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But the project kept rolling along. The old 20,000-lb, cast-iron keel was attached. The 1930 Edson steering gear was rebuilt and installed, a new 140-hp Yanmar installed. The teak decks were laid. Old portlights were cleaned, polished and fitted with new gaskets, hatches were built, and the old windlass was bolted on. Twenty-six-foot, clear, old-growth Douglas fir was salvaged from the vats of a winery on Lake Erie and was re-milled and scarfed into 60-foot lengths to build up a new, hollow main mast. The rudder was hung, the bowsprit fitted, and the launch date slipped again to spring 2002. This time it wasn’t the boat construction that caused the hold up. This fall, low water in the Cayuga Lake outlet posed the problem.

No one seemed sorry though. Like one of the Hazlitt Winery’s pinot gris or Chardonnays, this magnificent wooden hull is a product that should be allowed to proceed at its own pace. When finished, the reincarnated Malabar X will have a gaff rig with main topsail, two jibs and a fisherman staysail. She’ll be 75 feet overall, 59 feet on deck, with a 14.5-foot beam and an 8-foot draft. She’ll weigh-in at around 70,000 lbs, and she’ll be ready to go anywhere. Keep tabs on the boat’s progress by visiting the virtual boatyard at www.cayugawoodenboatworks.com. Susan Gately

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Restoration of Famed Schooner Malabar X Nears Completion

• By Dennis Montgomery
• Updated: April 10, 2002

The restoration of Malabar X, John Alden Design No. 453, is nearing completion, and the schooner will be launched on Wednesday, May 1 at the Ithaca Boating Center, 435 Old Taughannock Boulevard, Ithaca, New York. Malabar X, measuring 75 feet overall and 59 feet on deck, was designed by world-renowned naval architect, John Alden, and was the final in a series of schooners designed for his personal use. Hodgdon Brothers of East Boothbay, Maine, constructed the boat in 1930. Malabar X competed in the Bermuda Race in 1930, winning her class, and again in 1932, capturing the overall trophy.

After a series of owners, Malabar X fell victim to Hurricane Bob in 1991 while harbored in Greenport, Long Island, New York. She was laid up in dry-dock with severe damage and listed for sale. Doug Hazlitt of Seneca Daysails discovered and purchased her in 1999, trucking her to Cayuga Wooden Boat Works in Ithaca, for necessary repairs under the supervision of shipwright and facility owner, Dennis Montgomery.

He quickly discovered that repairs would not suffice and began a total restoration project. Hazlitt that the historical significance of this magnificent vessel demanded that the restoration meet the high standards established by Alden when he created the plans. To that end, he has spent over two years and more than 20,000 man-hours working in close cooperation with Alden Design Corporation to rebuild Malabar X to its original exacting standards. The restoration was funded in part by the New York State Canal Corridor Initiative, with major support from The First National Bank of Geneva.

Upon launch, Malabar X will travel via the Erie Canal system to her homeport in Watkins Glen, New York. There she will be available for day charters carrying a maximum of 25 people on two- to three-hour Seneca Lake sailing cruises. Hazlitt says, “There has been tremendous interest in sailing charters and Seneca Daysails will offer the only sailing experience available on the lake.” Seneca Daysails is a joint venture of Doug, his wife Cheryl Giblin Hazlitt, a Binghamton, New York, native, and Bob Kinner, a retired Corning businessman.

Hazlitt is also vice president of the family-owned winery, Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards, located on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake at Hector. Seneca Daysails charters will offer a spectacular view of the region’s vineyards and enable passengers to understand why the lake provides such an ideal atmosphere for viniculture.

For additional information or to book a charter, contact Doug Hazlitt at (607) 546-SAIL, e-mail: [email protected], or visit his website at www.senecadaysails.com. To view the restoration, visit www.cayugawoodenboatworks.com

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The Malabar X is the tenth personal yacht made by its own designer. The world famous architect John Gale Alden. This yacht is one of the most important of the naval recreation design history. It was the last personal Alden’s Schooner and the most victorious one. Being the summit of the architect’s career.

In 1930 won the Bermuda Race on its class and in 1932 won it again leaded by the yacht designer. In this same regatta five other Alden’s Schooners ranked in the first ten positions. It was the swan’s song of the American Schooner, condemned because of its lack of a large spinnaker for the bearing courses due to too low foremast.

