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 wooden ships comments on this Mylne sailing dinghy 

12′ gunter rigged sailing dinghy designed by the great Alfred Mylne. Built 1923

This very pretty little boat has been rebuilt by current professional boat builder owner and is a very nice example of the type.

The back-board on the after seat is typical of a boat which was destined for a passenger to be rowed on occasions and that,  in addition to eye bolts in the transom and the inside of the stem, makes us think she was probably originally destined to be hung in davits for a large yacht.

Her very light spruce planking would support this theory.

The 95’ Thendara and the Atlantide were both built at the same time so this fine little boat could have been carried on board either yacht.

In the rebuild all the steam bent timbers were replaced and fastened with copper nails and roves.

The sheer strakes were both replaced in mahogany.

The centre-board was replaced in mahogany together with part of the oak keel in way.

The centre board was regalvanised.

The whole boat was stripped and revarnished inside and out.

New bottom boards fitted.

Construction.

Clinker planked spruce.

Mahogany sheer strake

Steam bent oak timbers.

Oak back-bone.

Mahogany transom with reinforcing pad for an outboard.

Mahogany centre-board case.

Galvanised steel centre board.

Fixed rudder, lifts off the pintles. Second rudder newly made to accommodate the outboard engine.

Gunter rig, stainless steel shrouds – port, stbd and forestay – made up with lanyards.

Red terylene sail.

Spruce boom and yard with nice original jaws to the boom.

Pair of fine spoon-blade oars, leathered.

Bronze rowlocks

Interesting back-rest to the after thwart

Grown oak knees to the after corners and the thwarts.

Loose bottom boards.

New road trailer

wooden ships comments on this 23′ motor launch

23′ Motor Launch built in the 1930’s, believed to have been ordered by Trinity House as a light ship tender.

She underwent a major refit in 2005 in the present ownership and is now fully in commission and ready to go.  2008 survey available.

Clinker planked in pine copper rivet fastened to steam bent oak timbers.  Two large sawn oak frames in way of the engine.  Teak sheer strake and mahogany transom.

Backbone, stem and stern posts of oak.  Additional Iroko floors fitted during the rebuild.  New marine plywood bulkheads fitted in 2005 for rigidity.

Fore deck, aft deck and narrow side decks of marine plywood over laid with Iroko on oak deck beams.  The whole deck was replaced in the 2005 rebuild.

Superstructure consists of with a low coachroof with teak coamings forward and a full headroom open back wheelhouse with windows all round.  Wheel house was new in 2005.  Coachroof of T&G pine sheathed with epoxy cloth.

Machinery

Yanmar 2GM20 20hp 2 cylinder marine diesel with single lever Morse controls.

Stainless steel shaft with fixed 3 blade bronze propeller.

40 litre diesel tank.

Vetus hydraulic steering to transom hung rudder.

Batteries

2 x 12 volt 110ah batteries charged from the engine alternator.  Wiring was all new in 2005.

Accomodation

Small cabin forward with Iroko sliding door.  2 berths under the foredeck with cushions.  Sheltered wheelhouse with spoked steering wheel to port.  Electrical swiches and switch panels below.   Large deep cockpit aft with seating port and starboard.  Locker under the aft deck.

Inventory

Steering compass

Garmin Plotter/sounder

Eagle fishfinder

5hp Mariner outboard engine

Danforth anchor with chain and warp

Porta Potti

Flares

Fenders

Warps

wooden ships comments on this 12’6” Bantham Sailing Dinghy            New Build.                        Devon             £14,000

The Bantham Class sailing dinghy originates in the Devon village of Bantham on the banks of the R. Avon near Kingsbridge, a very pretty traditional sailing dinghy.

A small fleet was built by a local boat builder and still sail in the river but this is the first new boat to be built for more than 10 years.

Built by Devon boat builder Jim Little, first launched July 2013

Construction

Planked in khaya mahogany and finished varnished.

Steam bent green oak timbers copper nail and rove fastened.

Hood ends and garboards screwed and glued with epoxy glue.

Thwarts, side benches and after bench in khaya mahogany.

Galvanised steel centre-plate on simple tackle.

The hull is finished in 2 coats of West Epoxy WRA 200 with 2 coats of single pack varnish inside and 2 coats of 2-pack varnish outside.

2 coats of Epoxy Primer Undercoat below the waterline.

Lifting rudder on stainless steel hangings.

