Price Details
Asking Price: £5,500 GBP
Location: nr Maldon, Essex. CM9 GB
Year: 1920’s
Condition: Fully restored, in working order
Category: Power
Class: Antique and Classics
Keel Type: long shallow keel
Description
A vintage Sporting vessel now Fully restored, in working condition, Ready for the water . The vessel was bought as a project in 2022 as a “Covid Project”, she needed saving. She has some provenance, from 1990s to date but nothing about where she was built, by who and for who?.
An extensive restoration 2020-2022 , Hull stripped back to bare wood, repaired and refurbished. The hull required strengthening so fillets were added to her, along the keel, epoxied in place and painted, aiding here waterproofness.
There are hundreds of photos detailing every aspect of the restoration.
To be purchased separately, ( if required.)
£3,500 Road trailer, and for £2,000 for the 1890s, 1.75 inch barrelled Duck Gun (seen in main image)
this has been professionally tailored to fit the gun mount and is percussion cap, fired black powder.( shotgun license required ).
Measurements
Nominal Length: 5.49m
Length Overall: 5.49m
Length Of Deck: 4.88m
Length At Water Line: 5.49m
Beam: 0.91m
Draft: 0.30m
Air Draft: 0.61m
Max Draft: 0.30m
Specifications
Fuel Tank Capacity: 10ltrs
Displacement: 650kilograms
Cruising Speed: 5 knots
Engine Power: 12hp
Number of Engines: 1
Passenger Capacity: 1 plus occasional guest ( when not shooting)
Hull Material: Wooden mahogany , Rock Elm and Oak.
Hull Design: Single Displacement
Engine
Fuel Type: unleaded petrol
Engine Description: Dolphin Marine mk II, twin cylinder. Raw water cooled.
Morse control single lever forward and reverse.
A stainless steel 10litre fuel tank.
Shaft driven to a triple bladed propeller sited within the patented John Kitchen steering gear, 1915, all controlled by wires and cogs mounted on her aft deck.
The present engine and gearbox were fitted in the mid 1980s, from the condition of the oil in the gearbox, it would seem she was never used…..
Construction:
Clinker mahogany planked hull with a long shallow keel. three quarter decked with varnished Quarter inch Mahogany sheet decking. All brass fastenings. Polished bronze deck fittings.
Topsides and hull. Paint finish both inside and out, cream and grey. Canadian Rock Elm Ribs set into an Oak keel. Grey painted slated sole boards.
Engine compartment with lid. Battery set in a separate secure mahogany topped box. 50kgs of Lead ingots as trimming ballast.
Accommodation:
A removable restored and painted Lloyd Loom swivel seat, refurbished with showerproof vinyl fabric cushioning. plus a forward seating for a guest…
Brass mounts fixed around the combings, possibly for siting a framed Bimini/ Weather shelter?
Equipment:
A painted single paddle
A pair of painted leathered rowing oars. Bronze rowlocks.
Ensign, staff and holder.
Manual brass bilge pump. Bronze fairleads and cleats.
A bespoke gun crutch stands in the foredeck. an armoured Gun mount with retractable coil.
A fitted cockpit cover in green canvas. A bespoke Overall Cream PVC cover.
A ships bucket
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To be Sold Separately – £3,500
The trailer has two brand new Knott braked axles, new wheels and tyres and a knew Knott hitch for up to 3.5ton.Also replaced the roller pins and rubbers on the keel rollers.
£2,000 for the 1890s, 1.75 inch barrelled Duck Gun (seen in main image)
this has been professionally tailored to fit the gun mount and is percussion cap, fired black powder.( shotgun license required ).
Disclaimer: Disclaimer: The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.