The Malabar X was damage by the Rob Hurricane, which hurled against the mooring dock causing severe damages to the yacht. Shortly after was bought for 35.000 dollars, according to the Lloyd’s Register and submitted to a meticulous restoration, under Alden’s supervision, what enables to recognise easily the original parts.

Nowadays the Malabar X sails gracefully in the Mediterranean waters with a Spanish flag and port registered in Barcelona.

Silva Racing

Gen. Patton’s schooner being restored

When Gen. George S. Patton had a schooner custom-built in 1939, he was still a colonel in the U.S. Army and the American military was just beginning to mobilize as war erupted in Europe.

Patton eventually christened his ship the “When and If,” because when the war ended, and if he returned alive, he planned to sail it around the world.

Patton did not live to fulfill that dream. The schooner’s new owner, Doug Hazlitt, still has a shot at it.

Hazlitt, 50, the owner of Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards in Hector, spent his childhood sailing sunfish and catamarans on Seneca Lake, and for much of his adult life, he has raced and refurbished boats.

In 1989, he bought a 38-foot schooner named the Chantey, restored it and started a day-sail charter business on the lake. He later upgraded to the Malabar X in 2001, which he rebuilt with the help of longtime friend Dennis Montgomery of Ithaca, who owns Cayuga Wooden Boatworks. Hazlitt ran the popular Malabar X out of Watkins Glen until 2007, when he sold it and suddenly found himself without a ship.

“I thought, ‘Well, that’s fine.’ We were running the winery, we had four kids. I certainly had plenty to do,” Hazlitt said. “But I always had the idea that I still never really got to fulfill my dream, which was to actually be able to own a boat and go cruising on it, take it and use it, race it in races, go to Europe in the summer and the Caribbean in the winter.”

When a boat broker in Maine mentioned that Patton’s historic schooner was coming up for sale, Hazlitt immediately expressed an interest.

“Of course, I knew about the boat,” Hazlitt said. “It’s been around forever. It’s very famous.”

The 63-foot schooner was built in Wiscasset, Maine, in 1939 by renowned naval architect John G. Alden, who also designed the Malabar series. Alden was known for making swift, hard-working schooners that consistently won all the major ocean races, according to Montgomery.

“This was built for Patton to be a much more robust boat but look the same. Basically, to be more of a world ocean-cruising boat,” Montgomery said. “This thing could circumnavigate the globe safely.”

While Patton never sailed the When and If around the world, Montgomery and Hazlitt said the general was rumored to have sailed it at least once after it was built. Patton’s family, however, got plenty of use out of the When and If after he died in 1945, all the way through the late 1970s, when they sold it. The ship has long been a fixture of the yachting circuit around Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., and up and down the East Coast.

Not long after Hazlitt learned it was for sale, another party bid $400,000, and Hazlitt decided not to pursue it. A year later, the sale had yet to go through, and after the initial bidder grew tired of waiting and bought another boat instead, Hazlitt made what he considered a lowball offer of $180,000.

To Hazlitt’s surprise, his offer was accepted, and in spring 2012, he took possession of the When and If.

“I picked the boat up at Martha’s Vineyard and went to Maine for the summer with it, and had a bunch of fun with the family,” he said. “I brought it down to Newport (R.I.) over Labor Day and raced it in the Newport yacht regatta, and then decided it’s time to bring it home and restore it. I knew it needed a bunch of work.”

Restoration

For the last year, the boat has sat at Cayuga Wooden Boatworks’ shop at Beacon Bay Marine on the north end of Cayuga Lake, where Montgomery and his team of skilled craftsman are restoring the boat stem to stern.

“We took the whole back of this boat off. The entire transom and cockpit and everything on the back end of the When and If was completely torn off,” said Montgomery, who built his first boat in 1967 and established his boatworks in 1991. “We lifted all the cabin tops up, stripped all the old teak decks right off the boat, and repaired all the frames under them. We put all-new teak decks back down. That’s what we’re just finishing right now. Two-inch solid teak decks.”

Montgomery has long been Hazlitt’s go-to guy when it comes to rehabbing his boats.

“Obviously, we must be doing something right because we remain, after lots of money, good friends,” Montgomery said.

Hazlitt estimates the total cost of work on the When and If will reach about $400,000. In addition to replacing the transom, the horn timber, the teak decks and framing, the boat still needs to have its hull painted and interiors done: plumbing, electronics, air conditioning and other general systems work. Montgomery praised Hazlitt for his close involvement with the whole restoration project.