Brass rubbing strip along the keel.

Gunter rig on varnished Douglas fir mast stepped on the keel through the forward thwart. The gunter rig requires a relatively short mast so very easy to lift and step single handed standing in the boat.

Spruce yard and boom.

Kicker on tackle with quick release block.

Rigging.

Stainless steel standing rigging – single shroud preside and fore stay all set up with lanyards.

Sails

Mainsail and jib by Hummingbird Sails of Bantham.

Mainsail sheets to a track on the top edge of the transom.

Jib sheets through fairleads on the thwarts with adjacent jammer.

Equipment.

All standing rigging

Mainsail sheet and associated blocks

Jib sheets and associated fair leads

Anchor

Anchor warp

Oars

Rowlocks

3 bouyancy bags

Boat cover

Wooden ships comments on this Salcombe yawl

Salcombe Yawl Y34 was commissioned by the present owner’s grandfather from Stones of East Portlemouth on the Salcombe Estuary and built in 1960.

She has been rebuilt by her present boat builder owner, Jim Little at his workshop in East Devon

Y34 was the first of 3 yawls built by Stones with an inboard Stuart Turner1 ½ hp petrol engine.

New yawls are still being built in wood, currently costing around £40,000!

Construction.

Planked in mahogany. Prior to present ownership 8 shifts of planking had been professionally replaced.

Aluminium lifting rudder

Refit.

In the refit, Jim Little removed the engine.

All the steam bent timbers replaced in green oak except the forward 3.

New centre-board case in sapele

New thwarts in sapele

New coamings in utile

New deck in Tiger Elite sapele-faced marine ply.

The hull is treated in 2 coats of SP Eposeal, a thin penetrating epoxy resin which seals and water-proofs the timber.

2 coats of Epoxy Primer undercoats below the water-line.

The hull is painted in single pack Epifanes.

The deck, coamings and sheer strake are all coated in 2 coats of tiwn pack varnish and finished in 2 coats of single pack varnish.

The interior is finished in 2 coats of single pack varnish.

Cast iron centre-plate coated in epoxy resin paint. Raised on tackle.

Rig

Varnished spruce main mast.

Aluminium boom on main

Varnished spruce mizzen mast

Varnished spruce mizzen boom

Mainsail and jib, not in new condition.

5mm stainless steel standing rigging to the main all replaced within the last 10 years.

2mm stainless steel rigging to the mizzen

Recent halyards. New main and jib sheets.

Spruce bowsprit and bumpkin.

Main sheeted to rope horse over the transom, the tail led to a block with jammer on the after end of the c/board casing.

Mizzen sheeted to jammers on the coamings.

Equipment

Paddle

Boat-hook

Nice condition road trailer.

Wooden ships comments on this Gibb Halcyon sailing dinghy 

Designed and built by Kenneth Gibbs, Shepperton on Thames in 1947.      Design No 142

Gibbs designed the Halcyon Class for use on both river and more open estuary waters sailing and she was featured in Yachting Monthly in 1948.

Two versions were offered – the cruising version with gunter rig and a racing version with bermudian rig.

Length on deck                                  14’  (4.26m)

Beam                                                      5’    (1.52m)

Draft  plate down                              3’    (.91m)

Clinker planked in mahogany all copper fastened to steam bent oak timbers.

The hull is finished varnished inside and out, anti-fouled below the water-line, painted bilge.

Varnished mahogany transom and centre-board box.

Varnished marine ply fore deck and narrow side decks and aft deck.

Varnished mahogany coaming.

Midships thwart across the after end of the centre-board case.

Side seats and aft thwart.

Loose lift-out seats across the forward end of the centre-board case.

Painted steel centre-board. Tackle to raise and lower.

Two bum seats on the coaming each side for sitting out.

Rowlocks sockets in blocks against the coaming.

Varnished, removeable slatted bottom boards.

Bronze fair leads fore and aft. Bronze cleat on the fore deck.

Varnished folding rudder armed with lead. Removeable tiller.

Gunter rig on varnished mast stepped on a knee in the forward point of the coamings. Compression post below.

Stainless steel rigging, one shroud per side and fore stay set up with lanyards to inboard bronze chain plates.

Varnished gunter yard runs up the mast in an exterior bronze sail track. Single halyard.

Varnished rectangular section boom, slotted to take the sail foot. The boom fitting also slots in to the mast sail track and is adjustable up and down.

