-OD yachts and Solent Sunbeam, both of which have raced in large numbers around the Solent for over a century. This yacht is a larger sister to the X-OD in many ways and has proved her speed and reputation over the years with many regatta wins in and around the Solent. She has had class wins in the Yarmouth Taittinger Regatta + an overall regatta win in 2013. She has won Yogaff twice and has won the coveted Potters Ship Trophy with the Royal Lymington Yacht Club.
With a major no expense spared refit in 2005, she has been in the present experienced ownership since 2008 and has been regularly upgraded and properly maintained to keep her in very tidy condition and racing every season. Refit and upgrades in 2022 including all new running rigging and blocks.
For a yacht of her length, she has a very spacious and comfortable feel below decks offering 2 excellent berths and space for a heads up forward. Although currently stripped of the heads, Taylors stove and water tank to reduce weight for racing, these could easily be reinstated to make her back into a successful cruising and weekend boat with a good turn of speed and shallow draft. She has however made for an excellent classic regatta boat in recent years and gained herself an excellent reputation in and around the Solent.
Length on Deck 26’2″
Length Overall 31’
Length Waterline 20’7″
Beam 7’6”
Draft 3’7”
Displacement 4.5 tonnes
Thames Tonnage 5TM
Construction
Hull
Carvel planked in close grained full length pitch pine. Copper rivet fastened to steam bent Canadian Rock Elm timbers.
Oak back bone with grown oak floors across the centreline.
External iron ballast keel with bronze bolts that pass through the oak floors to sandwich the centreline structure together.
Decks and Cockpit
Straight laid T&G pine deck, thought to have been overlaid with marine plywood and sheathed externally.
Teak rubbing strake with a teak toe rail set slightly inboard, all varnished.
Bronze cleats and fairleads, all original.
Large and spacious cockpit with varnished teak coamings and slatted teak thwarts either side. Comfortable space for 4 adults while sailin
Cockpit sole is made from teak boards with a clear non-slip finish.
Superstructure
Very distinctive coachroof which comes to a point at the forward end. Coamings made from 2 layers of teak laminated around the curve of the coachroof and through fastened with many small copper rivets.
Varnished teak forehatch.
Rig
Gaff cutter rig on a keel stepped varnished spruce mast. New from Collars in 2005.
Varnished wooden boom, gaff yard and bowsprit.
Standing and Running Rigging
Stainless steel standing rigging with bronze rigging screws to internal bronze chain plates. Rigging new in 2013.
All new running rigging in 2022 plus many new blocks.
Running backstays in dyneema with an upper and lower backstay onto a single block and tackle which is tensioned with the lazy jib sheet winch.
Lines all terminate at the mast with cleats and a bronze pin rail.
Roller furling jib system on the end of the bowsprit.
Sails
Mainsail
Staysail (with roller furling)
No.1, No.2 & No.3 Yankee with roller furling
Asymmetric spinnaker
Spinnaker
Winches
4 x bronze Lewmar 16 self tailing cockpit sheet winches.
Machinery
Engine
Beta Marine 20hp 3cyl diesel.
Darglow 3 blade feathering propeller.
Tanks
Stainless steel fuel tank (2018) of approximately 40 litres under the port side deck.
Stainless steel water tank currently removed from the boat.
Batteries and Electrics
Single 12 volt battery charged by the engine alternator.
Accommodation
Berths and Headroom
2 berths in the cabin with ample sitting headroom.
General Description
Simple open interior with a large companion hatch and a small step into the cabin.
Galley are to port and a fold down teak chart desk to starboard.
Full length settee berth port and starboard with white painted slats against the hull sides and varnished pitch pine sole boards.
Half bulkhead on the port side separates of the forepeak from the main cabin.
Space for the heads behind the bulkhead with shelves in the bows for storage and anchor locker.
Galley
Galley area to port with space for a stove but none currently fitted. Bronze hand pump for water which could be connected to the tank if reinstated. Single stainless steel sink.
The galley joinery appears to be original and is elegantly designed in varnished teak.
Heads
Originally fitted with a Baby Blake, the seacocks are still in place with a plinth for a heads but none is currently fitted.
Equipment
Contest steering compass
Brookes & Gatehouse Hercules System 390 sounder and log
TackTick racing compass
Auto electric bilge pump
Whale Titan manual bilge pump (2022)
20kg Danforth anchor with 5m chain + 20m warp
Mooring warps
Fenders
Oak beaching legs
Boat hook
Deck brush
Mainsail
Staysail (with roller furling)
No.1, No.2 & No.3 Yankee with roller furling
Asymmetric spinnaker
Spinnaker
Mainsail cover
4 x bronze Lewmar 16 self tailing cockpit sheet winches.
Alloy spinnaker pole
Full winter cover
Cockpit tent/awning
Forehatch cover (2022)
12 volt battery
Taylors parrafin stove (not fitted) + tank
Stainless water tank (not fitted)
Bronze manual hand pump
Stainless sink
Bunk and berth cushions
Steel shore storage cradle
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