A very pretty one off, built to a Paul Gartside commissioned design especially for the UK waters & safe passages to France & Ireland. Her unique lines and build quality are much admired wherever she goes.
Hull: Four layered: strip plank Douglas fir inner layer, three outer Khaya layers (inner two laid diagonally), one inch thick all told. Glued with resorcinol-formaldehyde glue. Backbone of laminated Iroko. Cast lead keel with silicon bronze keel bolts.
Deck and cabin of laminated marine-grade plywood on Iroko beams, sheathed in fibreglass (as is the inside of the hull below the waterline)
Yanmar 1GM auxiliary diesel. Wooden Herreshoff-type box-section mast. Full suit of very attractive cream coloured Kemp sails (main,two jibs, nylon drifter, storm jib). If you are a Welsh sailer you can select to choose our welsh dragon drifter/ spinnaker (see on hoisted "Randmeer" under "charter" on our website)!
Three berths with full set of cushions, porta potty type loo with curtain, gas hob.
Hull and mast epoxied and painted with twin pack polyurethane. Copper-epoxy antifouling.
Large manual bilge pump plus automatic electric pump.
As you might imagine from the build quality, this vessel does not take any fresh/ salt water on at all when moored.
Main engine & Leisure batteries, split charged with switching.
Fused power pannel
Chart table lighting, inc. Red low.
Interior lighting, switchable individually or from main pannel.
Easy access engine pannels.
Cigarete socket.
Full nav lights.
Winches.
Waterproof binoculars.
Windex.
Wind meter.
Wind-vane self-steering.
Electric Autohelm steering.
Gps with connnecion to DSC
Ships radio (VHF DSC).
GPS
Compass.
Navtex.
Grab Bag/ safety equipment
Full standing and running rigging, and mooring warps and chain/ anchors.
Plus many other fixtures and fittings. Fully equiped for comfortable sailing/ passage making (for a 21ft package that is!).
Set up for short/ single handed sailing.
Build reciepts available totalling 29,000 pounds for major items. No second-hand parts were used & no expense or time was spared in the making of this vessel. In fact it took five long years of on going late afternoon/ evening and weekend work to accomplish.
It is estimated that a new build to this professional & detailed standard would today cost some 70,000 pounds.
Full specialist survey performed for insurance purposes at completion of build: available for perusal, as are the plans and lots more photo's of build, plus two positive articles-one in Americas wooden boat magazine about the design and the others in Water Craft about the building and a sailing test by Judy Brickhill. The photos showing building progress, sails rigged, on the water, etc. Can be emailed to you upon request.
This is much like you would be buying a brand new yacht by the time we have readied her for each season. A real plus using modern materials in combination with a traditional build is that there really is not much more maintenance than a factory built plastic yacht. It is unlikely that you would ever find a the same kind of yacht as this at any boatshows, especially as the the build cost would be so high.
If interested for export, she is both trailerable, can be made to fit in a 20ft container, or we would be willing to sail/ trailer her ourselves to most parts of Europe.
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