“As far as saving a boat like this, it takes a special person to even want to do it. But it takes Doug Hazlitt to want to do it and want to do it right,” Montgomery said. “Doug has been around these boats for so long and has sailed on so many of them that he definitely has his own ideas of what he likes to see. And that’s good because making your mind up is half the challenge. If you do one thing, it’s a compromise for something else.”

The repair of classic wooden boats presents its own set of unique challenges. Not only are skilled shipwrights and artisans hard to come by these days, but so are the original blueprints. At the shipbuilding industry’s peak, when it was steadily producing boats, all similar in size and design, there wasn’t much need for paperwork, according to Montgomery.

“But today, if you’re going to build a boat like this and you hire a naval architect, you’ll get 85 pages of specifications and plans spelling out the size of every nail for every piece,” he said. “When we get one of these (old ships), we get, like, three pages, and it’s anybody’s guess what they use. ... So it takes a lot more thinking to restore one.”

The When and If will be stored for the winter in Watkins Glen, where workers will finish the interior. Come springtime, Hazlitt plans on taking his ship out on the open sea, possibly chartering it from time to time to recoup some of his expenses. But his main goal is to sail the When and If around the world.

The captain

At the helm will be Capt. Seth Salzmann, 29, of Key West, Fla., who previously ran the Malabar X for Hazlitt for 4½ years. Salzmann sailed the When and If in from the coast last year, and he recently returned to the area to help with the restoration effort. He said it’s amazing to be able to watch the ship’s restoration.

“I can tell you the very first time I ever saw this boat,” he said. “I was working on another boat in 1998 and saw (the When and If) sailing up the Eggemoggin Reach up in Maine. I was a kid, but I could identify every schooner out on the water, and I looked through the binoculars and I couldn’t identify the boat. And we sailed by, and with the binoculars I read the name, and I’m like, ‘Aw, what a beautiful boat.’ And right then and there, it’s like falling in love with a girl for the first time. You remember when you saw her.”

Salzmann isn’t the only person with vivid memories of the When and If and its famous pedigree. Hazlitt’s daughter Shannon, 20, recalls seeing her father sailing the ship during a regatta in Maine not long after he bought the boat.

“It was really, really, super foggy, and boats were coming out of the fog in all directions, and I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, this is so freaky, I don’t know how my dad is steering through this,’ ” she said. “But he just seemed confident, you know, in his element. And I almost felt like, ‘Wow, maybe he’s channeling Gen. Patton.’ ”

About the boat

? Length: 63 feet, 5 inches.

? Length including bowsprit: 83 feet.

? Displaces 43 tons and carries about 1,700 square feet of sail area.

? Originally built: 1939 by F.F. Pendleton in Wiscasset, Maine.

? Make: Custom John G. Alden Wooden Schooner.

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Gloucester schooner festival.

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Schooners will be offering public sails or charters during Schooner Festival- please visit vessel websites for tickets

Large Schooners

Homeport : Gloucester, MA

Length on Deck:  122 ft

GSF Location:  Schooner Floats at I4C2

Built in 1926, the Adventure is one of the last of the Gloucester fishing schooners, known as "Gloucestermen," and famous throughout the world. The Adventure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, designated a National Historic Landmark, and an Official Project of Save America's Treasures.

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AMERICAN EAGLE

Homeport : Rockland, ME

Length on Deck:  92 ft

The American Eagle was built in Gloucester in 1930 as an auxiliaryfishing schooner. She is recognized as a National Historic Landmark.

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Homeport : Panama City, FL

Length on Deck: 145 ft

Brian D'Isernia discovered the original line plans of the 1920s Columbia in the Essex Shipbuilding Museum and fulfilled a lifelong dream of bringing a significant piece of maritime history back to life in 2014 when Columbia was (re)born.

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DENIS SULLIVAN

Homeport : Boston, MA formerly Milwaukee, WI

Length on Deck:  98 ft

We at World Ocean School inspire students from all backgrounds to be courageous and compassionate changemakers for themselves, their communities, and our planet through transformative education aboard our iconic tall ships. Built in 2000, Denis Sullivan has spent the past two decades educating hundreds of students about Great Lakes schooners and maritime history. World Ocean School is thrilled to be able to take this beloved ship on a new voyage in Boston and St. Croix.

worldoceanschool.org

ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY

Homeport : New Bedford, MA

Length on Deck: 106 ft

GSF Location:  Maritime Gloucester

Launched in 1894 at the James & Tarr shipyard in Essex as the Effie M. Morrissey named for Captain/owner William Morrissey's daughter. She has lived her life out fishing the Grand Banks, exploring the Arctic, as a packet ship on Cape Verde and finally as an educational vessel. She was just re-launched this past Spring after nearly a decade of work to bring her back to life and continue her work as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' official sailing vessel.

