Price Details

Asking Price: £23,000 GBP
Location: Pin Mill, Nr Ipswich, Suffolk. GB
Make: A “One Off”   Official No: 180892
Year: 1914  Fox of Kings Lynn
Condition: Good condition, laid up ashore
Category: Traditional Sail
Class: Antique and Classics
Keel Type: Full Keel

Description

32ft Wooden Gaff Cutter, built 1914, A pleasure Yacht. commissioned as a “one-off ” design, elements of her similar to the King’s Lynn fishing smacks of that time. She was reported to have been a retirement gift to a boat yard foreman.
The Gaff rig was converted to Bermudan rig in the 1950’s. Then in the 1990’s she reverted and rerigged as a Traditional Gaff Cutter.
Comprehensive ownership history, records of ” Works” Old images of her sailing as a Bermudan Cutter in the 1980’s.

1993, she underwent a large refit carried out by the  shipwrights/ engineers of Kings Boatyard at Pin Mill.

Length

Nominal Length: 9.75m
Length Overall: 11.73m
Length Of Deck: 9.60m
Length At Water Line: 7.62m

Measurements

Beam: 2.51m
Draft: 1.35m
Max Draft: 1.35m

       

Crescent Moon is in good condition, Stands ashore. In her present ownership she has been continuously improved and upgraded.

Specifications

Displacement: 6.00 tonnes   Cruising Speed: 5knots    Engine Power: 30hp

Accommodation

Berths: 5    Cabins: 2   Heads: 1     Passenger Capacity: 5

Builder/Designer

Builder: William Fox of Boston, Lincs, 1914      Designer: A One Off design      Boat Name: Crescent Moon

Engine

Perkins Perama M30, 30hp, Triple cylinder. diesel engine, shaft driven. freshwater cooled
Darglow Feather Stream Triple bladed propeller.

Construction:

Hull Design: Displacement    Hull Speed: 8: knots

Carvel planked Pitch pine planking on sawn oak frames. a long keel with both internal and external Lead ballast keel. Open aft deep cockpit.
Decks of self coloured varnished pine, caulked.  Hull has a rounded stem and a counter stern. Cream painted Topsides.
All the upperworks are constructed with Columbian pine,  the cabin sides and cockpit.  All deck surfaces, cappings and rails are varnished.
1990 structural restoration was carried out by Kings Boatyard Pin Mill “Works ” included – new sheer strake planks,  deck coverings and a cockpit rebuilt.

Additional floors were added,  a section of the stem was added. and the Lead keel was re cast…

Accommodation:

Step into the accommodation, over engine box, 2 x cabins.
Galley station, with a gimballed Taylors two burner hob and oven ( paraffin), Galley sink opposite is a navigation station. with Chart space and stowage.

Saloon has opposing settee berths.  Both sinks have manual pumps to extract fresh water.

Under the mast deck.  “Heads”, a Simpson and Lawrence sea toilet with a slide out sink over to starboard, a  Hanging locker, opposite.

Fore cabin  a Double V berth, Fore hatch over.

Equipment:

Main anchor, Kedge anchor, Fender and warps.

2 x heavy duty batteries  12v circuit.

Sails & Rig:

Her rig re-designed,  1990 by James Lawrence  & Son from a Bermudan Cutter to a Gaff Cutter Rig.

Deck stepped mast of Douglas Fir., Painted metal tabernacle,  a hollow boom, gaff and bowsprit. Oak Bitts. 6 x Bronze shroud plates, stainless steel main horse.

4 x Gibb No 8 sheet winches, Timber cleats for the use of headsails and mainsheet. Parrelle beads and mast hoops.  Traditional wooden blokes and taclkle

Sail Wardrobe:

Main sail,  Tan,  a Topsail in serviceable condition

Furling headsail in white,  Hanked headsail  Genoa in white  serviceable

Hanked headsail (large ) in Tan in Fair condition,  Hanked headsail (small ) Tan in fair condition

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Navigation Equipment:

VHF radio,Furuno GPS navigator.
Visual wind indicator at the masthead Navigational lights/ steaming light.
Autohelm, Tridata Raytheon ST60 Tridata NASA, Target depth units visible in the cockpit and at the chart station
Plastimo steering compass,  Ball and cones plastic shapes.

Safety Equipment:

Manual bilge pump under the engine an electric pump under the saloon cabin sole.

Horseshoe life ring.  2 x Fire extinguishers ( expiry dates unchecked) , fire blanket.

Timber guard rails secured to the coach roof.

2024	New jib
	Engine bay overhaul
	Engine re-paint
2023	New gear box
	Made Slide -out double bunk
	Made fold-away table
	New alternator
	New prop-shaft coupler
	Stripped and re-furbished inside of hull under cockpit
2022	Autohelm tiller pilot added
	Made carved name plate for taff-rail
	Upgrade engine control panel
	Stripped and re-varnished wooed blocks
2021	New marine grade stainless tabernacle
	New shelves at cooker
	Re-furbished rudder
2020	New waste bin system
	New marine grade stainless stem-head fitting and gammoning iron.
2019	Sorted aft deck rot
	New cabin doors
	Mast re-furbished
	New draws at chart table
	New self-feathering prop
	Deck stripped and re-varnished
2018	All-new upholstery
	New electrics box
	New cockpit seats
	Hollowed out gaff
	Stripped off bottom below waterline
2017	New mast spreader brackets
	Re-mounted windlass

 

 

 

 

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