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Laurent Giles Vertue – Reduced

£ 12,500

Boat Details

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25′ Laurent Giles Vertue designed by Laurent Giles and built by Stebbings of Burnham on Crouch in 1951.  She was built for the Festival of Britain exhibition in 1951 as an example of top class British boat building and craftsmanship, there are black and white photos of her being exhibited with her original varnished hull.  She was named ‘Festival Vertue’ when launched.

After this she remained in the same family for over  50 years, based in Essex, where she was very well maintained and had a major professional refit in 2005.  She then moved to Devon where she is now based and has been kept up to a very good standard by her diligent owner with professional help where required.  She benefits from a very smart recently made winter cover that fits around the mast and protects the whole boat.

This is the short doghouse model giving a slightly larger cockpit and a bridge deck, ideal for weekend and day sailing.  The interior offers 2 comfortable berths and 6′ headroom plus a heads and galley, everything you need for local cruising and long weekends aboard.

This is a very smart example of the Vertue in really ready to go condition with a nice pedigree and history.

Benefitting from a Nov 2022 Survey, the Surveyor concluded “Virtue Fidelis was generally found to be in very good order, particularly in view of the fact that the vessel is more than 70 years old.” and valued her at the price of £22,000

May 2024 hull gloss painted, primed and antifouled with Sea Jet 33, all preseason minor repairs carried out, deck painted, 4 coats of G4 and 4 coats of International Schooner varnish applied ready for a new owner in 2024.

Refit History in Current Ownership

• Refurbish saloon table legs, new Blakes engine sea cock, New Steaming light housing, Bulwark repairs – £1326
• Rebuild external mahogany coach roof and dog house coamings/joints plus all mahogany beads – £2613
• Rig Check – all ok – £215.00 ( 1 new back stay fitted) – £161
• Rebuild, make good and finish , cabin sides, fore hatch, rebuilt inner frame to forehatch, new dorade box built, strengthen transom quarters with stainless steel, rebed samson post trims – £3102
• Strip, refurbish and paint baby blakes heads – £230
• Supply and fit Raymarine ST2000 pilot plus wireless remote, fit 2 new batteries – £1514
• Purpose designed high quality supplied and fitted overall winter maintenance cover with windows, zip doors and vents in heavy duty “Topgun” material – To be sold by separate negotiation, cost new £3000
• Sails and covers clean and add 3rd reef to main sail + add V40 insignia – £302.00
• Fit new transducer and NASA reader casing, service sea cocks, make new storage box in cockpit, refiited new lever deck pads.

Remove grab rails burn off and revarnish. Remove sliding hatch, burn off and revarnish – £1236

• Supply and fit new Nassa Clipper depth Sounder – £254
• Refit of whole Bulwark outboard and inboard and refurbish deck finish. (9 coats, 3 primer, 3 pre-kote, 3 topcoats) all repairs as required.
• Below water line small areas of repair 4 no graving pieces fastened.

Refit new king plank, remove bit post and refit, remove and make good all deck fittings and pads – Total £3886.00

• Rebuild and repair shaft log around stern tube (see photo) 44 hours work. Remove and rebuild starboard side transom and new oak frame. – £2648