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Medium  Schooners

Homeport : Bailey Island, ME

Length on Deck:  56 ft

ALERT was built in 1992 by Paul Rollins in York, Maine. ALERT's original name was TALL COTTON. In 2006 Roger Woodman, a fisherman, restored the boat to long line for fish off shore and renamed her ALERT. In January 2013 Perry and Bethany bought ALERT and in September 2013 completed the boats testing and documenting with the United States Coast Guard to bring her into the passenger trade. Today they are hosting public sails and Private charters on ALERT Daily.

Or Call Bethany: 207-841-9125

Length on Deck:  58 ft

GSF Location:  Maritime Gloucester Pier

The Flagship of Maritime Gloucester, the Ardelle is a pinky schooner built by master shipbuilder, Harold Burnham. Ardelle works as a public attraction and charter boat, providing daily sailing opportunities in Gloucester Harbor. She serves as an educational platform for all of Maritime Gloucester's programing including the Maritime Apprenticeship Program . 

maritimeheritagecharters.com

Homeport : Salem, MA

Length on Deck:  52 ft

GSF Location:  Parade of Sail Participant only

The original FAME was a Chebacco fishing schooner that was reborn as a privateer when war broke out in 1812. She was arguably the first American privateer to bring home a prize and made 20 more captures before her demise in the Bay of Fundy in 1814. The current FAME was built by Harold Burnham and is owned and operated by Mike Rutstein as a charter vessel and attraction in Salem Harbor. Note that charters on FAME sail from and return to Salem.

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First Time at GSF!

MALABAR X ​

Homeport : Key West FL, and Salem, MA

Length on Deck:  59.5 ft

Malabar X (ten) was built at Hodgons yard in East Boothbay Maine in 1930. Designed by John Alden as the last and largest schooner of his famed Malabar series. Malabar X was Alden’s personal yacht which he raced in the 1930 and 1932 Newport to Bermuda race. Winning her class in 1930 and winning overall in 1932. Newly returned to the American flag, Malabar X is the epitome of the Gatsby era in yachting. Elegantly restored and available for charter for the first time since 2007, Malabar X is ready to enlighten all who step foot onboard! Operated in tandem with the Schooner When And If at Sunset Sail Salem in the summers and Sunset Sail Key West in the winters.

sunsetsailsalem.com

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THOMAS E. LANNON

Length on Deck:  65 ft

GSF Location:  Seven Seas Wharf near I4C2

Tom and Kay Ellis had the schooner Thomas E. Lannon built in Essex in1997 by Harold Burnham. She is taken from the design of a 1903 Gloucester fishing schooner. She sails as good as she looks, she sails daily from May to October from the Gloucester House Restaurant.

schooner.org

Homeport : Boothbay Harbor, ME

Length on Deck:  60 ft

GSF Location:  Ocean Alliance

The Sam Crocker designed Tyrone was built in 1939 at the Simms Brothers Boatyard in Dorchester, MA. Tyrone is a stoutly built yacht designed to sail oceans which she has extensively. She is quite fast and always competitive in schooner races.

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WHEN & IF ​

Homeport : Key West, FL & Salem, MA

Length on Deck:  63 ft

GSF Location:  Parade & Race Participant Only

When General (Then Colonel) George S. Patton commissioned one of America's greatest designers to conceive him a boat, he had the ultimate ambition in mind: "When the war is over, and If I live through it, Bea and I are going to sail her around the world." Built by F.F. Pendleton if Wiscasset, ME in 1939, WHEN AND IF now summers in Salem, MA and is a fan favorite at the Gloucester Schooner Festival each year.

sailwhenandif.com

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Small  Schooners

Length on Deck:  37 ft

GSF Location: Private Mooring

This beautiful Sam Crocker-designed schooner was built in 1955 by Bud McIntosh in Eliot, ME, and rebuilt by Harold Burnham in 2002 & 2017. This classic workboat-inspired design is all about comfort, simplicity, and seaworthiness. She is owned by Schooner Festival committee member Brett Ramsey and his wife Ellen.

