Price: £29,950 GBP
Location: Maylandsea, nr Maldon, Essex. GB

October 15th 2024, Vessel has been hauled out for a refit / storage ashore for the Winter. Ideal opportunity to view/ inspect the vessel as a whole.
Builder: Ferro Marine Services Burnham on Crouch, Essex.    Year Built: 1987
Designer: Alan Hill
Boat Name: Cigfran Mor  ( ex Rock Folly)
Condition: Afloat, requiring recommissioning
Category: Sail  Long distance Cruiser Houseboat
Class: Cruisers
Keel Type: Full Keel

Description

This Ferrocement vessel  Bermudan Ketch Rig.  She  has a circumnavigation of the World under her belt and has clearly proved to be capable as an ocean going, passage making yacht.
She has a very generous accommodation, headroom throughout over 6ft 2ins. and she’s 12ft on the beam amidships. Professionally fitted out, with substantially built furniture and fittings above and below
In her present ownership since 2012. She is now too much for him to keep up with her general maintenance and has found her too heavy to handle on his own, he has used her as a liveaboard option, sailing kept to coastal cruising with a trip last season over to Holland.

  

Measurements

Length Overall: 14.02m
Length At Water Line: 10.67m

Beam: 3.86m
Draft: 1.80m
Fuel Tank Capacity: 430ltrs
Holding Tank Capacity: 100ltrs
Water Tank Capacity: 735ltrs
Displacement: 16tonnes
Cruising Speed: 6knots    Hull Design: Displacement      Hull Speed: 12: knots

Accommodation

Berths: 5 – 8  Cabins: 4   Heads: 2     Passenger Capacity: 8

Engine

Engine Model:  Nanni 4:200HE  Diesel.  Engine sited under the companionway, entering through the main hatch.
Mounted on stainless steel plates above the ferrocement engine bearers.
Nanni 4:200HE diesel engine. 2003.  Serial no: 621009 139315 201146
4 cylinder fresh water cooled, marine diesel engine. Electric start, ignition and gauges in the cockpit. Single lever controlled
Shaft driven 19ins twin bladed propeller. Hurth reduction gearbox
2 x stainless steel fuel tanks (180 & 250litres) one sited in the bilge, the other sited behind the engine is gravity fed.
Loads of Engine spares.

Construction:

A Ferro hull built and supplied by Ferro Marine Services of Burnham on Crouch in 1987 , professionally plastered out under the supervision of her Yacht designer/ marine surveyor Alan Hill.

IN 1993 she was bought as a bare hull and  over the next ten years she was fitted out entirely. Integral long keel with encapsulated lead ballast, a racked bow and a cut off counter stern. A  Round bilge, a slight sheer line. Antifouled below the waterline
Lay-up: Using  a Steel rod form, galvanised chicken wire and mortar. Decks have hard wood deck beams. 2 x layers of marine ply epoxy sheathed and painted. Several deck hatches are  let into the decks, all Lewmar Ocean type.
Hard wood beam shelf laid onto of the cement beam shelf to give added strength and secure fixings for the stanchions and the deck beams. Resulting in a very strong and a good seal between the hull and the deck.
A low profile superstructure, has proved useful for reducing the windage but does allow for six foot plus headroom below. decks. Open deep aft self draining cockpit, sheltered with a sprayhood. a Bridge deck divides cockpit from the main hatch and companionway to the accommodation.  Two large stowage lockers in the bow and a lazarette.

Accommodation

 

Below decks offers a large saloon with integral navigation station to starboard, it has a  full size chart table and fix navigators stool. The open galley is opposite.
Two “heads” compartments, forward has a basin, its toilet is presently uninstalled / black tank removed requiring replacement. The second heads is a sea toilet.
There are three separate sleeping cabins,( 2 x doubles and 1 single).
In the saloon there is a pilots berth and a small child’s berth, further berths are possible if required on the fixed settees. Loads of stowage built into the settee,  below and behind under the side deck.
The galley runs along the port side with built in stowage, a double sink with hot and cold water, a cool box, a gimballed gas cooker with double burner, grill and oven. Gas stowage in cockpit locker.
Foot pump at galley for water, A manual pump in the main heads fresh water, cold only. 4 x stainless steel water tanks.

Equipment:

All the deck gear and fittings are of high grade marine stainless steel: Cleats, bow rollers. all made bespoke for her.

A large storage locker runs aft under the cockpit to port. 2 x 45lbs Plough anchors with chain sit over her bow. Simpson Lawrence Manual anchor windlass
Canvas Sprayhood over the sliding main hatch. Fixings for navigation gear under the sprayhood.
Equipment manuals.

Sails:

Alloy main mast new 2003, keel stepped .Twin” in line” spreaders, All the  running rigging and standing rigging all fitted by Fox’s of Ipswich. Standing rigging stainless steel 1 x 19 wire.
Z Spar mizzen mast with stainless steel rig was all replaced in 2015. Alloy spars and booms.
The deck layout is very uncluttered and strong. The Main mast and mizzen shrouds  the main mast running backstays and main sail backstay spans are all attached to substantially welded Stainless steel angle brackets through bolted to the hull’s beamshelf, some with reinforced ferrocement knees beneath the deck. Sail control sheet tracks and blocks
3 x Halyard winches, 2 x Lewmar self tailing two speed sheet winches, 2 x Barlow 27 single speed winches, A Furlex headsail roller reefing gear.

Main sail by Kemp 2021, A furling jib, 3 x fore sails and mizzen. All sails are used but serviceable. 2 x spinnaker poles

Navigation Equipment:

Autohelm ST 4000
Tiller Steering.
Icom VHF Radio new 2023
Garmin chart plotter GPS, 2022
Depth sounder and log
Plastimo contest 130 Bulkhead steering compass
Navigation lights. Tri colour anchor, stern.
1 x radar reflector.
Anchor ball
Barometer and clock

Safety Equipment:

Stainless steel push pit, pull pit, stanchions and safety netting.
High grade stainless steel grabrails on the cabin top and around the saloon ceiling below.
Carbon monoxide alarm
Fire blankets
fire extinguishers
Whale gusher manual
Auto electric bilge pump
Horseshoe lifebuoy

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.