Gaff ketch 32’ x 25’wl x 7.5’ x 4.5’ + b’sprit. 7TM Kent £19,000
Pain Clark design, built by Warrington Smythe, the future well-known designer in 1903. Full keel, transom stern. Carvel planked 1" Kauri pine, new larch garboards copper fastened to steamed oak timbers on new iroko keel. 3 ton iron keel with new keel bolts. Regalvanised iron strap floors. Pine deck boards recovered with ply and epoxy glass sheathing. Deep self draining cock-pit with high coamings and wheel steering to transom hung rudder on new hangings. The hull has been extensively rebuilt by pro shipwright between 1992-7 with detailled spec available.
Gaff ketch rig on varnished pine masts, new mizzen mast with new galv mast support, main in new galv deck tabernacle.New booms and gaffs. New s/s rigging to new bronze rigging screws and chain plates, runners on tackles. New mizzen sail and other older sails.
1997 Lister Alpha 20hp 3-cyl diesel with 20hrs. to Hurth gear-box to off-set prop. gives 6knts @ 1/2 gph. New Aquadrive, prop & shaft. Moulded plastic tank under cock-pit sole. 2 x 12v batteries on 12v system. New sea cocks.Full instrumentation. Calorifier.
3 berths. All old joinery removed and new built. Fore peak with Blake sea toilet. Bulkhead to saloon cabin with port and stbd settee berths with root berths over. Solid fuel stove. Galley with gimballed paraffin cooker, chart table and hanging locker. 2 x 30gall polyprop water tanks with hand pump to sink. 5’6" head-room.
A well-known yacht with first class pedigrees. Extensive rebuild documented in photos and bills over £30k. Unused for two years and must be sold due to change of circumstances. A very good buy.
|