EILEEN MARIE ​

Length on Deck:  36 ft

GSF Location: Gloucester Harbor Mooring

Her lines taken from the DOROTHY #291 design by Sam Crocker, she,was hand built of cypress and oak by Lewis Norris in Hernando Beach,FL. A red hulled centerboard schooner, she was launched in 1989.

ELIZABETH ​

Homeport : Bristol, RI

Elizabeth is a 42' steel Tom Colvin schooner built in Ohio. She was built for fishing and cargo originally, then charter. Elizabeth was rescued by Jason Rose who conducted massive refit and restoration. Jason generosly transferred ownership to Carissa Spatcher and Mike Araujo and family. She currently calls Bristol Rhode Island home.

GREEN DRAGON ​

Length on Deck:  33 ft

GSF Location: Private Dock

Designed by Scotty Gannett and built by Chester Spear, both of Scituate, and launched in 1951 as the Brenda Lee, she was renamed to Green Dragon as homage to the tavern known as the "Headquarters of the Revolution." Privately owned she is a staple of the Gloucester Schooner Festival and a much-loved participant.

Length on Deck:  38 ft

GSF Location: Maritime Gloucester Pier

Commissioned in 2005 and built by Harold Burnham she is the newest in the Maritime Heritage Charters fleet. Harold based her on versions of schooners he had seen in Fitz Henry Lane's paintings. Our Historian Justin thinks she looks like a halibut schooner.

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LEWIS H. STORY

Homeport : Essex, MA

Length on Deck:  32 ft

Built in 1998 by Harold Burnham, this recreation of the historic Chebacco boat design was named for Essex's foremost historian.  Today, it is the flagship of the Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum. It is an educational platform for their students and serves as the Museum's roving ambassador. 

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Homeport : Fairhaven, MA

Redbird is a brigantine schooner designed by Bruce Bingham and built by Norman Bonenberger in Vallejo, CA.  When launched in 1982, she and was originally rigged as a brigantine but now carries a double gaff configuration. Purchased from Daisy Nell & Stan Collison just last year she joins us this year with her new owner.

Homeport : Branford, CT

Built in Sunnybrook, Nova Scotia in 1972, Renegade has been in Branford, Connecticut since 2005 when owner David Coller brought her down from New Brunswick where she had been docked on the St John's River. Since that time she has been as far north as Newfoundland and south as far as the Chesapeake and has been a regular participant in the Gloucester schooner festival since 2006.

Length on Deck:  40 ft

Built in 1934, one of 8 Auxiliary Schooners of her type designed and built by David Hillyard, Sussex, England. Strombus spent many years in the Chesapeake before coming to Gloucester. She was rebuilt by Geoff Deckebach over 10 years and relaunched in 2017

Homeport : Wiscassett, ME

​ The Sycamore is a steel, two -masted schooner build by Fred Bowers over 16 years.  It is a steel representation of a pinky schooner, one of two vessel designs originally used in Maine's fisheries in the early 19th century. She is named after sycamore trees that surrounded the builder's home growing up. They are a source of fond memories and good feelings.

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John G. Alden “Malabar II”

Alden “Malabar II” Specifications:

LOA: 41’6 / 12.60m * LOD: * LWL: 32’11 / 10.03m * Beam: 11’3 / 3.43m * Draft: 6’2 / 1.88m * Ballast: * Displacement: 28,600 lbs / 12,973 kgs * Sail Area: 938 sq ft * Yard Number: 162 * Hull material: Wood construction * Rig: Schooner * Designer: Alden * Built by: C.A. Morse & Son, Thomaston, ME * Year Built: 1922 * Restored By: Elmer Collemer, Camden, Maine * Current Name: Hispaniola * Original Owner: John G. Alden * Current Owner: * Sail Number:

Known Racing History: ?

Known Restoration History:

In 1953 Malabar II received an entirely new hull, built on the original iron keel. John Alden advised the owner at the time, Exton Guckes, ” old Charlie Morse built Malabar for me, but he did pretty much as he pleased and you may find he made a few changes here and there.” Increased headroom, and slight alterations in the interior layout, were some of the changes.

Historical:

Slight variation of the first Malabar, constructed with a single cabin, allowing more interior room, built from the same lines, but slightly fuller in the bow, with sheers slightly flattened, and different in accommodations, and ballast.

