Price Details

Price: £8,950 GBP
Location: Maldon, Essex GB
Make: Tamarisk 24  Year: 1974
Condition: Good, well maintained.
Category: Sail
Class: Antique and Classics
Keel Type: Full Keel

Description

A Traditionally styled, GRP robust little Gaffer.” In commission” and sailing. She has been in the same ownership for over 20years. This is a reluctant sale due to the age of her skipper………

A Composite construction, GRP hull, wooden decks and superstructure. mid-blue topsides, white cabin sides, tan sails, 6ft bowsprit.
Straight stem, transom stern. Her Lines liken her to the Itchen Ferries of the South Coast. A tough little Estuary vessel, Sea kindly. Open aft cockpit. Ballast: 2,464, lbs

Measurements

Nominal Length: 7.32m
Length Overall: 9.17m
Length Of Deck: 7.26m
Length At Water Line: 6.45m

Beam: 2.44m
Draft: 0.89m
Air Draft: 9.14m
Max Draft: 0.89m

Specifications

Fuel Tank Capacity: 40ltrs
Water Tank Capacity: 20ltrs
Displacement: 2.8 tonnes
Cruising Speed: 5knots
Engine Power: 13hp
Number of Engines: 1

Accommodation

Berths: 4  Cabins: 2  Heads: 1 Passenger Capacity: 2/3

   

Builder/Designer

Builder: North Sea Craft, Brundell Norfolk.    Designer: David Cannell.     Boat Name: Pretty Kitty

Hull Design: Displacement
Hull Speed: 8: knots

Engine

Engine Description: Engine Model: Beta Marine, 13.5HP, twin cylinder, TechnoDrive TMC 40 M gearbox.
Engine Hours: not known, but not that many for the years.   Fuel Type: Diesel
Fuel tanks:40 litres plus another 20 litres in 2 portable jerry cans
Consumption: At 2,000 revs approx. one litre per hour.
Drive Type: prop shaft, twin bladed propeller.  Speed: Cruising under sail, 4 Knots average Max 6 Knots
Cruising under engine, about 4.5 knots at 2000 revs. Max about 6.5 knots at close to 3000 revs
Control Type: single lever in cockpit, Battery start.  Range: (40 litres) 160nm
Engine Location: Companionway, removable steps into cabin
Engine annually de-winterised – change of oil, filters, antifreeze, anodes, impellers, fanbelt etc. Repairs have been made to heat exchange filler neck; gear box flushed (2021), impeller housing replaced.
Cooling System: sea water cooled heat exchange
Engine Transmission Description: Shaft drive

Construction:   

Hull Material: GRP Hull Colour: Mid-blue, Hull Type: Long shallow keel ,  Lead encapsulated,  Displacement: 6,272 lbs
Composite construction GRP hull wooden decks and superstructure.
Straight stem . Transom stern. Lines liken her to the Itchen Ferries of the South Coast Tough little Estuary vessels. Sea kindly. Open aft cockpit.
Ballast: 2,464, lbs
Cockpit Type: Open Aft, high coamings,    Deck Construction: marine ply sheathed and painted   Deck Colour: light blue (Paint colour ‘squall blue’)
Super Structure Construction: Marine ply coach roof, sheathed and painted    Super Structure Colour: Topsides mid-blue, cabin sides white.
Generous brass ports let in to the coach roof sides.

Accommodation:

Headroom: 5ft 8ins lessens as you go forward.  Berth Lengths: 5ft 11ins
Fore cabin has a berth on portside with storage space under; Wilcox Crittenden manual sea toilet in the centre with a fore hatch over, storage space on starboard side. An open anchor locker fin the forepeak .
Main cabin: Settee cushions on portside makes into a small double with filling piece and a quarter berth.
A removable table top and pedestal can be attached to cabin floor when double berth is not occupying the space. The same table top and pedestal can be used in the cockpit.
Starboard side forward going aft: An open storage bin used for lifejackets and water jerry cans. Above open storage with 3 shelves, used for food, pots and pans, and, at the bottom, for water bottles.
Sink starboard side with draining space, A Neptune 4500 cooker, double burner and grill, A removable navigation table.
Storage space under all the seating/berths.
Electric system: 12 volt; new fuse box installed, 2023.
Two oil lamps in the main cabin
Domestic use water from 2 x 10 litre plastic jerry cans. Drinking fresh water from plastic bottles.
Equipment: Main 25lbs CQR anchor stowed on deck with 60 metres of chain & braided rope.
Kedge plough anchor stowed in fore cabin. with 6 ft of chain and any amount of rope. A grappling anchor, a folding dinghy anchor, stowed in the cockpit locker.
One anchor ball,
Dinghy stowed on coach roof or in the fore cabin. a pair of oars
New cockpit cover (2022), new sail cover (2023),
Overall Winter cover – mast down, ridge pole and frames.
Fenders and warps
Cockpit cushions
One freestanding boarding ladder for getting in and out of the water.
One anchor buoy
Bosun’s chair and lots of rope.  Tiller steering:

Sails:

Gaff Cutter Rig
Varnished wooden mast ( new 2005), boom and gaff; iron mast stepped in tabernacle on deck, supporting iron pole inside fixed to saloon floor.
Spinnaker Pole: Yes, made of wood, for poling out staysail on a run.
High cut mainsail reefing lines and ties on sail, mainsail cover.
Two head sails: jib and staysail, Wykeham Martin roller reefing on the jib. Staysail is hanked on.
Standing Rigging Material: Shrouds and forestay of galvanised wire.
Running Rigging Material: Various modern rope
Sail Wardrobe: Main sail Heard & Clatworthy Terylene, good. New sail cover 2023
Jib – Terylene – not very good
Stay sail – Terylene, fair
Reacher Terylene, Very good All in tan colour

Navigation Equipment:

Tiller steering, Bulkhead compass
Raymarine Dragonfly chart plotter (swings out to become visible from helm).
Stingray depth meter, Two hand-held GPS plotters
Lights: new (2023) LED tricolour at top of the mast, with new wiring to cabin.
New white steaming light LED on mast, with new wiring to cabin.
Removable port and stbd nav lights with lightboards attachable to the shrouds
Radio: new (2023) ICOM fixed VHF MG330.
Aerial: new (2023) Glomex aerial fitted to top of mast, new cabling to radio.
Clock and barometer in cabin.
Pegs and pegboard to hold the tiller, when leaving the cockpit (if sailing alone)
Two radar reflectors

Safety Equipment:

Whale Gusher bilge pump
Two self inflating life jackets; two buoyancy aids for adults, three children’s buoyancy aids.
Two safety lines, one harness. One freestanding lifebuoy with light rope attached.
One horseshoe lifebuoy.
Stainless steel pulpit, guard wires and stanchions to foredeck.
2 x foghorns
Emergency floating flashing light with line.

 

 

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