The boom sheets to a horse over the tiller with tufnol blocks.

Small jib on a straight pull to a cleat inside the coaming.

Mainsail, small jib, larger jib, all in white terylene.

New running and standing rigging.

Refitted in 10 years present ownership with this professional wooden boat builder.

16 steam bent timbers replaced out of a total of 27 and fastened with copper nails and roves. (original fastenings were clenched copper nails)

Lower section of the transom replaced.

The boat has been stripped to bare wood inside and out, repainted and revarnished.

2-wheel painted steel trailer with mudguards and jockey wheel.

Boat cover.

A very pretty sailing dinghy in nice condition at a very reasonable price, ready to sail.

Wooden ships comments on this 16′ clinker launch

 Year:  1953.  Believed to have been built in Scotland where the current owner purchased her.

Construction: 

Clinker planked mahogany copper rivet fastened to steam bent oak timbers.  Heavy duty gunnels and rubbing strake.

Straight laid fore deck and aft deck with payed seams and finished in varnish.  Sampson post on the foredeck.  Storage locker under the foredeck behind a bulkhead.

Midships engine box with forward cockpit area and full width bench seat.  Aft area with conventional thwarts.  The large beam provides a lot of working space within the boat and allows seating for 6 people.

Machinery:

Volvo Penta MD2 inboard diesel with stainless steel shaft to conventional 3 blade propeller.  Transom hung varnished rudder

Dimensions:  Length 16’5”. Beam 7’. Draft 18”.

Lying:  South Coast.

wooden ships comments on this Dartmouth launch 

The last boat built by the Wootton Bridge Boatbuilders Ltd. Cowes, completed and displayed at the 2007 Xcel London Boat Show.

Clinker planked in 7/16” Brasilian mahogany, all copper fastened to steam oak timbers on an iroko back-bone. Utile floors. Epifanes varnished topsides and inside .

Fore deck and aft deck laid in teak over a ply sub deck, seams payed in black Sikaflex. Varnished mahogany cover-boards with rope fendering all round.

Bronze deck fittings including fairleads forward and aft and single chain-roller stemhead fitting. Ensign staff carried in a bronze socket on the top of the rudder stock.

Sampson post on the fore deck and Sampson posts in the after cock-pit coaming corners.

Nav lights carried on a stainless steel post 18” above the fore deck. Bronze stern light on the transom.

Cock-pit coamings in varnished mahogany, nicely radiussed around the forward face.

All varnished interior surfaces with a stowage tray under the fore deck and locker under the stern deck.

Centre console carries the hydraulic wheel steering and engine instrument display under a Perspex hinge-up lid. Hydraulic ram under the aft deck to a short tiller on the rudder stock.

The engine is under a removeable box in front of the console giving full all round access.

Varnished mahogany bench seating each side from the forward well cock-pit to the seat across the stern behind the wheel.

The cock-pit sole is laid in scrubbed teak on ply lifting panels.

Betamarine 10hp 2-cylinder diesel engine, fresh-water cooled with heat exchanger installed on the centre-line midships. Single lever controls. Bronze sea-cock for sea water intake.

Conventional stern gear and shaft running in an external cutlass bearing and grease stuffing box on the inside end with remote greaser. 3-blade bronze prop.

Stainless steel fuel tank of approx 15 litres under the fore deck with deck filler.

Fuel filter fitted in the shelf under the fore deck for easy access with flexible rubber fuel piping.

12v battery located under the after thwart. Main isolating switch on the steering console.

Folding anchor and warp.

12v nav lights.

Fenders

Cock-pit cover

All-over boat cover.

New galvanised trailer with spare wheel.

Launched for a short sea trial after returning from the London Boat-Show and remained unused and stored ashore under cover until sold by Wooden Ships to the present owner in the Scilly Isles 3 years ago. Owner now bought a larger varnished boat.

This is an immaculate boat, afloat and ready to use.

wooden ships comments on this Gaff rigged punt

14’ gaff rigged punt, believed to have been built in 1890.

Clinker planked pine, fastened with copper nails and roves to steam bent timbers.

Oak back-bone.

Additional timber keel recently fitted full length to give the hull a little more grip in the water for sailing.

Short bilge keels fitted recently to allow her to sit on the beach.

90kg ballast carried as steel punching in removeable plastic milk bottles stowed centrally under the sole boards.

2011 refit when new capping rails were fitted.