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• John G. Alden “Malabar Jr”
• John G. Alden “Malabar I”
• John G. Alden MAYAN
• John G. Alden NANTUCKET INDIAN

I believe my uncle, James Burnett Robertson owned the Malabar all before the war.

Exton Guckes was my grandfather. I believe the “new hull installed” was in 1953-4, not 1995. The yacht left the family about 1972.

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John Alden Malabar Snr 34 ft Sloop 1960 - Sold

WILL O THE WISP

John alden malabar snr 34 ft sloop 1960.

These details are provisional and may be amended

BROKER'S COMMENTS

For over 90 years, the name Malabar has symbolised the utmost in seagoing ability and cruising comfort as well as an impressive racing record. Chosen by John Alden as the name for his own personal yachts, it has by common usage among yachtsmen, become a term to designate a fast, able cruising yacht. This very popular design is fast but with much more spacious interiors than UK designs of the same era. Introduced in 1956 the generous beam gives plenty of space for sensible accommodation and a comfortable boat at sea; coastal and blue water cruising. This lively Malabar Sr version draws on a strong heritage of design development and building experience. In appearance she is a wholesome classic mast head sloop with normal overhangs, proportioned freeboard, and the characteristic Alden sheer. All original, WILL O THE WISP is testament also to the quality of her build and maintenance by fastidious owners and is more than ready for another fifty years at sea. Known by many she is admired wherever she goes. Sympathetically modernised; her equipment makes her as easy to sail as she is enjoyable.

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Construction

- Carvel Burma teak planking splined topsides faired to 7/8th inch and varnished - 1 ½ inch or greater planking to bilge bend - All on 1 ½ inch steam bent teak frames at 9 inch centres - Copper fastenings, countersunk and dowelled - Everdur bronze hardware fastenings - Galvanised steel floors in excellent condition fixed with 10 mm galvanised steel bolts (20 bolts checked May 2012 out of water. No excess thinning found but replaced anyway) - 4,500 lbs cast lead keel split ballast integral to structure fixed with large bronze bolts - Decks and coach roof of marine plywood coated with heavy fibre sheeting glassed over - Solid teak cabin trunk and cockpit coamings - Teak interior joinery

Accommodation and domestic equipment

Accommodation for 5 with berths 6 ft 4 inches long - 6 ft 2 inch headroom to deck beams in saloon - Varnished teak companionway steps and worktop removable - Sound proofed engine casing beneath Galley aft to port - Varnished teak worktop, removable to access Waco 36 litre fridge / freezer - Large stowage lockers - Blakes Taylor Lavac 030 paraffin cooker with stowage beneath and outboard To starboard - Varnished teak work top / chart table over sink and pressurised fresh water system - Large stowage lockers above and below worktop with 3 tier shelf unit on aft bulkhead Saloon - Wide settee berths each side with stowage lockers below - Port settee extends to form a very comfortable queen sized bed - Varnished Teak lee and sole boards - Drinks cabinet with two felt lined drawers beneath - 2 x Large book shelves - Two drop leaf saloon table on centreline - Lakes Taylor Lavac paraffin cabin heater - Hanging locker to starboard now shelved for maximum stowage - Varnished teak framed panel doors, sole boards and fiddled shelf atop - Head to port Blakes Taylor Lavac sea toilet - Varnished teak bulkheads, sole boards, framed panel door and battens Fore cabin - Berths to Port & Stbd with locker stowage underneath - Varnished teak lee boards, framed panel door, shelves, sole, skylight hatch and battens - Open semi bulkhead fwd - Forepeak chain locker and stowage for spare sails

Rig spars and sails

- Varnished Sitka spruce, keel stepped, square section hollow mast, single spreaders - Internal mast head lock for main sheet and two Gibb Tufnol winches - Varnished Sitka spruce boom with original easy to use main sail roller reefing - 1 x 19 Stainless steel standing rigging with heavy bronze tang fittings and chain plates - Stainless steel as new fore stay with Selden Furlex genoa roller reefing - Multi plait synthetic running rigging throughout - Main, genoa, spinnaker, halyards and topping lift, all cleated mast - Main, genoa and headsail furler sheets lead aft to cockpit cleats - 2 x Lewmar 42 ST winches - Lewmar Track on toe rail - GibbTufnol blocks - Sail area (working with 100% foretriangle) 505 sq feet - Mainsail 8.5 oz offshore Dacron new July 2012 - Genoa 7.5 oz 130% offshore Dacron new July 2012 will set at 2 knots, usable to F 7 - Working Jib - Drifter 150% free flying light air sail - Storm Jib - Spinnaker - Working jib by Gowen 1999 smaller than new Genoa but in GC for spare headsail - Spare main sail by Gowen, 1999 in GC for a spare main sail in sail bag - Symmetrical spinnaker by Gowen 1999, a little tired but still usable