2022 – September 16 th to Relaunch 11 th November

• Un-step mast and all rigging and standing rigging.
• Refit anti chafe covers to spreaders
• Rig Report carried out by Lee Rogers Rigging – See separate Report
• Complete mast refurb back to bare wood with 9 coats of protection, re-painted steelwork as required.
• New mast wiring and fixings for mast head light and VHF ariel fitted.
• Bumpkin rigging shackles upgraded to load tested SS Shackles.
• A total of 11No Keel Bolts drawn and inspected.
• 3 No small Bronze false keel bolts checked in perfect condition – refitted in false keel.
• 8 No new EN8 (High Tensile strength Medium Carbon) Steel Spun Galvanised Ballast keel bolts machined and re-refitted with Linseed Oil/Red Led powder mix with Caulking and Sika at top and bottom of each keel
• Hull planking refurbished as required with small, localised repairs refit with graving pieces, plugs, red lead putty. Sacrificial timber keel timber of iron ballast keel rebedded screwed and plugged.
• Make repair to one area of underside of false keel area as required elm pieces.
• Hull – 2 coats of Sea Jet Primer No 15 and 2 coats of Sea Jet Anitfoul No 33 Applied
• Sea Cocks all checked and working.
• Mast base timber plate refurbished, primed and painted.
• Bumkin timber refurbished 6 coats of Epifanes
• New anode fitted plus new aft inboard anode support pad replaced.
• Deck repainted with Hempel Grip deck paint.
• Bulwark and covering Boards repainted with 2 coats Hempel white satin topcoat.
• Coach Roof, Coamings, Hatches, Handrails and Bulwark capping all varnished.
• Interior – Underside of T&G decking repainted with 2 coats of Zinsser sealing/priming paint and 2 coats of Antimould Paint topcoat.
• Insurance Survey Carried out 7 th November 2022

Construction

Planked in Honduras mahogany all copper rivet fastened to steam bent oak timbers.

Mainly grown oak floors across the centreline with a few galvanised straps in the ends of the hull.

External iron ballast keel of just over 2 tons.  Galvanised steel keel bolts last drawn in 2010 when a few were replaced as necessary.

Sheathed T&G Red Cedar decks, finished in deck paint.  Decks sheathed in original canvas, recently re-painted. Bulwark taken back to bare wood in 2021 repainted with 9 coats of primer, pre-kote and top coat.

King Plank, Sampson Post and Bow Stem fitting removed new king plank fitted, finished with 2 Coats Bonda Seal, prime, undercoat, top coat of Hempel

Stainless steel pulpit and stanchions with the usual Vertue bulwark all round, this was removed and refitted in 2021. All deck pads, cleats and grab rails removed taken back to bare wood and revarnished in 2021.

Very smart cockpit with varnished mahogany slatted thwarts and scrubbed teak sole boards.

Varnished mahogany coamings with bronze framed windows.  Coamings and doghouse overhauled in 2018 and 2019, stripped to bare wood, new beading fitted and re-varnished.

Transom hung rudder with varnished tiller.

Bermudan slutter rig on a deck stepped solid varnished wooden mast mounted in a galvanised shoe on the coachroof deck.

Varnished wooden slab reefing boom and varnished spinnaker pole.  Small bumpkin carrying the standing backstay.  Boom sits in a gallows across the aft of the cockpit with a double tailed mainsheet.

Stainless steel standing rigging new in 2011, to stainless rigging screws.  Rig professionally checked in 2018, new backstay fitted.

Stainless steel internal chain plates replaced new in 2013.

Running backstays on galvanised levers with new wooden base pads.

2 mast and 2 cockpit winches.

Full suit of sails including a cruising chute new in 2001.  All sails and covers valeted in 2021 with a 3 rd reef added to the mainsail. Her original sails are still with the boat

Yanmar 1GM10 single cylinder 10hp diesel installed new approximately 1997.  Regularly serviced and well maintained.

New Stainless Exhaust Elbow fitted 2020

Vetus Water Strainer added 2020. New Water Pump 2021.

Vetus water exhaust lock checked and serviced 2021

Single lever controls with a centreline fixed 3 blade bronze propeller.

Shaft log and stern tube rebuilt in 2021. New Blakes engine sea cock fitted 2018, all other Sea Cocks serviced 2021.

5 gallon stainless fuel tank under the aft deck

5 gallon plastic water tank.

2 x 12 volt batteries charged from the engine alternator.  Batteries new in 2020.

Accommodation

Simple layout below decks with 2 berths, heads and galley.

Steps down from the entrance hatch with galley to port and chart desk to starboard.

Galley has an Origo spirit stove, storage cupboards and a single stainless sink with manually pumped fresh water.

