Wooden Ships Comments on this Naval Clinker Rowing Boat

Built by 1^st year shipwright apprentices of HM Dockyard, Portsmouth in 1974.  These small boats were used as tenders and as such are fitted with bronze lifting eyes so they can be hoisted aboard the larger vessel.

This dinghy has excellent pedigree, we have photos of her being built and recent contact with the two apprentices who actually built the boat.

A nice little dinghy with good pedigree

Length                  10’

Beam

Wooden Ships Comments on this Prospector Canadian Canoe

Prospector canoe design from Bear Mountain Boats of Canada.

Built by the owner in 2021 after he completed the boat building course at the Lyme Regis school.

She is complete with a pair of Beaver Tail paddles and is ready to go.

The canoe has a beam of 3’6” making her exceptionally stable and practical.  Her weight is approximately 25kg so she can be easily carried on the shoulder of one person.

An elegant, practical and very nicely built canoe, perfect for exploring local coats and rivers.

Length                  16’

Beam                    3’6”

Weight                 25kg

Construction

Strip plank yellow cedar with western red cedar accents.

Hull is sheathed inside and out with epoxy glass cloth using West System epoxy.

Finished externally with 2 pack varnish and painted inside.

Chestmut sole boards glued into the bottom of the hull to provide grip

Ash stems and gunwhales with oak rubbing strakes.  All oil finish.

Seats of ash with leather infills.

Pair of Beaver Tail paddles made from ash and douglas fir.  Paddles of 61” and 59” respectively.

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 Motor Launch

Built by Rustons of Mylor, Cornwall in about 1964.

Purchased by the current owner with a rather ugly wheelhouse, she was refitted in 2014 with the new laid teak foredeck and large aft cockpit to make a very attractive and practical motor launch.

The accommodation under the foredeck is basic with space to fit something rather special if desired.  There is enough room for 2 good sized single berths to make her an excellent weekend camping boat.

Length                  21’6”

Beam                    7’6”

Draft                      2’4”

Construction

Carvel planked in Honduras mahogany, copper rivet fastened to steam bent Canadian Rock Elm timbers.

Varnished mahogany raised topside planks.

Internal ballast is a mix or iron and lead pigs.

Wooden floors across the centreline.

Straight laid teak foredeck epoxy glued over a marine plywood subdeck on laminated sapele beams.  Varnished mahogany coverboards and skylight.  Deck new in 2014.

Large cockpit with varnished mahogany capping on the gunwhales.  Laid teak aft deck.

Sole boards in solid timber, finished in grey paint.

Varnished teak U-shaped seating around the aft end of the cockpit.

Transom hung rudder with hydraulic steering system.

Machinery

Perkins 3.125 3cyl marinised diesel engine.

Fresh water cooled with a heat exchanger.  Annually serviced, comes with a full workshop manual.  New stainless hose clips and alternator in 2021.

PRM hydraulic gearbox to a fixed 3 blade bronze propeller.

Single 12 volt battery, new in 2021.

25 litre plastic fuel tank under the aft deck with water separator filter.

Bronze and teak wheel steering with a Vetus manual hydraulic system to a ram on the rudder stock.

Accommodation

Simple accommodation under the foredeck with space for 2 single berths.

These have been partly altered to increase their width and extend further into the bows.

The original sea toilet in the bows has been removed but the seacocks are still in place.

Space to create some lovely accommodation for weekend camping trips.  Room for 2 berths or for seating to give shelter when the weather turns.

Equipment

Small mast with navigation lights

Bruce anchor with chain and warp

Ensign and staff

Fenders

Warps

Boat hook

12 volt battery

Small solar panel

Summer cockpit cover

Blakes manual bilge pump

Auto electric bilge pump

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 RNSA Sailing Dinghy

RNSA 14 sailing dinghy in superb condition having been given a very thorough refit for the late owner by Peter Freebody and Co. on the Thames.

This major refit was commissioned by the late owner and work was completed in December 2013, with minor finishing jobs done at Robertsons Boatyard, Suffolk in 2016. A full condition survey was carried out in July 2016, a copy of this is available.  The boat has been used very little since and stored in a dry dark garage for most of the intervening years.

The RNSA dinghy was designed for the Royal Navy to teach sailing to the cadets with some carried on larger war ships.  The design was a huge success and many examples were built for the domestic market by various yards around the country as they were such stable, safe and easy to sail dinghies.

This dinghy is an ex navy example and has a War Department Registered No. SDY/852002

There is unlikely to be a better example on the market than this little boat.  All invoices from the work carried out are available along with the 2016 survey report.