Deck equipment and ground tackle

- Decks primed and finished with a non-slip hard wearing cream coating - Full deck line enables easy sail handling - Wide side decks enable safe and easy access fore and aft - Deck eyes to heavy back plates allow easy use of personal safety lines / jack stays - Bronze stem head and fairleads with strong Sampson post at foredeck -Varnished teak hand rails to cabin - Deep sunken self draining 6 ft 9 in long cockpit - Liftable tiller and high boom crutch enable entertaining al fresco and single handed sailing - Large varnished solid self draining teak seats lift over stowage lockers port & stbd - Varnished solid teak cockpit coaming with sloping seat backs - Scrubbed teak cockpit sole with manhole to access rear of engine, gearbox and stern gland - Plastimo inflatable tender with Mariner 4hp outboard engine. - Varnished teak boarding ladder - 6 x Large fenders with socks - 2 x Extendable boat hooks with special mooring attachment - Original 35 lb CQR, 50 m 10mm short link galvanised chain with swivel

Mechanical, electrical and tankage

- Yanmar 3GM30 27 HP raw water cooled engine professionally serviced annually (Removed from boat 2010 and totally overhauled new engine mounts fitted) - 3 blade Brunton engine and hull matched propeller for optimum thrust at economical RPM - 5.5 knots cruising speed at 2,700 rpm consumes 1.5 litres fuel per hour - Fist pump enables simple 1 person engine bleeding - Original Hitachi, 65 A alternator removed and bench tested 2011 outputs 50 A at 2,700 rpm - 2 x Trojan 155 Ah service batteries and 110 Ah engine start battery 2011 - Struder 40 A connector via RCD to shore power - BEP 710-300A voltage sensitive relay ensures engine start battery kept fully charged - Paralleling solenoid switch enables emergency engine starting from the services - 2 x Solara 40 W semi flex solar panels to solar regulator can charge without engine use - BEP 600 DCM battery monitor - All classic design internal light fittings with warm white LEDs for minimal consumption - External mast head navigation lights, anchor and tricolour with certified LED replacement bulbs rated at 2 nm; minimal consumption - Other navigation incl steaming lights original as usage not an issue with engine running - Deck light with halogen bulb for safety - Blake sea cocks as new condition with anti siphon devices, serviced / replaced as required - New 140 litre stainless steel fuel tank with inline filters and water separator

Navigation communications and electronics

- Raymarine ST 60 speed depth and close hauled wind linked to - Raymarine Raynav 300 GPS plotter - Raymarine ST 4000 + auto pilot light touch tiller even in very heavy seas - Simrad RD 68 VHF ship to shore, full DSC linked to all Raymarine GPS equipment. - Iris 50 hand bearing compass - 12 x 50 waterproof binoculars

- 2 x Seago automatic life jackets with harness. - Iridium Satellite phone and Garmin hand-held GPS 72 in waterproof pelican grab case. - Baltic horse shoe lifebuoy - Floating throw line - 2 x Detachable deck life lines - Jabsco water puppy 2000 12 V bilge pump - Rule automatic 12 V bilge pump - Whale Gusher Titan manual bilge pump (100 litres per minute) - Eco Blast refillable fog horn - 4 x fire extinguishers and a fire blanket - Numerous soft wood plugs, various sizes

Miscellaneous

New and Original Yanmar parts - Oil and fuel filters, water pump and alternator belts and impeller, internal anodes - Full cockpit cushions - Full fitted winter cover - Mainsail cover - Fore hatch cover and mast gaiter all in matching Sunbrella Ocra material New halyards and sheets - 1 x Head sail halyard - 2 x Headsail sheets - 1 x Main sail sheet - Numerous other sheets and warps - Many hand tools and materials for maintenance such as grease, paints, varnish and oils

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Sandeman Yacht Company

Brokerage of classic & vintage yachts.