Typical Vertue half height curved bulkheads separating off the main saloon.

Settee berth either side with lee cloths and trotter boxes  at the forward end.

Centreline door into the forepeak with an aft facing Baby Blake sea toilet which was stripped and refurbished in 2020.  Space for stowage of sails, fenders etc.

Plastimo steering compass

Hand bearing compass

Garmin GPS 72

NASA clipper sounder, new 2021

Walker trailing log

Raymarine ST2000 tiller pilot new 2020

Clock and barometer

Engine space fire extinguisher

Plastimo safety ladder

Kim MOB sling

Horse shoe life buoy with light

Electric bilge pump

Manual bilge pump

Radar reflector

20lbs CQR anchor

45m 5/16″ galvanised chain

10lbs CQR with 90′ of chain and warp

Gowan mainsail

Gowan Yankee

Gowan No.1 staysail

Cruising chute

Large genoa

1972 Mainsail

1972 No.2 staysail

Original sails from 1952, storm jib and No.2 staysail in Egyptian cotton.

Mainsail cover + spare

Full winter cover in Topgun  material, new 2020

Cockpit summer cover

Forehatch cover

5 large fenders

Selection of warps and lines

Bunk and berth cushions

Laurent Giles saloon table

2 cabin oil lamps

Yanmar 1GM 10 diesel engine

2 x 12 volt batteries, new 2020

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Laurent Giles 25 ft Vertue Ocean 1990 - Sold

ELLENOR JOSEPHINE

Laurent giles 25 ft vertue ocean 1990.

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BROKER'S COMMENTS

It is remarkable that such a small unassuming boat has almost become Laurent Giles’s hallmark rather than one his other important designs in the league of large luxury yachts and ocean racers. From before the 2nd World War Vertues have criss-crossed most of the World’s oceans; many such voyages undertaken single handed speaking volumes for this enduring design. ELLENOR JOSEPHINE was commissioned and built IBTC Lowestoft to a high specification by someone who wanted to sail long distances. Much thought has also gone into her inventory. In the event, she has cruised but not been very far afield and she remains in a condition close to that when launched in 1990. This boat would be as perfect for mucking about on a Saturday outing in the West Country as she would for taking on the mid Atlantic.

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Class comments

The extended cruising version of this design was known as the Vertue Ocean and incorporated modifications from the original Vertue design suggested to Laurent Giles by Humphrey Barton. They were described on p 158 of his book entitled “Vertue XXXV”. The class was actually named post war by Laurent Giles in recognition of the presentation to Lawrence Biddle and Humphrey Barton on EPENETA, of the Little Ship Club’s Vertue Cup for their crossing the Bay of Biscay in 1939. There is a chapter in the book “Laurent Giles and his Yacht Designs” by Adrian Lee and Ruby Philpott dedicated to the Vertues and detailing numerous members of the Class with numerous anecdotes extolling their resilience, practicality and sheer performance in some of the World’s most powerful oceans. Humphrey Barton following his epic passage from the Lizard to Sandy Hook off New York in 1950 was to say: “I honestly believe she best designed built and equipped small ocean going cruising yacht that has yet been produced. Her ability to stand up to bad weather, her remarkable high performance under sail and the comfort of her accommodation are outstanding” - No surprise then that even before the Class half century, some 200 had been built.

This boat was launched in November 1990 for Mr Ian Wright and named PATIENCE. Mr Wright died around 2005, his widow selling the boat to Mr Brian Edmunds MBE FCA in August 2006. Her current owner bought her in July 2009 at Tollesbury in Essex, then taking her to Mashfords Yard opposite Plymouth Devon, where she underwent an extensive refit. And was renamed ELLENOR JOSEPHINE.