Length on Deck                 14’

Beam                                    5’7”

Construction

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

Total of 8 full oak timbers and 16 half oak timbers were renewed.  A number of new sections of planking were fitted.

Varnished hull inside and out.

Varnished oak rubbing strake and mahogany transom with laminated oak quarter knees.  New ash inwhales.

Oak stem and keel with a brass stem band.  New oak top to the stem in the refit

Varnished mahogany thwarts resting on an oak stringer.

Varnished mahogany centreboard case with a galvanised steel plate.  Raised and lowered on a bronze reduction pulley wheel.

Varnished mahogany rudder on bronze hangings with a hinged galvanised steel rudder blade.  Ash tiller.

Slatted varnished mahogany sole boards

Rig

Gunter sloop rig on a keel stepped varnished spruce mast supported at gunwhale level by a new Honduras mahogany thwart.

Varnished spruce boom and gunter yard.  Leathered bronze jaws on the yard

Hand spliced 4mm galvanised steel wire standing rigging to external bronze chain plates tensioned with rope lanyards.

Mainsail and jib in cream terylene.

Machinery

Mercury 2.5hp 2 stroke outboard engine mounts on a bracket on the transom

Equipment

Road trailer

All over canvas cover

Pair of oars and bronze rowlocks

Blocks for securing spars in transport

Mercury 2.5hp 2 stroke outboard engine

Mainsail

Jib

Standing and running rigging

Rudder, tiller and centreplate

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 Clinker motor launch

Clinker motor launch, not known exactly where or when she was built, but judged to be a 1950’s boat.

Professionally cared for in the present ownership, with a thorough refit last winter including a new foredeck, new engine box, rebuilt trailer and all new external paint and varnish.

She is a well equipped boat with a chart plotter, recent engine and good condition Snipe road trailer making her a complete package in good sound condition.

The generous beam and substantial build make her a solid and stable boat, more capable than her length would suggest.

Length Overall                   14′

Beam                                    5’10”

Construction

Clinker planked in mahogany all copper rivet fastened to steam bent oak timbers.  Varnished topsides all stripped back to bare wood and re-varnished with Deks Olje in 2022.

Small foredeck straight laid in mahogany with Sikaflex seams.  Deck all new in 2022.  New varnished mahogany capping on the gunwhales.

Bronze cleats and fairleads.

Varnished mahogany thwarts.

Wheel steering with a chromed wheel and cables to the tiller

New engine box in 2022 made from T&G timber, lined with sound insulation.

Canvas sprayhood on a stainless frame shelters the boat.  Zip on tonneau cover keeps the whole boat dry when not in use

Machinery

Yanmar 1GM10 single cylinder diesel with very low running hours, fitted new in 2018 by Purbeck Marine, Poole.  Regularly serviced and ready to go.

Single lever controls with a fixed 3 blade bronze propeller gives 5 knots cruising speed.

Single 12 volt battery in a box under the foredeck charged by the engine alternator.

Fuel tank under the foredeck with new fuel lines and valves.

Equipment

Snipe road trailer with light board

Sprayhood

Tonneau cover

Raymarine chart plotter with sounder

12 volt battery

Manual bilge pump

Auto electric bilge pump

Removable all round white navigation light

Pair of oars and rowlocks

Boat hook

Stainless steel swim ladder

Fenders and warps

Engine box canvas cover

Disclaimer:

These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.

Wooden Ships Comments on this Clinker lug rigged dinghy 

Believed to have been built by Ernest Collins of Norfolk, possibly as a tender to one of their larger cruising boats.

Professionally rebuilt on the Isle of Wight to a nice standard, equipped with a road trailer and all over cover.

Length                  12’

Beam

Construction

Clinker planked hull, all copper rivet fastened to steam bent timbers.

Varnished mahogany transom.

Varnished mahogany rubbing strake with oak inwhale and oak breasthook and quarter knees.

Varnished pine thwarts with grown oak hanging knees.

Slatted pine sole boards.

Galvanised centreplate in a wooden centreplate box.

Varnished mahogany rudder with a laminated tiller.

Rig

Standing lug rig on an unstayed varnish pine mast.

Painted wooden boom and lug yard.

Tan mainsail with a single line of reefing points.

Equipment

Galvanised road trailer

Mainsail and rig

Rudder, tiller and centreplate

All over boat cover

Pair of oars and rowlocks

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 Stroma Yole

Built by Banks Brothers in Harrow on the north Scottish coast in 1904.