New marine ply sole boards fitted

Hull painted

Spars varnished.

New outboard bracket fitted to the transom.

Gaff mainsail.

Fore sail.

Mast stepped in a tabernacle on the forward thwart for easy lowering.

Midships rowing thwart with twin knees.

Jib sheet fairleads on the gunnel to jamming cleats on the midships thwart.

Halyards made off to mast cleats.

Fixed bowsprit to port of the stemhead, heel secured to the mast tabernacle.

Bobstay chain and whisker guys.

Single shrouds set up with rigging screws to internal bronze chain plates.

Masthead forestay to the outer end of the bowsprit.

Pair of oars

Road trailer with new bearings and tyres.

Anchor and warp.

Mooring warps

3 fenders

Seagull outboard engine

wooden ships comments on this Haven 12.5  centre-board version  sloop                                          £10,750

An almost new boat, very little sailed.

The Herreshoff 12 ½ designed by the great Nat Herreshoff in 1914 when he was already 66 years old has become possibly his most enduring design despite 6 Americas Cup winners and so many fabulous big yachts with hundreds of them built in the USA and round the world

American designer Joel White described the Herreshoff 12 ½  as “ probably the best small boat ever designed” and went on to design a centre-board version of the great man’s 12 ½  which he called the Haven 12 ½,  Design No 75.

Joel White’s centreboard Haven 12 ½ version  is shallower in the bilge than the original with 3” more in the beam to maintain displacement. Rig, hull shape above wl, performance and everything else remain the same as the Herreshoff 12 ½

Built by boat-builder Martin Cruden, Findhorn, Morayshire in 2001

Cedar strip plank and epoxy construction

Galvanised steel centre-board.

Bermudian sloop rig.

Mainsail, Genoa and self tacking staysail.

Yamaha 3.5hp outboard engine.

4-wheel galvanised road trailer.

This yacht has been very lightly used sailing occasionally on the Broads and Lake Windermere, stored under cover and is offered in almost as new condition.

wooden ships comments on this Broads One Design  Brown Boat.

A One Design Class, racing under the burgee of the Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club.

The fleet gained the nick-name of Brown Boats as they all have varnished hulls.

The class was designed by Linton Hope and the yachts were built by the Burnham Yacht  Building Co.

The first race for the Class took place on Oulton Broad on Whit Monday 1901 after the first 5 yachts were delivered from Burnham on Crouch by flat bed train trucks.

31 yachts were built over a period of 38 years.

27 yachts still exist including the first 5 built.

A grp version was introduced in 1985 and the class fleet now numbers 87

The design features an extreme cut-away fore foot and a fine flat counter stern.

The first 12 yachts were planked in cedar. This one, No 13, 1912 was the first to be planked in mahogany.

Carvel mahogany planking, fastened with copper nails and roves to steam oak timbers on an oak back-bone.

External lead ballast keel, 784lbs.

Oak floors

Ply deck overlaid with linoleum, unusual, not uncommon and very effective.

Varnished mahogany coamings.

Inflatable floatation bags in the bow and the counter.

Gaff sloop rig on a varnished spruce pole mast. The mast is stepped in a wooden tabernacle on deck which allows the mast to be readily lowered to shoot the bridge on the Broads.

Mainsail and jib in white terylene believed to be only 3 seasons old.

Older suit of sails.

Stainless steel rigging with stainless steel rigging screws to stainless steel chain plates.

Excellent 4-wheel braked road trailer. New wheels, tyres and mudguards.

New 5hp Honda outboard engine, still under guarantee.

12v battery secured under the aft deck and charged by a solar panel.

12v bilge pump on a float switch

Depth sounder

Manual bilge pump.

12v auto bilge pump.

12v battery  charged by a solar panel.

Spring 2013. New paint and varnish. Ready to sail

This Broads One Design No 13, was refitted some years ago by a previous owner, a well-known Norfolk yachtsman who owned the yacht from 1973 to 1990.

A condition report from September 09 indicates that the yacht was in very sound condition and confirms that the bottom paint was removed and the seams raked out in 2004.

The seams were payed up with Sikaflex, a flexible butyl rubber sealant and the hull antifouled.

In 2010 several feet of seams were again raked out and repayed with Sikaflex.

A complete yard maintenance record is on file from the last 10 years.

Present ownership for one year only. Sadly bad hips prevent the owner from enjoying the yacht for another season.