Construction

- Strongly built to Lloyds Al of iroko planking copper fastened onto oak frames - Iron keel sandblasted and epoxy coated in refit - Bronze bolts - Bolted steel and oak floors - Teak laid deck - Varnished mahogany coach roof - Oiled spars

Accommodation and domestic equipment

- Saloon with 2 x 6 ft 3 inch single berths with lee cloths for sleeping on passage - Cushion and panel infill to bridge the berths for harbour sleeping - Stowage below and outboard of the berths - Blue upholstery - Eberspacher D2 diesel heating system - Galley with a Taylor 030 paraffin 2 burner hob and oven - Various copper and stainless steel pots and pans with fiddle rail and holders - 2 stainless water tanks - Blake marine WC in forepeak - 12 V and oil lighting

Mechanical, electrical and tankage

- Beta Marine 14 HP inboard diesel new in 2004 approx 500 hours to date - Shaft drive to fixed bronze propeller - Single lever Morse control in cockpit - Engine alternator charging 2 x 12 V batteries - Stainless fuel header tank c 70 litres - Racor fuel filter - 2 x 33 gallon / 150 litre stainless steel fresh water tanks total c 66 gallons 300 litres

Navigation communications and electronics

- Sestrel hand bearing compass in bulkhead mounted case - Sestrel steering compass - Furuno 7000 F plotter / sounder - Furuno GP32 GPS - Furuno cockpit repeater - Walker Knotmaster log - Walker Excelsior log - Simrad TP30 autopilot - Furuno DSC VHF - Sextant in wooden case - Barometer and clock - Lead line - Steaming lights - Tri colour masthead light - Oil Anchor light

- Permanently fitted jackstay lifelines - 2 x Safety harnesses - Avon Ocean ISO 9650 4P TIA Canister Life raft V80381 - 2 x Dry powder fire extinguishers - EPIRB bulkhead mounted - Fire blanket - 2 x manual bilge pumps - Coastal pack distress flares - 2 x Life jackets

Rig spars and sails

The sail plan is based on the 1936 gaff rigged cutter Vertue ANDRILLOT - Sitka Spruce mast and spars - Rigging and sails by James Lawrence Sailmakers, Brightlingsea, Essex - Rigging screws mainly imported from Bronze Star Inc. San Diego U.S.A - Wooden blocks by Colin Frake of Faversham, Kent - Stainless steel standing rigging and traditional running rigging - Slab reefing mainsail with cover - Working jib on Wykeham Martin furling gear - Hanked on staysail - Spinnaker - Topsail with yard - Towsail - Storm jib - Tri-sail

Deck equipment and ground tackle

- Traditional bronze ports, cast bronze fittings etc, custom made by craftsmen in Lowestoft - Laid teak cockpit seats with cushions, teak cockpit grating - Tiller, spare tiller, and autopilot tiller - Main anchor 35 lb CQR with galvanised chain - Danforth kedge anchor with chain and warp - Fisherman’s kedge anchorwith chain and warp - Simpson Lawrence bronze anchor windlass - 2 x Boathooks - Various mooring warps and fenders - Yacht legs - Full winter boat cover - Teak and bronze boom gallows

Refit details

Summary of work carried out in the 2009 / 10 refit at Mashfords – detailing some items already noted in inventory above - Mast and spars taken back to bare wood and 20 coats of Deks Olje D1 applied - Iron keel sandblasted and 6 coats of VC TAR 2 epoxy applied - 2 keel bolts drawn for inspection and found to be in new condition - Deck caulk removed; repayed with Teak Decking Systems SIS 440 Teak Deck Caulking - New bronze deck stanchions fitted - All external varnish removed and re-varnished with 8 coats of Epifanes clear varnish - New bronze rudder cap manufactured and fitted - Rudder pintle bracket bolts replaced with new silicon bolts - New bronze shaft and propeller fitted - Engine removed, new shaft coupling and engine drip tray fitted - 2 New Optima high performance batteries fitted - Engine fuel tank removed, cleaned and re-installed with new Racor filter - New Eberspacher diesel hot air heating system installed - New running backstays - New cockpit cushions - New Furuno instruments as specified in Navigation fitted

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Vertue 25 Mk11 GRP for sale in Bradwell Waterside. United Kingdom

Bradwell Waterside. United Kingdom

Make & Model

Vertue 25 Mk11 GRP

MEASUREMENTS

Description.