Registered in Wick in 1912 with the registration number WK378.  She was built for a group of owners on Stroma, David Sinclair, Hugh Simpson, James Robertson, Matthew Dundas and Sinclair Bremner.  All were crofters on the island of Stroma who required a boat to transport their livestock to and from the mainland across the notoriously rough Pentland Firth.

Rebuilt in the 1970’s and sailed extensively around the Summer Isles and Caledonian Canal, to Cromarty and Nairn on the Moray Firth and to the Portsoy Boat Festival.

The vessel recently was found taking on water and lifted ashore for safety.  The engine had water around it at that time but has since been proven to be in running condition and evidently did not get water inside the engine.

Length on Deck                 25’

Beam                                    9’2”

Draft                                      2’8”

Construction

Clinker planked in larch oak frames, all copper fastened.

Straight laid deck of pine with a small toe rail mounted on the heads of the frames that protrude through the cover board.

Two separate cockpits with painted coamings.  The aft cockpit is for the helmsman with a thwart either side.  The forward cockpit is larger for crew or cargo.

Rig

Standing lug rig on an unstayed mast, stepped through the foredeck onto the keel.

Single lug sail in heavy tan material.

Machinery

Beta Marine 36hp BD1005 4cyl diesel.  Recently run up and checked.

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 Whitby Coble

Whitby Coble built in 1964 by Clarksons Boatyard.

A typical east coast fishing boat design, used for centuries to fish in the coastal waters of the east coast.  Usually launched and recovered from the beach, they are tough stable boats with bluff bows to ride the swells.

Bought by the present owner 18 months ago and not used since, the boat was refitted and the engine overhauled by the previous owner in 2020.  She is sitting on a double axle road trailer which is in rough condition but appears sound.

Length                  19’

Construction

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

A very flat bilge, the steamed timbers stretch from one gunwhale to the other across the centreline in a single piece of timber tying the hull together.

Double ended hull with heavy stem and stern post.

Three separate thwarts with heavy section supporting knees.

Plywood sole boards in sections.

Machinery

Lister single cylinder air cooled SR1 diesel engine, refurbished in 2020 with very few hours since.

Lister gearbox controlled with a lever, to a stainless shaft and fixed 3 blade bronze propeller.

Disclaimer:

These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.

 Wooden Ships Comments on this 9′ rowing dinghy

Built by Dixon and Sons of Exmouth and owned by Peter Dixon the yard owner.

A pretty dinghy, probably built as a tender as she has a full bilge to make her stable and buoyant.

2 rowing positions .

A pretty and sound little dinghy, ideal for someone to work on at home and refit in the garage, once she is stripped and varnished she will look absolutely superb

Length                  9′

Construction

Clinker planked in larch, copper rivet fastened to steam bent oak timbers.

Mahogany sheer strake with oak gunnels and 2 rowing positions

Oak stem and keel.

Mahogany transom with oak quarter knees and a back rest board.

Larch thwarts with sawn hanging knees.

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 Selway Fisher gaff rigged dinghy

Designed by Selway Fisher, taken from “Selway Fisher Plans of America”.  Built by Long Island Boats of Wareham, Dorset in the 1990’s.

Large volume and stable hull built from plywood for a low maintenance and light weight hull.  She weighs only 180lbs (81kg) so is an easy boat to launch, retrieve and move around.

Stored ashore in a garage when not in use, a sound and practical little boat for enjoyable summers on the water.

Boat comes with a full cover and a combination road trailer with launching trolley so is a complete package ready to be used this summer.

Length                  12’

Beam                    5’

Weight                 81kg

Sail Area               124sqft

Construction

Built from ¼” marine plywood, Lloyds approved, sealed with epoxy resin.

Built in buoyancy tanks.

Solid mahogany gunwhales and rubbing strakes.  Bronze fairleads and fittings.

Centreboard of plywood in a marine plywood case.

Solid timber thwarts.

Drop plate rudder made from marine plywood.

Fitting on the transom to take a small outboard engine.

Rig

Gaff sloop rig with all spars of Canadian yellow pine.  Mast, boom, gaff yard and bowsprit.

Simple standing rigging set up with lanyards.

Mainsail and jib with total sail area of approximately 124sqft.  Sails made from tan terylene.

Running rigging falls to belay pins at the base of the mast.

Equipment

Road trailer with combination launching trolley

All over cover

Pair of oars and rowlocks

Rudder, tiller and centreplate

Mainsail, jib and rigging

Fenders and warps

Disclaimer:

These particulars have been prepared in good faith from information provided by the Vendors and are intended as a guide, Wooden Ships cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. The Purchaser should instruct his agent or surveyor to validate all details as necessary and satisfy himself with the condition of the vessel and its equipment.