Yacht for sale UK.Vertue 25 yacht for sale.Laurent Giles original designer. Bossoms Yard, Oxford. supplied grp hull, topsides and main interior componentry as a completed kit (1992) with final fit out by owner., we are advised final fit out and launch. by the one owner in 1996.. Little use in last few years and in need of a thorough clean but appears in sound order. Reasonable navigation gear inventory. Silver aluminium spars.

Yacht for sale UK.Vertue 25 yacht for sale.Laurent Giles original designer. Bossoms Yard, Oxford. supplied grp hull, topsides and main interior componentry as a completed kit (1992) with final fit out by owner., we are advised final fit out and launch. by the one owner in 1996.. Little use in last few years and in need of a thorough clean but appears in sound order. Reasonable navigation gear inventory. Silver aluminium spars. Yanmar 1GM10 10hp marine diesel, with Martec fresh water cooling system fitted. Wind vane steering system fitted. Sails removed from spars and in warm loft..Furling Genoa system.Slab furling main sail.Twin bow rollers.Hull lugs for drying legs. Mast steps.Teak gunwhale caps. Generally the craft is equipped for long distance voyaging.Displacement 11000 lb Ballast 4500lb.  Ashore at Bradwell Marina near our office.. The owner sadly passed away very recently. Offers are encouraged for consideration by his son. Contact Graham Knight

Accommodations

• Forward cabin has single berth and Lavac marine wc. This cabin seems mainly used for gear stowage.
• Saloon has 2 no. quarter berths at aft end of saloon.
• One saloon seat can also be used as a berth as it has a trotter box.
• A removable chart panel in lieu of chart table,that is angled on starboard side.
• Small dining table on starboard side of saloon. Demountable.
• Small saloon seat adjacent to galley on portside.
• Burgundy coloured vinyl upholstery throughout in good order.
• Linear galley to forward port side of saloon, gimballed Taylors stove with oven and grill Paraffin)  in good order.
• Space heating of saloon via Taylors paraffin heater and flue.
• Instrumentation to starboard side of saloon adjacent to companionway. Whilst brackets for instrumentation was seen the instruments were not in place and believed to be stowed safely at home with sails etc.
• Steps to cockpit at companionway are removable and for part of front engine case access panels.. The base sump to engine compartment was viewed clean and dry as at March 2017. The craft interior has a dry feel and no mildew was observed.
• The layout of the craft is to the one owners specifications and varies a little from the standard Vertue 25 layout.

Hull, Deck, Safety &Amp; Canvas

• Grp white hull with rubbing strake.
• Fairleads enclosed through gunwhale.
• Wind vane steering gear fitted.
• Sailspar roller reefing
• Sailspar silver anodised mast and boom.
• Unused CQR style anchor, chain and warp.
• Fenders and mooring warps.
• Mouldings we believe.completed late 1991, fit out completed early 1992 including Yanmar 1GM 10 placed on beds 1992

Rigging &Amp; Sails

• Slab reaf mainsail
• Furling Genoa.
• Fixed mast steps.
• Yanmar marine diesel 1GM10  10hp.
• Martec freshwater cooling system #installed

Additional Information

• The design and construction of Virtues has taken place since the late 1930's and there have been constant improvement and updates to these highly regarded craft.
• The MkII benefits from larger width and length dimensions as well as the benefits associated with grp upkeep etc.
• Bossoms Yard highly respected last builders of the Vertue marque.
• We hold paperwork for the following craft instrumentation.-
• Furuno GPS Navigator  1998
• Target navtex pro  2001
• Navico vhf RT6500 S
• CARD 060 ais system
• Incastecsuper maxi depth instrument.
• Clock and Barometer.
• Yanmar rev counter and engine panel fitted and insitu saloon.

Engine Count

Engine Horse Power

Propeller Type

3 Blade, Bronze

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hull Material

Single Berths

Twin Berths

Cabin Headroom

1.93 meters

Displacement(kgs)

4989.52 kilograms

Drive Transmission Description

1.37 meters

Engine Year

Engine Type

No of Heads

ABOUT VERTUE 25 MK11 GRP

The Vertue 25 Mk11 GRP is 26 feet long and has a 7.1 feet beam and a draft of 1.37 meters. This 1992 diesel Vertue 25 Mk11 GRP powered by Yanmar 1GM10 with 10.0 horsepower. The Vertue 25 Mk11 GRP is made of fiberglass.

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Divers searching a sunken superyacht off Sicily recovered the body of the teenage daughter of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch Friday, the seventh and final victim of a tragedy in which the businessman also perished.

Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah had been among six passengers reported missing after the "Bayesian" went down off the north coast of the Italian island in a storm early on Monday morning.

After Hannah's body was brought ashore on Friday, her family issued a statement describing their "unspeakable grief".

"The Lynch family is devastated, in shock and is being comforted and supported by family and friends," it said.

Search teams had recovered the bodies of four of Lynch's friends on Wednesday, and that of the entrepreneur himself on Thursday.

The body of a man believed to be the yacht's chef had been found a few hours after the sailing ship sank.

Lynch, 59, had invited friends and family onto the sailing boat to celebrate his recent acquittal in a massive US fraud case.

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It sank at around 04:30 am local time, according to management company Camper and Nicolsons, and now lies on the sea bed some 50 metres down.

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Hannah had just finished her end-of-school exams and had a place to study English literature at Oxford University.

Friends described her as warm, loving and "charming and ferociously intelligent", according to one of the tributes issued by the family.

Lynch, once dubbed the British "Bill Gates", was "the most brilliant mind and (most) caring person I have ever known", said another.

The businessman had been acquitted on all charges in a San Francisco court in June after he was accused of an $11 billion fraud linked to the sale of his software firm Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard.

US lawyer Chris Morvillo, a partner at top law firm Clifford Chance who worked on the trial, also died in the sinking, along with his wife Neda.

Morvillo's firm Clifford Chance paid tribute to the couple, saying all were "heartbroken at the tragic passing... and still coming to terms with this terrible loss".

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Italian prosecutors have opened a probe and will hold a press conference on Saturday.

On Thursday the head of the company which built the boat said the tragedy could have been avoided.

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Laurent Giles Vertue V45

• Designer: Laurent Giles
• Builder: Aero Marine Ltd
• Location: Scotland
• Length on deck: 26'
• Draft: 4'6"
• Tonnage: 5TM

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Full specification

Wooden Ships Comments on this Laurent Giles Vertue V45

Built to traditional Vertue lines with a few alterations as detailed below.  Built by Aeromarine Ltd of Emsworth in 1952.  She is number V45.

She was commissioned by Dr Joe Cunningham , a founding member of the Ocean Cruising Club, who had been working as a GP around Newfoundland and Hudson Bay after the War.  He wanted a yacht that was capable of carrying him to remote communities and naturally turned to the Vertue design due to the reputation these boats have as very capable offshore cruising boats.

With the experiences of Humphrey Barton crossing the Atlantic in V35, Cunningham altered the build to include an extra plank in the topsides and a different superstructure design with no dog house and the coachroof extended aft.

The rig was reduced in height and changed from the traditional ‘slutter’ to a cutter.

Joe Cunningham left to cross the Atlantic in 1952 and arrived safely in Newfoundland after travelling through Madeira, Barbados and then north via Bermuda, Newport and Halifax.  Here he continued to work as a GP using Ice Bird as his travelling base enabling to do exactly as he had planned, reaching remote communities in need of medical assistance.  Ice Bird stayed in the family and was sailed by Cunninghams nephew around Iceland and Biscay, the tale of which was written up in a 1970 Yachting Monthly article.

Kept in tidy condition and updated as necessary with new standing rigging and mainsail this year, this is a yacht with a rich history and all the pedigree of the great Vertue design.

Length on Deck                 26’

Length waterline              21’6”

Beam                                    7’3”

Draft                                      4’6”

Thames Tonnage             5TM

Construction

Planked in mahogany copper rivet fastened to steam bent oak timbers of 1.5” x 1.5” at 4” centres.

Galvanised strap floors across the centreline with a few sawn oak floors.  All straps re-galvanised and replaced with new bolts.  Wooden floors re-fastened with large copper rivets, all done in previous ownership.

External iron ballast keel of 2.2 tons with bronze keel bolts.  Bolts new in previous ownership.

T&G laid deck, covered with plywood and sheathed externally with epoxy glass cloth finished in non-slip deck paint.  High tow rail all round with a scrubbed teak capping rail.  Stainless steel pushpit, pulpit and stanchions.  Deck and some deck beams replaced new in previous ownership.

Coachroof with a raised doghouse aft.  Varnished mahogany coamings with bronze portholes.

Self draining cockpit with tiller steering and a transom hung rudder.  Varnished teak thwarts with a bridge deck at the forward end.

Bermudan cutter rig on a keel stepped alloy mast with alloy slab reefing boom.

Stainless steel standing rigging, new in 2021, to internal stainless chain plates.

2 spreader rig with twin standing back stays to the quarters and running backstays on Highfield levers.  Inner and outer forestay take the headsails on hanks.

Mainsail new from Hyde Sails in 2021.  Other older sails include 3 x jibs, 3 x staysails and a genoa.

Pair of Anderson self tailing cockpit sheet winches.  Pair of mast halyard winches.

Volvo Penta MD7A twin cylinder 13hp diesel engine

Centreline fixed 3 blade bronze propeller gives 4 knots cruising speed.

45 litre stainless steel fuel tank in cockpit locker.

50 litre fresh water tank

2 x 12 volt batteries charged from engine alternator.  Shore power system fitted but there is no battery charger.

1 manual and 1 auto bilge pump.

Accommodation

2 berths with 6’3” headroom in the saloon

Steps down over the engine with galley to starboard and chart area to port.

Galley has a Taylors paraffin 2 burner stove with oven set on gimbals.  Stainless sink with a bronze  manual hand pump for fresh water.

The chart desk has lots of storage below and lockers above.

Half height bulkheads with vertical grab rails separate off the main saloon.

Main saloon with a settee berth either side and removable centreline dropleaf table.  Taylors paraffin cabin heater mounted on the forward bulkhead.  Upholstery new in 2021.

Centreline door going forward.  Forepeak has a Baby Blake sea toilet mounted on the centreline facing aft.  The rest of the forepeak is used for storage.

Plastimo steering compass

Raymarine sounder and log

Silva DSC VHF

Autohelm tiller pilot

Navigation lights including LED masthead light

Orange smoke and a laser flare

Fire extinguisher

24lb CQR anchor

25m of 8mm chain

30m of 14mm warp

Bruce 7.5kg anchor with 5m of 8mm chain and 30m of 14mm warp

Simpson Lawrence manual windlass

Bunk and berth cushions

Taylors Paraffin stove with 2 burners and oven

Taylors paraffin cabin heater

Gimballed cabin oil lamp

Saloon table

Ensign and staff

Beaching legs

Coachroof cover/boom tent

Mainsail by Hyde Sails, 2021                        Excellent condition

No.1 jib                                                                                Fair condition

No.2 jib                                                                                Good condition

No.3 jib                                                                                Good condition

Genoa                                                                  Fair condition

No.1 staysail                                                       Fair condition

No.2 staysail                                                       Fair condition

No.3 staysail                                                       Fair condition

Mainsail 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.

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